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Know the Mool – Who Am I?

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The Supreme Message of the Gurbani is (if we want to put it in words): Know Yourself, Recognize or Realize Your Mool (Origin, Root, Source, Reality, Truth – Joti-Svaroopa…). To recognize one’s Mool is to “Know oneself” – “who am I?”, ਆਪਣੇ ਆਤਮਕ ਜੀਵਨ ਦੀ ਪਰਖ, ਅਪਣੇ ਯਥਾਰਥ ਸਰੂਪ ਦੀ ਜਾਣ, ਅਪਣੇ ਆਪ ਨੂੰ (ਅਪਣੇ ਅਸਲੇ ਨੂੰ) ਪਛਾਣ ਲੈਣਾ…

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Wine of Truth

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Truth – Eternal Reality – is That Wine which is not fermented from molasses (worldly molasses – ਗੁੜ). Then how it’s formented? For the gross or worldly wine to be formented, worldly or gross molasses is the necessary ingradient. However, since the Wine of the Truth is Subtle, the molasses to forment It is also needs to be subtle.

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Essence of Karma, Dharma, and Wisdom

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ਕਰਮ ਧਰਮ ਇਹੁ ਤਤੁ ਗਿਆਨੁ ॥ ਸਾਧਸੰਗਿ ਜਪੀਐ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ॥: This is the essence of Karma, Dharma and spiritual wisdom: do japa of Hri Naam with Saadh (within). (sggs 866).

Naam Japanaa (meditating, contemplating on the Lord’s Name, Naam-Simran, etc.) simply means to live in God consciousness (Aatam Giaan, Spiritual Wisdom…) as oppose to material consciousness (Mayaic intellect).

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Light Symbolizes Knowledge

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The gurbani leads us to the Light – 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 chaanan giaan charaag: … Read More »

Cultivating Knowledge

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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 ॥ sggs 465).

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