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		<title>Unburdening Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gurbani tells us that the false ego-sense (Haumai) is the great crushing burden we Jeeva (embodied beings) carry around. This life is a chance given to us to unburden ourselves of this load. Choice is ours - either we can chose to carry it around longer and keep suffering, or we can chose to unburden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/03/10/unburdening-process/</link>
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		<title>Beast of Burden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A donkey or an ass is known to be the beast of burden. It carries burden day and night, without knowing for who he is doing it, and why he is doing it. It is happy so long its belly is filled!
Similarly, we carry the crushing load of Haumai (egotism), and, in madness, we work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/03/06/beast-of-burden/</link>
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		<title>Pride Corrupts and Causes Downfall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pride is one of the powerful Bikaars (negative tendencies, passions&#8230;). As long as we have pride, it will impede the Divine Grace. While modesty and humility are traits to be cultivated, yielding to Bikaars is vehemently cautioned against in the Gurbani.
For example, Kabeer Sahib reminds us that the body is nothing more than a bundle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/03/01/pride-corrupts-and-causes-downfall/</link>
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		<title>They are Real Donkeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The level of intelligence of an utterly foolish or stupid person is generally compared with that of a donkey. Poor Donkey!
For example, if some one acts stupidly, he takes the risk of being called &#8220;Gadhaa&#8221; or &#8220;Khotaa&#8221; (donkey). Also, if a child behaves or acts foolishly, parents or teachers in the school may call him [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/02/17/they-are-real-donkeys/</link>
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		<title>One Dog and Two Bitches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gurbani says that the man is accompanied by one dog and two bitches — greed is the dog, material and celestial desires are two bitches.
In the morning, they (i.e., dogs of all sorts of desires, avarice, and corruption) wake up with the man and start barking (practicing falsehood and deception in transacting with the outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/02/10/one-dog-and-two-bitches/</link>
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		<title>Spiritual Blindness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The subject of blindness is a very important subject in the Gurbani.
Blindness may be lunped up in two categories:

Physical blindness: unable to see with the bodily eyes or the complete lack of form and visual light perception &#8211; the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.
Then there is the spiritual blindness. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/02/04/spiritual-blindness/</link>
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		<title>Rituals Bind Us in Egotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gurbani thunders from the top of its voice that the performance of rituals bind people in more and more false ego-sense (Haumai). Why? Because the chronic disease of this false ego-sense makes us do useless acts, devoid of any spiritual vibrations.

ਕਰਮ ਕਰਤ ਬਧੇ ਅਹੰਮੇਵ ॥: Karam karat baadhe ahammev: Ritual practices bind people in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/01/29/rituals-bind-in-egotism/</link>
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		<title>Light Symbolizes Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The gurbani leads us to the Light &#8211; Infinite Knowledge (Wisdom, Giaan, etc).
Light (Jot, Joti, or Jyoti) Symbolizes spiritual Knowledge, the greatest and lasting Inner Wealth. For Knowledge removes spiritual ignorance (ਆਤਮਕ ਜੀਵਨ ਵਲੋਂ ਬੇ-ਸਮਝੀ ਦਾ ਹਨੇਰਾ) just as light removes darkness.

ਅਗਿਆਨੁ ਅੰਧੇਰਾ ਮਿਟਿ ਗਇਆ ਗੁਰ ਚਾਨਣੁ ਗਿਆਨੁ ਚਰਾਗੁ ॥: Agiaan andheraa miti gaiaa gur [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/01/21/light-symbolizes-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Cultivating Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Gurbani Guides us how to Cultivate Knowledge.

ਗਿਆਨੁ ਕਮਾਈਐ ਪੂਛਿ ਜਨਾਂ ॥: Giaan kamaaeeai poosh janaan: (O my mind!) Consulting the (saintly, the Gurmukhs, etc.) beings, practice (i.e., learn to cultivate, ਹਾਸਲ ਕਰਣਾਂ, etc.) spiritual Knowledge (Wisdom, ਆਤਮਕ ਜੀਵਨ ਦੀ ਸੂਝ, etc.) (1180).

There is huge emphasis on Vichaar in the SGGS (ਸਿਖੀ ਸਿਖਿਆ ਗੁਰ ਵੀਚਾਰਿ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/01/16/cultivating-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>Without Knowledge and Naam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the opposite of darkness is light, the opposite of ignorance is Knowledge.
As the Gurbani indicates, spiritual Knowledge (Wisdom, Giaan, Shabad-Vichaar, etc.) and Naam (Simran, meditation on the Name, contemplation on the Shabad, etc.) are interconnected. The Gurbani says that whosoever in the world is without these, consider that person as just dead.
Although that person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gurbani.org/gurblog/2010/01/12/without-knowledge-and-naam/</link>
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