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Guru Granth Sahib
Sukhmani Banee
3rd Pauri: 2nd Ashtapadee: Sukhmani Sahib
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 21410" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dear Khalsa Ji,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I convey to you my understanding of the 3 Pauri of 2nd Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1. </span></span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">CUtq nhI koit lK bwhI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">chh</span></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">oota<u>t</u> nahee kot la<u>kh</u> baahee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: maroon"> </span>One cannot get rid of it even by hundreds and millions of helping hands.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here Guru Sahib emphasizes that one has to evolve with one’s own efforts; others cannot do it for the individual. It is natural; the changes that one has to make are in the mental make-up. No external agency can reach the deeper layers of the mind in any substantial way; only the individual concerned can do this. To get rid of vices one has to work on oneself and progressively evolve to a level where the individual is free from Kama (desires) Krodh (anger) Lobh (greed) Moh (attachments) and Ahamkara (ego).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwmu jpq qh pwir prwhI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naam japa<u>t</u> <u>t</u>ah paar paraahee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> By repeating the ‘Naam’ one evolves and is carried through.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib has given the way to evolve. Once one gets into Jaap, the individual will enter into a mode where its mental space gets occupied by the remembrance (Simran) of ‘The Sat’. Over a period of time this individual the vices will loose grip over the individual and finally get dissolved. The person will be on its way to become a Gurmukh. The person will become pure as the vices are shed. A pure person is always carried through by ‘The Sat’. This pure person lives in accordance with the ‘Hukam’ and becomes the instrument to carry out the will of ‘The Sat’, which is Chardi Kala (all-round evolution). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">3. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">Aink ibGn jh Awie sMGwrY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">anik bi<u>gh</u>an jah aa-ay san<u>gh</u>aarai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Many impediments will come in the way to make you deviate.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is natural; when the person tries to change one form what one is to something new, the task is going to be difficult. The old attachments will always try to pull the person back to the old and familiar ways. These are the ways of Samsara, which keeps the individual embroiled in its schemes.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">4. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">hir kw nwmu qqkwl auDwrY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">har kaa naam <u>t</u>a<u>t</u>kaal u<u>Dh</u>aarai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ will immediately rescue you.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here Guru Sahib provides the solution to the problem that is created by the old vices which have not been shed. By repetition of ‘Naam’ one fills its mental space by virtues; this space has to be vacated by vices. When ever any vice takes hold of the individual, the person should switch over to Jaap; this way the individual tells its own mind that the suggestion made by the vice is not important. This is the way our brain works; if one deliberates on the thought that the mind projects, the faculty of the mind generating the thought understands that the thought is important; the mind will keep projecting it again and again; it will then become the person’s nature. As the individual follows this practice of switching over to ‘Jaap’, over a period of time, the mind will know that the suggestions from vices are not important to the individual; he or she no longer deliberates on them; the mind will stop projecting them any more. This fact will percolate to the deeper layers of the mind and evict the vices from there. A day will come when the suggestion from vices will cease to arise as there will be no vices in this individual’s being; the individual will become pure. This is what Guru Sahib coveys to me through this sentence.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">5. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">Aink join jnmY mir jwm ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">anik jon janmai mar jaam.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Several lives one is born, dies and born.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib in this sentence draws the attention to the cycle of rebirth. Each of us, in past was born in various forms and died. This cycle continues and we are born again in human form.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">6. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwmu jpq pwvY ibsRwm ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naam japa<u>t</u> paavai bisraam.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> By Jaap (repetition) of ‘Naam’ (Waheguru) one gets rest.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib tells that by doing the Jaap, one can come out of the cycle of rebirths. It is true because through ‘Jaap’ the person becomes pure; a ‘Gurmukh’ a reflection of the illumination from ‘The Sat’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">7. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">hau mYlw mlu kbhu n DovY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ha-o mailaa mal kabahu na <u>Dh</u>ovai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The Ahamkara (ego) is filth its dirt cannot be washed.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Ahamkara is very strongly ingrained in us. Its foundation is laid in the childhood itself. ‘I’ and ‘my’ is what the child learns even before its ability to speak and subsequently logical think develops. It is the hard shell impossible to break using worldly methods. This is the dirt we have in ourselves.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">hir kw nwmu koit pwp KovY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">har kaa naam kot paap <u>kh</u>ovai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ makes the person loose millions of sins.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib says that by Jaap one can dissolve all its sins. It is my understanding that the ‘Laws of Karma’ apply only when the individual has ‘I’ in her or him. When there is no ‘I’ left in the individual, the person who has committed the sin in the past, stands fully dissolved. Even the process that implements the ‘Laws of Karma’ cannot find the ‘I’ who is responsible for the sin. This way the ‘Laws of Karma’ is transcended by the pure individual. The person without ‘I’ is now and instrument of ‘The Sat’. This ‘Gurmukh’ has now merged with cosmic will, only the physical form separates this person from ‘The Sat’. All the physical actions of this individual are selfless. The ‘Gurmukh’ is now reflecting only the light that shines on her or him from ‘The Sat’; there is no ‘I’ or ‘my’ in it. We all know that ‘The Sat’ is ‘Karta Purakh’ yet ‘Karta Purakh’ is above the ‘Laws of Karma’; in the same way the ‘Gurmukh’ gets elevated to a spiritual level, which is beyond the ‘Laws of Karma’. That is how Gurmukh’s past sins get annulled. She or he will not have to be born again; Gurmukh is out of the cycle of birth-death and rebirth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">9. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">AYsw nwmu jphu mn rMig ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aisaa naam japahu man rang.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Jaap should colour the mind in such a way.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib is referring to the teachings of the earlier sentence. He says that the intensity of Jaap should be such that it has the liberating effect. The mind should get so much imbued with Jaap that it permeates in all the faculties of the brain. The individual becomes God-centered. The individual becomes Gurmukh. The individual reflects the glow received from ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwnk pweIAY swD kY sMig ]3] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naanak paa-ee-ai saa<u>Dh</u> kai sang. ||3||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">O’ Nanak this is found in the company of holy.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib says that the frame of mind where the person becomes Gurmukh and is imbued with Naam can happen only in environment of purity. To me it is the company of Siri Guru Granth Sahib and those individuals who have incorporated its teachings into their being and are now resonating with Shabad. These are the individuals whose life has become a living expression of the teachings of Siri Guru Granth Sahib. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With this I close this post.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Amarpal Singh</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 21410, member: 10"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Dear Khalsa Ji,[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I convey to you my understanding of the 3 Pauri of 2nd Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib.[/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=maroon][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]1. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]CUtq nhI koit lK bwhI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][U][FONT=Tahoma]chh[/FONT][/U][FONT=Tahoma]oota[U]t[/U] nahee kot la[U]kh[/U] baahee.[/FONT][COLOR=maroon][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=maroon] [/COLOR]One cannot get rid of it even by hundreds and millions of helping hands.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Here Guru Sahib emphasizes that one has to evolve with one’s own efforts; others cannot do it for the individual. It is natural; the changes that one has to make are in the mental make-up. No external agency can reach the deeper layers of the mind in any substantial way; only the individual concerned can do this. To get rid of vices one has to work on oneself and progressively evolve to a level where the individual is free from Kama (desires) Krodh (anger) Lobh (greed) Moh (attachments) and Ahamkara (ego).[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]2. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]nwmu jpq qh pwir prwhI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naam japa[U]t[/U] [U]t[/U]ah paar paraahee. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] By repeating the ‘Naam’ one evolves and is carried through.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib has given the way to evolve. Once one gets into Jaap, the individual will enter into a mode where its mental space gets occupied by the remembrance (Simran) of ‘The Sat’. Over a period of time this individual the vices will loose grip over the individual and finally get dissolved. The person will be on its way to become a Gurmukh. The person will become pure as the vices are shed. A pure person is always carried through by ‘The Sat’. This pure person lives in accordance with the ‘Hukam’ and becomes the instrument to carry out the will of ‘The Sat’, which is Chardi Kala (all-round evolution). [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]3. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]Aink ibGn jh Awie sMGwrY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]anik bi[U]gh[/U]an jah aa-ay san[U]gh[/U]aarai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Many impediments will come in the way to make you deviate.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]It is natural; when the person tries to change one form what one is to something new, the task is going to be difficult. The old attachments will always try to pull the person back to the old and familiar ways. These are the ways of Samsara, which keeps the individual embroiled in its schemes.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]4. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]hir kw nwmu qqkwl auDwrY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]har kaa naam [U]t[/U]a[U]t[/U]kaal u[U]Dh[/U]aarai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ will immediately rescue you.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Here Guru Sahib provides the solution to the problem that is created by the old vices which have not been shed. By repetition of ‘Naam’ one fills its mental space by virtues; this space has to be vacated by vices. When ever any vice takes hold of the individual, the person should switch over to Jaap; this way the individual tells its own mind that the suggestion made by the vice is not important. This is the way our brain works; if one deliberates on the thought that the mind projects, the faculty of the mind generating the thought understands that the thought is important; the mind will keep projecting it again and again; it will then become the person’s nature. As the individual follows this practice of switching over to ‘Jaap’, over a period of time, the mind will know that the suggestions from vices are not important to the individual; he or she no longer deliberates on them; the mind will stop projecting them any more. This fact will percolate to the deeper layers of the mind and evict the vices from there. A day will come when the suggestion from vices will cease to arise as there will be no vices in this individual’s being; the individual will become pure. This is what Guru Sahib coveys to me through this sentence.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]5. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]Aink join jnmY mir jwm ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]anik jon janmai mar jaam. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Several lives one is born, dies and born.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib in this sentence draws the attention to the cycle of rebirth. Each of us, in past was born in various forms and died. This cycle continues and we are born again in human form.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]6. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]nwmu jpq pwvY ibsRwm ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naam japa[U]t[/U] paavai bisraam. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] By Jaap (repetition) of ‘Naam’ (Waheguru) one gets rest.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells that by doing the Jaap, one can come out of the cycle of rebirths. It is true because through ‘Jaap’ the person becomes pure; a ‘Gurmukh’ a reflection of the illumination from ‘The Sat’. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]7. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]hau mYlw mlu kbhu n DovY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]ha-o mailaa mal kabahu na [U]Dh[/U]ovai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The Ahamkara (ego) is filth its dirt cannot be washed.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Ahamkara is very strongly ingrained in us. Its foundation is laid in the childhood itself. ‘I’ and ‘my’ is what the child learns even before its ability to speak and subsequently logical think develops. It is the hard shell impossible to break using worldly methods. This is the dirt we have in ourselves.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]8. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]hir kw nwmu koit pwp KovY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]har kaa naam kot paap [U]kh[/U]ovai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ makes the person loose millions of sins.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib says that by Jaap one can dissolve all its sins. It is my understanding that the ‘Laws of Karma’ apply only when the individual has ‘I’ in her or him. When there is no ‘I’ left in the individual, the person who has committed the sin in the past, stands fully dissolved. Even the process that implements the ‘Laws of Karma’ cannot find the ‘I’ who is responsible for the sin. This way the ‘Laws of Karma’ is transcended by the pure individual. The person without ‘I’ is now and instrument of ‘The Sat’. This ‘Gurmukh’ has now merged with cosmic will, only the physical form separates this person from ‘The Sat’. All the physical actions of this individual are selfless. The ‘Gurmukh’ is now reflecting only the light that shines on her or him from ‘The Sat’; there is no ‘I’ or ‘my’ in it. We all know that ‘The Sat’ is ‘Karta Purakh’ yet ‘Karta Purakh’ is above the ‘Laws of Karma’; in the same way the ‘Gurmukh’ gets elevated to a spiritual level, which is beyond the ‘Laws of Karma’. That is how Gurmukh’s past sins get annulled. She or he will not have to be born again; Gurmukh is out of the cycle of birth-death and rebirth.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]9. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]AYsw nwmu jphu mn rMig ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aisaa naam japahu man rang. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]The Jaap should colour the mind in such a way.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib is referring to the teachings of the earlier sentence. He says that the intensity of Jaap should be such that it has the liberating effect. The mind should get so much imbued with Jaap that it permeates in all the faculties of the brain. The individual becomes God-centered. The individual becomes Gurmukh. The individual reflects the glow received from ‘The Sat’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]10. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]nwnk pweIAY swD kY sMig ]3] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naanak paa-ee-ai saa[U]Dh[/U] kai sang. ||3|| [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]O’ Nanak this is found in the company of holy.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib says that the frame of mind where the person becomes Gurmukh and is imbued with Naam can happen only in environment of purity. To me it is the company of Siri Guru Granth Sahib and those individuals who have incorporated its teachings into their being and are now resonating with Shabad. These are the individuals whose life has become a living expression of the teachings of Siri Guru Granth Sahib. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With this I close this post.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With love and respect for all.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Amarpal Singh[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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Guru Granth Sahib
Sukhmani Banee
3rd Pauri: 2nd Ashtapadee: Sukhmani Sahib
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