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- Sukh Saagar - ਸੁਖ ਸਾਗਰ
- ਮੂਲ - Mool
- Rahat of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
- Sant and Asant
- Giaan Padaarath Is Naam Padaarath
- Celebrating Death Anniversary of the Guru is Contrary to the Gurmat
- What is Dying In The Shabad-ਸਬਦਿ ਮਰੈ?
- ਸੋ ਥਾਨੁ ਸੁਹਾਵਾ-So Thaan Suhaavaa
- Anand-ਅਨੰਦ
- O Nanak! There Is Only One Amrit
- Symbolism of Elephant-Crocodile Story
- The Gurmukh Age Not Ever!
- BECOMING LIGHT-WEIGHT : "ਹਰੂਏ ਹਰੂਏ"
- ਸੰਜੋਗ ਵਿਜੋਗ - SANJOG VIJOG - UNION AND SEPARATION
- ਹਉਮੈ - EGO : VIRUS OF THE MIND
- Kirtan - Gurbani's Caution
- ਗੁਰ ਗਮ - GUR GAM
- FISH CLIMBS A DATE TREE
- ONE BREATH
- ਜੂਠਾ ਸੁੱਚਾ - JOOTHAA, SUCHAA ...
- SAHAJ vs. RESTLESSNESS
- FARMING THE BODY-FIELD
- ਜੇ ਮੋਹਾਕਾ ਘਰੁ ਮੁਹੈ ... : THE THIEF ROBS A HOUSE ...
- GURBANI, THE DUALITY-BREAKER
- COLLECTING MERE SHELLS AT THE SEASHORE OF LIFE
- "SPEAK THE UNSPOKEN SPEECH"
- "...SO THE WORLD IS DROWNING"
- HOMECOMING
- WHAT IS MOST SWEET?
- SIGNIFICANCE AND PURPOSE OF HUMAN LIFE
- CELEBRATING HOLI
- PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY
- KANCHAN KAAIAA - GOLDEN BODY
- YOGA
- SIX SIGNS OF A PERSON OF HOLINESS OR PERFECTION
- THREE ASPECTS (NOT GUNA) OF MAYA
- THE GURBANI'S BELIEF PATTERNS ON THE NATURE OF GOD
- DO DEEDS ORDAINED BY THE GURU; DON'T CHASE AFTER HIS ACTIONS
- RECEPTIVITY
- WE TRY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING BUT OUR TRUE SELF
- INACTION IN ACTION
- THE MOST DIFFICULT THING TO DO
- WHAT MAKES ONE IMMORTAL?
- FOCUS ON THE ETERNAL
- ONE-TEN STAGES OF THE MENTAL REALM
- FEAR OF GOD
- There is no Difference Between the Creator and the Creation
- "KARANEE" AND "AMAL
- THOUGHTS, WORDS AND DEEDS
- WITHOUT SATSANG ONE COLLECTS FILTH ONLY
- JAT, SAT, TAP...
- CHAAR KUNT, CHAAR KHAANEE AND DAS DISHAA
- "The Wife Gives Birth To Her Husband....The Son Marries His Mother...."
- VAND SHAKNAA
- UNDERSTANDING OF THE TRUE SUKH
- PLEASURES OF THE WORLD ARE FALSE
- UNITY OF WIFE AND HUSBAND'S SOUL
- VIVEKA NEEDS TO BE USED PROPERLY
- BOTH HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS ARE MISERABLE
- CAST OFF LIKES AND DISLIKES
- BATHING THE MIND
- TWO WORLDS
- GROWING UP OR GROWING OLD?
- HOW IS THE SATSANGAT TO BE KNOWN?
- IS GOD MALE OR FEMALE?
- GOD IS INSIDE BUT THE MIND IS OUTSIDE
- OVER 99.9 PERCENT CATEGORY
- FOUR KINDS OF LIBERATIONS
- "SOLAH KALAA"
- "THIRTY-SIX YUGAS"
- THIRTY-SIX DELICACIES
- "SEE WITHOUT EYES, HEAR WITHOUT EARS...."
- LIVE AND LET LIVE
- AARTEE
- SWIMMING UPSTREAM
- UNLEARNING
- GOOD AND BAD OMENS
- MODERATION IN LIFE
- PEOPLE OF ALL VARNAS ARE EQUAL IN RESPECT TO THE SGGS'S UPADESA
- THINK ANYONE SPEAKING ILL OF YOU IS FOR YOUR BEST!
- MOOL MANTRA
- "BIPAREET"
- AWAKE! AWAKE!
- INNER SEARCH - EVERYTHING IS INSIDE THE BODY
- "GOD IS NOT IMPRESSED (PLEASED) BY OUTWARD DISPLAY"
- SUPERFICIAL PURITY
- FRIENDSHIP -"YOU ARE THE COMPANY YOU KEEP"
- IS THE SATGURU COMPASSIONATE OR UNFEELING?
- DEATH - AN ART TO LEARN AND PRACTICE
- TRIKUTI
- THE FRUIT OF HUMAN LIFE
- HUMAN PERSONALITY
- SPEECH
- NO HARVEST WITHOUT SOWING
- WORSHIPING TOMBS OF THE DEAD
- "NO ONE IS MY ENEMY"
- AHAMBUDHI
- SIMPLICITY
- ONTOLOGICAL VISION
- BIRAHAA IS THE SULTAAN
- "CHARIOT OF FIRE"
- Some Technical Terms Used In The Gurbani
- The Beggar
- What's Bad Inside The Gurdawaaraa Is Also Bad Outside
- SACRIFICE
- PUT KNOWLEDGE TO WORK
- MIXTURE OF SUGAR AND SAND
- POSITIVE LIVING AND HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
- ONE SUBSTRATUM - AADHAAR
- SUPERIMPOSITION
- DE-SUPERIMPOSITION
- "When One Died ... Six Were Dead"
- FLOUR FALLEN INTO THE MUD
- SON BORN BEFORE HIS MOTHER
- BE A LAMP UNTO YOU
- MEDITATION
- MIND CAUSES SORROWS
- REMOVE MIND WITH MIND
- WEAVER and WEAVING OF THE BODY
- ELEPHANT-MIND
- MONKEY-MIND
- THIRD-EYE
- "All Are Concerned Only With Their Own Happiness"
- FLATTERY - PLEASING PEOPLE
- THERE IS NO DEFEAT - BUT ALL VICTORY
- COVETING ANOTHER WOMAN
- THE ACTOR
- Witnessing Consciousness
- Leaders Or rulers
- TWO-EDGED SWORD
- UNBURDENING
- "FIVE WATER CARRIERS"
- OTHERNESS
- "SARBAT DAA BHALAA"- MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY!
- KNOW WHATEVER HAPPENS TO THE NEIGHBORS
- Nature Is A Great Teacher in Spiritual Life
- SELF-DISCIPLINE
- HUKAM
- WHAT COMES AND GOES IS UNREAL
- Changing The Course Of Life - A Revolution Within
- Charity - Daan
- Looking-Glass
- Shunning Bigotry Is Must
- Mind's Fickle Nature
- Counting Beads
- Real Beauty
- Woman - The Sikh Perspective
- Delimitation Of Consciousness
- The Other Shore
- Limitation Of Human Language
- There Is Nowhere To Go!
- Total Cessation Of The Transmigratory State
- As You Think, So You Become
- Mystery Of The Word
- Two Paths Available To Man
- The Gurbani On Stress Management
- True Renunciation
- Share In Virtues And Abandon Faults
- Jeevan Padvee - Perfection In Life
- The Real Loss
- Tolerance - The Sikh Perspective
- Freedom In The Midst Of Maya
- Mind's Hunger and Thirst
- Belly Filled And Empty Mind
- Jot Saroop - The Original State
- Is There Any Merchant Of Truth?"
- Separateness
- Proper Conduct
- Vital Breath
- Love
- Sikhi Is Not A Part-Time Job
- Remove False Ego-Sense
- Harmandir
- Worry
- Gurmukhs Cited In The Gurbani
- Resentment
- Grace
- The Sword Of Spiritual Wisdom
- Life-Span
- The Tree Having Its Roots Above And Branches Below!
- Anger
- "Charan Dhoorr"
- Don't Wait For Twilight Years
- Siva, Siva-Sakti and Siva-Puri
- Ishnaan
- Dancing With The Supreme
- Liberation
- Detachment
- Bondage
- Bridal Mysticism
- Security In Life
- "Don't Touch Their Feet"
- Nirvana
- True Identity
- Safflower And Madder
- Shingaar
- False Alliances
- "Sun" And "Moon"
- Who Is Blind, Deaf, Dumb, Sick, Dead & Alive?
- "Divine Darshan"
- Gurbani on Death
- "Saabat Soorat": Intact Consciousness
- "The Whole World Is Asleep"
- Suhaagan and Duhaagan
- The Real Profit - "Laahaa"
- Sevaa: Service
- Being Childlike - Baal-Budhi
- Introspection
- Mirage
- Mind-Mirror
- Three Defects Of Mind
- Reading Of The Scriptures
- 'Sooraa'
- Hell And Heaven
- The True Wine
- Jotish
- Ajappaa Jaap - Unchanted Chant
- Dukh Daaroo - Suffering Is The Medicine
- 'Cave Of The Heart'
- 'Rope Mistaken For a Snake'
- 'Neta Neta'
- Madness Of Judging Others
- Gurbani Is Meant To Be Applied
- It's Here And Now
- Mute's Candy
- Sublime Arrow
- Go Within
- Animal-Man
- Chauthaa Pada: Fourth State
- Fasting
- Body-Consciousness
- The Giani
- Various "ਸਭਾ "- Sabhaa
- Kanik Kaamini - Gold and Woman
- Stubborn Mindedness: Mann-Hatha
- Pilgrimage
- Learned Ignorant
- Churning Water
- Churning Milk
- Selfishness
- The Knot
- Silence
- ਚੰਦਨ - Chandan - Sandalwood
- Dowry - The Sikh Perspective
- Heart-Lotus
- Occult Powers - Sidhis
- Sahaj
- Suffering
- Evil
- Slander
- Vichaar - Spiritual Inquiry
- Moorakh - Fool
- Nine Holes
- Worship
- Wasting Of Human Form
- The Light
- Lock-And-Key
- Dog's Tail
- Self-Effort, Divine Will, And Fate
- Duality - Doojaa Bhaav
- Gurdawaaraa Speaks
- Cultivation Of Wisdom
- Divine Knowledge
- Spiritual Ignorance
- ਸੁੰਨ ਸਮਾਧਿ - Sunn Samaadhi - Conversation With God
- False Concepts
- Frog Philosophy
- Four Rivers Of Fire
- Karma
- Gurmukh And Manmukh
- God's Home Address
- The Most Sublime Prayers
- Three Robes
- Humility
- What Is The Best Religion?
- What Is Dharma?
- Passing Of The Life-Night
- The Householder
- Madness Of Belief In Caste - Jaat-Paat
- Spiritual Essence Of Four Laavaan - The Sikh Marriage Ceremony
- Symptoms Of A Self-Realized Person
- Self Realization
- False Association
- True Association - Saadh-Sangat
- Realization Of Shabad Or Naam
- Shabad, Naam, Bani, Gurbani - What Is it?
- Supreme Reality - The Homogeneous Oneness
- Diet And Spirituality
- Impediments To Bhagti
- ਭਗਤਿ - Bhagti
- Annihilation Of Mind
- "Logan Raam Khilonaa Jaanaa" - Is God A Toy?
- Deceptive Maya
- Happiness - Sukh
- Three Fevers
- Five Realms Of Spiritual Journey
- Artha, Kaama, Dharma and Moksha - Four Types of Desires - And Gurmat's Four Padaarath
- Surrender
- Kirtan - It's Not Shabad Vichaar
- Jealousy & Enviousness
- Kundilini
- True Qualification Of A "Pardhaan"
- Living Liberated - Jeevanmukta
- MERELY READING OR TALKING ABOUT GOD WILL NOT GRANT US YOGA - Galleen Yoga Na Hoyee
- Three Modes Of Maya's Material Nature
- Prerequisite Of Spiritual Life - "Vin Gun Keete Bhagti N Hoi"
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM
- Part 1: Its Evil Face
- Part 2: Its Root Cause - False Ego
- Part 3: Religions, Sects, and Cults
- Part 4: Religious Texts
- Part 5: Man And His God
- Part 6: Religion And Wars
- Part 7 - Its Cure: Self-Integration - Eradication of Ego
- Part 8 - Its Cure: "Abandon The Priest-Class"
- Part 9 - Its Cure: Know The Goal Of All Spiritual Practices and Paths
- Part 10 - Its Cure: Let Religion Develop Spiritual Beings
- Part 11 - Its Cure: Take "Error" Out Of Religion
- Part 12 - Its Cure: See The Same One God In All
- Part 13 - Its Cure: Stop Religious Conversions
- Part 14 - Its Cure: Live Truthfully
- Part 15 - Its Cure: Proper Education
- Part 16 - Its Cure: Practice and Preach Universal Truth
- Part 17 - Its Cure: Become A Citizen Of The World
- Part 18 - Its Cure: Love
- Part 19 - Its Cure: Tolerance
- Part 20 - Its Cure: Shunning Bigtory Is Must
- Part 21 - Its Cure: Pray - May All Beings Be Happy!
- Part 22 - Its Cure: Know there are no "Others"
- Part 23 - Its Cure: "No One Is My Enemy"
- Part 24 - Its Cure: Live and Let Live
- Part 25 - Its Cure: Unify Thoughts, Words and Deeds
- Part 26 - Its Cure: Instead of Frittering Away, Do Something Good...
- Part 27 - Its Cure: The Creator and the Creation are One