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to the guidance from Guru Granth Sahib. The Gurbani in Guru Granth Sahib
actually speaks to us.
There was an incident in 1920 in which the Sikhs heard Guru’s message. Even
though Sikhism prohibits belief in caste system and status of a person based on
the family they are born in. Unfortunately, there are Sikhs who still believe in
caste system and they divide Sikhs into groups. On October 12, 1920, in Khalsa
College Amritsar there was a meeting of the so called ‘low caste’ Sikh students.
They decided to go to Harimandir Sahib and make an offering of Karhah
Parshad. The Granthis refused to do Ardas for them and to accept their
offering. This kind of discrimination was against the teachings in Guru Granth
Sahib. There was a protest. An agreement was reached that they will take
Hukam from Guru Granth Sahib and everyone will follow that. Guru Granth Sahib
was opened by a Granthi Singh at a random page (638) and the Hukam was read
by him. The Hukam was:
soriT mhlw 3 duqukI]
inguixAw no Awpy bKis ley BweI siqgur kI syvw lwie]
siqgur kI syvw aUqm hY BweI rwm nwim icqu lwie]
hir jIau Awpy bKis imlwie]
guxhIx hm AprwDI BweI pUrY siqguir ley rlwie]rhwau]
He Himself forgives the worthless; He commits them to the service of the Satguru. Service to
the True Guru is the best, through it, one's mind is connected to the Naam. ||1||
Waheguru forgives, and unites with Himself.
I am totally without a virtue, a sinner; the Perfect Guru has taken me in sharan. ||Pause||
The Karhah Parshad from those students was accepted and distributed at
Harimandir Sahib.
Gurbani in Guru Granth Sahib tells us that we should get rid of the tendencies
such as anger, arrogance, self-righteousness, hate/animosity, bigotry, and
apathy/lack of concern for others, being punitive or revengeful, greed, excessive
attachment with worldly things, and corruption. These take us away from the
path of spirituality. Guru Granth Sahib teaches us to treat everyone-men and
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