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Awau hmwrY rwm ipAwry jIau: Aaou hamaarai Raam piaare jeeou (sggs 217).

gurmiq swcI swcw vIcwru: Gurmati Saachee Saachaa Veechaar (sggs 666).

aUqm krxI sbd bIcwr: Uttam Karnee Shabad Beechaar (sggs 158).

isKI isiKAw gur vIcwir: Sikhee sikhiaa gur veechaar (sggs 465).

"Sarbat daa bhalaa" -- May All Be Happy!


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Ik Onkaar The attempt and intent of this website is to deepen Understanding of the Gurbani (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, SGGS, the eternal Guru of Sikhs). Many themes of the SGGS are reflected upon through the Gurbani As It Is. Currently there are over 300 Gurbani Reflections, and new are continually added. The website is updated routinely.

The Gurbani (and the holy texts of many other religions for that matter) is of the nature of Truth. A complete guide to practical Pure life, it provides all that is needed to raise one's consciousness to the highest dimension: the plane of Truth. However, since Truth cannot be understood with material nature, likewise, the Gurbani cannot be understood with material tendencies either. Also, being in the framework of time and space, the human body-mind-intellect are limited. Consequently, man's language is also limited. But, Absolute Truth scriptures and Masters try to explain using this limited human language is Unlimited/Infinite.

Further, the majority of us read/hear the SGGS or the Wise ones with identification to the body-consciousness and the quagmire of various types of concepts of our Haume/ego regime. For the mind identified with the menacing body-consciousness, spiritual knowledge has no meaning. When read, studied or heard through the mind's coloring, the essence of the spiritual Teaching gets misconstrued and misunderstood. As a result, many of us ends up misunderstanding the gist of the spiritual Teaching and the secret of its Knowledge ("Giaan"). Because the Divine Word or the Great ones speak without such identification or material concepts.

Naam-Simran (Japa or meditation) and Divine Knowledge (spiritual Wisdom, Aatm-Giaan or Self-knowledge) are indicated to awaken the Divine Grace within; enabling one to link with the underlying Truth. The edict of the SGGS is: without realization of the Truth, one cannot link back to his True Being, Center or Source (Joti-Svaroopa) within.

The Gurbani has a simple message: there is One, All-pervading Reality, which is our Pure Being within the body. The purpose of human life is to understand and know this Truth while alive "here" and "now", through self-purification and self-observation. Only then we can take off from the levels of negativity (Bikaars) into heights of spontaneity ("Sahaj"), Perfection ("Pooran Pada"), our True Nature or godly status ("Joti-Svaroopa"), Pure Awareness (state free of Haume/egoism/relativism) etc. To this end, the Gurmat (Teaching of the SGGS) urges us to: live the Divine Life by becoming the "Gurmukh" (enlightened being); make truthfulness the core of one's daily life; make dedicated life of selfless service (Nishakaam Sevaa) to the world one's prayer; make selfless love, compassion and mercy for all beings the greatest devotion and the noblest conduct; make the unsullied Knowledge, humility and contentment the temple within; enshrine the rosary of meditation in the heart; make harmony, peace and integration within and without; realize that the real Self in me is the Self in all — recognize Oneness with the Universal Spirit; realize and enjoy the true Bliss ("Anand"), Peace or Joy while alive (living liberated or "Jeevanmukta") and not after death, etc. Otherwise of what good is one's reading/hearing of scriptures, religiosity, reasoning and intellect?

 
 

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