EXACTLY mereh veero ate bheno.
Gurbani is patently clear and simple - composed in aarsh (heavens) but of human necessity written down in Earthly Language (farsh )
Bathe, brush your teeth, use SOAP ( saboon is mentioned in japji )..etc etc purely for bodily HYGEINE, cleanliness etc....BUT DO NOT CONFUSE body with the MANN - Inner Soul atma ...This can ONLY be cleaned by NAAM - Bhareah matt papaan ke sang ..also in japji.... NO "Earthly" suchams , bibeki rehits, etc etc can make the MANN clean under any circumstances.
Gurbani so clearly refutes the belief that mere bathing at teeraths, pilgrimage centres, sarovars etc etc can make our Mann CLEAN...NO WAY. IF such bathing did that then ALL FROGS, Turtles, Fish, Crocodiles etc etc would be SAINTS..IF mere abstaining from conjugal relations between man and woman did that.( CELIBACY).then the Gays/khusrehs etc would be SAINTS..IF merely eating grass (vegetarianism ahinsa abstinence from meat/killing animals for food etc) amde SAINTS..then all cows goats etc would be SAINTS..the SGGS is chock full of such advice - AVOID such suchams and cleanliness RITUALS as a means to an END..the one and ONLY sucham fir the Mann is Naam Japp...meaning Nama jappo, KIRT karo and Wand chhako ...I am painfully aware that many many such brahminism's RITUALS of bhittia giya, sucham, bibeki rehit, sootak satak etrc etc have crept BACK into Tatt gurmatt and are invading our Gurdwaras and Guru Ke Langars...keeping many that Guru Ji LOVES..... OUT and dividing US all along such ritualistic lines..there are many many such "super duper Modern brahmins in Sikh disguise raoming among us...how sad. Guru nanak ji sat down with the most commona nd lowest of the low..people like Bhai lalo..and we sit among the Malik Bhagos and keep the Llalos OUT of Gurdwaras as unfit/unlcean/unamritdharee ??? EKS KE BARAK !!!
Gyani jarnail Singh