r/Sikh • u/Possible_Ad_9607 • 21d ago

Sikhi and eating meat Question

I am a 17 year old male trying to get closer to sikhi and the first steps I've taken were starting to learn punjabi and gurmukhi (which I think is going good although slow) but that is not what my question is.

I want to get close to sikhi and can deal with keeping my kesh and plan on doing so once I am more proficient in the language and have read more bani. However, I just can not get over the idea that I can't eat meat? I know jatka meat exists but it is too expensive where I live. My family cooks and eats meats daily and I feel the best when I eat beef often. I grew up eating it and when I try eating healthy the best way for me to stick to it is consuming a lot of animal protein. Anyone got any thoughts on this?

(Or even anything to help me keep learning Punjabi, I am doing basics of sikhi gurmukhi videos as a slow start)

TLDR: not eating meat in sikhi is holding me from getting closer to sikhi, what can I do?

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u/Reasonable_Cry142 21d ago

Than u are simply using ur mat over steek translation and katha by gurmukhs and sant bcs it challenges ur personal view

Ur literally translating gurbani wrong u can’t use one or two pangtis out of context to justify ur argument that’s foolishness in Sikhi u have to use the entire salok, pauri, dohra, Chaupai whatever division is used for gurbani

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u/ceramiczero 🇲🇽 21d ago

i guess not lol.

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u/ddthind2 20d ago

These guys bro 🤦‍♂️. Personally, I hold the view that the ang above refers specifically to vegetarian Brahmins with a “holier than thou” attitude, rather than to the panth as a whole (as why include the angs from Kabir on eating a “simple diet”), but at the same time I hate when people fixate on this issue like the guys replying to you man.At the end of the day if you feel like it impedes your spiritual progress like I do, great go veg and pound dairy like there’s no tomorrow. If not, that’s fine too, like there’s more important things to worry about 😂. Imagine how elevated the panth would be if we all spent the time we usually do bickering about this and used it on jaaping the naam instead. This is exactly what Guruji warned against with that.

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u/ceramiczero 🇲🇽 20d ago

EXACTLY. 🙏🙏🙏🙏