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Anand Sahib - Pauri 21
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 6571" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Khalsa Ji,</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In this post, I share with you what I understand from the 21st Pauri of Anand Sahib.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></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'">jy ko isKu gurU syqI snmuKu hovY ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">jay ko si<u>kh</u> guroo say<u>t</u>ee sanmu<u>kh</u> hovai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If a learner (Sikh), with all sincerity presents himself, in front of the Guru.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is important to understand the meaning of the word ‘Sunmukh’. It means to make one self-available in the presence of specified individual or to be face to face with some entity. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sincerity here means the total involvement of one’s being, i.e. physical and mental presence without any doubt. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Guru Sahib in this sentence states that the learner i.e. Sikh should present herself or himself with full involvement and without any doubt about the Guru to be. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></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'">hovY q snmuKu isKu koeI jIAhu rhY gur nwly ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">hovai <u>t</u>a sanmu<u>kh</u> si<u>kh</u> ko-ee jee-ahu rahai gur naalay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Making oneself available in the presence of the Guru, the learner’s being should merge with the Guru.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here for me ‘The Guru’ is Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Sahib in this sentence tells me to become one with the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In other words, Guru Sahib instructs me to loose my identity as separate entity from my Guru. My Nirakaar part i.e. my personality, my thinking, my beliefs and values etc should resonate with Sikhi and I should initiate the process of become a living ‘Shabad’ i.e. Sikhi should become my basis of my being, of my speech and of my actions. My Akaar should become the physical expression of Sikhi.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></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'">gur ky crn ihrdY iDAwey AMqr AwqmY smwly ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">gur kay charan hir<u>d</u>ai <u>Dh</u>i-aa-ay an<u>t</u>ar aa<u>t</u>mai samaalay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The feet of Guru should get imbued in the heart (of the learner) and should permeate her or his soul. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This sentence cannot be taken in literal sense. What is asked cannot be physically achieved. The words used here, appear to me, to be the metaphor for what Guru Sahib wants to convey. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As I understand, Guru Sahib instructs me to follow the path shown to me by my Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) from the depth of my heart and soul. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The path is what the feet of my Guru walking on the route creates; it is the path of the spirituality and right living. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The feet are the mental make-up that carries my Guru on this route. Guru Sahib wants me to create within me the mental make-up similar to the one that my Guru has. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The last thing is how to involve my self from the depth of my heart and soul so that what Guru Sahib has said in words ‘</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">hir<u>d</u>ai <u>Dh</u>i-aa-ay an<u>t</u>ar aa<u>t</u>mai samaalay’ </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">gets realised. It demands that I create an unobstructed direct route from my sense organs to the deeper layers of my mind i.e. my being for all that Guru teaches me.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The only way to create this direct route, as my current knowledge tells me, is by bring my own mental resistance to my Guru’s teachings to zero. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This is needed because with zero mental resistance alone there is total, undistorted and so very effective transfer of teachings from the Guru to the learner i.e. Sikh i.e. me. This is what will make the teachings to reach to the deeper layers of my mind i.e. my functioning brain without any distortion. To do this, I have to deliberately, shut off the interference from my memory and the filters in my mind that process the information received from outside world (the Guru) through sense organs and then present it to the brain for assimilation. These filters, in their normal functioning are selective – they pick and chose part of the information and discard the rest; they distort the information adding their own colour from past memory which stores values, beliefs, experiences, biases, prejudices etc, they attenuate the information by on line discrimination against what is known to the individual; and even add their own colour to the information received through our sense organs. This way they create mental resistance and distortion.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Once the mental resistance is brought to zero, the learner in me i.e. the Sikh in seal sense is ‘Sunmukh’; the term Guru Sahib used in the first sentence. Now, I am totally in the presence of my Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) ready to assimilate the teaching as they are imparted. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></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'">Awpu Cif sdw rhY prxY gur ibnu Avru n jwxY koey ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">aap <u>chh</u>ad sa<u>d</u>aa rahai par<u>n</u>ai gur bin avar na jaa<u>n</u>ai ko-ay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The learner (Sikh) leaves the ‘I’ (Ahamkara) in her or him; the learner remains by the side of the Guru; and other than Guru the learner knows no one. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib is telling me that I should learn from Guru with a total sense of surrender ‘Samarpan’. Guru is to become every thing for me. I should concentrate totally on the teachings that the Guru is imparting to me, without my mind getting mixed up with the teachings of others. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></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'">khY nwnku suxhu sMqhu so isKu snmuKu hoey ]21] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">kahai naanak su<u>n</u>hu san<u>t</u>ahu so si<u>kh</u> sanmu<u>kh</u> ho-ay. ||21||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Says Nanak, listen O’Saints, this is the way the learner (Sikh) presents oneself to the Guru.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib in this last sentence of the Pauri has advised the learners (Sikhs) to create the right mental disposition, with which they should present themselves to the Guru for imparting Sikhi to them. This is the way to approach the Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib).</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With this I close my post of 21st Pauri of Anand Sahib.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Amarpal Singh </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 6571, member: 10"] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Dear Khalsa Ji,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In this post, I share with you what I understand from the 21st Pauri of Anand Sahib.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [color=maroon][size=3][font=Times New Roman]1. [/font][/size][/color][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]jy ko isKu gurU syqI snmuKu hovY ] [/font][/color][font=Times New Roman][size=3]jay ko si[u]kh[/u] guroo say[u]t[/u]ee sanmu[u]kh[/u] hovai. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]If a learner (Sikh), with all sincerity presents himself, in front of the Guru.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman][u]My understanding[/u]:[/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]It is important to understand the meaning of the word ‘Sunmukh’. It means to make one self-available in the presence of specified individual or to be face to face with some entity. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Sincerity here means the total involvement of one’s being, i.e. physical and mental presence without any doubt. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]Guru Sahib in this sentence states that the learner i.e. Sikh should present herself or himself with full involvement and without any doubt about the Guru to be. [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]2. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]hovY q snmuKu isKu koeI jIAhu rhY gur nwly ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]hovai [u]t[/u]a sanmu[u]kh[/u] si[u]kh[/u] ko-ee jee-ahu rahai gur naalay. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Making oneself available in the presence of the Guru, the learner’s being should merge with the Guru.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman][u]My understanding[/u]:[/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Here for me ‘The Guru’ is Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Sahib in this sentence tells me to become one with the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In other words, Guru Sahib instructs me to loose my identity as separate entity from my Guru. My Nirakaar part i.e. my personality, my thinking, my beliefs and values etc should resonate with Sikhi and I should initiate the process of become a living ‘Shabad’ i.e. Sikhi should become my basis of my being, of my speech and of my actions. My Akaar should become the physical expression of Sikhi.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]3. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]gur ky crn ihrdY iDAwey AMqr AwqmY smwly ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]gur kay charan hir[u]d[/u]ai [u]Dh[/u]i-aa-ay an[u]t[/u]ar aa[u]t[/u]mai samaalay. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The feet of Guru should get imbued in the heart (of the learner) and should permeate her or his soul. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3][u]My understanding[/u]:[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]This sentence cannot be taken in literal sense. What is asked cannot be physically achieved. The words used here, appear to me, to be the metaphor for what Guru Sahib wants to convey. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]As I understand, Guru Sahib instructs me to follow the path shown to me by my Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) from the depth of my heart and soul. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The path is what the feet of my Guru walking on the route creates; it is the path of the spirituality and right living. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The feet are the mental make-up that carries my Guru on this route. Guru Sahib wants me to create within me the mental make-up similar to the one that my Guru has. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3] [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]The last thing is how to involve my self from the depth of my heart and soul so that what Guru Sahib has said in words ‘[/font][font=Tahoma]hir[u]d[/u]ai [u]Dh[/u]i-aa-ay an[u]t[/u]ar aa[u]t[/u]mai samaalay’ [/font][font=Times New Roman]gets realised. It demands that I create an unobstructed direct route from my sense organs to the deeper layers of my mind i.e. my being for all that Guru teaches me.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The only way to create this direct route, as my current knowledge tells me, is by bring my own mental resistance to my Guru’s teachings to zero. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]This is needed because with zero mental resistance alone there is total, undistorted and so very effective transfer of teachings from the Guru to the learner i.e. Sikh i.e. me. This is what will make the teachings to reach to the deeper layers of my mind i.e. my functioning brain without any distortion. To do this, I have to deliberately, shut off the interference from my memory and the filters in my mind that process the information received from outside world (the Guru) through sense organs and then present it to the brain for assimilation. These filters, in their normal functioning are selective – they pick and chose part of the information and discard the rest; they distort the information adding their own colour from past memory which stores values, beliefs, experiences, biases, prejudices etc, they attenuate the information by on line discrimination against what is known to the individual; and even add their own colour to the information received through our sense organs. This way they create mental resistance and distortion.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]Once the mental resistance is brought to zero, the learner in me i.e. the Sikh in seal sense is ‘Sunmukh’; the term Guru Sahib used in the first sentence. Now, I am totally in the presence of my Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) ready to assimilate the teaching as they are imparted. [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]4. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]Awpu Cif sdw rhY prxY gur ibnu Avru n jwxY koey ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]aap [u]chh[/u]ad sa[u]d[/u]aa rahai par[u]n[/u]ai gur bin avar na jaa[u]n[/u]ai ko-ay. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The learner (Sikh) leaves the ‘I’ (Ahamkara) in her or him; the learner remains by the side of the Guru; and other than Guru the learner knows no one. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman][u]My understanding[/u]:[/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Guru Sahib is telling me that I should learn from Guru with a total sense of surrender ‘Samarpan’. Guru is to become every thing for me. I should concentrate totally on the teachings that the Guru is imparting to me, without my mind getting mixed up with the teachings of others. [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]5. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]khY nwnku suxhu sMqhu so isKu snmuKu hoey ]21] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]kahai naanak su[u]n[/u]hu san[u]t[/u]ahu so si[u]kh[/u] sanmu[u]kh[/u] ho-ay. ||21|| [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Says Nanak, listen O’Saints, this is the way the learner (Sikh) presents oneself to the Guru.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman][u]My understanding[/u]:[/font][/size][/b] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Guru Sahib in this last sentence of the Pauri has advised the learners (Sikhs) to create the right mental disposition, with which they should present themselves to the Guru for imparting Sikhi to them. This is the way to approach the Guru (Sri Guru Granth Sahib).[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With this I close my post of 21st Pauri of Anand Sahib.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With love and respect for all.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font='Times New Roman']Amarpal Singh [/font] [/QUOTE]
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Anand Sahib - Pauri 21
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