Recent content by Siri Kamala

Thank you, Harkiran Kaur ji - good suggestion. I'll try that!

Hello SPN Friends, I have taken up Krav Maga self-defense training and generally they require that all jewelry be removed during training to avoid injuring both your sparring partner and yourself. For obvious reasons I cannot and will not take off my kara. As such, I need some way to cushion...

There is no prohibition against eating meat for Sikhs, except for meat that is ritually slaughtered (kosher/halal meat). I'm not sure why this keeps coming up when the ruling of the Akal Takht was made clear over 20 years ago. :noticekudi: See http://www.sikhs.org/meat.htm and...

SSA! I am no expert, by any stretch, but I think it's important to keep in mind that the SRM is a code created by men -- specifically Sikh men, living in the Punjab, existing in a particular time and in a particular culture. If Sikhism had evolved out of China, say...or Africa..., or...

Ummm...no, I think the idea is much more along the lines of a practical Dr. Phil "how's that workin' for ya?" type of approach. For example, I used to work at a ski resort here in Vermont. They had a strict policy about guests having a ski pass on them at all times, and it had to be the...

Hey, btw -- spnadmin ji (or anyone else who can answer with authority) -- what of Max Arthur Macauliffe's exhaustively vetted and reviewed translation of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji? Does it exist anywhere, either online or in a library? Is it available for purchase that you know of? Has...

En garde, spnadmin ji! :swordfight: Or as we say Down South, "Them's fightin' words!" Naraynjot Kaur is NEVER wrong! Highly abbreviated? Perhaps -- for brevity is the soul of wit, after all, but she is never wrong. :grinningkudi: :blinkingkudi:

Thank you, Narayanjot Kaur Ji ~ I would like to suggest a small modification or correction to what you wrote there above about the KJV. As someone who was once a politically and theologically liberal Christian, I have, at one point or another, attended churches of nearly every *mainstream*...

wth Ji ~ Umm... yeah. It's forbidden for Catholics too, but that doesn't seem to have stopped Catholic people (nay, even some priests and nuns!) from having pre-marital sex. So I guess the question is... is it more useful to this person for us to take the stigmatizing, finger-wagging, "Thou...

SSA kds1980 Ji You say that as if Sikhs are monolithic...as if none of them are *born* into a culture awash in "westernized liberal thinking"... :33: So I guess my questions for you would be: How do you define "Sikhs" exactly? How do you define "orthodox attitude"? How do you define...

Having recently watched Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (great movie, btw!), I was boggled by just how many English words were sprinkled in with the Hindi. I see evidence of this on the Facebook Sikhism group as well -- people will be speaking full-on Punjabi, and every 10, 15, or 20 words...

Whew. Makes me happy to be an American...things are far from perfect here, but at least no one gets in your business if your "pursuit of happiness" involves an inter-faith marriage! IMO, if the State wants to oversee how marriage is conducted, the marriage needs to become the sole province...

My name here means Supreme (Siri) Lotus (Kamala). My name IRL means Noble Born (first name) and Son/Daughter of the Chief (last name). Cool and funny discussion! :grinningkudi:

Oh, wow findingmyway Ji -- my head hurts just looking at the sheer volume of information there. In thumbing my way through the (online English version) of the Dasam Granth I was able to find, I was puzzled by the many references to Vishnu and thought (imagine Jerry Seinfeld's voice here)...

kudihug THANK YOU, Mata spnadmin ji! This is fabulous. And I feel quite relieved. What of the Dasam Granth? How does that figure into the picture?