Sharing a share from Rajandeep **Eating meat in Sikhi - Q & A with Guru Jee*** Question: Guru Jee please tell me can Sikhs eat meat? Answer: O Kabeer! Those that use force and kill and call it lawful, after going to the Court of God, what will be their state? ||187|| (SGGS - Ang 1374) Question: But my friends told me that I should eat meat because it is good for me and will make me strong. Is it that bad if I have meat now and again? Answer: O Kabeer! The dinner of beans and rice is excellent, if it is (just) flavoured with salt. I am not ready to have my own throat cut to have meat with my bread? ||188|| (SGGS - Ang 1374) Question: But Guru Jee, why cant Sikhs eat meat? Answer: Do not cause any being to suffer, and you shall go to your true home with honor. (SGGS - Ang 322) Question: Thats all good, but I have heard some people say that it’s ok to eat Jhatka meat? Answer: You kill living beings, and call it a righteous action. Tell me, brother, what would you call an unrighteous action? If you religious people are doing religious killing for meat, then what is A-dharam (atheism)? If you are a religious person then whom will we call a butcher? ||2|| (SGGS - Ang 1103) Question: Okay. What about eating fish? I suppose that isnt really meat? Answer: O Kabeer! Those mortals who consume marijuana, fish and wine - no matter what pilgrimages, fasts and rituals they follow, they will all go to hell. ||233|| (SGGS - Ang 1377) Question: Guru Jee, can you eat meat and still do Bhagti (devotional worship)? Answer: If in all is the one God, then why kill a chicken? (SGGS - Ang 1350) Question: Does it affect our spirituality if we eat meat? Answer: If ones clothes are stained with blood, the garment becomes polluted. Those who drink the blood of others - how can those peoples consciousness be pure? (SGGS - Ang 140) Question: Guru Jee does becoming a vegetarian make me religious? If I JUST give up eating meat, does that make me a good Sikh? Answer: Only the fool quarrels over the question of eating or not eating of the meat; that person does not have the True Wisdom. (Without True Wisdom or Meditation), the person harps on which is flesh and which is not flesh and which food is sinful and which is not. (SGGS - Ang 1289-1290) Question: So a Sikh doesnt eat meat because a Sikh should have compassion and kindness for living life, but what thing makes a person religious if just becoming a vegetarian doesnt make a person religious? Answer: Chanting the Name of the Lord all doubts are dispelled. Naam, the Name of the Lord is the highest religion. (SGGS – Ang 874) Waheguru ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji ki Fateh Rajandeep Singh
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