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Sikh women wash their feet before entering Darbar Sahib. (source: http://hzimm.wordpress.com)

The feet of the devout

April 26, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Erasmus, the religion blog for The Economist, looks at the religious practices around shoes and feet among the Abrahamic faiths: …at the moment of his encounter with God, Moses was ordered to take off his shoes because he was treading on sacred ground…The fathers of the early Christian church were intrigued by the instruction to Moses. They thought shoes reflected decay and mortality, because they were made from the skin of dead animals, while God was calling Moses to a […]

Categories: Reflections, Sikhism • Tags: barefoot, Bhai Gurdas, feet, foot, Guru Arjun, Guru Granth Sahib, Guru Nanak, Vaaran

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