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Summary of Question:	Help 2 Sikhism
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Saturday, 6/09/2001 10:39 AM MDT

DEAREST KHALSAJI

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA SHRI WAHEGURUJI KE FATEH

I HAVE 2 QS WHICH R COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER IF U CAN ANSWER BOTH I WILL BE VERY GRATEFULL:

1. I WAS WATCHING LASHKARA THE OTHER DAY THE REHRAS IN THE EVENING AND THIS WAS TAKING PLACE IN HARZOOR SAHIB, AND WHEN THE ARDAS WAS HAPPENING AT THE END THEY DIDNT FULLY TOUCH THE GROUND WITH THEIR HEADS. WHY IS THAT SO BECAUSE WE SHOULD THATS WHAT I THINK.

2. OUR GURUJIS FORBID US FROM USING INTOXICATING SUBSTANCES, WHY IS IT THEN THAT WE SIKHS R SEEN AS THE BIGGEST DRINKERS IN THE WORLD WHICH I FIND COMLETELY DISGUSTING EVEN FULL SIKHS WITH TURBAN AND BEARD IN THE PUB DRINKING STILL THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS SIKHS, AND ALSO WHY IS IT THAT NIHANGS R ALLOWED 2 TAKE PUNG, WHICH IS BASICALLY LIKE WEED

THANKS IF U CAN ANSWER BOTH QS

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Dear One:
Sat Siri Akaal Ji.
1. Recommend you ASK them why they don't touch their foreheads to the floor, since this is what we are supposed to do. I cannot say why they don't, unless their turban gets knocked if they do.... ?

2. Sikhs are forbidden to partake of intoxicating substances, period. This is part of the Sikh Rehit; I suppose if the ones you are seeing are not Amritdhari they haven't broken any vows. Nihangs are not "allowed" to take pung, they just do it. Just because they are nihang they are not above Rehit if they are Amritdhari. But it is always saddening to see our people drink, smoke, and take weed, and it is, I think, a bad example for our youth. All our Gurus told us to avoid intoxication because it clouds the judgement and makes us susceptible to very negative influences of all sorts. It pollutes our body temple, which is the vehicle through which we experience Waheguru. When our brain is clouded by smoke, weed, alcohol, etc. we cannot have that experience, period.

I hope that you always have the strength of steel to avoid intoxicating substances of all kinds, so that you may know Waheguru. Guru Rakha,
-DKK