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<blockquote data-quote="Astroboy" data-source="post: 88755" data-attributes="member: 4990"><p>Sikh80 Ji,</p><p></p><p>Now, allow me to add expand a little on your request as follows:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here goes !!!</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 9px">BRAHMAND</span></strong>—Second Grand Division in creation, below Sach Khand. It is a spiritual-material plane of the Universal Mind and subject to decay and dissolution. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">Guru Nanak gives us a bird's-eye view of the spirit's pilgrimage. The first realm to be transcended is the plane of <em>Dharm Khand</em>--the Realm of Action, or the world of good and evil deeds as we know it. Next comes <em>Gyan Khand</em> or the Realm of Knowledge, the first of the inner heavens, full of gods and demi-gods:</span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Countless its elements, air, water and fire,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">And countless Krishnas and Sivas,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">And countless the Brahmas fashioning various creations of countless forms and countless hues.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Countless the Fields of Action, countless the golden mountains . . .</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Countless the sources of creation, countless the harmonies, countless those</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px"> that listen unto them.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">And countless the devotees of the Word,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Endless and unending, 0 Nanak! this Realm.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 9px"> STANZA XXXV</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"> If knowledge is the reigning virtue of this region, ecstasy is that of the next, which is <em>Sarm Khand</em>, the Realm of Bliss. This plane is beyond description and whoever tries to describe it must repent his folly. Herein at last, the soul is freed from its mental adjuncts and finally comes into its own:</span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Herein the mind, reason and understanding are etherealized, the self comes</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px"> to its own, and develops the penetration of the gods and the sages.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 9px"> STANZA XXXVI</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">But "higher still" stands <em>Karm Khand</em>, the Realm of Grace--grace earned through right action and meditation.</span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Here the Word is all in all, and nothing else prevails,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Here dwell the bravest of the brave, the conquerors of the mind,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px"> imbued with the love Divine . . .</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">All hearts filled with God, they live beyond the reach of death and of delusion.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 9px"> STANZA XXXVII</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px"> This is the realm where the soul finally escapes the coils of relativity; the bonds of time, death and change, no longer affect it. But though it dwells in the constant presence of the Lord, it may move still further to merge into His Formless State:</span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Sach Khand, or the Realm of Truth, is the seat of the Formless One,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Here He creates all creations, rejoicing in creating.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Here are many regions, heavenly systems and universes,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">To count which were to count the countless.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Here, out of the Formless,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">The heavenly plateaux and all else come into form,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">All destined to move according to His Will.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">He who is blessed with this vision, rejoices in its contemplation.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">But, O Nanak, such is its beauty that to try to describe it</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px"> is to attempt the impossible.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 9px"> STANZA XXXVII</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 9px">The world shall go on along the rails of good and evil deeds, caught in the limits of Karma, but:</span> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Those who have communed with the Word, their toils shall end,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">And their faces shall flame with glory.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">Not only shall they have salvation,</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"><span style="font-size: 9px">O Nanak, but many more shall find freedom with them.</span></span> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 9px"> FINALE</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Astroboy, post: 88755, member: 4990"] Sikh80 Ji, Now, allow me to add expand a little on your request as follows: Here goes !!! [B][SIZE=1]BRAHMAND[/SIZE][/B]—Second Grand Division in creation, below Sach Khand. It is a spiritual-material plane of the Universal Mind and subject to decay and dissolution. [SIZE=1]Guru Nanak gives us a bird's-eye view of the spirit's pilgrimage. The first realm to be transcended is the plane of [I]Dharm Khand[/I]--the Realm of Action, or the world of good and evil deeds as we know it. Next comes [I]Gyan Khand[/I] or the Realm of Knowledge, the first of the inner heavens, full of gods and demi-gods:[/SIZE] [INDENT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Countless its elements, air, water and fire,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]And countless Krishnas and Sivas,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]And countless the Brahmas fashioning various creations of countless forms and countless hues.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Countless the Fields of Action, countless the golden mountains . . .[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Countless the sources of creation, countless the harmonies, countless those[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1] that listen unto them.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]And countless the devotees of the Word,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Endless and unending, 0 Nanak! this Realm.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=1] STANZA XXXV[/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=1] If knowledge is the reigning virtue of this region, ecstasy is that of the next, which is [I]Sarm Khand[/I], the Realm of Bliss. This plane is beyond description and whoever tries to describe it must repent his folly. Herein at last, the soul is freed from its mental adjuncts and finally comes into its own:[/SIZE] [INDENT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Herein the mind, reason and understanding are etherealized, the self comes[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1] to its own, and develops the penetration of the gods and the sages.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=1] STANZA XXXVI[/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=1]But "higher still" stands [I]Karm Khand[/I], the Realm of Grace--grace earned through right action and meditation.[/SIZE] [INDENT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Here the Word is all in all, and nothing else prevails,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Here dwell the bravest of the brave, the conquerors of the mind,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1] imbued with the love Divine . . .[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]All hearts filled with God, they live beyond the reach of death and of delusion.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=1] STANZA XXXVII[/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=1] This is the realm where the soul finally escapes the coils of relativity; the bonds of time, death and change, no longer affect it. But though it dwells in the constant presence of the Lord, it may move still further to merge into His Formless State:[/SIZE] [INDENT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Sach Khand, or the Realm of Truth, is the seat of the Formless One,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Here He creates all creations, rejoicing in creating.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Here are many regions, heavenly systems and universes,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]To count which were to count the countless.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Here, out of the Formless,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]The heavenly plateaux and all else come into form,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]All destined to move according to His Will.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]He who is blessed with this vision, rejoices in its contemplation.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]But, O Nanak, such is its beauty that to try to describe it[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1] is to attempt the impossible.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=1] STANZA XXXVII[/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=1]The world shall go on along the rails of good and evil deeds, caught in the limits of Karma, but:[/SIZE] [INDENT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Those who have communed with the Word, their toils shall end,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]And their faces shall flame with glory.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]Not only shall they have salvation,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=1]O Nanak, but many more shall find freedom with them.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=1] FINALE[/SIZE][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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