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Summary of Question:	A Sikh Must Not Eat Meat
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Monday, 8/20/2001 6:15 AM MDT

Am i right or am i right in asking that a sikh must not eat meat??? i hear of so many gurmukh singhs who have their amrit and then still going back to their old ways. WHAHEGU!!!!!!!

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Sat Sri Akal,

You are right. A Sikh must not eat meat. If you want a reference in Gurbani, it is written quite simply in JapJi Sahib, Pauri 18:

"Asankh galvadh hate-aa kamaahe"
Countless are cut-throats who kill and have earned a murder.

Guru Nanak says that if you kill (note that the Guruji doesn't specify only human, Guruji only says if you kill. If you eat meat, then you have killed an animal) you will have earned a murder. Now think about it, is earning a murder a good thing? Do you want the life of anything resting on your conscience? People earn money and put it in their bank accounts to be used later on, do you want a murder to be in your mind's "bank account"? Sooner or later whatever is in your mind's "bank account" will come back to you. That is why you need to make sure it is filled with only good deeds.

This is just one line of one pauri in JapJi Sahib and we have learned so much. Think how much you can learn from two lines, and then all the lines.

I hope this helps.

Gur Fateh,
HSD