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Originally Posted by drkhalsa Just to add athing
Recently I was reading book by Sant Niranjan singhji ( Mystics Reflection...)
In the book he replied to the question of including women as punj pyare in amrit sanchaar as follows
The women has not availled their right to do so when Gurur Gobind ji asked for the five head so how can they now ask for same right .
Actually I was not satisfied with the answer what do you think about it Jarnail Singh ji |
Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki fateh.
The "RIGHT" or "PRIVILEGE" to Amrit is NOT conditional on any gender, race,colour,height,colour of eyes, hair, weight, location of residence etc etc etc.
Out of a crowd of nearly 80,000 Guru Ji asked for and got 5 heads..GURU JI NEVER asked for a SIXTH HEAD.
Now "IF" we are to deny women - effectively 50% of SIKHS, the right to AMRIT just because no woman got up to answer Guru Ji's initial call..well then NO American got up either, no UK resident was even there, no Canadian even bothered to attend, NO Chinese, NO Malaysian, NO South Indian tamil, Bengali, kannada, Burman, Thai, Cambdian...etc etc etc etc....so ALL of us are OUT of the race to become Amrtidharee.
AMRIT would be given ONLY to the FIVE....and NO ONE ELSE.....and "purists" would probbaly want your name to be "Daya" Dharam etc and you MUST come from Lahore/ etc etc REGIONS ONLY...and maybe YOU MUST be of the SAME HEIGHT/WEIGHT/hair colour/etc etc of the original Five...which is patently ridiculous.
I dont subscribe to the theory some hold that just because "SANT JI" said so it must be correct. imho ONLY GURU is ABHULL..everyone else is BHULLANHAAR. Guru Ji gave us the intellect and budhi to think for ourselves.
A "NATION" that disfrenchises 50% of its population...especially the MOTHER HALF/WIFE HALF/DAUGHTER HALF is asking for trouble because a child in its formative years is moulded by his mother, in his best years a man is comforted and accompanied by his wife..we just cannot afford the luxury of "keeping out" HALF our population. a "non-Amrtidharee" mother/wife is a serious drawback !!!
And GURBANI backs up this viewpoint..GURU NANAK JI so forcefully explained the VITAL IMPORTANCE of "WOMAN" in our life...in "Bhaand Jameeiah..Bhaand..." that no body can be left with any doubt as to what Guru Ji means....GURU JI placed woman at the pinnacle SHE DESERVES when He writes: "So ko manda akhiyeah jit jammeh rajaan..WHY condemn woman when she gives birth to KINGS ?? ( and SANTS too !! .......I may add )
Jarnail Singh