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Most Sikhs are vegetarian, not vegan. Karah prashad and the langar incorporate dairy products.

Gursikhs keep surprising you everyday with new and amazing ways to do seva. Today was blessed at Fatehgarh Sahib to see these some of awesomest Singhs I have ever met. They have setup free physiotherapy massage center for sangat, particularly seniors, who are tired walking around as vehicles are not allowed due to jor mela. Best part is how lovingly they do the seva singing along kirtan played in the background or doing simran with so much love that your heart melts with bairaag. Dhan Guru!! Dhan Guru ke Sikh!!! https://www.facebook.com/s.vismaad/videos/10153467692384585/

Try reading Guru Granth sahib ji... all your answers are there ...

Katha should be strictly Gurbani (or other historical puratan writings) related only. Other subjects can be done lecture style somewhere else and where everyone is allowed to ask questions. Or just simply move it to the podium instead.

Freedom of Speech > your feelings (Forgive my rudeness) Too many Sikhs don't understand basic freedom. The Indian mentality of "censor everything" is stuck in their head. Although Youtube is technically a private corporation/service and they can ban whoever they like. Obviously we should give a response, but we shouldn't just scream "OMG THAT HURTS ME FEELINGS TAKE IT DOWN" or call your buddies and go hunt the guy down and kill him allahu akbar style. What kind of image does it give of the Sikhs? https://www.instagram.com/p/-5T_YLgCZR/?taken-by=the_greek_savagery This guy posted a meme of Bhai Dayala Jee. Obviously he didn't know what was going on or who it was in the picture and he used it in a meme making fun his patience and calmness in the boiling cauldron. Eventually, I think he understood and he took it down. The link above is to a post he made right after I understand some people were really hurt seeing a prominent shaheed being mocked, but the response to the picture was a total embarrassment for Sikhs. Someone even openly threatened to kill him and another challenged him to a fight IN BROOKLYN. And then theres this whole "Ban Sikh Jokes" thing going on. Are we really telling a government to arrest, fine, and use force against those who make fun of us? Really? What does that show about us? Sikhs are to be against oppression of rights as ordered by Dasmesh Pita Guru Gobind Singh Maharaj.

How many women stay with their husbands despite violence because divorce would be considered shameful. Your post doesn't seem to consider the thousands of sikh women who've had arranged marriages but have had to endure violence and drunken behaviour because they've had no option.

I think its important to be realistic about these things. Marriage seems to be the primary concern of most young people and rightly so. Look in any group of asian origin, you have young people stuck between two cultures, neither of which seems to fully take care of business. Two generations back people mostly got married wherever they were told and the system of introducing people was working to some extent. Today that is no longer the case. young people are coming to realise in their mid twenties that the system they were told is going to take care of them and facilitate a match for them has fallen to peices because so much has changed in the world in the last 20 years. Suddenly the social networks that should provide reccomendations are finding that they cant vouch for people at all let alone find suitable matches. I myself know of at least 4 Amrit Dhari people (2 Singhs and 2 Bibiya) of decent character who now have passed their mid thirties and are actually going grey, yet there is no sight of a match to be made for them. So what do we say to them? should they now be told that they should marry whoever comes along, tell them beggars cant be choosers and that everything that they invested in in order to qualify for a good match (living a decent lifestyle, getting an education, having successful careers etc) was for nought? Because the elders in the community, and in some cases their own parents are literally saying exactly that... on the other hand others have been challenged by their parents (who are themselves stuck with this broken system) out of sheer frustration that "You go to all these programs, why didnt you find someone yourself?" Some of those people are now effectively saying that if they had known it would come to this they would have taken action themselves when the opportunities were around them and secured a match for themselves. one of them is advising his younger brother at university to not fall into the same trap that he has, to find someone himself and then get the families involved. Some of these people who frowned upon fratenising with members of the opposite sex now lament the fact that they have been left on the shelf because they werent open to opportunities when they appeared. So what are young Sikhs to do? This is a matter of universal concern. Young Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims have all fallen prey to the same problem and it is not something to be taken lightly. Its a constantly recurring theme that keeps rearing its head in one form or another all over message boards like these and is a common theme of conversation for anybody in their twenties. If the old way of doing things isnt working anymore, then there has to be something to take its place. Either the youth themselves have to start facilitating for each other or, the direction alot of us are going in, its going to be everyone fending for themselves. And it is important to add that its not just a problem for young GurSikhs. today that is the state of play across the board. Why is it that despite there being a "system" to facilitate marriage for all of us of asian descent (regardless of religious background), there are speedating events geared especially towards Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs? something has obviously gone horribly wrong somewhere because there are people exploiting this issue and making money out of it through such events. When the original poster said "We should wake up", i agree with him, but in order to tackle this we need to wake up as a community and look at the issue hollistically, its not right to point the finger at the product of this failed system (the confused or dissillusioned youth). If we want to make sure that people adhere to a chaste and morally pure lifestyle, then as a bare minimum they need to be shown that there are clear advantages to them in walking that path. That is to say that a young GurSikh needs to have faith that they are not hamstringing themselves or dealing themselves out of the game by taking the moral high ground. If that can be acheived the rest will fall into place. fix the machine, or get a new one. those are the only real options that are going to make a difference.