first off...i'm not sure if guru ji really made all these different orders...but at the same time i wouldnt' be surprised if he did...either way...the reality is that they DO exist..
and instead of complaining about them and saying how we should all be one....i think we should welcome all of them and take what we can from them...
the analogy i like to think about is...a doctor giving medicine to patients...he's not going to give the same medicine to all patients that have a headache...he has to look at the individual cases and act accordingly...likewise...all these different sampradas and jathas do things slightly differently but with the same goal in mind...and i guess you just follow what works for you...but in the end..it's the same thing...
the other analogy i think of is...that we all live in a huge house of Guru Nanak...BUT...in this house there is more than one room... and all these jathas and sampradas are like the rooms of the house....have some autonomy but ultimately responsible and answer to the owner of the house...
i don't know if this helps you...i might be waaaaaaaaaay off base...but this is just what works for me to keep it all straight...
jss got a reaction from Arsh1469 in ORIGIN OF NANAKSAR SAMPARDA