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Summary of Question:	Matha Tek ( Bowing ) To Human Baba Ji's !!
Category:	Sikh Practices
Date Posted:	Monday, 9/23/2002 1:21 AM MDT

Recently witnessed a disturbing practice of Matha Tekna (Head Bowing) in front of human Baba ji in Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha (Birmingham) UK by the majority of the sangat. The practice was so wide spread that were people lined up to do the act & was well organized by the Gurdwara by having arranged a special meal served in the morning in one of the halls that has pictures of the Sikh Gurus and also had the picture of the founder of the Jatha. The picture of the founder of the Jatha was staged as the primary worship spot where people would line up and bow their heads and having done that they would proceed to the acting head of the Jatha and bow their head in his feet and take the langar from the Human Baba Ji. Is this what Sikhism teaches us or this is what modern age Sikhisn call for towards humam Baba jis as the savior of those fellow so called Sikhs?

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Sat Siri Akaal.
What you have described is NOT Sikh, but the ones there believe it to be. It sounds like the so-called Sikhs involved might be part of a sect that believes in a living Guru, not Siri Guru Granth Sahib. I do not know. But what you tell us above is not Sikh.

The 10th Master Guru Gobind Singh gave the guruship to Siri Guru Granth before he died, and told us to bow ONLY to God and Guru in the form of Siri Guru Granth Sahib, not to a human 'guru' or teacher or regular person, for that matter. Spiritual teachers are great to have, without question, I know because I have one and he's Sikh. But I do not BOW to him. Nor would he let me bow to him as you describe! My point is that these 'babajis', if they are Sikh, have not been following Guru's instruction about bowing only to God & Guru and to no man.
Guru ang sang,
-DKK