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    Bad Translations And Interpretations-how Do They Affect Us?

    Translations of metaphors has always been a difficult task. It depends upon the individual's perceptions. But overall these translations, howsoever, lacunic, have brought us closer to gurbani. After all all the translations by single author/translator cannot be incorrect. There may be patches...
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    Sikhism Seeds

    you are just a being not a sikh
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    Sikhism Seeds

    I have forgotten the past and have taken up the route of Sikhi once again. It is what I have planted today. where , in my heart...
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    Sardar Ji

    Its easy to joke on a Sardar, but It's too difficult to be a Sardar" ..................... I was standing at Amritsar Railway station when my attention went towards a Sikh youth standing near me wearing a Black turban having a long beard and wearing a kirpan over his shirt. After a while, one...
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    Sikhism What Is The Meaning Of Realization Of God ?

    Thanks once again Sir/friend What is the contextual meaning of 'you'. ? Does it mean our physical body or mind, that is an amorphous term?; or does it mean our Soul? Who will get out of cycle of Birth and rebirth.Once I am dead it is my soul that shall go somewhere , place unknown. Once I am...
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    Sikhism What Is The Meaning Of Realization Of God ?

    Thanks Sherdil ji. I am too naive and hence the question. I do not understand sikh philosophy much though I have read the entire scripture twice with great zeal and zest but the end result was not that I expected. Coming to your reply, Sir: What will I get , as a human being, by union with...
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    Sikhism What Is The Meaning Of Realization Of God ?

    Every word in Gurbani is a frozen metaphor, like Gurbani itself; a frozen picture.It is this poetry behind these metaphors that gives it overwhelming power.Understanding of this poetry is essence of debugging the meaning of Bani.We all have come across the line ' Gobind milan ki eh teri baria'...
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    Sikhism What Is The Meaning Of Realization Of God ?

    This question has bothered me. I do not appreciate the meaning of this term as per Sikh philosophy. It is stated that merger of soul with super soul is the objective .Even now we have consciousness that is small jot of God. God has larger consciousness may be called as Jot , itself. In that case...
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    Spiritual Why We Only Need To Pray For Naam

    Ishna ji, what exactly is Nam. Opinions vary. What is your understanding of Naam in context of the title of this post. Thanks.
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    Happy New Year 2016!

    what is ' happy' new year...... new tear per se may not be happy... though we may be happy some times not necessirly through out the year...... If that be the case there would have not been the need of SPN. what de u feel.?
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    Bad Translations And Interpretations-how Do They Affect Us?

    What exactly is meant by "realize God..." Kindly illumine..
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    2 Yr Correspondence Gurmat Course From Sikh Missionary College

    Thanks for sharing this lovely information.
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    Self Bitter Medicine

    Ishna ji It is all semantics. I wish we could all write in Punjabi/ Gurmukhi.......
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    Sikhi Sikh Spirituality And Its Manifestations

    She has aptly and correctly used brackets to disperse the confusion. It is o.k. for me. Till we understand what the author wants to convey, everything seems to be in place , Ishna ji. Rest is all semantics
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