Guest Javanmard Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Girls sit separate from boys in the Gurdwaras because they're built like Protestant churches!!!!!!!!! Puratan Sikh architecture always had the Guru Granth Sahib in the middle as the axis of the universe and not at the end of the building like a Christian altar. Families used to sit together around the Guru Granth Sahib. Because the Singh Sabha was influenced by British Protestantism they started building Gurdware like churches. It's sad but true. Protestantism with its Puritan values denies the physical aspect of our being. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r k Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 So lalleshvari, are you saying that prior to the Singh Sabha movement's coming into power, men and women sat together in Gurdwaras? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms514 Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 Sat Sri Akal: People do it because their parents did it. There is nothing to stop one from sitting on the other's side. Somewhere, it kinda got adopted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 yes people sat where they wanted. The gurdwaras were built in such a way that there was no gender separation whereas churches have that kind of architecture. A real gurwara should have Guru Granth Sahib in th emiddle of the building as the axis of the universe. A circular strcuture does not imply gender separation 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sukhasingh Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 just like harminder sahib :bow: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darshan kaur Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 wow...but would u trust urself and otha ppl around the opposite sex...especially u guys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 25, 2003 Report Share Posted July 25, 2003 It's not women who should chop parts of their beauty but men who have to disciple their minds. Here is the story of the Kashmiri female saint Lalleshvari: she used to go around naked (naked like the Truth) and people were asking her if she wasn't ashamed because of men looking at her. He replied: I don't see any men. For her a real man was the one who was able to control his mind. Lust in the eye of the beholder not in the hip trousers or belly tops! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ideal Singh Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 lallaeshwari : I don't see any men. For her a real man was the one who was able to control his mind. You mean to say that lust is the forte of men only. Woman have no Lust. But pshycology has proved that woman have infact more attraction towards opposite sex than men. Its a scientific fact !! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 But pshycology has proved that woman have infact more attraction towards opposite sex than men. Its a scientific fact !! :shock: Bhaji, what's your source for that assumption? Gurfateh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 LUST and DESIRE are two different things my dear Amans!!! 8) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ideal Singh Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Well I think Kaam is rather Lust and not Desire... How would you prove me wrong? :?: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 Kaam is a sanskrit word (kaama) and it means desire. The lust/desire distinction is a 19th century Victorian concept. See Foucault: Histoire de la Sexualite Vol1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darshan kaur Posted August 1, 2003 Report Share Posted August 1, 2003 hahahah.... u read that??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amrikingh Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 That's childish 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Yes it is childish, and only those who have the innocence of a child will see God :wink: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amrikingh Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Yes it is childish, and only those who have the innocence of a child will see God :wink: but your not a child thoosi tha dungar hai :P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 U R sweet :wink: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hari Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 LUST and DESIRE are two different things my dear Amans!!! 8) Lust = sexual desire or strong passionate desire/want :roll: lust . n. 1 strong sexual desire. 2 a passionate desire for something. . v feel lust for someone or something. - ORIGIN Old English Above from Oxford English dictionary.Lalleshvari :roll: :roll: :roll: You can desire for or lust for anything. Words do have similar meanings you know.Depends on context.Lust doesn't necessarily mean sexual desire, it can also mean to have passionate all-consuming desire for something. Lust for life, lust for car, lust for money.Give me-give me-give me...I want-I want-I want...must have-must have-must have... :cry: :cry: :cry: I mean the Indian god of love/sexual desire is called Kaam-Dev, just Eros god of love. Primary meaning of Kaam is desire/wish.But desire comes in many forms, and one of them is sexual desire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Interesting you quote the Oxford dictionary because the love/desire vs. lust division is a Victorian inovation. India does not know this division until the British come! :wink: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hari Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Interesting you quote the Oxford dictionary because the love/desire vs. lust division is a Victorian inovation. India does not know this division until the British come! :wink: Yes, agreed.However language does change and evolve.There are many English swear words in use today which were considered normal in past history. Maybe lust only meant sexual desire at one stage.Now though it has dual meaning, just like many other words. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amrikingh Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 U R sweet :wink: So are ju 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avtar Singh Posted October 6, 2003 Report Share Posted October 6, 2003 So are ju thats tha way 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil_princess Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 have u peepz noticed that females tend to sit on the left, while males on the right when comming into the gurdwara?? ?? But if the guru granth sahib was in the middle, there is not real left or real right.....!!! I think it would be cool to have a circular gurdwara, maybe i should build one! Everything would be circular, there are no corners, just unity, balance and no ends.... one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsb Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 well supposedly there's actually a fundamental reason behind it...my parents were telling me there was, but they pboth forgot the reason at the time i asked them 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 well supposedly there's actually a fundamental reason behind it...my parents were telling me there was, but they pboth forgot the reason at the time i asked them lol Joker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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