Problem with my Guru Ghar's Committee right now

[Guest Gupti]

Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

Sangat Ji I’m going through a very weird situation right now with my Guru Ghar, I’ve been taking an interest in a lot of Bani as of late so I’ve been doing my own Khoj of it. I’ve listened to Katha, read Teekas and also did my own interpretations of it (all in line with Gurmat as I take nearly all of it from Taksal). Our Guru Ghar is very nice and the atmosphere is good as well, the people are very friendly too. So I wanted to start doing Katha of the Bani I had learned and the arths of it.

Currently there is already a Gursikh doing Katha of another bani but he will most likely need to go do Kaatha elsewhere, so I offered up my services to the Guru Ghar as I was really excited to do something worthwhile. I can talk about Bani all day and I would love the opportunity, I asked the head of the committee about it and he refused to let me, I asked why and he explained it to as thus.

He said that since I shave my beard (which is true, I do but I would like to add I used to shave it once a week but now I do it nearly every 2 months and im slowly letting it grow and will keep it soon) it projects a bad image and that the sangat would start attacking the Guru Ghar over allowing someone like me to do Katha, which I find really startling as they allow moni to do Kirtan within Guru Ghar and I have seen many moni brothers doing some sort of katha (history wise) before, he cited Mika Singh who did a shabad at a Smagam and how the Sangat got angry at him over it. I did some googling and found the man was involved in all sorts of weird stuff (kissing, groping etc) and I see why the Sangat was upset, but the head was using this as a means of saying that the sangat don’t want people who shave or don’t have kesh to do anything like katha.

I feel really discouraged by this as I was really keen and excited about it, I get his logic but I wanted to ask if the Sangat here agreed with it. I get im not the ideal person but I just want to share what I have learnt.

[Guest Gupti]

SangatJi I forgot to add, the bani i was going to do Katha on wasn't about Rehit at all and I do keep Kesh on my head.

[Kira]

maybe ask the other members and see what they think?

[Guest]

Well the committee member is not wrong. 

[sikhni777]

Avoid upsetting the sangat at all costs. If you can do parchar then you can have a saabat surat as well. Imagine kesatari starting to trim just because you the parcharak does. Don't let this hold you back. We do need good parcharaks. esp with long beards. 

[Guest Apperance only]

Yeyeye look the part,look like a good person but be black inside. Is that all we seek? "Sikh" looking people. We focus so much in appearance we have let snakes on stage.

[sikhni777]

1 hour ago, Guest Apperance only said:

Yeyeye look the part,look like a good person but be black inside. Is that all we seek? "Sikh" looking people. We focus so much in appearance we have let snakes on stage.

The type of sikhi you want I

[sikhni777]

is practiced by nirankaris. No kesh eat meat recite whatever shabad whatever bani no parkash and no rules. Just pray to God however.  No Guru either. 

[Preeet]

1 hour ago, Guest Apperance only said:

Yeyeye look the part,look like a good person but be black inside. Is that all we seek? "Sikh" looking people. We focus so much in appearance we have let snakes on stage.

I heard that a persons image is the reflection of their inside.. Just as a tall thick tree full of leaves is seen as healthy cuz it is healthy from the inside, similarly a person healthy inside would have it shown at the outside, especially when it comes to dharam. This look is a gift from guru ji, my friend. If a sikh is paunchaya they will at least have kesh and stay away from the 4 main kurehits. bhull chuk maaf

[Kira]

This is entire thread is an example of why alot of moni are turning away from Sikhi