Define a Sikh?
Lets start from the very Beginning in the early 1500’s, when our dearest loving First Eternal Guru Nanak Dev Ji started his mission set by The One Lord Creator God in our World. He started by saying some famous words which are heard everywhere in the World, ” neither am I a Muslim nor am I a Hindu “. Assuming he actually did say these words all those years ago, these words have been slanted insidiously and contemptibly by public, sikh religious sects, organizations and institutions, as meaning that the Hindu and Sikh are separate distinct castes or races.
Well, Guru Nanak Dev was born a Hindu and a Hindu spoke those words then, and he also added he wasn’t Muslim either. Guru Nanak came to our World to reform, form, create or produce a distinct caste or race among his own Hindu castes called a ‘Sikh’. A baby human takes x10 months to form and create in a mother’s womb, then it is born we see its lovely colour, skin and and we celebrate joyously, thank God Giving a piece of His Love to Us.
It took Guru Nanak to start the form and create a Sikh using x10 Gurus, from Himself the First Guru, to the last Guru Gobind Singh in 1706, when the First Sikh was revealed to the World, These x10 Gurus sacrificed their lives over hundreds of years to create that Guru for His Sikh.The reign of the ‘Singhs’ ended with Guru Gobind Singh, when he purified and re-created and established the 5 Khalsa, with Himself and His Four sons (Sarbloh Granth Proves This Truth). The Khalsa are Sikh and the Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagat Kabeer declared this Truth on P655, before even Guru Nanak or Guru Gobind Singh set foot on our Beloved Earth.
The Full Final Guru Granth Sahib was revealed in 1706, and The Guru’s words of the Time are “sub sikhan ko hukam hai Guru maneyo Granth”, meaning I order all Sikhs to love honor obey, this First Last Guru Granth Sahib. Then Guru Gobind Singh had completed the task started by Guru Nanak all those years ago and whosoever from the four prevalent castes – Brahmin, Kshatriyas, Vaisya or Sudra – follow the Guru Granth Sahib, they become a pure, supernatural Spiritual Sikh soul, not body that will die and will burn in fire, be reduced to ashes and dust.
This mysterious, magical and supernatural transformation happens to a true committed in sacrifice “Chela” of The Guru. That Chela becomes Sikh like The Guru he adopted in his soul. So, the eternal saying “Guru hai Chela and vice-versa Chela hai Guru”. The Sikh is the living material image of The Guru, as is his soul.
Guru Gobind Singh, The Tenth Guru, gave more clarity on this subject, as to who is a Sikh of The Guru in the Rehat-Nama written by Bhai Nandlal which The Guru dictated, for those who wish, desire or hope to become The Guru’s Sikh.
(Gurmukhi / English) : Reyat-Nama (Click to Download)
Explanation – View Points:
In very simple format, any person from the four predominate castes in our country, namely: the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudra, who first and foremost, have true faith & belief, in the Divine Guru Granth Sahib, in turn the Sikh Gurus, Bhagats, Sants etc. This affiliation is totally spiritual, and has no material color, form or image, as it’s the Color of The One Unseen Almighty Creator. You cannot dress that human with defining clothes, you cannot impose a caste, race or tribe or number nor make any boundaries.
This classification can then be extended to any in the world from the 4 originally created types of humans, meaning those who were White, Black or Dark Complexion, Chinese and Indian. All that exists today in human form, have been derived from these 4 types and fills the world with Human Color. So, the Sikh can come to be any of these 4 types, whosoever wants a True Guru to perfect their lives.
- Q. How then does one become a Sikh?
Answer:
Again very simply put, it’s declared in the Guru Granth Sahib by The Gurus & Others Divine Teachings contained therein, in different Divine Hymns, but it culminates in the Fourth Guru Ramdas, Lahvaan, which defines a spiritual step marriage of a human, with The Unseen Lord. It is so defined, that one has to be gifted to believe in that process, only then does it directly affect, transform and rejuvenate that lucky and fortunate human being, into a ‘super-natural person’. That sadly, is per-ordained and written from a Time Past, it cannot happen randomly or in one human life. This defining Truth, causes an uncountable many to see, read, recite even have in possession the Guru Granth Sahib, but its True Essence is never gained or accepted, and disappointed or dejected, the person disbelieves, becomes doubtful and skeptical.
The marriage depicted in the Gurdwaras of the world are dishonorable to The Guru, the Sikh community or Panth and the couple who are seated before The Guru. When you are prevented, stopped and forced by the controlling religious sikh organizations to ‘not speak these Lahvaan when getting married, it automatically has prevented the sikh bride & groom from stating to The Guru present that your ‘silence in not reading the Lahvaan yourselves’ is neither ‘an acceptance nor a rejection’ of The Guru’s proposal before you both to marry. If the preacher (granthi or gyani) has said those ‘Lahvaan’, then he has got married, not the couple. If his read Lahvaan are accepted, then the whole Sangat who are also present in witness before The Guru have also got married, hearing the preacher (granthi or gyani). Madness indeed…
Here in Gurdwara Har Mandir Istri Sahib (GHMIS), the couple must speak the Lahvaan themselves, take the ‘Hukamnama’ after completing the four rounds, per the Lahvaan. .
Divorce
The Sikh Lahvaan make for a marriage of any Sikh, but there is no process, procedure, ritual, ceremony or consecration given in the Guru Granth Sahib for any Divorce. That is a man made process, has absolutely Nothing with a Sikh getting divorced. A Sikh sacrifices his head to The Guru and cannot go against The Guru Granth Sahib. As nothing formal, informal or certified in spiritual law exists in the Guru Granth Granth Sahib for a Sikh to divorce then their own ‘Manmat’ or mind’s decision are theirs alone, its not permissible or acceptable to The Guru.
Q. Who is the protector of Sikh, his life and family, when he speaks and accepts The Guru, per the Lahvaan?
Chapter 18 – Sukhmani Sahib, P286, 5th Guru Arjun Dev Ji, Guru Granth Sahib.
The True Guru always takes care and looks after his Sikh,
Upon the servant The Guru is ever kind and merciful,
The Guru removes from the Sikh’s filthy, sinful and bad thinking from the mind,
Taking in The Guru’s divine teachings, they speak The Lord’s Name,
The True Guru breaks the Sikh’s bonds and emotional attachments to the world,
The Guru’s sikh refrains himself from doing sinful, filthy, wasteful, corrupt, bad and useless deeds, ,
The True Guru gives the Sikh the true wealth of The Lord’s Name,
The Guru’s sikh is born rare, lucky and fortunate,
The True Guru makes good the Sikh’s life here and hereafter,
Nanak says, the True Guru reforms, mends and corrects the Sikh, from His heart ( 1).