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<blockquote data-quote="pk70" data-source="post: 84622" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p>I do agree that according to spiritual teachings and ultimate spiritual nature, there is no caste discrimination. But realistically, socially, Sikhs are just as caste conscious as Hindus. So why make the artificial divide that <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikhism</a> rejects the caste system, and then fail to explain why there is so much caste discrimination in <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikhism</a>?</p><p> <strong>Bhain ji, why you question a religion on the basis of pseudo Sikhs? How many including you and I are totally devoted to Gurbani teaching and live those teachings? How many times you felt” I am doing great as per Guru teachings’? Same thing I ask myself. Honest answer wont qualify us to grill others Sikhs</strong></p><p> </p><p> If you were honest about it, you would acknowledge that Manu Smriti isn't accepted by all schools of Hinduism. Neither are Shiva Sutras. So talking about something you find personally obnoxious in those scriptures says nothing about sanatana Dharma as a whole. I could actuallly talk in great detail about human sacrifices and some very esoteric and complex things...</p><p> I find it astounding that your entire focus is on negativity, even when I quoted dozens of tuuks of Gurbani which are positive and speak of the praise of God, of the Naam which is praised in Hindu scriptures. So my point was to counterbalance this hateful negativistic opinion which keeps condemning Hindu spirituality as something evil, worthless and "disgusting."</p><p> <strong>What I quoted are not my translation, so don’t twist, translation most of the time I use is by Manmohan Singh who understands more both languages( English and Punjabi) than Sant Singh Khalsa. I feel, you are trying to prove Sikhism has no religion, it is borrowed from Vashnava( poor guys do not have concept of Ordinance though) and Hinduism( which is a bundle od sects), it is very swear attack. You called Guru Nanak Vashnava but felt negativity in my comments about Sanatan or Vashanva religion, I wonder why you are taking sides !!!!!!!</strong></p><p> And the fact of the matter is, if you look at the history of <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikhism</a>, casteism was never NOT a part of it. Even when the Jatts converted en masse under the leadership of Banda Singh Bahadur Ji, Jatts NEVER lost their caste identity or kinship ties. Even the <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikh</a> Misls were identified and known by caste.</p><p> <strong>Aren’t we discussing Gurbani with support of Bhai Gurdas ji. If some don’t follow Gurbani, does it mean that is true, you bent all the way to say Guru ji himself used his caste which is a lie, then you feel sorry for me, I think you should feel sorry for yourself for guessing and posting a lie.</strong></p><p> </p><p> I do not see how dozens of tuuks and pauris in Gurbani, PLUS the historical pattern and evidence for continuation of pervasive caste system in <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikhism</a> is overshadowed by Bhai Gurdas Ji saying to Guru the 4 castes became one. This is entirely correct <u>as Khalsa was a military Order, just like the Vaishnava and Shaivite Nath military Acharas</u></p><p> </p><p> <strong>Aren’t we discussing Sikhism and caste system why Vashnavas are brought in here, what is the purpose? Why drums for them are beaten even when they are not part of issue we discuss, that scares me.</strong></p><p> </p><p> No one has yet answered WHY Gurbani itself identifies Guru Ramdas Ji by caste surname. Simply quoting a vaar of Bhai Gurdas does not remove this tuuk from Gurbani,</p><p>[/FONT] <strong>Why only you see but Bhai Gurdas ji doesn’t?. Now why his statement became insignificant because of that one word? Why that Tuk was not considered by Guru Gobind Singh ji as you do?</strong></p><p> The only point, ALL human beings are corrupted. Being a Hindu is not an automatic designation of the WORST of Hinduism, any more than being a <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank">Sikh</a> is the GREATEST most SPIRITUAL attainment. Let's be reasonable. You want to beat the drums loudly, and here we are discussing Vaishnavism, and you are asking me to read Manu Smritis and Shiva sutras. To what purpose? Majority of Vaishnav reform rejected those hundreds of years ago</p><p> <strong>Simply to tell you that kind of stuff exists there, Gurbani says followers of Gurbani should only accept Gurbani as True, why you beat the drum of those scriptures uncalled for, dont we have enough to move on? Do you believe more those ones or Gurbani? Lets accept Gurbani praises them but Gurbani also say truth is only Gurbani, those are about trade. Why you point on me, I am simply quoting what is said about them in Gurbani, you have very little understanding of Gurbani and you feel sorry for me, that is funny, why? If translator does poor thing, it affects your understanding.. You accept tri muthi, I quoted two shabadas one by Fifth Nanak and one by Kabir ji in which all those trimuthi conceptual entities are counted as one of the millions He created like them, how you force on Sikhs that thing by ignoring what is said in SGGS ji. In Japji Pouri 30, after describing this trimurthi concept, Guru ji keeps saying that actually it is He who runs the business not those three. Well, you don’t need any evidence from Gurbani.</strong></p><p> </p><p> You know veer ji, ancient Hebrews also had animal sacrifice. And this became interpreted within Christianity as special puja of the human sacrifice of Jesus. Yet, whenever I have debated with Christians, I do not go on about how anciently the Jewish scriptures say sacrifice animals. WHY? Because it's not relevant to today's practice of Christianity</p><p> </p><p> <strong>Bhain ji, you always forget one thing, when an avalanche of quotes from Hindu scriptures is posted on, I have to tell that there are not only these things but also that bad stuff but SGGS Ji doesn’t have. Why it bothers you Bhain ji, being fair, don’t you think people should know about that stuff too. I have a lot of references about them and are very degrading and demeaning, it is part of it. You pointed out about hypocrisy of pseudo Sikhs, didn’t I agree? That was a fact. But from you, I didn’t read” Yes Veer ji, there are fanatic Hindus too who play same dirty games” Why not Bhain ji?</strong></p><p> <strong>Lets see this following Tuk, the other one is about His creation</strong></p><p> <span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਬੇਦ ਕਤੇਬ ਕਹਹੁ ਮਤ ਝੂਠੇ ਝੂਠਾ ਜੋ ਨ ਬਿਚਾਰੈ </span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></span><span style="color: blue"> </span></p><p><span style="color: blue">baedh kathaeb kehahu math jhoothae jhoothaa jo n bichaarai ||</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">Do not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false.</span></p><p><span style="color: blue">~SGGS Ji p. 1350</span></p><p> <strong>Because you never honestly discussed them properly to learn how good things are found there, as you Hindus say, Kuran is not true but they never discussed good stuff in there. Both Vedas and Kuran contain good stuff but most of the time people pick some thing and start declaring them lies. If you remember, as per Guru Huakm, I wrote except Gurbani nothing true; however, it is also Guru Hukm( M-3) </strong></p><p> <strong>You just start converting Guru Nanak into other sect, how fair is this. We don’t follow them, if they are referred, it was just to tell that they were not followed; however, it is very much true that a lot of stuff added to them. That is why the cream of them was buried under added contaminations. Even against these Vedas Bhagwat Geeta speaks. Why so? Because of contamination added to them later on.</strong></p><p>CONTINUES</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pk70, post: 84622, member: 5889"] I do agree that according to spiritual teachings and ultimate spiritual nature, there is no caste discrimination. But realistically, socially, Sikhs are just as caste conscious as Hindus. So why make the artificial divide that [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikhism[/URL] rejects the caste system, and then fail to explain why there is so much caste discrimination in [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikhism[/URL]? [B]Bhain ji, why you question a religion on the basis of pseudo Sikhs? How many including you and I are totally devoted to Gurbani teaching and live those teachings? How many times you felt” I am doing great as per Guru teachings’? Same thing I ask myself. Honest answer wont qualify us to grill others Sikhs[/B] If you were honest about it, you would acknowledge that Manu Smriti isn't accepted by all schools of Hinduism. Neither are Shiva Sutras. So talking about something you find personally obnoxious in those scriptures says nothing about sanatana Dharma as a whole. I could actuallly talk in great detail about human sacrifices and some very esoteric and complex things... I find it astounding that your entire focus is on negativity, even when I quoted dozens of tuuks of Gurbani which are positive and speak of the praise of God, of the Naam which is praised in Hindu scriptures. So my point was to counterbalance this hateful negativistic opinion which keeps condemning Hindu spirituality as something evil, worthless and "disgusting." [B]What I quoted are not my translation, so don’t twist, translation most of the time I use is by Manmohan Singh who understands more both languages( English and Punjabi) than Sant Singh Khalsa. I feel, you are trying to prove Sikhism has no religion, it is borrowed from Vashnava( poor guys do not have concept of Ordinance though) and Hinduism( which is a bundle od sects), it is very swear attack. You called Guru Nanak Vashnava but felt negativity in my comments about Sanatan or Vashanva religion, I wonder why you are taking sides !!!!!!![/B] And the fact of the matter is, if you look at the history of [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikhism[/URL], casteism was never NOT a part of it. Even when the Jatts converted en masse under the leadership of Banda Singh Bahadur Ji, Jatts NEVER lost their caste identity or kinship ties. Even the [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikh[/URL] Misls were identified and known by caste. [B]Aren’t we discussing Gurbani with support of Bhai Gurdas ji. If some don’t follow Gurbani, does it mean that is true, you bent all the way to say Guru ji himself used his caste which is a lie, then you feel sorry for me, I think you should feel sorry for yourself for guessing and posting a lie.[/B] I do not see how dozens of tuuks and pauris in Gurbani, PLUS the historical pattern and evidence for continuation of pervasive caste system in [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikhism[/URL] is overshadowed by Bhai Gurdas Ji saying to Guru the 4 castes became one. This is entirely correct [U]as Khalsa was a military Order, just like the Vaishnava and Shaivite Nath military Acharas[/U] [B]Aren’t we discussing Sikhism and caste system why Vashnavas are brought in here, what is the purpose? Why drums for them are beaten even when they are not part of issue we discuss, that scares me.[/B] No one has yet answered WHY Gurbani itself identifies Guru Ramdas Ji by caste surname. Simply quoting a vaar of Bhai Gurdas does not remove this tuuk from Gurbani, [/FONT] [B]Why only you see but Bhai Gurdas ji doesn’t?. Now why his statement became insignificant because of that one word? Why that Tuk was not considered by Guru Gobind Singh ji as you do?[/B] The only point, ALL human beings are corrupted. Being a Hindu is not an automatic designation of the WORST of Hinduism, any more than being a [URL="http://www.sikhism.us/"]Sikh[/URL] is the GREATEST most SPIRITUAL attainment. Let's be reasonable. You want to beat the drums loudly, and here we are discussing Vaishnavism, and you are asking me to read Manu Smritis and Shiva sutras. To what purpose? Majority of Vaishnav reform rejected those hundreds of years ago [B]Simply to tell you that kind of stuff exists there, Gurbani says followers of Gurbani should only accept Gurbani as True, why you beat the drum of those scriptures uncalled for, dont we have enough to move on? Do you believe more those ones or Gurbani? Lets accept Gurbani praises them but Gurbani also say truth is only Gurbani, those are about trade. Why you point on me, I am simply quoting what is said about them in Gurbani, you have very little understanding of Gurbani and you feel sorry for me, that is funny, why? If translator does poor thing, it affects your understanding.. You accept tri muthi, I quoted two shabadas one by Fifth Nanak and one by Kabir ji in which all those trimuthi conceptual entities are counted as one of the millions He created like them, how you force on Sikhs that thing by ignoring what is said in SGGS ji. In Japji Pouri 30, after describing this trimurthi concept, Guru ji keeps saying that actually it is He who runs the business not those three. Well, you don’t need any evidence from Gurbani.[/B] You know veer ji, ancient Hebrews also had animal sacrifice. And this became interpreted within Christianity as special puja of the human sacrifice of Jesus. Yet, whenever I have debated with Christians, I do not go on about how anciently the Jewish scriptures say sacrifice animals. WHY? Because it's not relevant to today's practice of Christianity [B]Bhain ji, you always forget one thing, when an avalanche of quotes from Hindu scriptures is posted on, I have to tell that there are not only these things but also that bad stuff but SGGS Ji doesn’t have. Why it bothers you Bhain ji, being fair, don’t you think people should know about that stuff too. I have a lot of references about them and are very degrading and demeaning, it is part of it. You pointed out about hypocrisy of pseudo Sikhs, didn’t I agree? That was a fact. But from you, I didn’t read” Yes Veer ji, there are fanatic Hindus too who play same dirty games” Why not Bhain ji?[/B] [B]Lets see this following Tuk, the other one is about His creation[/B] [COLOR=blue][FONT=Raavi]ਬੇਦ ਕਤੇਬ ਕਹਹੁ ਮਤ ਝੂਠੇ ਝੂਠਾ ਜੋ ਨ ਬਿਚਾਰੈ [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=blue][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=blue] baedh kathaeb kehahu math jhoothae jhoothaa jo n bichaarai || Do not say that the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran are false. Those who do not contemplate them are false. ~SGGS Ji p. 1350[/COLOR] [B]Because you never honestly discussed them properly to learn how good things are found there, as you Hindus say, Kuran is not true but they never discussed good stuff in there. Both Vedas and Kuran contain good stuff but most of the time people pick some thing and start declaring them lies. If you remember, as per Guru Huakm, I wrote except Gurbani nothing true; however, it is also Guru Hukm( M-3) [/B] [B]You just start converting Guru Nanak into other sect, how fair is this. We don’t follow them, if they are referred, it was just to tell that they were not followed; however, it is very much true that a lot of stuff added to them. That is why the cream of them was buried under added contaminations. Even against these Vedas Bhagwat Geeta speaks. Why so? Because of contamination added to them later on.[/B] CONTINUES [/QUOTE]
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