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Typos!

I agree with what you are saying.  I was not specifically reacting to Hardip Singh's comment; I was replying to the title of the thread.

We need to be ever on guard against superstition.  I have had some difficulty explaining this to The Good Irene.  She looks on my kara especially as some sort of a lucky charm that I wear, my kesh as an encumbrance and my kirpan as asking for trouble, my kangha as a decoration and my kechera as a bit silly.  She cannot believe that I don't wear these things to bring me luck in some form.  "You believe you would be cursed without these things!" is her incorrect understanding. 

I would not be cursed;  I would be incomplete.

As for the family of the Amritdhari girl, her family members seem to be just plain mean, as if the young lady isn't in enough pain as it is.  As for the in-laws, well, there's no accounting for in-laws, I guess.  I am sure that her problems are not "punishment" from God or Guru ji.  As LifeWithSoul said, the '"punishment" is a loss of that connexion, that conscious contact with the Eternal, which is no more punishment than gravity punishes me when I fall down.