Gurbani On Phones

[Singh97]

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I wanted to start a discussion on if it's wrong to have gurbani and path on our phones. I've realized that we take our phones everywhere (a lot of the time they're even in our pockets when we go to the bathroom). So would you think that it's a good idea to be carrying path on your phone?

lol btw this may seem like a silly question, but I've seen this discussion come up many times between uncles at the gurdwara.

[luckysingh99]

How do you actually feel about it ??

Do you think it is sacrilege if you have a gurbani app on your phone because it goes in your pocket to the toilet ??

I think the answer is found within ad not by what some one else says to you.

For me, it doesn't matter whether it's on a phone or not- besides I no longer carry a phone as I believe it can dictate too many moments in my life that should be spent in consonance with Akal Purakh.

The gurbani is deeply enshrined within my heart and this makes it UNTOUCHABLE.

Gurbani comes from the lord himself, they are the words of the divine- the shabad guru.

The gurbani has to be seen or heard in a physical material form to be absorbed and then contemplated within our minds and hearts.

Because we are material forms in maya, then so does our interaction have to be in order to primarily receive.

Just as the One Sun gives the whole of creation it's light and warmth, so does anything else from God including his divine WORD or Gurbani.. Now if the same ONE sun sends the warmth to us by his divine doing, do we in any way change the form of rays coming from the sun ?

Or to put it a little easier, if we hang out some dirty filthy laundry to dry out in the sun, then do the sun's rays coming from the divine source get dirty or affected in any way ??

In the same way, the WORD does not get affected no matter where it hits or bounces off just like the sun's rays.

The age of the paper and pen is slowly passing as everything becomes electronic, but the WORD of Gurbani will still be the same no matter what or which format it may be presented in.

As for the going to the toilet issue and all that, then this comes down to general Sikh discipline. God has given us all the same bodies and no matter how clean our hearts and gurmukh our conduct may be, we will still operate as humans and contain and produce dirty waste products that are defecated or urinated.

We will NEVER cleanse our bodies of this internal waste whilst we reside in this kappra of a body.

The accessories of today are designed to be with us at all times,they are shaped and accustomed to fit into our pockets and not be too far in reach.

Taking your ipod playing gurbani into the toilet is not the same as taking guru sahib ji into the toilet to watch you defecate is it ??

This is the HUGE difference, the accessory or item goes with us but we don't take it to tarnish any part of it in an area for human waste.

If you still feel uncomfortable having gurbani on the same device as gansta rap or gurbani app along with games and movies seems inappropriate, then just don't do it OR get a separate device to help keep a clear conscious.

This stage comes down to personal rehat and discipline where we shouldn't encourage or discourage others.

Sacrilege in my opinion is when you deface and tamper with something precious. It is when you do graffiti on a gutka or draw some little pictures on the pages.....

It is when you intentionally do not wash your hands and proceed to flick through the pages of gutka, or try and read a gutka whilst eating a pizza slice at the same time.

Electronic devices don't get tampered with by dirty hands or food crumbs, but by electronic viruses and unsuitable material within the system.