Transformation Not Suppression
The goal is to transform negative tendencies, not merely suppress them.
Sikhism doesn't teach suppression of natural energies but their transformation. Desire becomes devotion to God, anger becomes passion for justice, attachment becomes divine love.
The five thieves, when under the Guru's control, become protectors.
Transformation turns obstacles into aids on the spiritual path.
Sikh Commentary
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- What Sikhism says about habit and discipline
The corrective: the aim is not clamping down on the drives but converting them — desire into devotion, anger into a passion for justice. A discipline that only suppresses is named as the wrong kind.