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How Should We Worship And Adore Him?
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 74751" data-attributes="member: 35"><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><strong>The Second Stage of Prayer</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><strong>from Bandginama by Raghbir Singh</strong></span> </p><p></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em>As we progress spiritually, our aspirations, yearnings and prayers change. We obtain greater delight in spiritual advancement than in personal comfort. All worldly pleasures strike us as transient, fleeting, and worthless. There is a prompting from within to the effect:</em></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><em>What can I ask for? Nothing abides.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"><em>mai kia magao kichhu thiru na rahai</em></span></p><p></p><p> <span style="color: Sienna"><em>As a child growing into adulthood ceases to hanker after toys and juvenile pleasures and pastimes, and develops an interest in things of higher value, so a spiritually advanced soul feels discontented with unabiding, fleeting pleasures of the world. It feels an inner urge for abiding comfort and joy and a prayer gushes forth from it:</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em></em></span> <span style="color: DimGray">I have in many lives deluded myself,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Eating, drinking, sporting, making merry;</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Now help me across the fearful sea,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">I seek Thy shelter.</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span><span style="color: DimGray">khat pit khelat hasat bharme janam anek</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">bhavjal to kadhhu prabhu Nanak teri tek</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Red">Guru Arjan - Gauri.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em>At this stage, we are impelled to search and experiment, and to seek guidance. We feel:</em></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">I know naught, I know not how to swim,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">All-pervading Father, lend me Thy helping hand.</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">mai ajanu janu taribe na janao</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">bap bithula bah de</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Red">Nam Dev - Gaund.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><em>T<span style="color: Sienna">here arises a yearning to fathom the invisible realms of the spirit, and Heaven’s help and inspiration descend to guide such a soul. Then begins a very difficult stage. We have to wrestle and struggle with our self. We have to shed our old convictions, old habits, old beliefs, and to assume new habits and new ways of life. At first, it is difficult to view the world from a new angle. On the one side, the lower self tends to pull us towards evil; the sweet memory of pleasures of the flesh attracts us many a time, we feel as if there can be no escape from the grip of alluring pleasures of the flesh. And on the other, the voice of the soul inspires and promises new hopes, new visions, new glimpses of a new world, all of which are so full of bliss and charm.</span></em></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><em><span style="color: Sienna"></span></em></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><em><span style="color: Sienna">I once met a saint in this stage, and asked him how he felt. </span></em></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><em><span style="color: Sienna"></span></em></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkGreen"><em><span style="color: Sienna">He replied “I am faring ill,” and when asked the reason why, he said, “I am neither here nor there; although I am averse to the allurements of the world, my wavering mind is not always centred on God. At times, the lower self dominates; and at times I render social service in a Gurdwara; I spend nights in reflection; sometimes I do things that the meanest of mortals would not do, and at other times there are flashes of saintly life. A life of mental conflict! This is no good. In the words of Shaikh Farid,</span></em></span><span style="color: Sienna"> <span style="color: DimGray">‘</span></span><span style="color: DarkSlateGray"><span style="color: DimGray">I am full of sins and yet people call me a Darvesh or saint! Heaven help me there is no other help’.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkSlateGray"><span style="color: DimGray"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkSlateGray">gunahi bharia mai phira</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkSlateGray">loku kahai darvesu</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkSlateGray"></span></p><p> <span style="color: DarkSlateGray"></span><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Red">Farid - Sloka.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em>After a few days’ association with the saint, I found that to rid him of mental strife and as a precautionary measure, he had cut off his *****, but even then he had no peace of mind. Many a spiritual seeker despairs at this stage, and discards the pursuit of Truth. Many a time, in utter despair, I felt that the flights in the higher realm of the Spirit were not meant for me and that I was a creature of senses, and was destined to remain so! But one must not lose heart at this stage. For heroic souls, all difficulties vanish into thin air. Firm faith in God, and humble, heartfelt prayers work miracles. If today we lose heart in utter despair, the next day there is a surging sea of hope. The spiritual seeker wages war again with impediments. Victory seems at hand. Indeed, faith in God ripens when we find His strong, helping hand resolving our tangled mental state.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em>Maladies of the mind are infinitely more dreadful and dangerous than those of the body. We are anxious to be rid of maladies of the body, but ills of the mind taste sweet and even when we are fed up with them, we do not shed them. When we suffer from fever, we are over-anxious to be rid of it. Be it a sex or alcohol addict, in spite of his knowledge of their damaging effects, clings on to his vices. To be rid of the ills of the mind, deep, ardent and unceasing prayer is essential. The spiritual seeker should humbly pray:</em></span></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">I am a perverse, hard-hearted, deceitful rake,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Help me, Thou All-powerful,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Thou Omnipotent Shelter of all,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Meditations, austerities, purificatory rites,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Disciplinary exercises are unavailing</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Be gracious and pull me out of the pitch darkness,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">In which I am stranded.</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">kuchil kathor kapat kami</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">jio janoh tio tar suami- rahao</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">tu samrathu sarani jog</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">tu rakhahi apni kal dhari</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">jap tap nem such sanjam</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">nahi in bidhi chhutkar</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">garat ghor andh te kadhahu</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Prabh Nanak nadari nihari</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Red">Guru Arjan - Maru.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">How can you purify dust? Man is but dust.</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">mati ka kia dhopai suami manas ki gati ehi</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Save me, save me, 0 God!</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">I am helpless, my Lord,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Be gracious and grant me Thy Name!</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">ha ha Prabh rakhi lehu</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">ham te kichhu na hoi mere swami</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">kari kirpa apuna nam deho</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"><span style="color: Red">Guru Arjan - Dhanasri.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Sienna"><em>The five deadly passions are Lust, Resentment, Greed, Infatuation and Egoism:</em></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Preserve me, 0 Thou Preserver,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">These passions are tormenting,</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">I seek shelter at Thy feet.</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray"></span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">panch bikhadi eku gariba rakhahu rakhanhdre</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">khedu karhi aru bahutu santavhi</span></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">aio saran tuhdre</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Red"><span style="font-size: 9px">Guru Arjan - Gauri.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"></span><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: DarkGreen"> From Sheik Fareed - Shabad 2085</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਟੋਡੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">ttoddee mehala 5 ||</p> <p style="text-align: center">Todee, Fifth Mehl:</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen"> ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਆਇਓ ਸਰਣਿ ਤੁਹਾਰੀ ॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">sathigur aeiou saran thuharee ||</p> <p style="text-align: center">O True Guru, I have come to Your Sanctuary.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਮਿਲੈ ਸੂਖੁ ਨਾਮੁ ਹਰਿ ਸੋਭਾ ਚਿੰਤਾ ਲਾਹਿ ਹਮਾਰੀ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">milai sookh nam har sobha chintha lahi hamaree ||1|| rehao ||</p> <p style="text-align: center">Grant me the peace and glory of the Lord's Name, and remove my anxiety. ||1||Pause||</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਅਵਰ ਨ ਸੂਝੈ ਦੂਜੀ ਠਾਹਰ ਹਾਰਿ ਪਰਿਓ ਤਉ ਦੁਆਰੀ ॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">avar n soojhai dhoojee thahar har pariou tho dhuaree ||</p> <p style="text-align: center">I cannot see any other place of shelter; I have grown weary, and collapsed at Your door.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen"> ਲੇਖਾ ਛੋਡਿ ਅਲੇਖੈ ਛੂਟਹ ਹਮ ਨਿਰਗੁਨ ਲੇਹੁ ਉਬਾਰੀ ॥੧॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">laekha shhodd alaekhai shhootteh ham niragun laehu oubaree ||1||</p> <p style="text-align: center">Please ignore my account; only then may I be saved. I am worthless - please, save me! ||1||</p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen">ਸਦ ਬਖਸਿੰਦੁ ਸਦਾ ਮਿਹਰਵਾਨਾ ਸਭਨਾ ਦੇਇ ਅਧਾਰੀ ॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">sadh bakhasindh sadha miharavana sabhana dhaee adhharee ||</p> <p style="text-align: center">You are always forgiving, and always merciful; You give support to all.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: DarkGreen"> ਨਾਨਕ ਦਾਸ ਸੰਤ ਪਾਛੈ ਪਰਿਓ ਰਾਖਿ ਲੇਹੁ ਇਹ ਬਾਰੀ ॥੨॥੪॥੯॥ </span></p> <p style="text-align: center">naanak dhas santh pashhai pariou rakh laehu eih baree ||2||4||9||</p> <p style="text-align: center">Slave Nanak follows the Path of the Saints; save him, O Lord, this time. ||2||4||9||</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 74751, member: 35"] [COLOR=DarkGreen][B]The Second Stage of Prayer from Bandginama by Raghbir Singh[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna][I]As we progress spiritually, our aspirations, yearnings and prayers change. We obtain greater delight in spiritual advancement than in personal comfort. All worldly pleasures strike us as transient, fleeting, and worthless. There is a prompting from within to the effect:[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray][I]What can I ask for? Nothing abides. mai kia magao kichhu thiru na rahai[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=Sienna][I]As a child growing into adulthood ceases to hanker after toys and juvenile pleasures and pastimes, and develops an interest in things of higher value, so a spiritually advanced soul feels discontented with unabiding, fleeting pleasures of the world. It feels an inner urge for abiding comfort and joy and a prayer gushes forth from it: [/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray]I have in many lives deluded myself, Eating, drinking, sporting, making merry; Now help me across the fearful sea, I seek Thy shelter. [/COLOR][COLOR=DimGray]khat pit khelat hasat bharme janam anek bhavjal to kadhhu prabhu Nanak teri tek[/COLOR] [SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]Guru Arjan - Gauri.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=Sienna][I]At this stage, we are impelled to search and experiment, and to seek guidance. We feel:[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray]I know naught, I know not how to swim, All-pervading Father, lend me Thy helping hand. mai ajanu janu taribe na janao bap bithula bah de [/COLOR] [SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]Nam Dev - Gaund.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=DarkGreen][I]T[COLOR=Sienna]here arises a yearning to fathom the invisible realms of the spirit, and Heaven’s help and inspiration descend to guide such a soul. Then begins a very difficult stage. We have to wrestle and struggle with our self. We have to shed our old convictions, old habits, old beliefs, and to assume new habits and new ways of life. At first, it is difficult to view the world from a new angle. On the one side, the lower self tends to pull us towards evil; the sweet memory of pleasures of the flesh attracts us many a time, we feel as if there can be no escape from the grip of alluring pleasures of the flesh. And on the other, the voice of the soul inspires and promises new hopes, new visions, new glimpses of a new world, all of which are so full of bliss and charm. I once met a saint in this stage, and asked him how he felt. He replied “I am faring ill,” and when asked the reason why, he said, “I am neither here nor there; although I am averse to the allurements of the world, my wavering mind is not always centred on God. At times, the lower self dominates; and at times I render social service in a Gurdwara; I spend nights in reflection; sometimes I do things that the meanest of mortals would not do, and at other times there are flashes of saintly life. A life of mental conflict! This is no good. In the words of Shaikh Farid,[/COLOR][/I][/COLOR][COLOR=Sienna] [COLOR=DimGray]‘[/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=DarkSlateGray][COLOR=DimGray]I am full of sins and yet people call me a Darvesh or saint! Heaven help me there is no other help’. [/COLOR] gunahi bharia mai phira loku kahai darvesu [/COLOR][SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]Farid - Sloka.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=Sienna][I]After a few days’ association with the saint, I found that to rid him of mental strife and as a precautionary measure, he had cut off his *****, but even then he had no peace of mind. Many a spiritual seeker despairs at this stage, and discards the pursuit of Truth. Many a time, in utter despair, I felt that the flights in the higher realm of the Spirit were not meant for me and that I was a creature of senses, and was destined to remain so! But one must not lose heart at this stage. For heroic souls, all difficulties vanish into thin air. Firm faith in God, and humble, heartfelt prayers work miracles. If today we lose heart in utter despair, the next day there is a surging sea of hope. The spiritual seeker wages war again with impediments. Victory seems at hand. Indeed, faith in God ripens when we find His strong, helping hand resolving our tangled mental state. Maladies of the mind are infinitely more dreadful and dangerous than those of the body. We are anxious to be rid of maladies of the body, but ills of the mind taste sweet and even when we are fed up with them, we do not shed them. When we suffer from fever, we are over-anxious to be rid of it. Be it a sex or alcohol addict, in spite of his knowledge of their damaging effects, clings on to his vices. To be rid of the ills of the mind, deep, ardent and unceasing prayer is essential. The spiritual seeker should humbly pray:[/I] [/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray]I am a perverse, hard-hearted, deceitful rake, Help me, Thou All-powerful, Thou Omnipotent Shelter of all, Meditations, austerities, purificatory rites, Disciplinary exercises are unavailing Be gracious and pull me out of the pitch darkness, In which I am stranded. kuchil kathor kapat kami jio janoh tio tar suami- rahao tu samrathu sarani jog tu rakhahi apni kal dhari jap tap nem such sanjam nahi in bidhi chhutkar garat ghor andh te kadhahu Prabh Nanak nadari nihari [/COLOR][SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]Guru Arjan - Maru.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=DimGray]How can you purify dust? Man is but dust. mati ka kia dhopai suami manas ki gati ehi[/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray]Save me, save me, 0 God! I am helpless, my Lord, Be gracious and grant me Thy Name! ha ha Prabh rakhi lehu ham te kichhu na hoi mere swami kari kirpa apuna nam deho [/COLOR] [SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]Guru Arjan - Dhanasri.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=Sienna][I]The five deadly passions are Lust, Resentment, Greed, Infatuation and Egoism:[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=DimGray] Preserve me, 0 Thou Preserver, These passions are tormenting, I seek shelter at Thy feet. panch bikhadi eku gariba rakhahu rakhanhdre khedu karhi aru bahutu santavhi aio saran tuhdre[/COLOR] [COLOR=Red][SIZE=1]Guru Arjan - Gauri.[/SIZE] [/COLOR][CENTER][B][COLOR=DarkGreen] From Sheik Fareed - Shabad 2085[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=DarkGreen]ਟੋਡੀ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥ [/COLOR] ttoddee mehala 5 || Todee, Fifth Mehl: [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਆਇਓ ਸਰਣਿ ਤੁਹਾਰੀ ॥ [/COLOR] sathigur aeiou saran thuharee || O True Guru, I have come to Your Sanctuary. [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਮਿਲੈ ਸੂਖੁ ਨਾਮੁ ਹਰਿ ਸੋਭਾ ਚਿੰਤਾ ਲਾਹਿ ਹਮਾਰੀ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ [/COLOR] milai sookh nam har sobha chintha lahi hamaree ||1|| rehao || Grant me the peace and glory of the Lord's Name, and remove my anxiety. ||1||Pause|| [COLOR=DarkGreen]ਅਵਰ ਨ ਸੂਝੈ ਦੂਜੀ ਠਾਹਰ ਹਾਰਿ ਪਰਿਓ ਤਉ ਦੁਆਰੀ ॥ [/COLOR] avar n soojhai dhoojee thahar har pariou tho dhuaree || I cannot see any other place of shelter; I have grown weary, and collapsed at Your door. [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਲੇਖਾ ਛੋਡਿ ਅਲੇਖੈ ਛੂਟਹ ਹਮ ਨਿਰਗੁਨ ਲੇਹੁ ਉਬਾਰੀ ॥੧॥ [/COLOR] laekha shhodd alaekhai shhootteh ham niragun laehu oubaree ||1|| Please ignore my account; only then may I be saved. I am worthless - please, save me! ||1|| [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਸਦ ਬਖਸਿੰਦੁ ਸਦਾ ਮਿਹਰਵਾਨਾ ਸਭਨਾ ਦੇਇ ਅਧਾਰੀ ॥ [/COLOR] sadh bakhasindh sadha miharavana sabhana dhaee adhharee || You are always forgiving, and always merciful; You give support to all. [COLOR=DarkGreen] ਨਾਨਕ ਦਾਸ ਸੰਤ ਪਾਛੈ ਪਰਿਓ ਰਾਖਿ ਲੇਹੁ ਇਹ ਬਾਰੀ ॥੨॥੪॥੯॥ [/COLOR] naanak dhas santh pashhai pariou rakh laehu eih baree ||2||4||9|| Slave Nanak follows the Path of the Saints; save him, O Lord, this time. ||2||4||9||[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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