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Summary of Question:	Meat
Category:	General Q's from Non-Sikhs
Date Posted:	Thursday, 2/17/2005 2:03 AM MST

Sat Sri Akal

All of the replies on meat say that Sikhs shouldn't eat meat, but hasn't it already been decided in the Rehat Maryada that Sikhs can eat meat.
I have some quotations for the Sri Guru Granth Sahib on this issue:

"If the principle of impurity be admitted, then there is impurity everywhere.
In cow-dung and wood there are worms.
As many as are the grains of corn, none is without life.
In the first place there is life in water, by which, all are made green.
How can impurity be warded off? It falls on our own kitchen.
Nanak, impurity is not removed like this. It is washed away by Divine Knowledge.
The mind's impurity is avarice and the tongue's impurity falsehood.
The impurity of the eyes is to behold another's woman, another's wealth and beauty.
The impurity of the ears is to hear the slander of others with ears,
Nanak, mortal's soul goes bout to the city of death.
All impurity consists in doubt and attachment to duality.
Birth and death are subject to Lord's command and through His will mortal comes and goes.
Eating and drinking are pure, for the Lord has given sustenance to all.
Nanak, the Gurmukh who know the Lord, to them impurity sticks not."
(Guru Nanak, Slok, pg. 472)
In the above quote isn't it pretty much sayinng that everything is alive, so how can we say that something has less life then the other.

"The body is the bottle, self-conceit is the wine, and desire is the company of drinking companions. The glass of the mind’s longing is filled to overflowing with falsehood; the Messenger of Death is the bartender. Drinking in this wine, O Nanak, one takes on countless vices and corruption. So make spiritual wisdom your molasses, and the Praise of God your bread; let the Fear of God be the dish of meat. O Nanak, this is the true food; let the True Name be your only Support." (Baba Mardana, Bihagara, pg. 553)
In the above quote meat in put in the good catagory, it is with bread, and not wine.
So what do you think of this?

Sat Sri Akal
God is True Great and Forever...................................................

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I think the same thing I've always thought: one should not eat meat.