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Guru Granth Sahib
Sukhmani Banee
Sukhmani Sahib:8th Ashtapadee:3rd Pauri:My Understanding
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 106232" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dear Khalsa Ji</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">With the grace of ‘The Sat’, today I share my understanding of 3rd Pauri of 8th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib with you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><em><u><span style="color: #ff6600">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</span></u></em><u><span style="color: #ff6600">.</span></u></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>First the Summary</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib in this Pauri explains to us the nature of the person who is Braham-Gyani.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u><span style="color: red">Few words of Caution</span></u><span style="color: red">:</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: red">It</span></strong><span style="color: red"> <strong>is important to understand what Braham-Gyani means</strong></span>. This term Guru Sahib has taken from the common parlance among the spiritually evolved pure people. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Brahma, as per Hindu mythology is the creator. Bhagavatam, the compilation of Ved Vyas, elaborates on Brahma. According to this elaboration, Brahama was born and will get dissolve after some time. His life time too is given in Bhagavatam. This, according to Sikhi makes Brahma part of the creation as he takes birth, lives a life and then dies; ‘The Sat’ according to Gurbani never takes birth ‘<strong>Ajuni</strong>’; it is beyond the clutches of time i.e. ‘<strong>Akaal Murat’</strong>. Since Brahma takes birth and dies it cannot be taken to be the creator according to Gurbani. The ‘Karta Purakh’ does not take birth. <u>This ‘Karta Purakh’ is the creator according to Gurbani, which I refer to as ‘The Sat’</u>. According to Gurbani between ‘Karta Purakh’ i.e. ‘The Sat’ and his creation, including us, there is no one. Thus we, Sikhs, have nothing to do with Brahama, an entity of Hindu Mythology.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Thus when Guru Sahib use the term ‘Braham-Gyani’ it means the person who has Gyan (intrinsic knowledge obtained through personal experience) regarding ‘The Sat’ and is not referring to the person who has the knowledge of the Hindu mythological figure ‘Brahma’ obtained through reading scripture, who is any way part of the creation and is not ‘The Absolute’. Brahma of Hindu Mythology is not part of Sikhi.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">1.</span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> bRhm igAwnI sgl kI rInw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee sagal kee reenaa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The Braham Gyani is the dust of all.</span></span></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'"> Awqm rsu bRhm igAwnI cInw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aa<u>t</u>am ras barahm gi-aanee cheenaa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Braham Gyani realizes the essence of its self.</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This first sentence of this Pauri is very similar to the one used by Guru Sahib in defining the spiritually evolved pure people in the 3rd Pauri of the 7th Ashtapadee. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Very aptly Guru Sahib has used the word ‘Dust’ in a metaphoric manner to convey his teaching. Guru Sahib, by using this metaphor does not mean any debasement of Braham Gyani. I elaborate</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The dust has extremely small particles; it is a loose particle; as such it cannot form any shape on its own. As the person walks over it, it adjusts itself to accept the impression that the persons shoe or feet impress on it. It conveys a lot. It means that the Braham Gyani’s self is not hardened. It accepts the truth as it is similar to the way the dust forms the impression of the entity that walks over it. Even this impression is not permanent, as we all know that the impression formed by our feet on loose dust get erased very soon by the air blowing over it. This is to say that Braham Gyani does not carry the baggage of past memories. Braham Gyani is always fresh as a new born baby. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Metaphoric use of the word ‘Dust’ also conveys that the Braham Gyani has no Ahamkara; the person’s being does not have a form of its own just as the dust does not have.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> There is further to it, as the dust does not attach to any object and can be flow away by a small wind, so is the case who has evolved in the company of pure and spiritually evolved people – the person has no attachments.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The person becomes very humble as the dust.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Braham Gyani is not obsessed by the attraction of the world; she or he remains pure from within. The life of Braham Gyani is refection of the ‘Sat’ within and thus such a person knows the true nature of its own self.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> This is what Guru Sahib is conveying to his disciples.</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'"> bRhm igAwnI kI sB aUpir mieAw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee kee sa<u>bh</u> oopar ma-i-aa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue">The Braham Gyani care for every entity of the creation.</span></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'"> bRhm igAwnI qy kCu burw n BieAw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee <u>t</u>ay ka<u>chh</u> buraa na <u>bh</u>a-i-aa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Nothing bad can come from Braham Gyani.</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As said in the above in this Pauri, Braham Gyani knows what ‘The Sat’ is and what its ways are. Being an instrument of ‘The Sat’ all of its action speech and thoughts are in line with the ways of ‘The Sat’; Braham Gyani is ‘The Sat’ like. Braham Gyani lives of the good of the creation of ‘The Sat’. What to say about any evil action, even the though of such action will never even get triggered in its functioning brain. The Braham Gyani remains engaged only for the good of the creation.</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'"> bRhm igAwnI sdw smdrsI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee sa<u>d</u>aa sama<u>d</u>rasee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Braham Gyani is behavior and actions are truthful.</span></span></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'"> bRhm igAwnI kI idRsit AMimRqu brsI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee kee <u>d</u>arisat amri<u>t</u> b{censored}e.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The glances of Braham Gyani are soothing like Nectar.</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Braham Gyani is one who has received the knowledge and wisdom of ‘The Sat’. This happens only when the individual has dissolved its ego – Ahamkara– and has become the perfect instrument of ‘The Sat’ living to carry out the will of ‘The Sat’ i.e. preservation, protection and evolution of the creation of ‘The Sat’. In this state the persons being acts in a godly manner, in a ‘Sat like’ way which does not favour of discriminate against any one.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The acts of such person are benign and helpful for the common good of all. This gets expressed in all aspects of the Braham Gyani’s living</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">7. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">bRhm igAwnI bMDn qy mukqw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee ban<u>Dh</u>an <u>t</u>ay muk<u>t</u>aa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Braham Gyani is free from all bondages.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8</span></span></span><span style="color: navy"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">.</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> bRhm igAwnI kI inrml jugqw ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee kee nirmal jug<u>t</u>aa.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">The life of Braham Gyani is stainless.</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Braham Gyani is the one who has become one with ‘The Sat’. Such individual become free from all attachment which restricts its life. This spiritually evolved person reaches a level where the dualities, which create dilemma in one’s mind stand fully, dissolved. This person has understood the meaning of ‘Ek Oangkar’. Braham Gyani knows that all Akaaras – forms – in the creation of ‘The Sat’ are manifestation of the same ‘Ek Oangkar’. This way Braham Gyani is fully aware that even the creator and its creation is one and the same. Serving the Creation of ‘The Sat’ is same as serving ‘The Sat’ itself. That is why Sikhs have been asked to see ‘The Sat’ in Satsang. This way Braham Gyani fully realized the understanding of ‘The One’. Braham Gyani has no Ahamkara and thus has no ‘I-ness’ in her or him. This ‘I-ness’, as I understand, is the address which is used by Karmic processes to deliver the due from the past karmas; being address-less the Braham Gyani become totally immune to the Karmic processes of the creation of ‘The Sat’. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">None of the actions performed by Braham Gyani are in her or his personal interest; such individual is only serving ‘The Sat’ through its creation, without any bounding dualities viz. likes dislikes, mine and yours etc. This makes the life of the Braham Gyani spotless.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">9.</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> bRhm igAwnI kw Bojnu igAwn ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">barahm gi-aanee kaa <u>bh</u>ojan gi-aan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Braham Gyani lives it’s life based on Spiritual wisdom, which is like food to her or him.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">10.</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'"> nwnk bRhm igAwnI kw bRhm iDAwnu ]3] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naanak barahm gi-aanee kaa barahm <u>Dh</u>i-aan. ||3||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">O Nanak, Braham Gyani is always absorbed in thoughts about ‘The Sat’, or actions or speech for furthering the cause of ‘The Sat’</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">||3||</span></span></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In the above two lines Guru Sahib tells us that all that the Braham Gyani does in its life is directed to promote the will and cause of ‘The Sat’ – may be thought, action or speech all that Braham Gyani does is with undivided attention. Thus all is like meditation. It is the spiritual wisdom that sustains Braham Gyani. The way food sustains the body; spiritual wisdom illuminates and sustains the being of the Braham Gyani.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">With this I close the post.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">With love and respect for all.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Amarpal Singh</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 106232, member: 10"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Dear Khalsa Ji[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]With the grace of ‘The Sat’, today I share my understanding of 3rd Pauri of 8th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib with you.[B][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][I][U][COLOR=#ff6600]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[/COLOR][/U][/I][U][COLOR=#ff6600].[/COLOR][/U][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]First the Summary[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib in this Pauri explains to us the nature of the person who is Braham-Gyani.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][U][COLOR=red]Few words of Caution[/COLOR][/U][COLOR=red]:[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=red][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=red]It[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=red] [B]is important to understand what Braham-Gyani means[/B][/COLOR]. This term Guru Sahib has taken from the common parlance among the spiritually evolved pure people. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Brahma, as per Hindu mythology is the creator. Bhagavatam, the compilation of Ved Vyas, elaborates on Brahma. According to this elaboration, Brahama was born and will get dissolve after some time. His life time too is given in Bhagavatam. This, according to Sikhi makes Brahma part of the creation as he takes birth, lives a life and then dies; ‘The Sat’ according to Gurbani never takes birth ‘[B]Ajuni[/B]’; it is beyond the clutches of time i.e. ‘[B]Akaal Murat’[/B]. Since Brahma takes birth and dies it cannot be taken to be the creator according to Gurbani. The ‘Karta Purakh’ does not take birth. [U]This ‘Karta Purakh’ is the creator according to Gurbani, which I refer to as ‘The Sat’[/U]. According to Gurbani between ‘Karta Purakh’ i.e. ‘The Sat’ and his creation, including us, there is no one. Thus we, Sikhs, have nothing to do with Brahama, an entity of Hindu Mythology.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Thus when Guru Sahib use the term ‘Braham-Gyani’ it means the person who has Gyan (intrinsic knowledge obtained through personal experience) regarding ‘The Sat’ and is not referring to the person who has the knowledge of the Hindu mythological figure ‘Brahma’ obtained through reading scripture, who is any way part of the creation and is not ‘The Absolute’. Brahma of Hindu Mythology is not part of Sikhi.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]1.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI sgl kI rInw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee sagal kee reenaa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]The Braham Gyani is the dust of all.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]2.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] Awqm rsu bRhm igAwnI cInw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aa[U]t[/U]am ras barahm gi-aanee cheenaa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]Braham Gyani realizes the essence of its self.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]This first sentence of this Pauri is very similar to the one used by Guru Sahib in defining the spiritually evolved pure people in the 3rd Pauri of the 7th Ashtapadee. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Very aptly Guru Sahib has used the word ‘Dust’ in a metaphoric manner to convey his teaching. Guru Sahib, by using this metaphor does not mean any debasement of Braham Gyani. I elaborate[FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] The dust has extremely small particles; it is a loose particle; as such it cannot form any shape on its own. As the person walks over it, it adjusts itself to accept the impression that the persons shoe or feet impress on it. It conveys a lot. It means that the Braham Gyani’s self is not hardened. It accepts the truth as it is similar to the way the dust forms the impression of the entity that walks over it. Even this impression is not permanent, as we all know that the impression formed by our feet on loose dust get erased very soon by the air blowing over it. This is to say that Braham Gyani does not carry the baggage of past memories. Braham Gyani is always fresh as a new born baby. [FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] Metaphoric use of the word ‘Dust’ also conveys that the Braham Gyani has no Ahamkara; the person’s being does not have a form of its own just as the dust does not have.[FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] There is further to it, as the dust does not attach to any object and can be flow away by a small wind, so is the case who has evolved in the company of pure and spiritually evolved people – the person has no attachments.[FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The person becomes very humble as the dust.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Braham Gyani is not obsessed by the attraction of the world; she or he remains pure from within. The life of Braham Gyani is refection of the ‘Sat’ within and thus such a person knows the true nature of its own self.[FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] This is what Guru Sahib is conveying to his disciples.[FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]3.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI kI sB aUpir mieAw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee kee sa[U]bh[/U] oopar ma-i-aa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue]The Braham Gyani care for every entity of the creation.[/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]4.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI qy kCu burw n BieAw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee [U]t[/U]ay ka[U]chh[/U] buraa na [U]bh[/U]a-i-aa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]Nothing bad can come from Braham Gyani.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]As said in the above in this Pauri, Braham Gyani knows what ‘The Sat’ is and what its ways are. Being an instrument of ‘The Sat’ all of its action speech and thoughts are in line with the ways of ‘The Sat’; Braham Gyani is ‘The Sat’ like. Braham Gyani lives of the good of the creation of ‘The Sat’. What to say about any evil action, even the though of such action will never even get triggered in its functioning brain. The Braham Gyani remains engaged only for the good of the creation.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]5.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI sdw smdrsI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee sa[U]d[/U]aa sama[U]d[/U]rasee. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]Braham Gyani is behavior and actions are truthful.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]6.[/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI kI idRsit AMimRqu brsI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee kee [U]d[/U]arisat amri[U]t[/U] b{censored}e. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]The glances of Braham Gyani are soothing like Nectar.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Braham Gyani is one who has received the knowledge and wisdom of ‘The Sat’. This happens only when the individual has dissolved its ego – Ahamkara– and has become the perfect instrument of ‘The Sat’ living to carry out the will of ‘The Sat’ i.e. preservation, protection and evolution of the creation of ‘The Sat’. In this state the persons being acts in a godly manner, in a ‘Sat like’ way which does not favour of discriminate against any one.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The acts of such person are benign and helpful for the common good of all. This gets expressed in all aspects of the Braham Gyani’s living[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]7. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]bRhm igAwnI bMDn qy mukqw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee ban[U]Dh[/U]an [U]t[/U]ay muk[U]t[/U]aa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]Braham Gyani is free from all bondages.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]8[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma].[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI kI inrml jugqw ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee kee nirmal jug[U]t[/U]aa. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]The life of Braham Gyani is stainless.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Braham Gyani is the one who has become one with ‘The Sat’. Such individual become free from all attachment which restricts its life. This spiritually evolved person reaches a level where the dualities, which create dilemma in one’s mind stand fully, dissolved. This person has understood the meaning of ‘Ek Oangkar’. Braham Gyani knows that all Akaaras – forms – in the creation of ‘The Sat’ are manifestation of the same ‘Ek Oangkar’. This way Braham Gyani is fully aware that even the creator and its creation is one and the same. Serving the Creation of ‘The Sat’ is same as serving ‘The Sat’ itself. That is why Sikhs have been asked to see ‘The Sat’ in Satsang. This way Braham Gyani fully realized the understanding of ‘The One’. Braham Gyani has no Ahamkara and thus has no ‘I-ness’ in her or him. This ‘I-ness’, as I understand, is the address which is used by Karmic processes to deliver the due from the past karmas; being address-less the Braham Gyani become totally immune to the Karmic processes of the creation of ‘The Sat’. [/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]None of the actions performed by Braham Gyani are in her or his personal interest; such individual is only serving ‘The Sat’ through its creation, without any bounding dualities viz. likes dislikes, mine and yours etc. This makes the life of the Braham Gyani spotless.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]9.[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] bRhm igAwnI kw Bojnu igAwn ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]barahm gi-aanee kaa [U]bh[/U]ojan gi-aan. [/FONT][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]Braham Gyani lives it’s life based on Spiritual wisdom, which is like food to her or him.[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]10.[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick] nwnk bRhm igAwnI kw bRhm iDAwnu ]3] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naanak barahm gi-aanee kaa barahm [U]Dh[/U]i-aan. ||3|| [/FONT][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma][FONT=Times New Roman]O Nanak, Braham Gyani is always absorbed in thoughts about ‘The Sat’, or actions or speech for furthering the cause of ‘The Sat’[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=blue][FONT=Tahoma]||3||[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=navy][FONT=Tahoma][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In the above two lines Guru Sahib tells us that all that the Braham Gyani does in its life is directed to promote the will and cause of ‘The Sat’ – may be thought, action or speech all that Braham Gyani does is with undivided attention. Thus all is like meditation. It is the spiritual wisdom that sustains Braham Gyani. The way food sustains the body; spiritual wisdom illuminates and sustains the being of the Braham Gyani.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]With this I close the post.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]With love and respect for all.[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Amarpal Singh[/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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