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<blockquote data-quote="AmbarDhara" data-source="post: 71080" data-attributes="member: 5661"><p>Term 'Vichaar' comes in SGGS Ji multiple times.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>"Amrit Vela Sach Nao Vadyaai Vichaar"</p><p> </p><p>Vichaar has been translated into English word: 'Contemplation'</p><p> </p><p>Definitions of Contemplation:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Contemplation</strong> comes from the Latin root templum (from Greek temnein: to cut or divide), and means to separate something from its environment, and to enclose it in a sector. Contemplation is the Latin translation of Greek '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">theory</span></u></a>' (<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoria" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">theoria</span></u></a></em>). In a religious sense it is a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">prayer</span></u></a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">meditation</span></u></a>. Within Western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Christianity</span></u></a> it is related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_theology" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">mysticism</span></u></a>, and expressed in works by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_theology" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">mystical theologians</span></u></a> St. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_Avila" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Teresa of Avila</span></u></a>, and St. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_the_Cross" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">John of the Cross</span></u></a>, as well as the writings of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Kempe" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Margery Kempe</span></u></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Augustine Baker</span></u></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Thomas Merton</span></u></a>.</p><p>In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Christianity" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Eastern Christianity</span></u></a> contemplation is understood as the directing of all the faculties of one's consciousness toward God or things divine. This is to cultivate an understanding and relationship with the divine.</p><p>Many religions share the concept of contemplation. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naropa_University" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Naropa University</span></u></a>, for example, offers a Master's program in contemplative education in the context of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Buddhism</span></u></a>.</p><p>Contemplation was an important part of the philosophy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Plato</span></u></a>; for Plato, by means of contemplation the soul may ascend to knowledge of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_the_Good" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Form of the Good</span></u></a> or other divine Forms.</p><p>The words contemplation and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">meditation</span></u></a> sometimes have almost opposite meanings in the Western and Eastern traditions. In the West, contemplation may refer to a contentless direction of the mind to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">God</span></u></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Christianity</span></u></a>) or to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">the Good</span></u></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Platonism</span></u></a>), whereas meditation may involve a specific, directed mental exercise, such as visualization of a religious scene or consideration of a scriptural passage. In the East, however, these two terms' definitions may be reversed.</p><p>Contemplation as a practice is finding greater resonance in the West both in business (for e.g. Peter Senges book - [The Fifth Discipline]: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation) and in an academic network involving a diverse range of universities and disciplines from architecture, to physics, to liberal arts.</p><p>In Catholic Christianity, contemplation is given importance. The Catholic Church's "model theologian", St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: "It is requisite for the good of the human community that there should be persons who devote themselves to the life of contemplation." One of his disciples, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Pieper" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Josef Pieper</span></u></a> commented: "For it is contemplation which preserves in the midst of human society the truth which is at one and the same time useless and the yardstick of every possible use; so it is also contemplation which keeps the true end in sight, gives meaning to every practical act of life." </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In a non-religious sense, <strong>contemplation</strong> can also mean:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">an act of considering with attention;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the act of regarding steadily.</li> </ul><p><strong>contemplation</strong> </p><p>1 a<strong>:</strong> concentration on spiritual things as a form of private devotion b<strong>:</strong> a state of mystical awareness of God's being</p><p>2<strong>:</strong> an act of considering with attention <strong>:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/study" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">study</span></u></a></p><p>3<strong>:</strong> the act of regarding steadily4<strong>:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intention" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">intention</span></u></a> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expectation" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">expectation</span></u></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p>T Singh:</p><p> What is <em>Vichaar</em>? Everything is within the body, including the Truth. The Divine Teaching reveals how we all are One with this Truth — That which is Absolute, eternal and infinite, formless, indestructible, illimitable and complete. <em>Vichaar</em> enables one to experience and realize this. Therefore, the spiritual practice of <em>Vichaar</em>, quest of Self or Self-inquiry is the introspective meditation that yields Self-knowledge (<em>Aatma-Gian</em>). Thus, it is to constantly inquire, reflect, contemplate, investigate, or directly look into: "Who am I? How can I know where I came from? Where did I originate, and where will I go and merge? How am I bound, and how do I obtain liberation? How do I merge with intuitive ease (<em>Sahaj</em>) into the Eternal? What is this world: the place of repeated birth and death? How I have come into being in this temporal and transient state? What is mind? Who is the sufferer? What is the Truth?", and so on. As the spiritual <em>Vichaar</em> relates to <em>Gian</em>, the Self-knowledge arises with the aid and practice of such inner inquiry, followed by <em>Sahaj Avasthaa</em> (natural state of Being), intuitive Peace, true Understanding, pure Love or Devotion (<em>Bhagti</em>), unselfishness, and ending of all material suffering. <a href="http://www.gurbani.org/webart58.htm" target="_blank">VICHAAR (SPIRITUAL INQUIRY)</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AmbarDhara, post: 71080, member: 5661"] Term 'Vichaar' comes in SGGS Ji multiple times. "Amrit Vela Sach Nao Vadyaai Vichaar" Vichaar has been translated into English word: 'Contemplation' Definitions of Contemplation: [B]Contemplation[/B] comes from the Latin root templum (from Greek temnein: to cut or divide), and means to separate something from its environment, and to enclose it in a sector. Contemplation is the Latin translation of Greek '[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]theory[/COLOR][/U][/URL]' ([I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoria"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]theoria[/COLOR][/U][/URL][/I]). In a religious sense it is a type of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]prayer[/COLOR][/U][/URL] or [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]meditation[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Within Western [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Christianity[/COLOR][/U][/URL] it is related to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_theology"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]mysticism[/COLOR][/U][/URL], and expressed in works by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_theology"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]mystical theologians[/COLOR][/U][/URL] St. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_of_Avila"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Teresa of Avila[/COLOR][/U][/URL], and St. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_the_Cross"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]John of the Cross[/COLOR][/U][/URL], as well as the writings of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Kempe"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Margery Kempe[/COLOR][/U][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Baker"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Augustine Baker[/COLOR][/U][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Thomas Merton[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. In [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Christianity"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Eastern Christianity[/COLOR][/U][/URL] contemplation is understood as the directing of all the faculties of one's consciousness toward God or things divine. This is to cultivate an understanding and relationship with the divine. Many religions share the concept of contemplation. [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naropa_University"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Naropa University[/COLOR][/U][/URL], for example, offers a Master's program in contemplative education in the context of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Buddhism[/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Contemplation was an important part of the philosophy of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Plato[/COLOR][/U][/URL]; for Plato, by means of contemplation the soul may ascend to knowledge of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_the_Good"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Form of the Good[/COLOR][/U][/URL] or other divine Forms. The words contemplation and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]meditation[/COLOR][/U][/URL] sometimes have almost opposite meanings in the Western and Eastern traditions. In the West, contemplation may refer to a contentless direction of the mind to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]God[/COLOR][/U][/URL] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Christianity[/COLOR][/U][/URL]) or to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]the Good[/COLOR][/U][/URL] ([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Platonism[/COLOR][/U][/URL]), whereas meditation may involve a specific, directed mental exercise, such as visualization of a religious scene or consideration of a scriptural passage. In the East, however, these two terms' definitions may be reversed. Contemplation as a practice is finding greater resonance in the West both in business (for e.g. Peter Senges book - [The Fifth Discipline]: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation) and in an academic network involving a diverse range of universities and disciplines from architecture, to physics, to liberal arts. In Catholic Christianity, contemplation is given importance. The Catholic Church's "model theologian", St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: "It is requisite for the good of the human community that there should be persons who devote themselves to the life of contemplation." One of his disciples, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Pieper"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Josef Pieper[/COLOR][/U][/URL] commented: "For it is contemplation which preserves in the midst of human society the truth which is at one and the same time useless and the yardstick of every possible use; so it is also contemplation which keeps the true end in sight, gives meaning to every practical act of life." In a non-religious sense, [B]contemplation[/B] can also mean: [LIST] [*]an act of considering with attention; [*]the act of regarding steadily.[/LIST] [B]contemplation[/B] 1 a[B]:[/B] concentration on spiritual things as a form of private devotion b[B]:[/B] a state of mystical awareness of God's being 2[B]:[/B] an act of considering with attention [B]:[/B] [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/study"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]study[/COLOR][/U][/URL] 3[B]:[/B] the act of regarding steadily4[B]:[/B] [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intention"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]intention[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expectation"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]expectation[/COLOR][/U][/URL] T Singh: What is [I]Vichaar[/I]? Everything is within the body, including the Truth. The Divine Teaching reveals how we all are One with this Truth — That which is Absolute, eternal and infinite, formless, indestructible, illimitable and complete. [I]Vichaar[/I] enables one to experience and realize this. Therefore, the spiritual practice of [I]Vichaar[/I], quest of Self or Self-inquiry is the introspective meditation that yields Self-knowledge ([I]Aatma-Gian[/I]). Thus, it is to constantly inquire, reflect, contemplate, investigate, or directly look into: "Who am I? How can I know where I came from? Where did I originate, and where will I go and merge? How am I bound, and how do I obtain liberation? How do I merge with intuitive ease ([I]Sahaj[/I]) into the Eternal? What is this world: the place of repeated birth and death? How I have come into being in this temporal and transient state? What is mind? Who is the sufferer? What is the Truth?", and so on. As the spiritual [I]Vichaar[/I] relates to [I]Gian[/I], the Self-knowledge arises with the aid and practice of such inner inquiry, followed by [I]Sahaj Avasthaa[/I] (natural state of Being), intuitive Peace, true Understanding, pure Love or Devotion ([I]Bhagti[/I]), unselfishness, and ending of all material suffering. [url=http://www.gurbani.org/webart58.htm]VICHAAR (SPIRITUAL INQUIRY)[/url] [/QUOTE]
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