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Gurmat Vichar - Discussions
Part III Liberation Mukti-Niravan
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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 63978" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Haumai/Egoity/self centeredness the Basis of All Evils</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Although it is permissible to identify haumai with ahankar, the fact that haumai is not included in the evil pentad and yet comes in for the strongest censure in the Scripture would lead to the conclusion that it is regarded as a major evil in addition to those forming the pentad. It may be added that </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">haumai</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> or egoity, self-centredness, the personality system, the belief in one's individual existence, is the basis of all the other evils. From this standpoint, ahankar may be reckoned as an offshoot of haumai. The assertion or affirmation of 'I' runs counter to the affirmation of 'Thou'; the consciousness of 'self existence' or 'one's own existence' (sva-bhava or atma-bhava) is diametrically opposed to the consciousness of God's existence. In a system in which the sole reality of God (</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mool_Mantar" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">ik onkar</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black">) is the first principle, there can be no room for the reality of an 'individual existence' or 'one's own existence' apart from or along with the existence of God. To say that God alone is the reality means that there is no other reality that belongs to someone else, and that there is no someone else who can claim an independent reality of his own. The truth is that there is no truth in haumai. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Nevertheless, this unreal reality, this false truth—haumai—apparently exists. It is unreal and false from the standpoint of God who is the only absolute Reality; it is real and true from the standpoint of the fettered creatures coursing in sansar. These creatures have assumed a reality of their own; every fettered being is seemingly convinced of its own existence; this conviction flourishes in its ignorance of God's reality. There can be no such thing as co-existence of God and not-God; Reality and falsity cannot co-exist as cannot light and darkness. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Therefore, where there is awareness of God's reality there is absence of one's own reality, and vice versa; where there is awareness of one's own existence or haumai, there is absence of the awareness of God's existence. The Scripture says:</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">"</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Haumai</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black"> jai ta kant samai—God is realized only when one eradicates egoity" (GG, 750); literally, '(one) merges into (one's) Lord only when (her/his) egoity has disappeared'. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">The five evils, lust, wrath, greed, attachment and egoity, flourish on the soil of the belief in one's individualized existence. By destroying the doctrine of one's own existence or the belief in one's individual reality, the sages (</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sant" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">sant</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">, </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sadh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">sadh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">) cancel in one stroke, as it were, the entire catalogue of evils. Desire, anger, avarice, infatuation, egoism, passion, jealousy, hypocrisy, pride, deception, falsehood, violence, doubt, and nescience and other forms of depravity listed in the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Granth_Sahib" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Guru Granth Sahib</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> do not affect him who has overcome his own self and found his essence in God's reality. Liberation (</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mukti" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">mukti</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">, </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Mokh&action=edit" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">mokh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">) means the extinction of all the evils headed by </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">haumai</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black">. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">The </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Sikh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> canon also points to the way of extinguishing evils of all kinds. It is acknowledged that the five evils afflict all beings in sansar and that it is difficult to control them. Yet the possibility of conquering them is not ruled out in the theological framework of </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Sikhism</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">; the moral training of a </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Sikh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> is in fact directed towards controlling the senses and eradicating the evils. The seeker of liberation has first to liberate himself of the yoke of the pentad. No headway can be made towards God-realization without discarding the cardinal evils. </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Kabir" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Kabir</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black"> says, "He alone cherishes the Lord's feet who is rid of desire, wrath, greed and attachment—kamu krodhu lobhu mohu bibarjit haripadu chinai soi (GG, 1123). </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Loving devotion (</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhagti" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">bhagti</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">, bhakti) to God is, according to </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Sikhism</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">, the way to ultimate release. One can love God only when one has annihilated self-love; this means that the devotee must be humble and surrender himself fully unto God. The </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Gurus</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> stress the necessity of taking refuge in God. To this end, one must first renounce pride (man). Constant awareness of God (</span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Simran" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">simran</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">) is the panacea for all ills. He who enshrines the Lord's lotus feet in his heart destroys sins of many existences. Devotion to God eradicates the evils in an instant and purifies the body (GG, 245). The destruction of evils may be viewed both as a cause and consequence of the practice of nam simran. Awareness of God's presence comes only when lust, wrath, avarice, attachment and egoity have departed from the devotee; when the devotee lives in constant awareness of God, the evils touch him not. Such a person is unaffected by pleasure and pain, for he has freed himself from evils such as lobh, moh and abhiman. </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Guru Tegh Bahadur</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black"> describes such a sage as one liberated while still alive and calls him an image of God on earth (GG, I426-27). </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Another way of overcoming haumai and other evils is to keep the company of the saints (sant, sadh) who radiate virtuous qualities. One kills lust, wrath, greed and other depravities of the evil age (kali-kales) by taking refuge in the sangat, the holy fellowship. It is by discarding the most powerful of evils, egoity, that one can get admission to this sacred society. Egoity ceases as one takes to the company of the holy (GG, 271). A third method of overcoming the evils is to submit oneself to the instruction of the spiritual preceptor (guru). He who would overcome the five evils must follow his teaching. The wisdom obtained from the preceptor is like a swift sword (kharagu karara) which cuts through confusion, infatuation, avarice and egoity (GG, 1087). One celebrates God's virtues through the favour of the sage (sant prasadi) and destroys lust, anger and insanity born of egoism (unmad). In </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Guru Nanak</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">'s Sidh Gosti it is stated that without the preceptor one's efforts bear no fruit. The importance of living up to the instruction of the holy preceptor can be judged from the concept of the 'Guru-oriented person' (gurmukh) so central to the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Sikh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> moral system. A </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurmukh" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">gurmukh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"> is one who has turned his face towards the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Guru</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">, that is to say, a person who by practising what the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black">Guru</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: black"> teaches has freed himself from the depravities and lives in the Divine presence. He achieves this position by conquering the evils under the guidance of the Guru and ever remains in tune with the Supreme Reality</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black">Source</span></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Five_thieves" target="_blank"><span style="color: black">Five evils - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.</span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 63978, member: 5290"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][B]Haumai/Egoity/self centeredness the Basis of All Evils[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Although it is permissible to identify haumai with ahankar, the fact that haumai is not included in the evil pentad and yet comes in for the strongest censure in the Scripture would lead to the conclusion that it is regarded as a major evil in addition to those forming the pentad. It may be added that [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]haumai[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] or egoity, self-centredness, the personality system, the belief in one's individual existence, is the basis of all the other evils. From this standpoint, ahankar may be reckoned as an offshoot of haumai. The assertion or affirmation of 'I' runs counter to the affirmation of 'Thou'; the consciousness of 'self existence' or 'one's own existence' (sva-bhava or atma-bhava) is diametrically opposed to the consciousness of God's existence. In a system in which the sole reality of God ([/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mool_Mantar"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]ik onkar[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]) is the first principle, there can be no room for the reality of an 'individual existence' or 'one's own existence' apart from or along with the existence of God. To say that God alone is the reality means that there is no other reality that belongs to someone else, and that there is no someone else who can claim an independent reality of his own. The truth is that there is no truth in haumai. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Nevertheless, this unreal reality, this false truth—haumai—apparently exists. It is unreal and false from the standpoint of God who is the only absolute Reality; it is real and true from the standpoint of the fettered creatures coursing in sansar. These creatures have assumed a reality of their own; every fettered being is seemingly convinced of its own existence; this conviction flourishes in its ignorance of God's reality. There can be no such thing as co-existence of God and not-God; Reality and falsity cannot co-exist as cannot light and darkness. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Therefore, where there is awareness of God's reality there is absence of one's own reality, and vice versa; where there is awareness of one's own existence or haumai, there is absence of the awareness of God's existence. The Scripture says:[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]"[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Haumai[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black] jai ta kant samai—God is realized only when one eradicates egoity" (GG, 750); literally, '(one) merges into (one's) Lord only when (her/his) egoity has disappeared'. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]The five evils, lust, wrath, greed, attachment and egoity, flourish on the soil of the belief in one's individualized existence. By destroying the doctrine of one's own existence or the belief in one's individual reality, the sages ([/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sant"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]sant[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black], [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sadh"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]sadh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]) cancel in one stroke, as it were, the entire catalogue of evils. Desire, anger, avarice, infatuation, egoism, passion, jealousy, hypocrisy, pride, deception, falsehood, violence, doubt, and nescience and other forms of depravity listed in the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Granth_Sahib"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Guru Granth Sahib[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] do not affect him who has overcome his own self and found his essence in God's reality. Liberation ([/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mukti"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]mukti[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black], [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Mokh&action=edit"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]mokh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]) means the extinction of all the evils headed by [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Haumai"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]haumai[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black]. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]The [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] canon also points to the way of extinguishing evils of all kinds. It is acknowledged that the five evils afflict all beings in sansar and that it is difficult to control them. Yet the possibility of conquering them is not ruled out in the theological framework of [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Sikhism[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]; the moral training of a [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] is in fact directed towards controlling the senses and eradicating the evils. The seeker of liberation has first to liberate himself of the yoke of the pentad. No headway can be made towards God-realization without discarding the cardinal evils. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Kabir"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Kabir[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black] says, "He alone cherishes the Lord's feet who is rid of desire, wrath, greed and attachment—kamu krodhu lobhu mohu bibarjit haripadu chinai soi (GG, 1123). [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Loving devotion ([/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhagti"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]bhagti[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black], bhakti) to God is, according to [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Sikhism[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black], the way to ultimate release. One can love God only when one has annihilated self-love; this means that the devotee must be humble and surrender himself fully unto God. The [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Gurus[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] stress the necessity of taking refuge in God. To this end, one must first renounce pride (man). Constant awareness of God ([/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Simran"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]simran[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]) is the panacea for all ills. He who enshrines the Lord's lotus feet in his heart destroys sins of many existences. Devotion to God eradicates the evils in an instant and purifies the body (GG, 245). The destruction of evils may be viewed both as a cause and consequence of the practice of nam simran. Awareness of God's presence comes only when lust, wrath, avarice, attachment and egoity have departed from the devotee; when the devotee lives in constant awareness of God, the evils touch him not. Such a person is unaffected by pleasure and pain, for he has freed himself from evils such as lobh, moh and abhiman. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Guru Tegh Bahadur[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black] describes such a sage as one liberated while still alive and calls him an image of God on earth (GG, I426-27). [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Another way of overcoming haumai and other evils is to keep the company of the saints (sant, sadh) who radiate virtuous qualities. One kills lust, wrath, greed and other depravities of the evil age (kali-kales) by taking refuge in the sangat, the holy fellowship. It is by discarding the most powerful of evils, egoity, that one can get admission to this sacred society. Egoity ceases as one takes to the company of the holy (GG, 271). A third method of overcoming the evils is to submit oneself to the instruction of the spiritual preceptor (guru). He who would overcome the five evils must follow his teaching. The wisdom obtained from the preceptor is like a swift sword (kharagu karara) which cuts through confusion, infatuation, avarice and egoity (GG, 1087). One celebrates God's virtues through the favour of the sage (sant prasadi) and destroys lust, anger and insanity born of egoism (unmad). In [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Guru Nanak[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]'s Sidh Gosti it is stated that without the preceptor one's efforts bear no fruit. The importance of living up to the instruction of the holy preceptor can be judged from the concept of the 'Guru-oriented person' (gurmukh) so central to the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] moral system. A [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurmukh"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]gurmukh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black] is one who has turned his face towards the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Guru[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black], that is to say, a person who by practising what the [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru"][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=black]Guru[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black] teaches has freed himself from the depravities and lives in the Divine presence. He achieves this position by conquering the evils under the guidance of the Guru and ever remains in tune with the Supreme Reality[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=black]Source[/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Five_thieves"][COLOR=black]Five evils - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.[/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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