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Summary of Question:	Kiss
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Wednesday, 8/21/2002 6:46 PM MDT

Is it a sin if you kiss before marriage?

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Well, you didn't say who it is that you are kissing.

It's not about this particular act or that particular act. It's about your state of mind and the state of your energies. Ther's a big difference between a chaste kiss from the heart and the prolonged kiss of lovers that awakens and stimulates the sexual energies. Only you know the answer to the question you asked, and if you had to ask the forum, then I think the answer to your question is really already clear to you.

By the way, the first sin of any Sikh is feeling guilty. How can you feel guilty when you know you are One with God?

A "sin" is "paap." This means that which is done, or put into motion by my own mind, or my own ego. Pa-ap. (Pa=put, aap=one's own self.) It's action that comes from the big mistaken idea of not being One with All. Guilt has no place in Sikh consciousness. If you know in your heart that you have made a mistake, be humble before God, forgive yourself, move on and don't repeat the mistake.

.....G