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Summary of Question:	Our Giani Ji Has Started To Eat Meat
Category:	Sikh Practices
Date Posted:	Thursday, 7/11/2002 1:01 PM MDT

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh

I would like to have a clarification regarding one of our Giani ji, who had been employed as a Granthi at our Sikh Temple, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. At present, he has left the job of Granthi and is occupied with his private business and prior to his private business, he had been a Granthi for 15 years. Now suddenly after starting his own business, he has become a "Kurehtia" (Non-vegetarian) and when we asked him "Over all these years, you had been custodian of Gurudwara and Sikh Maryada and preeching the teachings of our ten Gurus". His reply was : "Where is it written in the Guru Granth Sahib that one should not eat meat".
My question to my fellow sikh brothers and sisters, Is this not the blaspmey of Guru Granth Sahib ji and that too by a "Granthi Sahiban" ???

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Sat Siri Akaal.
People change Ji. Don't try to figure out why or wherefore. Just because he has chosen to eat meat doesn't mean the Sangat should follow this example. Not at all. Your question about meat and Siri Guru Granth has been answered here before. Search keywords 'meat' and 'vegetarian' on this Youth Forum and you will see.

Why would it be any less blasphemous for YOU to say what your giani said about meat and Siri Guru? Whether high or low, giani or simple devotee, we are all equal in the eyes of Waheguru. Blasphemy is blasphemy no matter who speaks it. Stick to the Guru's teachings and be grateful for the lessons you have learned by this example of your giani. For Guru can lead one astray, and by so doing, instruct him and others.
Guru ang sang,
-DKK