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<blockquote data-quote="vsgrewal48895" data-source="post: 96065" data-attributes="member: 8024"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> ATTITUDE/</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਦਸਤੂਰ/ਤੌਰ</span></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">ABSTRACT</span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Attitude is a complex mental state involving beliefs, feelings, values and dispositions to act in certain ways. It affects the choices one makes.</span> Attitude of gratitude creates happiness because it makes us feel full and complete. It is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in the present moment. Gratitude bears only positive feelings -- love, compassion, joy and hope. It melts away fear, anger and bitterness. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sikh philosophy revolves around “Naam” and it revolves around controlling the mind. Mind needs God’s Grace for its control. God’s Grace is blessed to those individuals who become better humans by an active effort of subjugating the lower instincts. They do so by asking God in their prayers, to remove their character defects. They then develop the higher virtues. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">>If the lower instincts dominate the higher ones, the result is a negative attitude.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">>If the higher instincts dominate or kill the lower instincts, the result is Spiritual Progress with a positive attitude:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'"><strong>ਖਿਮਾ ਗਹੀ ਸਚੁ ਸੰਚਿਓ ਖਾਇਓ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਨਾਮ </strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'"><strong>॥ </strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'"><strong>ਖਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਠਾਕੁਰ ਭਈ ਅਨਦ ਸੂਖ ਬਿਸ੍ਰਾਮ </strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'"><strong>॥</strong></span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Khima Gahee Such Sancheo Khaaeyo Amrit Naam, Khari Kirpa Thakur Bhayee Anand Sookh Bisraam.</span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Adopting an <strong>attitude</strong> of forgiveness and garnering truth, one partakes in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Name. I have been blessed with the Guru’s Grace, and I gained complete peace and tranquility of mind. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Arjan, Gauri Bawan Akhree, AGGS, Page 261-8</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">I will be the first to admit that when I've failed in life, I've caused my own failures. My attitude hasn't always been a positive one. I spent that time in my life focusing on the negative rather than the positive, on the limitations rather than on the potentials, on what I was missing rather than on what I had. I can’t tell you when the change occurred, or where, or how. It's been a long process. I still have to keep working at in order to keep it going. I have learned through reading, deliberating, reflecting in action, watching people, and asking questions. I had to learn that my world is what I make of it. I have been blessed with many gifts, but it's up to me whether I use them. If I do not, I'm pretty much wasting my time on this planet. I always saw this as something that was so easy to say, because people who had their acts together always said it. </span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">It took me a while to realize that by focusing on the negative things in my life, I was perpetuating them through my fears. As I slowly began to shift my focus to the positive, I found that life became more and more positive as I detached myself away from it. Eventually, I became one of the people who say that it's your attitude more than anything else that determine how your life goes. </span></strong></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਭੈ ਤੇ ਬੈਰਾਗੁ ਊਪਜੈ ਹਰਿ ਖੋਜਤ ਫਿਰਣਾ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥ </span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਖੋਜਤ ਖੋਜਤ ਸਹਜੁ ਉਪਜਿਆ ਫਿਰਿ ਜਨਮਿ ਨ ਮਰਣਾ </span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em>Bhai Tay Bairaag Oupjai Har Khojat Firna, Khojat Khojat Sehaj Opje-aa Fir Janam Na Marna.</em></span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Through the Fear of God, the <strong>attitude</strong> of detachment wells up, and one sets out in search of the Akal Purkh.</span>The persons who have imbibed in the wonder and awe of the Akal Purkh in the company of the Guru have caste away all the fears of death. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Arjan, Raag Maru, AGGS, Page 1102-8</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">When I started to change my attitude, I started to see that life doesn't determine who I am or how happy or unhappy I am--life doesn't care. The world is impersonal. But I care, and I prefer to be positive and happy. I'm much better to myself when I am, and I'm much better for others when I am.</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Our attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If it's a cheerful, expectant attitude, it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with the world. You see, we tend to live up to our expectations. And others give to us, as far as their attitudes are concerned, what we expect. Our attitude is something we can control. We can establish our attitude each morning when we start our day. In fact, we do just that, whether or not we realize it. And the people in our family -- all the people in our world -- will reflect back to us the attitude we present to them. It is, then, our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. Everything we say or do will cause a corresponding effect. If we're cheerful, glad to be experiencing this miracle of life, others will reflect that good cheer back to us.</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet.” ~ Read some where</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.</span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">All the while I'm working to change my attitude: </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I let go of revenge. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I want to "get well," instead of "get even." </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I will no longer wallow in resentment. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I still have wounds, but I no longer nurse them: instead, </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I immerse them in helping others; and </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I reverse them by changing my negatives into positives. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am on my way to becoming Weller than well! -----Dr. Robert Schuller.</span></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Conclusion:</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">With positive attitude, we become the kind of people others enjoy being around by living the life according to the steps contained in Sabd Guru. Attitude controls our destination and destiny in life. Metaphorically Guru Arjan describes the humble attitude of poor Bidar, son of a maid, who was accorded salvation by Krishna’s visit to his house.</span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਬਿਦਰੁ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਉਧਾਰਿਓ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਦਾਸਤ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਭਾਇ</span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਰੇ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਮਨ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਤੂ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਭੀ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਹਰਿ</span><span style="font-family: 'Raavi'">ਧਿਆਇ</span><span style="font-family: 'Mangal'">॥</span></strong></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bidar Udhario Daasat Bhaaey, Ray Man To Bhi Har Dhiaa-ey.</span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bidar was saved by his <strong>attitude</strong> of humility. O my mind! You should also contemplate; deliberate with reflection on the Akal Purkh. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-----Guru Arjan Raag Basant, AGGS, Page 1192-6</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Virinder S. Grewal</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Williamston, MI</span> </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vsgrewal48895, post: 96065, member: 8024"] [B][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman] ATTITUDE/[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਦਸਤੂਰ/ਤੌਰ[/FONT][/B] [CENTER][B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]ABSTRACT[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][/CENTER] [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Arial]Attitude is a complex mental state involving beliefs, feelings, values and dispositions to act in certain ways. It affects the choices one makes.[/FONT][COLOR=windowtext] Attitude of gratitude creates happiness because it makes us feel full and complete. It is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in the present moment. Gratitude bears only positive feelings -- love, compassion, joy and hope. It melts away fear, anger and bitterness. [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Arial]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]Sikh philosophy revolves around “Naam” and it revolves around controlling the mind. Mind needs God’s Grace for its control. God’s Grace is blessed to those individuals who become better humans by an active effort of subjugating the lower instincts. They do so by asking God in their prayers, to remove their character defects. They then develop the higher virtues. [/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]>If the lower instincts dominate the higher ones, the result is a negative attitude.[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]>If the higher instincts dominate or kill the lower instincts, the result is Spiritual Progress with a positive attitude:[/FONT] [FONT=Raavi][B]ਖਿਮਾ ਗਹੀ ਸਚੁ ਸੰਚਿਓ ਖਾਇਓ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਨਾਮ [/B][/FONT][FONT=Mangal][B]॥ [/B][/FONT][FONT=Raavi][B]ਖਰੀ ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ ਠਾਕੁਰ ਭਈ ਅਨਦ ਸੂਖ ਬਿਸ੍ਰਾਮ [/B][/FONT][FONT=Mangal][B]॥[/B][/FONT] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]Khima Gahee Such Sancheo Khaaeyo Amrit Naam, Khari Kirpa Thakur Bhayee Anand Sookh Bisraam.[/FONT][/I] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]Adopting an [B]attitude[/B] of forgiveness and garnering truth, one partakes in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Name. I have been blessed with the Guru’s Grace, and I gained complete peace and tranquility of mind. [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Arjan, Gauri Bawan Akhree, AGGS, Page 261-8[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][B][SIZE=3]I will be the first to admit that when I've failed in life, I've caused my own failures. My attitude hasn't always been a positive one. I spent that time in my life focusing on the negative rather than the positive, on the limitations rather than on the potentials, on what I was missing rather than on what I had. I can’t tell you when the change occurred, or where, or how. It's been a long process. I still have to keep working at in order to keep it going. I have learned through reading, deliberating, reflecting in action, watching people, and asking questions. I had to learn that my world is what I make of it. I have been blessed with many gifts, but it's up to me whether I use them. If I do not, I'm pretty much wasting my time on this planet. I always saw this as something that was so easy to say, because people who had their acts together always said it. [/SIZE][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][B][SIZE=3]It took me a while to realize that by focusing on the negative things in my life, I was perpetuating them through my fears. As I slowly began to shift my focus to the positive, I found that life became more and more positive as I detached myself away from it. Eventually, I became one of the people who say that it's your attitude more than anything else that determine how your life goes. [/SIZE][/B][/FONT] [SIZE=3][B][FONT=Raavi]ਭੈ ਤੇ ਬੈਰਾਗੁ ਊਪਜੈ ਹਰਿ ਖੋਜਤ ਫਿਰਣਾ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥ [/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਖੋਜਤ ਖੋਜਤ ਸਹਜੁ ਉਪਜਿਆ ਫਿਰਿ ਜਨਮਿ ਨ ਮਰਣਾ [/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][I]Bhai Tay Bairaag Oupjai Har Khojat Firna, Khojat Khojat Sehaj Opje-aa Fir Janam Na Marna.[/I][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Arial]Through the Fear of God, the [B]attitude[/B] of detachment wells up, and one sets out in search of the Akal Purkh.[/FONT]The persons who have imbibed in the wonder and awe of the Akal Purkh in the company of the Guru have caste away all the fears of death. [/FONT][FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Arjan, Raag Maru, AGGS, Page 1102-8[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][B][SIZE=3]When I started to change my attitude, I started to see that life doesn't determine who I am or how happy or unhappy I am--life doesn't care. The world is impersonal. But I care, and I prefer to be positive and happy. I'm much better to myself when I am, and I'm much better for others when I am.[/SIZE][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][B][FONT=Times New Roman]Our attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If it's a cheerful, expectant attitude, it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with the world. You see, we tend to live up to our expectations. And others give to us, as far as their attitudes are concerned, what we expect. Our attitude is something we can control. We can establish our attitude each morning when we start our day. In fact, we do just that, whether or not we realize it. And the people in our family -- all the people in our world -- will reflect back to us the attitude we present to them. It is, then, our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. Everything we say or do will cause a corresponding effect. If we're cheerful, glad to be experiencing this miracle of life, others will reflect that good cheer back to us.[/FONT][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? [/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. [/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street; I met a man who had no feet.” ~ Read some where[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill[/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.[/FONT] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]All the while I'm working to change my attitude: [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I let go of revenge. [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I want to "get well," instead of "get even." [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I will no longer wallow in resentment. [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I still have wounds, but I no longer nurse them: instead, [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I immerse them in helping others; and [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I reverse them by changing my negatives into positives. [/FONT][/I] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]I am on my way to becoming Weller than well! -----Dr. Robert Schuller.[/FONT][/I] [B][FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]Conclusion:[/FONT][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Arial][B][FONT=Times New Roman]With positive attitude, we become the kind of people others enjoy being around by living the life according to the steps contained in Sabd Guru. Attitude controls our destination and destiny in life. Metaphorically Guru Arjan describes the humble attitude of poor Bidar, son of a maid, who was accorded salvation by Krishna’s visit to his house.[/FONT][/B][/FONT] [B][FONT=Raavi]ਬਿਦਰੁ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਉਧਾਰਿਓ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਦਾਸਤ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਭਾਇ[/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਰੇ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਮਨ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਤੂ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਭੀ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਹਰਿ[/FONT][FONT=Raavi]ਧਿਆਇ[/FONT][FONT=Mangal]॥[/FONT][/B] [I][FONT=Times New Roman]Bidar Udhario Daasat Bhaaey, Ray Man To Bhi Har Dhiaa-ey.[/FONT][/I] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]Bidar was saved by his [B]attitude[/B] of humility. O my mind! You should also contemplate; deliberate with reflection on the Akal Purkh. [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]-----Guru Arjan Raag Basant, AGGS, Page 1192-6[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]Virinder S. Grewal[/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Arial][FONT=Times New Roman]Williamston, MI[/FONT] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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