It is not my intension to insult any one here. I only say as I see it.
An idol is thing that is made from non living matter. Like Hindus make stone or clay or metal. There idols are not living thing As intelligent people knows that there were no shiva,brahma,vishnu. Yet people are worshiping those idols. Any thing that is not living is idol. (how can we not agree with this?)
Is granth living? For millions it is. But book can not talk book can not speak. Book can not move from one place to other. If people want to believe that book is living guru then that is there thing. But it is blind faith started by unknown being. We Sikhs just wanted to do what the Hindus were and are doing. Every day there is new thing being added in the ritual of worship. People tell me that their things are getting done by ardas so why you complaing? Have we lost sense that by getting bhai ji to do the ardas our problems will be solved? We created our own problem why bring god into it.(I do not think this is a question about respect to the SGGS, I think it is more about the many many sikhs that bypass the knowledge and information containing within, and concentrate on the ceremony and ritual that surrounds it. We want a bit of pomp and circumstance, rather than content and substance, are we not all dismayed by the amount of Hinduism that has slowly been creeping in for years?)
None of the Guru said any where that he is guru. It is only people called them guru. Why?(I take this at the dismay at Sikhs who worship and make the Gurus deities instead of concentrating on the message)
Example: There was a doctor who could cure any ailment. He died if we go to his grave and pray and show respect to that grave will he cure us? In the same way why are we prey to gurus who has been dead for long time? Some one wrote that he respect his mom/dad by touching their feet. Is it not true that insult mom/dad if we don’t do what mom/dad tells us to do and we don’t do that? The real respect is to do what the guru told us to do. Touching the feet of mom/dad is Hindu custom not Sikhs. I have not seen Sikhs touching their mom/dad feet. Those who are doing is because they have seen Hindus doing it.(This is speaking out against those that worship the Gurus, and those that touch the feet of Babas, again, I cannot disagree with the sentiments here)
Every religion claim that their holy book is written or spoke by god. Yet no one of those religions try to feed food or put glass of water by the bed at night. No one put their holy books in AC room and put blanket on it. Only the Hindu and Sikhs are doing it.
(I think here, again, this is in reference to those that would make the SGGS human, a magical deity to be worshiped and elevated, rather than a source of fantastic knowledge)
The bani in granth are written in gurmukhi. What if one can’t not read gurmukhi and he cant not hear he is def. Is that person is doomed?(this translates simply to can everyone be saved?, the answer is yes)
God gave us logic for some reason. It is to use and make life better. Jut for one minute thing as a neutral person. Are we not doing the things what guru tsaid in granth not to do.(ok, thing should be think, then it makes a bit more sense, another protestation at the amount of tradition and ritual seeping in)
We are doing all those things what the Hindus are doing. But we call them but different name (he's not wrong you know)
Religion is teaching hatred not respect.(Sikhism as a religion now encapsulates many different types, they are not hugely known for getting on together..., religion per se is responsible for much of the war in the world today, everyone thinks theirs is better, fair comment)
I am all for respect but don’t force it on others and see if it makes sense.
There is only one rule of humanity; DO NO HARM TO ANY LIFE
