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Women Not Allowed to Take Amrit?

Oct 31, 2024
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Recently came across a shocking and disappointing post on social media, which spoke praisingly about the exclusion of women from the Khanday-ke-Pahul Amrit Sanchar ceremony which would officially affirm them as Khalsa Sikhs.

You can read for yourself what this account, called Akaali Chronicles, posted:

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While this poster has disguised the “Kirpan Amrit” as a means to allow women to “preserve their femininity”, the purpose should be clear to any individual who is being honest with themself: the segregating practice is intended to maintain men as the receivers of the full benefits and rewards of the Khalsa status, while keeping women in a lower position.

We may believe that these practices are behind us, but we have heard of them taking place even in Surrey, BC, a place that is generally forward and liberal when it comes to female equality.

We have heard of these same groups conducting Amrit Sanchars in our local area in which the “lower fourth castes” are ostracized and purposely given Amrit last and separately, as to not “contaminate” the Amrit bata.

In the 21st century, it is disheartening that these practices can continue to take place; and that, too, outside of India, among the educated and supposedly forward generations of the diaspora.

In previous generations, the knowledgeable and brave Gurmukhs of the past spoke out against these practices. For instance, Baba Jarnail Singh Bhinderawale is seen admonishing this practice of having a separate “Kirpan Amrit” for women:



Bhai Sahib Bhai Randhir Singh Ji has also spoken out against discriminative practices in Amrit Sanchars, writing:

ਇਹ ਇਤਫ਼ਾਕ ਦੀ ਗੱਲ ਸੀ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਸਮੇਂ ਪੰਜ ਪਿਆਰੇ ਜੋ ਨਿਤਰੇ, ਉਹ ਗਿਣਵੇਂ ਪੰਜ ਵਰਨਾਂ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਹੀ ਸਨ। ਇਸ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਭਾਵ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਿ ਇਸਤ੍ਰੀ ਜਾਤੀ ਆਦਿਕ ਹੋਰ ਸਾਰੇ ਵਰਨ ਵਾਂਝੇ ਰਖੇ ਗਏ, ਜੈਸਾ ਕਿ ਝੀਵਰ, ਨਾਈ ਆਦਿਕ ਵਰਨਾਂ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਲਏ ਗਏ। ਪੰਜਾਂ ਪਿਆਰਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਮਿਸਾਲ ਲੈ ਕੇ ਅੱਜ ਕੱਲ੍ਹ ਦੇ ਥੋੜ-ਦਿਲੇ ਵਰਨ-ਆਸ਼ਰਮੀ ਹਮਾਕਤ-ਬਾਜ਼ ਇਹ ਪ੍ਰਗਟ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ ਕਿ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਗੇਣਵੇਂ ਵਰਨ-ਆਸ਼ਰਮ ਹੀ ਪੰਜ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਰੀ ਬੰਦਿਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਹਰ ਹੋਰ ਕੋਈ ਵਰਨ-ਆਸ਼ਰਮੀ ਬੰਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਂ ਪਿਆਰਿਆਂ ਵਿਚ ਲਿਆ ਹੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾ ਸਕਦਾ।

ਇਸਤ੍ਰੀ ਜਾਤੀ ਨੂੰ ਆਮ ਹਿੰਦਵੈਣੀ ਅਕੀਦੇ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਸ਼ੂਦਰ ਜਾਤੀ ਵਿਚ ਸ਼ੁਮਾਰ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਸੀ, ਜੋ ਅੱਜ ਕਲ੍ਹ ਓਸੇ ਘਟੀਅਲ ਅਕੀਦੇ ਵਾਲੇ ਨਾਈ ਝੀਵਰ' ਆਦਿਕ ਪੰਜਾਂ ਪਿਆਰਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਮਿਸਾਲ ਵਾਲੇ ਕੁਸਮਝ ਲੋਗ ਕੁਸਮਝੀ ਬੈਠੇ ਹਨ। ਅਨੇਕਾਂ ਹੀ ਇਸਤ੍ਰੀ ਪੁਰਸ਼ ਆਨ ਵਰਨ-ਆਸ਼ਰਮਾਂ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਦਸਮੇਸ਼ ਜੀ ਨੇ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਜਾਏ। ਏਥੋਂ ਤਕ ਕਿ ਮੁਹੰਮਦੀਆਂ ਚੌਥੇ ਪੌੜੇ ਵਾਲੇ (ਅਖਾਉਤੀ ਰੰਘਰੇਟ) ਨੂੰ ਵੀ ਖੰਡੇ ਦੇ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਦਾ ਬਾਟਾ ਪ੍ਰਦਾਨ ਕਰ ਕੇ ਉਚ ਦੁਮਾਲੜੇ ਵਾਲਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਜਾਇਆ।
ਸ੍ਰੀ ਦਸਮੇਸ਼ ਜੀ ਦਾ ਇਹ ਚੌਜ ਨਿਰਾਲਾ ਹੈ।



Roughly translated, this means:

Today, some narrow-minded, caste-obsessed fools, citing the example of the five beloved ones, claim that only those from the five castes (from which they came) can be part of the five Beloved Ones, excluding all others. It was a coincidence that the five beloved ones who stepped forward at that time were from the five castes. This does not mean that women or other castes were excluded. Today, some narrow-minded, caste-obsessed fools, citing the example of the five beloved ones, claim that only those from the counted five castes can be part of the five beloved ones, excluding all others.
Women were, in the general Hindu population, categorized under the Shudar low-caste by the general Hindu population. Nowadays, those types of same low-thinking, ignorant people, coming among the Panj Pyarey, are sitting with this misunderstanding.
Countless women and men were baptized by Sri Dasmesh Ji. Even Muslims and those from the fourth caste (referred to as Ranghreta) were given the nectar of the sword and adorned with “Uch Dumalaray” (high turbans). This act of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji was unique.


These Anti-Gurmat practices have been rejected over and over again over many years by the Bahadur, Soojhvan, and Naam-Rasiye Gurmukhs of the past.

Why, despite being banned by the Akal Takhat, are the creeping back into the Panth?
 

sunny1

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Jan 4, 2025
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It's not gender discrimination. Khalsa is an army and its suppose to be masculine. Khalsa is a masculine dharam. Women can take kirpan da pahul.
 
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