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Sukhmani Sahib:5th Ashtapadee:8th Pauri:My Understanding
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 91712" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Khalsa Ji,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I share with you all, my understanding of the 8th Pauri of 5th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib. <em><u>Please note that the English sentence after the Transliteration is not the exact literal translation of the sentence, it is the meaning of the tuk as understood by me</u></em><u>.</u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>First the summary of the Pauri</u>:</strong> Guru Sahib has been very polite in explaining the way to ‘The Truth’. Guru Sahib has started this Pauri with what we normally do ( Prayers demanding worldly entities) and in the end, without saying that we are wrong, told us what he had been doing ( meditation on ‘The Sat’). This way Guru Sahib has conveyed to us “The Way’ for spiritual evolution.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">1.</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> krau bynqI pwrbRhmu sBu jwnY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">kara-o bayn<u>t</u>ee paarbarahm sa<u>bh</u> jaanai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Offering prayers, ‘The Sat’ knows everything.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: maroon"> </span>We keep praying to ‘The Sat’; asking for things that we need in life. Guru Sahib says that ‘The Sat’ knows every thing; ‘The Sat’ knows the cause of the need and the effect of the need being fulfilled or otherwise; ‘The Sat’ knows the all the attributes of the environment which generated the need; ‘The Sat’ knows the purity of the thought behind generation of the need. ‘The Sat’ knows every aspect of what we pray for.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">2.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> Apnw kIAw Awpih mwnY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">apnaa kee-aa aapeh maanai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">What ‘The Sat’ has done, ‘The Sat’ takes care of it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> In every living entity, there is a part which has become part of the it without any effort or participation from the side of the particular living entity. For example, our body took this form in mother’s womb without even ourselves knowing it. Even when we grow up and acquire consciousness, yet most part of our body keeps working without our real participation. As I understand it is this part of our being that Guru Sahib is referring too as what ‘The Sat’ has done, it continues to take care of it.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">3.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> Awpih Awp Awip krq inbyrw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aapeh aap aap kara<u>t</u> nibayraa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">O</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">n its own and by itself, ‘The Sat’ resolves the problems.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib says that the aspects of the living entity which ‘The Sat’ has formed, ‘The Sat’ takes care of them and resolves the problems that arise in it. We cannot intrude into this domain. It is exclusive preserve of ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">4.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> iksY dUir jnwvq iksY buJwvq nyrw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">kisai <u>d</u>oor janaava<u>t</u> kisai bu<u>jh</u>aava<u>t</u> nayraa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">To some, He appears far away, while others perceive Him near at hand.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> . As we all know some school of thoughts say that ‘The Sat’ is in heavens beyond our reach, while others say that ‘The Sat’ is within each individual. Guru Sahib here point out the different perception people have about the same entity ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">5.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> aupwv isAwnp sgl qy rhq ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">upaav si-aanap sagal <u>t</u>ay raha<u>t</u>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">‘</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Sat’ is beyond all procedures and clever tricks.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib tells us that ‘The Sat’ cannot be realized by any procedure or prescribed method. As I understand, religiosity, where one follows the truth experienced by some one else, has company - where people discuss and pray together; spirituality - where one starts searching for ones one truth - starts where religion ends; the spiritual path to divinity is very lonely, one has to walk alone, there is no help from the world. The spiritual path ends with Gurparsadee, when the person experiences ‘The Sat’ and thus discovers the truth.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">6.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> sBu kCu jwnY Awqm kI rhq ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">sa<u>bh</u> ka<u>chh</u> jaanai aa<u>t</u>am kee raha<u>t</u>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">‘</span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The Sat’ knows all that relates to the existence of the inner self.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Guru Sahib tells his audience that all that constitutes our inner self. There is nothing in us that is hidden from ‘The Sat’. This is my very personal understanding that the entity that sustains life in me is ‘The Sat’; without ‘The Sat’ being in me, I am just body – the scripture of the land has called it Mitty (mud or nothing useful). It is just natural that ‘The Sat’ will know all about my body and my inner self. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">7.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> ijsu BwvY iqsu ley liV lwie ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jis <u>bh</u>aavai <u>t</u>is la-ay la<u>rh</u> laa-ay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Those who are tuned to ‘The Sat’ they get latched to ‘The Sat’.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: maroon"> </span>It is again my conviction that ‘The Sat’ is impartial. If it was not so, ‘The Sat’ would have stopped sustaining life in those individuals who are not pure. But, we all know ‘The Sat’ keeps sustaining life in all sorts of beings no matter what there quality or contribution to the creation of ‘The Sat’ is.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> With this understanding, I conclude that the word ‘Bhaavai’ in this sentence is a metaphor to indicate likeness or similarity. When the being of the person becomes purer and purer, her or his thoughts, speech and actions will become more and more selfless. This way the person becomes more and more like ‘The Sat’, we all know that ‘The Sat’ is selfless in absolute sense. The selfless state of one’s being allows the person to perceive the ‘Truth’ living in this dual world of Maya. Such an evolved person, having realized the falsehood of Maya is not entrapped by it and remains latched to ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">8.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> Qwn Qnµqir rihAw smwie ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">thaan thanan<u>t</u>ar rahi-aa samaa-ay.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">‘The Sat’ is omnipresent; ‘The Sat’ is present every where.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> One has to understand, that all that is, is ‘The Sat’. The appearance makes one feel that the entities are different. Hydrogen is different from helium is different from lead, is different from Plutonium and so on. They appear to be different because they are constituted in different way, yet they all that the same elementary particles; at so level they are similar. Ultimately, as we go to smaller and smaller level there is a possibility that the source of all these is same. When small is same the larger too has to be same, the creator and the creation are same and one. It is all ‘Ek’ the source i.e. “Ongkar’ constituted or configured in different way generates apparently different forms (Akaar) i.e. bodies - living and non-living. Thus this ‘Ek Ongkar’ i.e. ‘The Sat’, being the source of all pervade every where; all that is, is ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> 9.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> so syvku ijsu ikrpw krI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">so sayvak jis kirpaa karee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The devotee who is blessed.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Here we have to understand what is meant by the word ‘Kirpa’ which I have referred to as blessing.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> As I understand, ‘The Sat’ is never partial. ‘The Sat’ helps the person all the times. The goal for the life is set by the individual. This goal is set by the natural tendencies of the person concerned. The tendencies in the person come from her or his past Karmas.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The person who has the tendencies, which create the being of the person pure and selflessness, take the person towards ‘The Sat’. ‘The Sat’, within the person, will then naturally guide the thoughts, speech and action of the person – all will become Godly. Such happening is ‘Kirpa’ as ‘The Sat’ is now driving all aspects of this persons existence; it is this blessing Guru Sahib is speaking about.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">10.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> inmK inmK jip nwnk hrI ]8]5] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">nima<u>kh</u> nima<u>kh</u> jap naanak haree. ||8||5||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">All the time the person id immersed in meditation.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The person who has become spiritual is all the time linked to ‘The Sat’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Meditation to me means linking with ‘The Sat’. It is not only in Samadhi that the devotee is linked to ‘The Sat’, the person whose all thoughts, all acts, all speech are selfless in the larger interest of the creation of ‘The Sat’ is deemed to be meditating, since all the time it is linked to ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sitting in a place and meditation is only a beginning. Even when performing the worldly tasks as part of ‘Human Dharma’ the person’s acts are Godly; this way the person is all the time linked with ‘The Sat’ and hence meditation all the time. The person need not withdraw from the world for meditating. Our Guru Sahib lived as house hold and yet remained in meditation all the time. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This type of meditation is the guide to spiritual life – the path way to divinity</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With this I close the post</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Amarpal Singh</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 91712, member: 10"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Dear Khalsa Ji,[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I share with you all, my understanding of the 8th Pauri of 5th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib. [I][U]Please note that the English sentence after the Transliteration is not the exact literal translation of the sentence, it is the meaning of the tuk as understood by me[/U][/I][U].[/U][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]First the summary of the Pauri[/U]:[/B] Guru Sahib has been very polite in explaining the way to ‘The Truth’. Guru Sahib has started this Pauri with what we normally do ( Prayers demanding worldly entities) and in the end, without saying that we are wrong, told us what he had been doing ( meditation on ‘The Sat’). This way Guru Sahib has conveyed to us “The Way’ for spiritual evolution.[/FONT][/SIZE] [COLOR=maroon][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]1.[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] krau bynqI pwrbRhmu sBu jwnY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]kara-o bayn[U]t[/U]ee paarbarahm sa[U]bh[/U] jaanai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]Offering prayers, ‘The Sat’ knows everything.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B] [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=maroon] [/COLOR]We keep praying to ‘The Sat’; asking for things that we need in life. Guru Sahib says that ‘The Sat’ knows every thing; ‘The Sat’ knows the cause of the need and the effect of the need being fulfilled or otherwise; ‘The Sat’ knows the all the attributes of the environment which generated the need; ‘The Sat’ knows the purity of the thought behind generation of the need. ‘The Sat’ knows every aspect of what we pray for.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]2.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] Apnw kIAw Awpih mwnY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]apnaa kee-aa aapeh maanai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]What ‘The Sat’ has done, ‘The Sat’ takes care of it.[COLOR=navy][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] In every living entity, there is a part which has become part of the it without any effort or participation from the side of the particular living entity. For example, our body took this form in mother’s womb without even ourselves knowing it. Even when we grow up and acquire consciousness, yet most part of our body keeps working without our real participation. As I understand it is this part of our being that Guru Sahib is referring too as what ‘The Sat’ has done, it continues to take care of it.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]3.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] Awpih Awp Awip krq inbyrw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aapeh aap aap kara[U]t[/U] nibayraa. O[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]n its own and by itself, ‘The Sat’ resolves the problems.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib says that the aspects of the living entity which ‘The Sat’ has formed, ‘The Sat’ takes care of them and resolves the problems that arise in it. We cannot intrude into this domain. It is exclusive preserve of ‘The Sat’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]4.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] iksY dUir jnwvq iksY buJwvq nyrw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]kisai [U]d[/U]oor janaava[U]t[/U] kisai bu[U]jh[/U]aava[U]t[/U] nayraa. [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]To some, He appears far away, while others perceive Him near at hand.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] . As we all know some school of thoughts say that ‘The Sat’ is in heavens beyond our reach, while others say that ‘The Sat’ is within each individual. Guru Sahib here point out the different perception people have about the same entity ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]5.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] aupwv isAwnp sgl qy rhq ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]upaav si-aanap sagal [U]t[/U]ay raha[U]t[/U]. ‘[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]The Sat’ is beyond all procedures and clever tricks.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells us that ‘The Sat’ cannot be realized by any procedure or prescribed method. As I understand, religiosity, where one follows the truth experienced by some one else, has company - where people discuss and pray together; spirituality - where one starts searching for ones one truth - starts where religion ends; the spiritual path to divinity is very lonely, one has to walk alone, there is no help from the world. The spiritual path ends with Gurparsadee, when the person experiences ‘The Sat’ and thus discovers the truth.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]6.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] sBu kCu jwnY Awqm kI rhq ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]sa[U]bh[/U] ka[U]chh[/U] jaanai aa[U]t[/U]am kee raha[U]t[/U]. ‘[/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]The Sat’ knows all that relates to the existence of the inner self.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] Guru Sahib tells his audience that all that constitutes our inner self. There is nothing in us that is hidden from ‘The Sat’. This is my very personal understanding that the entity that sustains life in me is ‘The Sat’; without ‘The Sat’ being in me, I am just body – the scripture of the land has called it Mitty (mud or nothing useful). It is just natural that ‘The Sat’ will know all about my body and my inner self. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]7.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] ijsu BwvY iqsu ley liV lwie ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jis [U]bh[/U]aavai [U]t[/U]is la-ay la[U]rh[/U] laa-ay. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Tahoma]Those who are tuned to ‘The Sat’ they get latched to ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=maroon] [/COLOR]It is again my conviction that ‘The Sat’ is impartial. If it was not so, ‘The Sat’ would have stopped sustaining life in those individuals who are not pure. But, we all know ‘The Sat’ keeps sustaining life in all sorts of beings no matter what there quality or contribution to the creation of ‘The Sat’ is.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] With this understanding, I conclude that the word ‘Bhaavai’ in this sentence is a metaphor to indicate likeness or similarity. When the being of the person becomes purer and purer, her or his thoughts, speech and actions will become more and more selfless. This way the person becomes more and more like ‘The Sat’, we all know that ‘The Sat’ is selfless in absolute sense. The selfless state of one’s being allows the person to perceive the ‘Truth’ living in this dual world of Maya. Such an evolved person, having realized the falsehood of Maya is not entrapped by it and remains latched to ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]8.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] Qwn Qnµqir rihAw smwie ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]thaan thanan[U]t[/U]ar rahi-aa samaa-ay. [/FONT][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]‘The Sat’ is omnipresent; ‘The Sat’ is present every where.[/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] One has to understand, that all that is, is ‘The Sat’. The appearance makes one feel that the entities are different. Hydrogen is different from helium is different from lead, is different from Plutonium and so on. They appear to be different because they are constituted in different way, yet they all that the same elementary particles; at so level they are similar. Ultimately, as we go to smaller and smaller level there is a possibility that the source of all these is same. When small is same the larger too has to be same, the creator and the creation are same and one. It is all ‘Ek’ the source i.e. “Ongkar’ constituted or configured in different way generates apparently different forms (Akaar) i.e. bodies - living and non-living. Thus this ‘Ek Ongkar’ i.e. ‘The Sat’, being the source of all pervade every where; all that is, is ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] 9.[/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] so syvku ijsu ikrpw krI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]so sayvak jis kirpaa karee. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Tahoma]The devotee who is blessed.[/FONT][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] Here we have to understand what is meant by the word ‘Kirpa’ which I have referred to as blessing.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] As I understand, ‘The Sat’ is never partial. ‘The Sat’ helps the person all the times. The goal for the life is set by the individual. This goal is set by the natural tendencies of the person concerned. The tendencies in the person come from her or his past Karmas.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] The person who has the tendencies, which create the being of the person pure and selflessness, take the person towards ‘The Sat’. ‘The Sat’, within the person, will then naturally guide the thoughts, speech and action of the person – all will become Godly. Such happening is ‘Kirpa’ as ‘The Sat’ is now driving all aspects of this persons existence; it is this blessing Guru Sahib is speaking about.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]10.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] inmK inmK jip nwnk hrI ]8]5] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]nima[U]kh[/U] nima[U]kh[/U] jap naanak haree. ||8||5|| [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Tahoma]All the time the person id immersed in meditation.[/FONT][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] The person who has become spiritual is all the time linked to ‘The Sat’. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Meditation to me means linking with ‘The Sat’. It is not only in Samadhi that the devotee is linked to ‘The Sat’, the person whose all thoughts, all acts, all speech are selfless in the larger interest of the creation of ‘The Sat’ is deemed to be meditating, since all the time it is linked to ‘The Sat’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sitting in a place and meditation is only a beginning. Even when performing the worldly tasks as part of ‘Human Dharma’ the person’s acts are Godly; this way the person is all the time linked with ‘The Sat’ and hence meditation all the time. The person need not withdraw from the world for meditating. Our Guru Sahib lived as house hold and yet remained in meditation all the time. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This type of meditation is the guide to spiritual life – the path way to divinity[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With this I close the post[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With love and respect for all.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Amarpal Singh[COLOR=maroon][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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Sukhmani Sahib:5th Ashtapadee:8th Pauri:My Understanding
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