Things that annoy me - #2
"Amrit-Dharee" meat eaters.
Oxymoron right? Exactly.
Or, or, even worse, vegetarian Amrit Dharees who claim that eating meat is ok, although they don't do so themselves.
Why do people take Amrit? The answer is relatively obvious: to develop a relationship with God, to become more spiritual, to make life purposeful.
What makes us think that life has purpose? What makes us have faith in spirituality and in god, in general?
I'd say mostly the examples of Gursikhs. If we didn't have Gursikhs to look upto, we'd never feel encouraged to increase our spirituality.
Can anyone honestly give me an example of a highly spiritual Gursikh who ate meat? When someone thinks of historically relevant and highly spiritual Gursikhs, at least within the past century where we have first-hand evidence, did any of them eat meat? Bhai Sahib Bhai Randheer Singh? Baba Jarnail Singh? Sant Attar Singh? Baba Harnaam Singh? Bhai Fauja Singh? Anyone else of note? No. They did not. They considered it unjust, lacking mercy, and most importantly, highly unspiritual.
How could any "Amrit-Dharee", who is supposed to devote their life's purpose to meeting god be on the opposite end of all of these Gursikhs? Were they all wrong? Do these scholarly-type intellectual Sikhs know more than real, genuine Gursikhs?
I've never understood how someone can honestly believe that eating meat is alright for an Amrit-Dharee.
If someone can't even give up the pleasures of their tongue/taste in the name of mercy, how could they ever be spiritual in any form whatsoever?
Oxymoron right? Exactly.
Or, or, even worse, vegetarian Amrit Dharees who claim that eating meat is ok, although they don't do so themselves.
Why do people take Amrit? The answer is relatively obvious: to develop a relationship with God, to become more spiritual, to make life purposeful.
What makes us think that life has purpose? What makes us have faith in spirituality and in god, in general?
I'd say mostly the examples of Gursikhs. If we didn't have Gursikhs to look upto, we'd never feel encouraged to increase our spirituality.
Can anyone honestly give me an example of a highly spiritual Gursikh who ate meat? When someone thinks of historically relevant and highly spiritual Gursikhs, at least within the past century where we have first-hand evidence, did any of them eat meat? Bhai Sahib Bhai Randheer Singh? Baba Jarnail Singh? Sant Attar Singh? Baba Harnaam Singh? Bhai Fauja Singh? Anyone else of note? No. They did not. They considered it unjust, lacking mercy, and most importantly, highly unspiritual.
How could any "Amrit-Dharee", who is supposed to devote their life's purpose to meeting god be on the opposite end of all of these Gursikhs? Were they all wrong? Do these scholarly-type intellectual Sikhs know more than real, genuine Gursikhs?
I've never understood how someone can honestly believe that eating meat is alright for an Amrit-Dharee.
If someone can't even give up the pleasures of their tongue/taste in the name of mercy, how could they ever be spiritual in any form whatsoever?
posted by Japnaam Singh at
10:30 PM
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