Talk:Sikhism primary beliefs and principles
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Wow! I feel enlightened after reading this! deeptrivia (talk) 01:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
No special worship days
The following was posted by an anonymous IP (86.137.55.92) on the main article page. It has been transferred here. Sukh | ਸੁਖ | Talk 13:02, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Sikhs do not believe that any particular day is holier than any other.
Whaeguru Ji ki ka Khalsa, Whaeguru ji ki Fateha - (to God belongs the Pure and to God belongs the victory)
As the above is written by someone saying there are no special worship days is not very truthful.
Sikhs are supposed to pray 5 times a day every day, hence making every day holy.
However there are days of celebration and grief. The most famous day to Sikhs is Vasiakhi (or Basiakhi) this day traditionally remarks harvest time in India, but holds a Historical significance that to which it is the day of which Khalsa panth (khalsa comes from the work khalis for pure, in which can mean pure sect) was born, Khalsa panth was regarded as and still is main stream Sikhism. Khalsa panth was started by the 10th Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji, on the day Khalsa was born 1699 at Anandpur Sahib (localated in India) it is when at a congragation of 100,000 and more were before the Guru. The Guru asked for a head, as many after hearing this thought the Guru had gone mad, there were 5 people out of the congragation were prepared to give there heads to the Guru as for there utter devoution to him, each one followed the Guru into a tent one by one, as it is said everyone heard the hard swift of a sword cutting a head off. As Guru ji returned after the first one he called for another head, in which this same pattern had followed to make 5 who had given there head. These 5 then miracly came out of the tent wearing saffron clothes and where give the title the panj pyare (the 5 loved one), at this point they were given 5 ks and had taken amrit. In taking amrit they became the Khalsa (pure). The 5 ones gave amrit to Guru ji and indoing so joining the brotherhood of Khalsa in this the 5 loved ones were given the surnames Singh (lion) (at this point in india surnames reflected the caste/creed of someone by adopting singh for males and kaur for females they became a sikh, however there was a caste and still exists by the name singh) . Women also were allowed to baptised in this they were give the surname Kaur (princess). This day of Vasiakhi remarks the day of the birth of Khalsa, the birth of the 5 beloved, most of all the bith of the baptism sermony. This day is celebrated every year.
Sikhs celebrate special days called Gurpurabh. These day remark special historical events which lead to creation of sikhism and much more related to that of sikhism.
There are many other special days of worship which collate under Gurpurabh. Please escuse me if i have made any written mistakes as above as i have written quickly. please feel free to point out mistakes.
Sat Sri Akal - (God is true- may God bless you - saluations) Written by Dalbir Singh
Intro
This article could do with an WP:INTRO. JFW | T@lk 10:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
ahimsa???
This word is probably hard for westerners to understand, and appears to have two distinct meanings.
ahimsa can refer to killing animals for food, and can also apparently apply to killing fellow humans, under certain situations, this really needs to be clarified, because I checked one of the references and it is talking about killing animals for food, but the wording of the article seems to be talking about using violence against other humans cases of self defense and to protect the defenseless.
There is a really big distinction for western cultures between the two, and it needs to be made clear which of the sources is supporting which kind of activity. I tried to fix one of them to make it clear what the source was saying.