Tattoos

versus · #1 (**permalink**) 26-May-2006, 10:19 AM

I'm starting to see a lot of young sikh's with tattoos. Is there anything against putting images on your body?
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Hardkaur · #2 (**permalink**) 03-Jun-2006, 02:56 AM

That is an extremley good question, because as Sikhs we are not suppose to change anything about our bodies as I've learned from my parents. Yet as a teenager I've seen MANY elderly Amritari men who have the "Ik Onkar" symbol on the surface of their hands.

bopadum · #3 (**permalink**) 08-Jun-2006, 21:32 PM

see the following link discussed earlier: http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-s...d-tattoos.html
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-youth/8832-tattoos.html

We are a foward thinking religon, I personally don't think its too much of an issue. See my post here to see why.

amrit095 · #4 (**permalink**) 13-Jun-2006, 03:14 AM

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i would like to share with you my opinion from wht i know guru ji told us not to alter out boddies in any form or way he told us that our boddies are houses for are souls and until we leave them we have 2 keep them tidy and clean because they belong to good and so guru ji told us not to alter anything to keep our hair to not have any percings or tattos anything that desecrates the body in any form.

dalsingh · #5 (**permalink**) 13-Jun-2006, 04:29 AM

I think we should remember some people may come into Sikhism at a later stage of life and may have previously had say ear piercings or tattoos. Im sure Waheguru wouldn't hold that against them (I hope not anyway!)

vijaydeep Singh · #6 (**permalink**) 13-Jun-2006, 15:11 PM

Gurfateh

Where in Gurbani,we have writtan to not go for tattos or piercing?
Reference:: Sikh Philosophy Network http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/showthread.php?t=8832

Just a question?

dalsingh · #7 (**permalink**) 13-Jun-2006, 21:45 PM

Well almost all of the Khalsa Rahit isnt in Gurbani. I think it is orally passed down information that says we shouldnt alter our form. But then some of this is very suspect, for instance, a few years ago it was common for Sikhs to say that we dont convert, its against our religion, but when you read our Guru's and Banda Singh's history, infact all the way up to the later 1700's, they were converting.

bopadum · #8 (**permalink**) 14-Jun-2006, 19:36 PM

FORCED conversion is the operative statement. If there was no conversion there would be no religon.

aotoke · #9 (**permalink**) 11-Oct-2007, 07:43 AM

i got a khunda tatoo on my sholder before i was told that it was not right and if i were to go back in time i would have not had it done....cuz it may impress the girls, but not the guru