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Almost all our debates or discussions revolve around many things which are written in the rehat maryada. After a debate and discussion everybody goes back to there previously held position and no one wants to change there view, even with evidence. this is because everyone is attached to a jethabandi and what ever is the view of there jetha, thats there view and no one will change from that. Different groups ie nihangs,nanaksar,akj,taksal,sants,baba, samprada ect. have there own maryada. to unify the panth it would be great if all groups put there own maryadas down and come up with one that everyone can agree and follow. the sgpc did a good job of trying to do this and came up with one alot of people agree with, but some groups did not agree, for a maryada to be followed by whole panth everyone must agree. many steps have been taken in the past to amend the maryada so the whole panth is on one page. for instance jethadar ranjit singh had a plan to gather all jathas and samprada in darbar sahib and lock them in a room and food will be provided to them. they would not leave until everyone agreed with one maryada. the plan fell through because the dharam yudh morcha was launched and everyones energy and attention went to that. also the sant samaj got together about the maryada issue they took the akal thakhat maryada and wrote some points where they believed needed to be added and elaborated they came up with a rough draft. all the sant samaj read it and signed there name saying they agreed with it. some of the deras who were part of the sant samaj practiced anti gurmat activities at there deras. once they signed the sant samaj rough draft they got rid of those practices baba hari singh randawa met with jethadhar gurcharan singh tohra and give him the rough draft. jethedhar sahib read it and said this rough draft is almost the same as the current maryada, it shouldnt be difficult to make one maryada. jathadhar said this is the first task i will do, but sadly he passed away shortly all sampradas should work to update the current maryada so panth can be united. all groups should lay aside there difference and work toward having one maryada everyone agrees with. after everyone agrees to the maryada all sampradas and sants should sign there name and video tape the event so no person can back out or reject the maryada later on. we should tell the jathedars and samprada heads that we want a united maryada, lets make this a movement so differences can be eliminated from the panth