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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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