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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member4" data-source="post: 87897" data-attributes="member: 6184"><p>Quote:</p><p>Originally Posted by <strong>aad0002</strong> </p><p><em>Singh ji</em></p><p></p><p><em>With all due respect -- I would really not want to post anymore in this thread -- except now you have said,</em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue">Aad ji, I have seen this over and over and read this over and over from people, that what one does with the exterior body really does not matter. </span></span></span></em></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black">How do you come to this conclusion? Of course actions affect one's soul! However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?</span></span></span></span></span></em></p><p></p><p>Simply by talking to people about <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333">Sikhi</span></a> and hearing it over and over again from the <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333">Sikhs</span></a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Quote:</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?</span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">Listening.Shiva, Brahma</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">and Indra. Listening.even foul-mouthed people praise Him. Listening.the technology of Yoga and the secrets of the body.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">Listening.the Shaastras, the Simritees and the Vedas. O Nanak, the devotees are forever in bliss. </span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">Listening.pain and sin are erased. || 9 || Listening.truth, contentment and spiritual wisdom. Listening.take your</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">cleansing bath at the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage. Listening.reading and reciting, honor is obtained. Listening.intuitively</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">grasp the essence of meditation. O Nanak, the devotees are forever in bliss. Listening.pain and sin are erased. || 10 || ang 3</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: The self-willed manmukh performs religious rituals, like</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">the unwanted bride decorating her body. Her Husband Lord does not come to her bed; day after day, she grows more and</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">more miserable. She does not attain the Mansion of His Presence; she does not find the door to His House. || 1 || O Siblings</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">of Destiny, meditate on the Naam with one-pointed mind. Remain united with the Society of the Saints; chant the Name of the</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">Lord, and find peace. || 1 || Pause || ang 31</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: You may torment your body with extremes of self-discipline, practice intensive meditation</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">and hang upside-down, but your ego will not be eliminated from within. You may perform religious rituals, and still never</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">obtain the Naam, the Name of the Lord. <strong>Through the Word of the <a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333">Guru</span></a>.s Shabad, remain dead while yet alive, and the Name</strong></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><strong>of the Lord shall come to dwell within the mind.</strong> || 1 || ang 33</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: The world is polluted with the filth of</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines. Performing all sorts of rituals, people are smeared with</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">twice as much filth. This filth is not removed by studying. Go ahead, and ask the wise ones. || 1 || ang39</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">what Aad ji said:</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?</span> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="color: blue">If all rituals are renounced then Gurbani is not used like a ritual. Then the person is attuned to Gurbani and the Sikh has devotion and understanding.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">Also to clear something else up when i said, </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="color: red">Simply by talking to people about </span><a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Sikhi</span></a><span style="color: red"> and hearing it over and over again from the </span><a href="http://www.sikhism.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Sikhs</span></a><span style="color: red">.</span> </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'">This was a reply to Aad ji's questioning on how i came to the conclusion that some Sikhs think that the exterior body does not matter.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahona'"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member4, post: 87897, member: 6184"] Quote: Originally Posted by [B]aad0002[/B] [I]Singh ji[/I] [I]With all due respect -- I would really not want to post anymore in this thread -- except now you have said,[/I] [I][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue]Aad ji, I have seen this over and over and read this over and over from people, that what one does with the exterior body really does not matter. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I] [I][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black]How do you come to this conclusion? Of course actions affect one's soul! However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I] Simply by talking to people about [URL='http://www.sikhism.us/'][COLOR=#333333]Sikhi[/COLOR][/URL] and hearing it over and over again from the [URL='http://www.sikhism.us/'][COLOR=#333333]Sikhs[/COLOR][/URL]. Quote: [FONT=Arial]However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?[/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Tahona]Listening.Shiva, Brahma and Indra. Listening.even foul-mouthed people praise Him. Listening.the technology of Yoga and the secrets of the body.[/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Tahona]Listening.the Shaastras, the Simritees and the Vedas. O Nanak, the devotees are forever in bliss. [/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]Listening.pain and sin are erased. || 9 || Listening.truth, contentment and spiritual wisdom. Listening.take your cleansing bath at the sixty-eight places of pilgrimage. Listening.reading and reciting, honor is obtained. Listening.intuitively[/FONT][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Tahona] [FONT=Tahona]grasp the essence of meditation. O Nanak, the devotees are forever in bliss. Listening.pain and sin are erased. || 10 || ang 3[/FONT] [/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: The self-willed manmukh performs religious rituals, like the unwanted bride decorating her body. Her Husband Lord does not come to her bed; day after day, she grows more and more miserable. She does not attain the Mansion of His Presence; she does not find the door to His House. || 1 || O Siblings of Destiny, meditate on the Naam with one-pointed mind. Remain united with the Society of the Saints; chant the Name of the[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]Lord, and find peace. || 1 || Pause || ang 31[/FONT] [/FONT][/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: You may torment your body with extremes of self-discipline, practice intensive meditation and hang upside-down, but your ego will not be eliminated from within. You may perform religious rituals, and still never obtain the Naam, the Name of the Lord. [B]Through the Word of the [URL='http://www.sikhism.us/'][COLOR=#333333]Guru[/COLOR][/URL].s Shabad, remain dead while yet alive, and the Name[/B][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][B]of the Lord shall come to dwell within the mind.[/B] || 1 || ang 33[/FONT] [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL: The world is polluted with the filth of egotism, suffering in pain. This filth sticks to them because of their love of duality. This filth of egotism cannot be washed away, even by taking cleansing baths at hundreds of sacred shrines. Performing all sorts of rituals, people are smeared with[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona]twice as much filth. This filth is not removed by studying. Go ahead, and ask the wise ones. || 1 || ang39[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]what Aad ji said:[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Arial]However there are many people who have renounced all the rituals discussed here and also use Gurbani like a ritual. Reciting it without devotion or understanding. How do such actions improve the state of one's soul?[/FONT] [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona][FONT=Tahona] [COLOR=blue]If all rituals are renounced then Gurbani is not used like a ritual. Then the person is attuned to Gurbani and the Sikh has devotion and understanding.[/COLOR] Also to clear something else up when i said, [COLOR=red]Simply by talking to people about [/COLOR][URL='http://www.sikhism.us/'][COLOR=red]Sikhi[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=red] and hearing it over and over again from the [/COLOR][URL='http://www.sikhism.us/'][COLOR=red]Sikhs[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=red].[/COLOR] This was a reply to Aad ji's questioning on how i came to the conclusion that some Sikhs think that the exterior body does not matter. [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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