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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 96546" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>PK 70 Ji, Gurfateh.</p><p></p><p>All my life I have taught...that "TRUTH" ( with Capital T and thus Proper Noun) is The CREATOR.</p><p>The Creator (TRUTH) is HIGH...But Higher still is TRUTHFUL LIVING.</p><p>Now this seems like a contradiction...How could something be higher than the CREATOR Himself.</p><p></p><p>1. Reason being that we are the Creator's creations....thus we cannot be "higher" than Him...under any circumstances.... BUT..we can EMULATE HIM....and trying to Live our daily lives EMULATING HIM..is indeed "higher" ( FOR US..not HIM )</p><p></p><p>Kiv SACHIARA HOEEYEH..Kiv tooreh tutteh paal ??</p><p>SACH..is TRUTH..SAT..CREATOR..Akal Purakh....</p><p>How can we be LIKE the TRUTH..SACH... "sachiaras"....and braek the wall of separation...</p><p>BY LIVING our daily Lives...by emulating Him and His attributes...</p><p></p><p>Long ago I had a conversation with a Nanaksariah Sant baba....and he was the first to comment on the often transalted tuk... High is TRUTH..but higher still si TRUTHFUL LIVING.</p><p>He disagreed witht he words "truthful Living"..and wanted the tuk to be translated as..</p><p>NAAMFUL LIVING"</p><p></p><p> He said that ...... even a man with the best character is nothing when compared against the 'Man of Naam'. There is a doubt on the meaning of the words 'sach aachar'. This subject needs elucidation amongst the Sikh intellectuals who often quote the Gurbani verse---</p><p>'Sachaho orai sabko, oopar sach aachar': I do not agree with the way it is usually translated as follows":</p><p><strong>'Truth is higher than every thing else, higher still is truthful conduct'</strong>.</p><p>The critical words in this quotation are<u><strong> sach aachar</strong></u>. If these words are translated 'Naamful conduct', or 'conduct based on Naam', instead of 'Truthful conduct', then it will be more in the line with the logic of the Gurbani, which says:</p><p>'Bin sabade aachar na kin hi paaia ' [SGGS:62]</p><p>Without Naam, none has found the (true) conduct.</p><p>'Naam bina kaese aachar' [SGGS: 1285]</p><p>'Without Naam, what conduct?' [SGGS:1330]</p><p>'Simrat Naam puran aachar' [SGGS:1137]</p><p>Meditation on Naam makes one's conduct perfect. It is, therefore, clear that Gurbani recognizes good conduct only when it is rooted Naam; a conduct devoid of Naam whatever its other merits, is of little avail in the spiritual domain.</p><p> This is the view espoused by Nand Singh of Nanaksar. He is considered “<strong>Man of Naam</strong>” (Sant/Baba ji)by the Nanaksari followers. Obviously many other “Sants/Babas” would also like to be considered <strong><u>Man of Naam</u></strong>- in fact ALL of them !! </p><p> The core of the teaching of Sri [/FONT]<a href="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-granth-sahib/" target="_blank">Guru Granth Sahib[/FONT]</a> is Nam Japna (remembrance of the Name of God), Kirt Karni (the honest labour) and Wand Chhakna (sharing of the earnings). It says: Ghaal khaae kichh hatho-n deye, [/FONT]<a href="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-nanak-dev/" target="_blank">Nanak[/FONT]</a> raah pachane seye i.e. “Only he who earns his living by the sweat of his brow and shares his earnings with others has discovered the path of righteousness, O [/FONT]<a href="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-nanak-dev/" target="_blank">Nanak[/FONT]</a>.” Thus Sri [/FONT]<a href="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-granth-sahib/" target="_blank">Guru Granth Sahib[/FONT]</a> lays a great emphasis on human endeavour, honest and sincere labour. It lays a great stress on good conduct in worldly affairs also as it reminds us: Sache oorey sabh ko upar sach aachar i.e. Truth is higher than everything, but higher still is truthful living. This is the more common interpretation.[/FONT]</p><p> Gurbani is FOR LIVING...APPLICATION.[/FONT]</p><p> What is meant by ..Kiv SACHIARAA HOYEAH kiv kurreh tutteh paal ? HUKM Razaai challanna Nanak Likhiyah NAAL.[/FONT]</p><p> All along I have taught that HUKM RAZAII is LIVING LIFE in His HUKM...taking all and everything Life throws at us..Dukh meh tujjeh araadhii..Sukh meh tujjeh dhiyaee..in times of sorrow..in times of gladness...in times of sickness..in times of ill health....we ADAPT our Life according to GURBANI. [/FONT]</p><p> There are Sakhis that illustrate this....a Gurmukh who was having his son’s wedding in his house was seen getting ready a “kaffan”.( cloth used to wrap a dead body)..what is that ? OH I have come to know that my beloved son will die the day after his wedding ? So aren’t you sad..or aren’t you going to do anything to stop that...Stop What ?? the wedding..or his death ?? Both are in His HUKM...First I will celebrate his wedding..then I will celebrate his death.[/FONT]</p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This is called APPLYING GURBANI in our daily Life. I believe this is what we are meant to do. </span>But is this just a matter of semantics..play on words...Naam Conduct..vs..Truthful Conduct....Naam living..Truthful Living....To me it is. TRUTH..SACH..IS NAAM..and thus Naam Living is Truthful Living...It would be impossible to Live according to the Tenets of TRUTH/SAACH (Waheguru) if one were liivng in deceit/lies/cheating/criminal/jealous/[/FONT]</p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Practising Truth:</strong> A congenial atmosphere can be created only if we all begin to practise the concepts of our religion because essentially all the religions preach love and peace. It is only the bigots who themselves have not understood their religion and it is only the exploiters who do not wish to lead righteous lives preach hatred and since we are all ignorant about the real values, we are mislead. In reality religious harmony and universal peace are the two sides of the same coin but cause of hiatus in what we say and what we do, we cannot live happily together. <strong>Guru Nanak had emphatically preached <em>sachon ure sabkau uppar sach achar</em> (everything is below truth but higher than truth is <strong>truthful conduct</strong>)</strong>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> If we all live the truth of our religions, we can manifestly prove that religious harmony and universal peace would become a reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Let us not forget that there is another dimension to the problem of universal peace, that of poverty. If we really want to solve the problems of poverty, we should be doing our religious duty of looking after the down-trodden people, but what we witness is not only our aversion towards the poor but our deliberate disinterest in raising their standard of living. We go on creating more poverty by usurping their rights and exploiting their ignorance and innocence. Religion becomes then only a tool for exploitation because its basic morality is missing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">GURU NANAK JI broke that by going to saty with Bahi lalo and REFUSING to be cowed down by the Financial might of Malik Bhago..that is "TRUTHFUL CONDUCT" we can Emulate even TODAY as SIKHS.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><strong>Poverty - An Obstacle to Peace:</strong> We love prophets, we love religion but only externally. Now even religion has become a five-star culture. We now concentrate on external cosmetism, external celebrations, external extravagant ostentation. We believe that bigger the car in which a holy man travels, the bigger the house in which he lives, the more spiritual he is, depriving the poor people of the faith of the pious and the pure. We cannot deny that even safe drinking water is not available to a lot of people. We cannot deny that all our people do not have two square meals a day. What kind of religion do we preach and practise which does not ensure even drinking water and two square meals to our people? What peace do we talk about? And what religious harmony? If we had practised reality of religion, there would not have been starvation deaths on the one hand and heaps of foodgrains being eaten by worms. Again, we would not have been involved in five-star ostentation in the face of humiliating poverty of our people. Indeed, the rulers too deny the poor their due and exploit them in the name of religion and seva, whereas in reality they themselves live a life far removed from that of the people. The seminars and conferences also become meaningless with repetition of empty slogans of peace.</span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Where is the connection between religious harmony and abject poverty? There can be no peace when the stomach is empty, women are humiliated and bonded labour is exploited. Practise of religion implies morality and integrity of the highest order. Even Sikhs are guilty of these...lapses in TRUTHFUL CONDUCT...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">This is all because we DONT practise what GURBANI TEACHES US. What to me ACHAAR means is trying to become like the creator in his attributes...He is benevolent beyond measure..lets be benevolent as much as we can..He is Forgiver par excellence..lets forgive our enemies just a little bit..Dosh na kahoon dehohn....He is Nirbhau..let learn to be unafraid...He is sans enmity..lets try and have less enemies...</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thats all for now..I wish to discuss further..but time constraints hinder me alittle bit... As you would have realised i am more of a Genaralist...( General is my name !!)..while you are more of a "particluarist"..more on details..thats why i tend to wander off and digress quite alot...so please do forgive these lapses...</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Thanks for this opportunity to discuss</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p> [/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 96546, member: 189"] PK 70 Ji, Gurfateh. All my life I have taught...that "TRUTH" ( with Capital T and thus Proper Noun) is The CREATOR. The Creator (TRUTH) is HIGH...But Higher still is TRUTHFUL LIVING. Now this seems like a contradiction...How could something be higher than the CREATOR Himself. 1. Reason being that we are the Creator's creations....thus we cannot be "higher" than Him...under any circumstances.... BUT..we can EMULATE HIM....and trying to Live our daily lives EMULATING HIM..is indeed "higher" ( FOR US..not HIM ) Kiv SACHIARA HOEEYEH..Kiv tooreh tutteh paal ?? SACH..is TRUTH..SAT..CREATOR..Akal Purakh.... How can we be LIKE the TRUTH..SACH... "sachiaras"....and braek the wall of separation... BY LIVING our daily Lives...by emulating Him and His attributes... Long ago I had a conversation with a Nanaksariah Sant baba....and he was the first to comment on the often transalted tuk... High is TRUTH..but higher still si TRUTHFUL LIVING. He disagreed witht he words "truthful Living"..and wanted the tuk to be translated as.. NAAMFUL LIVING" He said that ...... even a man with the best character is nothing when compared against the 'Man of Naam'. There is a doubt on the meaning of the words 'sach aachar'. This subject needs elucidation amongst the Sikh intellectuals who often quote the Gurbani verse--- 'Sachaho orai sabko, oopar sach aachar': I do not agree with the way it is usually translated as follows": [B]'Truth is higher than every thing else, higher still is truthful conduct'[/B]. The critical words in this quotation are[U][B] sach aachar[/B][/U]. If these words are translated 'Naamful conduct', or 'conduct based on Naam', instead of 'Truthful conduct', then it will be more in the line with the logic of the Gurbani, which says: 'Bin sabade aachar na kin hi paaia ' [SGGS:62] Without Naam, none has found the (true) conduct. 'Naam bina kaese aachar' [SGGS: 1285] 'Without Naam, what conduct?' [SGGS:1330] 'Simrat Naam puran aachar' [SGGS:1137] Meditation on Naam makes one's conduct perfect. It is, therefore, clear that Gurbani recognizes good conduct only when it is rooted Naam; a conduct devoid of Naam whatever its other merits, is of little avail in the spiritual domain. This is the view espoused by Nand Singh of Nanaksar. He is considered “[B]Man of Naam[/B]” (Sant/Baba ji)by the Nanaksari followers. Obviously many other “Sants/Babas” would also like to be considered [B][U]Man of Naam[/U][/B]- in fact ALL of them !! The core of the teaching of Sri [/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-granth-sahib/"]Guru Granth Sahib[/FONT][/URL] is Nam Japna (remembrance of the Name of God), Kirt Karni (the honest labour) and Wand Chhakna (sharing of the earnings). It says: Ghaal khaae kichh hatho-n deye, [/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-nanak-dev/"]Nanak[/FONT][/URL] raah pachane seye i.e. “Only he who earns his living by the sweat of his brow and shares his earnings with others has discovered the path of righteousness, O [/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-nanak-dev/"]Nanak[/FONT][/URL].” Thus Sri [/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhism.us/guru-granth-sahib/"]Guru Granth Sahib[/FONT][/URL] lays a great emphasis on human endeavour, honest and sincere labour. It lays a great stress on good conduct in worldly affairs also as it reminds us: Sache oorey sabh ko upar sach aachar i.e. Truth is higher than everything, but higher still is truthful living. This is the more common interpretation.[/FONT] Gurbani is FOR LIVING...APPLICATION.[/FONT] What is meant by ..Kiv SACHIARAA HOYEAH kiv kurreh tutteh paal ? HUKM Razaai challanna Nanak Likhiyah NAAL.[/FONT] All along I have taught that HUKM RAZAII is LIVING LIFE in His HUKM...taking all and everything Life throws at us..Dukh meh tujjeh araadhii..Sukh meh tujjeh dhiyaee..in times of sorrow..in times of gladness...in times of sickness..in times of ill health....we ADAPT our Life according to GURBANI. [/FONT] There are Sakhis that illustrate this....a Gurmukh who was having his son’s wedding in his house was seen getting ready a “kaffan”.( cloth used to wrap a dead body)..what is that ? OH I have come to know that my beloved son will die the day after his wedding ? So aren’t you sad..or aren’t you going to do anything to stop that...Stop What ?? the wedding..or his death ?? Both are in His HUKM...First I will celebrate his wedding..then I will celebrate his death.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]This is called APPLYING GURBANI in our daily Life. I believe this is what we are meant to do. [/FONT]But is this just a matter of semantics..play on words...Naam Conduct..vs..Truthful Conduct....Naam living..Truthful Living....To me it is. TRUTH..SACH..IS NAAM..and thus Naam Living is Truthful Living...It would be impossible to Live according to the Tenets of TRUTH/SAACH (Waheguru) if one were liivng in deceit/lies/cheating/criminal/jealous/[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][B]Practising Truth:[/B] A congenial atmosphere can be created only if we all begin to practise the concepts of our religion because essentially all the religions preach love and peace. It is only the bigots who themselves have not understood their religion and it is only the exploiters who do not wish to lead righteous lives preach hatred and since we are all ignorant about the real values, we are mislead. In reality religious harmony and universal peace are the two sides of the same coin but cause of hiatus in what we say and what we do, we cannot live happily together. [B]Guru Nanak had emphatically preached [I]sachon ure sabkau uppar sach achar[/I] (everything is below truth but higher than truth is [B]truthful conduct[/B])[/B].[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] If we all live the truth of our religions, we can manifestly prove that religious harmony and universal peace would become a reality.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Let us not forget that there is another dimension to the problem of universal peace, that of poverty. If we really want to solve the problems of poverty, we should be doing our religious duty of looking after the down-trodden people, but what we witness is not only our aversion towards the poor but our deliberate disinterest in raising their standard of living. We go on creating more poverty by usurping their rights and exploiting their ignorance and innocence. Religion becomes then only a tool for exploitation because its basic morality is missing.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]GURU NANAK JI broke that by going to saty with Bahi lalo and REFUSING to be cowed down by the Financial might of Malik Bhago..that is "TRUTHFUL CONDUCT" we can Emulate even TODAY as SIKHS. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][B]Poverty - An Obstacle to Peace:[/B] We love prophets, we love religion but only externally. Now even religion has become a five-star culture. We now concentrate on external cosmetism, external celebrations, external extravagant ostentation. We believe that bigger the car in which a holy man travels, the bigger the house in which he lives, the more spiritual he is, depriving the poor people of the faith of the pious and the pure. We cannot deny that even safe drinking water is not available to a lot of people. We cannot deny that all our people do not have two square meals a day. What kind of religion do we preach and practise which does not ensure even drinking water and two square meals to our people? What peace do we talk about? And what religious harmony? If we had practised reality of religion, there would not have been starvation deaths on the one hand and heaps of foodgrains being eaten by worms. Again, we would not have been involved in five-star ostentation in the face of humiliating poverty of our people. Indeed, the rulers too deny the poor their due and exploit them in the name of religion and seva, whereas in reality they themselves live a life far removed from that of the people. The seminars and conferences also become meaningless with repetition of empty slogans of peace.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Where is the connection between religious harmony and abject poverty? There can be no peace when the stomach is empty, women are humiliated and bonded labour is exploited. Practise of religion implies morality and integrity of the highest order. Even Sikhs are guilty of these...lapses in TRUTHFUL CONDUCT... [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]This is all because we DONT practise what GURBANI TEACHES US. What to me ACHAAR means is trying to become like the creator in his attributes...He is benevolent beyond measure..lets be benevolent as much as we can..He is Forgiver par excellence..lets forgive our enemies just a little bit..Dosh na kahoon dehohn....He is Nirbhau..let learn to be unafraid...He is sans enmity..lets try and have less enemies...[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thats all for now..I wish to discuss further..but time constraints hinder me alittle bit... As you would have realised i am more of a Genaralist...( General is my name !!)..while you are more of a "particluarist"..more on details..thats why i tend to wander off and digress quite alot...so please do forgive these lapses...[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Thanks for this opportunity to discuss [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=4][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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