Do Sikhs Fall in Love with Somebody?

Many jis
'Falling in Love' is an old expression in my Language; English.
It was probably first coined because, as Mai ji pointed out, when you've fallen in Love - and you then lose that Love - it HURTS; just like falling on your face does.
Love - like Gravity, or Karma - simply is that way; you disrespect it's (there) Power, and you get hurt - BOOM!
While it's truly admirable that you seek to highlight the fact that ones Love for The Great Formless One is the Highest and most Important of all the Loves in one life that one shlould seek to nurture; it's also true that, finding ones Soul Mate - and then falling in Love with that special person - is one of the Great Ways that are available to us mere mortals to learn to experience that higher love; kind of like taking a tutorial to learn more about something, before experiencing that thing itself.
I envy those of you who've found your one true MORTAL Love - I have only that which God has instilled within me; and though many might envy ME for that fact, still, some mornings, when I awaken alone, I wish it were otherwise!
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I, however, have a Disability - and for the time being.............
That will, Waheguru ji willing, change soon - I hope!

 
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Namaste
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I think we have identified most kinds of "love" or what some of us think is love. When I first commented on this thread I understood it to be a love between humans on an intimate level not platonic or familial. The love I talked about is finite by nature if finally by death. This is "love" given by God as everything else.
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This love has nothing to do with our love for God or God's love for us. It should not be confused with our love for God or even to be considered a diminishment of our love for God.

Always peace
Satyaban

See lyrics below.
Lyrics (Roman)

paiyan mundran te kan laey cheer
heerey ni ranjha jogi ho gaya
tere pyar which ho ke dilgeer
heere ni ranjha jogi ho gaya
jogi ban ke rangpur which phirda mauju jat da raaaj dulara
kan pa ke mundran opaiyan mathey tilak lagaya
heere ni ranjha …….
heer e tere khatir ranjhey chaddi kul khydai
chup kar ke tu chad gayee doli
pyar di kadar na payee
heereni ranjha……..
paiyan mundran te…..
tere layee saari duniya nu chhad ke
dilon lobh te hankaar sara chhad ke
teri zulfan da ho gya see
heere ni ranjha…….
paiyan mundran…..
pehe 12 saal si teriyan majhian chaariyan aake
phir o behs wata ke aya kiliyojn kan pardwa ke
ohne paa liya fakiran wala bana
hun tehon wi pachaniya nahin jana
heerey ni ranjah…..
paiyan mundra
tere layee si oh pehkle majhan chaarda
har weley tera naam si chitaarda
hor bhul gayon sabhe saak seer
heerey ni ranjha………
paiya mundra……
ter mapiyan ne keeta see dhroh ni
tainu liya si ranjhe de kolon khoh ni
khaake tere piche taaniyan de teer
heerey ni ranjha ……….
paiyan mundra………
ohnoo taal ke bakheriyan de naal nei
tor dilta teinoo kheriyan de naal ni
pyaar apne di wekh ke akheer
heerey ni ranjha///////
paiyan……
sehndi khapri te mala gal pa ke
teinoo labhey pind kheriyan de jaa ke
phire galiyan ch baj ke fakir
heerey ni ranjah…..
paiyanmndra/……

Satyaban ji
You HEARD what I was saying!
namjap ji
Could you interpret that for us English only types - I only have a very slow WiFi connect (I'm 'poor' - boo, hoo), but I assumed the lyrics were in Punjabi or Hindi.
All jis
Love is the Key - the only way out of the MESS that we've made of OUR World; all of us who truly know what Love is (and out of us SPNers that's, I'd guess, more than in most other groups) need to do all we can to bring that home to Momma Earths Children!
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Only then, will Gods Love be ours!

Here is what would be a cool thing to do and it would help with learning Punjabi. Everyone takes one line and struggles with it for a couple of days. One day I take on say the first 4 lines. Then Jim you post the next line or two. Or more if you want. The next time Satyaban posts a line. By the time we take a few turns we will have the whole thing translated.

Nam Jap can be the teacher who acts as the "guide on the side" not the "sage on the stage." He can give hints when something is wrong about how to correct it. No direct instruciton.

This is how adults should learn a foreign language -- with a high interest problem that they can tackle in an engaged way. Vocabulary should be synthesized with the study of sentences. Not the way you teach little kids. It is too tedious and boring for an adult who as a learner has a specific goal in mind.
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Who wants to be part of the project?

namjap dear brother/sister
as per the guru's saying "mane ki gat kahi na jayi" the state of mind of a believer cannot be explained those who believe in love can never be understood by those who don't believe in it but they will have to answer some questions not to me but to themselves i already have the answer what was it that informed Guru Nanak miles away from home that his sister Bibi Nanki has cooked chapatis for him and Guru Nanak would surely approach his home by the time Bibi Nanki would still be cooking for him what was it if not love of a brother and a sister ?
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what was it that forced mahiwal to tear apart the flesh from his thigh cook it for her sohni when he couldn't find any fish in "jhana" river and sohni unaware of the fact would eat it what was it if not love?
what was it if not love for the Guru that Banda Singh ji and Taru singh ji didnt felt the pain they were supposed to have when they were being tortured by the evils what was it that helped them if not love?
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i too love my Guru who is not God but i still love him even more than god and anything else is it bad to love someone except god?

Sikh_royalist ji

I don't really want to ask this question? But who is this "guru" that you are referring to? Is it Sri Guru Granth Sahib?

no narayani ji it is not the Granth i love nirankari baba hardev singh ji maharaj
i must stop kidding now this was part of my humor
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of course a Sikhs guru is Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji no one else:happykaur:

Actually sikh_royalist ji

In the spirit of fun -- I have seen the Baba Hardev ji on You Tube -- and he looks like a pretty happy go lucky sort of guy. Not scary at all. Some Babas are pretty scary.

Well I tried to upload his pic but it did not work.

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