hey, I’ve been watching some stories of Sikh gurus and I’m really into Punjabi culture and tradition I wanna do japji sahib but have some confusion because I don’t know much about Sikhism. If I do japji sahib once every week is that ok?
hey, I’ve been watching some stories of Sikh gurus and I’m really into Punjabi culture and tradition I wanna do japji sahib but have some confusion because I don’t know much about Sikhism. If I do japji sahib once every week is that ok?
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Respected Brother/Sister,
Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!
In reply to your question the undersigned wants to say that you are free to do Japuji Sahib, at your convenience, but please try to understand what it teaches you.
You have also said that you don’t know much about Sikhism. Briefly said, “Sikh” is a “Seeker of Truth” and “Sikhism” stands for:-
(i) Oneness of Humanity;
(ii) No discrimination owing to gender, race, caste, creed, or color;
(iii) No empty rituals & worthless religious practices;
(iv) No life after death theories. Rather, it stands for salvation/emancipation, during the life time on getting rid of vices.
Further, Sikhism:-
(i) teaches a Sikh to live his life in the present, as per Hukam of Akalpurakh and teachings of ever living Guru, Sri Guru Granth Sahib;
(ii) expects a Sikh to earn an honest living, remain connected with Akalpurakh all the time and share his honest earning with poor and needy;
(iii) expects a Sikh to be compassionate, kind, tolerant and is to love all i e. he is to reach the mental state of seeing Akalpurakh in everyone and hence having friends only and no enemies;
(iv) expects a Sikh to serve the humanity, without any distinction of caste, creed and religion.
The main difference between Sikhism and other religions is that Sikhism propagates salvation/emancipation, during the present life itself by getting rid of vices, while it is not so in case of other religions.
Hope it helps. If you have any further questions, please do ask. If you find any deficiencies, please point out the same, for improvement in future.
Regards,
Your Brother
thank you so much. I learnt a lot after reading this as you told me about what does Sikhism means and I’ll try to do all these things and I will try do understand it’s means tysm again brother.
Thanks for responding! The undersigned will like to further add that Sikhism is a modern and practical religion and doesn’t put any kind of undue stress on its followers. If you have any further questions, please do ask.