In the past, most of the Hindu Punjabi families had their first child, sadly a boy, to be a Sikh with kesh etc. etc. Hence one will find many Hindu families having Sikhs in their families because of this.
Interesting. I'm glad to see someone who isn't so caught up in dogma to insist if you dare cut your hair you're no longer a valid Sikh. Refreshing.
Well, that is a moral code that the societies want to abide by to have a long married life together.
Would you let yourself or your spouse have sex outside your marriage provided that was your case?
Well, I certainly know groups who are polyamorous by choice. And often it works well for them. However that is VERY different from hidden cheating. Very.
Very trueIf you meant sex before marriage, in other words, remain a virgin, then it is a different thing and is sadly favourable to the male gender than to the female one which is unfair.
What do you understand by 'bow down before ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ'?
Once you expand on what you mean by the above, then only I will be able to respond.
I don't really mean that it's "necessary", but it is certainly expected. I have even felt if I am going past the darbar hall without making appropriate bowing gestures, that people certainly look at me crooked.
I suppose you mean drinking alcohol if I am not mistaken. We all know its mals. We see AA all around the world. DUI is a crime. Many kill and get killed while driving drunk daily. So, I have no idea what you are trying to convey. Would you please expand on it?
There is nothing wrong in being alcohol free. I myself have not had any since 2015. I feel no "need", and I was not an alcoholic at the time either. I would occasionally drink with my parents, a glass of wine or a beer. But after then I haven't, I just haven't had the desire. There are a lot of "holier than thous" who insist one should never drink. I realize it is an illness some can't stop once they start, but equally many people are quite capable of drinking sensibly, never drinking and driving, never getting violent under the influence, etc. So I don't see drinking as "all bad".
But that being said I think it is written in rehat maryada, based on guru Gobind singh Ji's 52 hukkams, not to drink?
Would you be kind enough to expand on the above as well, please? Thanks.
Surely you've heard of Guru Gobind Singh Ji's 52 hukkams? I know many Sikhs consider them somewhat like "commandments", obligatory rules. Though I have also heard there is some disagreement over them (& rehat), as to who originally wrote them, politics etc.
But there are a lot of Sikhs who insist they are the code of conduct for all to follow otherwise you can't call yourself Sikh. Despite Sikh, as a word, meaning learner. I just find in general it's a bit hypocritical of people to say one instant that sikhi is a way of life (which I do often hear), and almost the next minute "oh but you're not a true Sikh if you drink/cut your hair(etc)"...
And I do hear it. Sometimes from the same people. Sometimes within a short period of time.