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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Randip Singh" data-source="post: 56362" data-attributes="member: 1323">No No NO and No again. Non- Veg is not ideal for Sikhs. Vegetarian is not ideal for Sikhs. It is up to the individual Sikh to make his or her mind up. I would never ever dream of making you a vegetarian into a meat eater....in the same breath I would never ever dream of making a meat eater into a vegetarian (but I once did....oh how egotistical and foolish and naive I was).   There is eveidence to suggest that the Guru's were not veggie too.....this is a moot point and irrelevant. Langaar is vegetarian so as to be acceptable to all. There are Gurudwara's such as Gwalior where they kill goats to commemorate the meeting of Guru Gobind Singh ji and Bandha Bahadhur and serve that as langar. You will be surprised how diverse Sikhi is.  Interestingly Sadhana never gave up being a butcher yet was considered a Saint. Bhaghat Kabir was a Muslim weavers son and so was aware of muslim animal sacrifice.......Ravi Dass's profession was to kill animals and make leather......... ...as for Daya....if you are saying vegetarianism is a measure of Daya then tell me where was Adolf Hitler's Daya for the Jews? or the so called Animal Rights people who dig up human remains of loved ones in order to stop animal experiments?  All these people are vegetarians? ...what about Daya for plants....living breathing reproducing yet we kill them for gratification of our own tastebuds.......According to Bani being a plant is only one incarnation away from being a human being: On page 176 of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the following is written: In so many incarnations, you were rocks and mountains;in so many incarnations, you were aborted in the womb;in so many incarnations, you developed branches and leaves;you wandered through 8.4 million incarnations.Through the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, you obtained this human life.So should we not have Daya for the plant? Poor thing cannot run away? Cannot express its distress?   I see a trend developing amongst Sikh's. We shun meat eaaters....then we shun people who don't cook in a certain way....then we shun people who eat plants grown in the eath (because they are in contact with earth)......etc etc....this is already happening with Sikhs and it troubles me.  Eat unprocessed food......beggie or meat eater go Organic...buy from farms...grow your own......etc. Alcohol is the biggest problem of our time........I have no problem of alcoholo being used medicinally......even in cooking (as it can kill bacteria)..........but boozing is a no no........</blockquote>

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