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Gurbani (347-348)
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Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
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Gurbani (527-536)
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Gurbani (537-556)
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Gurbani (557-564)
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Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
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Bhagat Bani (691-695)
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Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
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Gurbani (721-727)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Chhant (843-848)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
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Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
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Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 5798" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Vijaydeep Singh Ji,</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I have studied the questions raise by you. In this post, I give my response to each one of them.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As Khalsa Panth is knowledge based rational religion, for each one of question, in my response, I will first give the rational and then the answer.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(i) Shall Das eat food from the hand of the person who smokes?</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Tobacco contains nicotine. When and individual consumes tobacco the nicotine finds way into the blood stream and then diffuses through the membrane that cover the brain to enter it. There it does many things.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">-</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">it latches on to the nicotine receptors in our brain and gives the consumer of tobacco some special feeling of elation. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">-</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">it washes away the natural neurotransmitter which gives we human a feeling of elation. This neurotransmitter (a chemical in fluid form) is a natural part of our brain chemistry and is synthesised within the human systems. The absence of this natural neurotransmitter makes the person totally dependent on nicotine to remain in high spirit or what ever it is (I am not a smoker so cannot say what this feeling is).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">-</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">it increases the number of nicotine receptors in our brain. This way it ever-increasing demand for more and more nicotine to satisfy the increasing number of nicotine receptors in the brain. If nicotine is sufficient quantity is not supplied the individual starts feeling intense discomfort. This is what we call addiction.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">What world is trying to do now, our Guru Sahib had done some 300 year ago. Guru Sahib banned tobacco from the lives of Khalsas. Our tenth Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji new that individuals can get addicted to tobacco leading to mental weakness, it also affects health adversely creating physical weakness. Both are not good for any ‘Saint-soldier. We Khalsas, the saint-soldiers have to be mentally and physically strong and tough. This was the rational behind Guru Sahib asking we Khalsas not to consume tobacco and in today’s context not to consume products having nicotine (I am aware of advertisements in India suggesting that the said Panmasala is free from tobacco yet it gives the same satisfaction. I am not sure if it contains nicotine as a chemical, which is the real cause of addiction) </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I see no reason why any one should not eat food coming from the hands of a smoker.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(ii) Can accidental inhaling of tobacco smoke (passive smoking) destroy the spirituality?</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Spirituality comes from mental purity. Mental purity comes from the nature of thoughts that occupy the individual’s mental faculties. The mind controlled by senses seeks their gratification and so degenerates spiritually. The mind that reflects the light of ‘The Sat’ (wisdom enshrines in the teaching of Gurbani) becomes virtuous and evolves spiritually. Spirituality is an intangible entity (one that cannot be seen or touched of felt through any of the human senses), it is independent of matter i.e. material.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Accidental passive smoking in no way affects ones spirituality. Yet for our own good we must avoid over dose of it in a civilised manner, to the extent possible.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(iii) Can non-Halal food from the vender who sells Halal food also be eaten?</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The mix up between the two types is always possible and you have no way to find it out. I suggest such eating-places can be avoided. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(iv) Do we have to wash our hands after shaking them with the person who smokes or eats Halal food?</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Whenever we eat some thing, in a way, we terminate some life - of a plant or an animal.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We simply cannot help doing so. Unlike plants, nature has not equipped us to generate our own nourishment from no living material. When we kill an animal for eating, it is any way going to lose its life, why to subject it to prolonged physical suffering as it happens in Halal. In a way this provision in Khalsa Panth is to reduce the cruelty to wards the animals. Cruelty is an attribute of mind and not of body.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The rational given in point (ii) above applies to this question also.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I see no reason for any body to wash her or his hand after shaking them with one who smokes or eats Halal food.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">(v) Eating food items that are Jutha.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We in Khalsa Panth are asked to live on our own honest earning. We are ordained to live on Kirt. Not eating Jutha is to strengthen this attribute so that every one sustains herself or him, it does not allow a Khalsa to live on left-overs. In addition this provision helps in minimising the spread of communicable diseases. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is important to understand what Jutha means. Jutha means the saliva on an individual is mixed with the eatable. Serving rice, chapatti or similar item from a dish on the table does not make it Jutha. As long as Saliva of an individual has not touched the eatable it is not Jutha. It applies to the Curry being served by spoon, or some one serving you chapatti even with hand (this is the way these items are served in Langar).</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Amarpal Singh</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 5798, member: 10"] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Dear Vijaydeep Singh Ji,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I have studied the questions raise by you. In this post, I give my response to each one of them.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]As Khalsa Panth is knowledge based rational religion, for each one of question, in my response, I will first give the rational and then the answer.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](i) Shall Das eat food from the hand of the person who smokes?[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Tobacco contains nicotine. When and individual consumes tobacco the nicotine finds way into the blood stream and then diffuses through the membrane that cover the brain to enter it. There it does many things.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]-[/size] [size=3]it latches on to the nicotine receptors in our brain and gives the consumer of tobacco some special feeling of elation. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]-[/size] [size=3]it washes away the natural neurotransmitter which gives we human a feeling of elation. This neurotransmitter (a chemical in fluid form) is a natural part of our brain chemistry and is synthesised within the human systems. The absence of this natural neurotransmitter makes the person totally dependent on nicotine to remain in high spirit or what ever it is (I am not a smoker so cannot say what this feeling is).[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]-[/size] [size=3]it increases the number of nicotine receptors in our brain. This way it ever-increasing demand for more and more nicotine to satisfy the increasing number of nicotine receptors in the brain. If nicotine is sufficient quantity is not supplied the individual starts feeling intense discomfort. This is what we call addiction.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]What world is trying to do now, our Guru Sahib had done some 300 year ago. Guru Sahib banned tobacco from the lives of Khalsas. Our tenth Guru Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji new that individuals can get addicted to tobacco leading to mental weakness, it also affects health adversely creating physical weakness. Both are not good for any ‘Saint-soldier. We Khalsas, the saint-soldiers have to be mentally and physically strong and tough. This was the rational behind Guru Sahib asking we Khalsas not to consume tobacco and in today’s context not to consume products having nicotine (I am aware of advertisements in India suggesting that the said Panmasala is free from tobacco yet it gives the same satisfaction. I am not sure if it contains nicotine as a chemical, which is the real cause of addiction) [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I see no reason why any one should not eat food coming from the hands of a smoker.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](ii) Can accidental inhaling of tobacco smoke (passive smoking) destroy the spirituality?[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Spirituality comes from mental purity. Mental purity comes from the nature of thoughts that occupy the individual’s mental faculties. The mind controlled by senses seeks their gratification and so degenerates spiritually. The mind that reflects the light of ‘The Sat’ (wisdom enshrines in the teaching of Gurbani) becomes virtuous and evolves spiritually. Spirituality is an intangible entity (one that cannot be seen or touched of felt through any of the human senses), it is independent of matter i.e. material.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Accidental passive smoking in no way affects ones spirituality. Yet for our own good we must avoid over dose of it in a civilised manner, to the extent possible.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](iii) Can non-Halal food from the vender who sells Halal food also be eaten?[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The mix up between the two types is always possible and you have no way to find it out. I suggest such eating-places can be avoided. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](iv) Do we have to wash our hands after shaking them with the person who smokes or eats Halal food?[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Whenever we eat some thing, in a way, we terminate some life - of a plant or an animal.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]We simply cannot help doing so. Unlike plants, nature has not equipped us to generate our own nourishment from no living material. When we kill an animal for eating, it is any way going to lose its life, why to subject it to prolonged physical suffering as it happens in Halal. In a way this provision in Khalsa Panth is to reduce the cruelty to wards the animals. Cruelty is an attribute of mind and not of body.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The rational given in point (ii) above applies to this question also.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I see no reason for any body to wash her or his hand after shaking them with one who smokes or eats Halal food.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3](v) Eating food items that are Jutha.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]We in Khalsa Panth are asked to live on our own honest earning. We are ordained to live on Kirt. Not eating Jutha is to strengthen this attribute so that every one sustains herself or him, it does not allow a Khalsa to live on left-overs. In addition this provision helps in minimising the spread of communicable diseases. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]It is important to understand what Jutha means. Jutha means the saliva on an individual is mixed with the eatable. Serving rice, chapatti or similar item from a dish on the table does not make it Jutha. As long as Saliva of an individual has not touched the eatable it is not Jutha. It applies to the Curry being served by spoon, or some one serving you chapatti even with hand (this is the way these items are served in Langar).[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With love and respect for all.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Amarpal Singh[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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