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The Shalok After Japji Sahib: My Understanding
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 3366" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Khalsa Jee,</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Through this post, I share with you what this Shalok means to me.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">pvxu gurU pwxI ipqw mwqw Driq mhqu ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">pava<u>n</u> guroo paa<u>n</u>ee pi<u>t</u>aa maa<u>t</u>aa <u>Dh</u>ara<u>t</u> maha<u>t</u>.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Air as Guru, water as father, the earth as great mother.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">idvsu rwiq duie dweI dwieAw KylY sgl jgqu ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">d</span></span></u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">ivas raa<u>t</u> <u>d</u>u-ay <u>d</u>aa-ee <u>d</u>aa-i-aa <u>kh</u>aylai sagal jaga<u>t</u>.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Day and night as male and lady nurses, in whose lap the world plays.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">3. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">cMigAweIAw buirAweIAw vwcY Drmu hdUir ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">chang-aa-ee-aa buri-aa-ee-aa vaachai <u>Dh</u>aram ha<u>d</u>oor.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Good and bad Karmas are assessed by ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">4. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">krmI Awpo AwpxI ky nyVY ky dUir ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">karmee aapo aap<u>n</u>ee kay nay<u>rh</u>ai kay <u>d</u>oor.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">It is ones own Karmas that decided ones closeness to and the distance from ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">5. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">ijnI nwmu iDAwieAw gey mskiq Gwil ] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">jinee naam <u>Dh</u>i-aa-i-aa ga-ay maska<u>t</u> <u>gh</u>aal.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Those who revere Naam they depart after having exerted to that end.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">6. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwnk qy muK aujly kyqI CutI nwil ]1] </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">naanak <u>t</u>ay mu<u>kh</u> ujlay kay<u>t</u>ee <u>chh</u>utee naal. ||1||</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">O’Nanak, their face radiate, they are the ones librated.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The greatness of my Guru Sahib is evident in this Shalok as is the case in all what is said in Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Sahib has not just limited himself to spirituality, but has given me the all-encompassing blue print for my life.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The rationality of my Guru Sahib and the logical way in which Guru Sahib has provided for all aspect of my life are evident in this Shalok. This Shalok tells me that my Guru Sahib had a scientific way of thinking. Form this Shalok, I can see that my Guru Sahibs were great analysts who could go deep into the issue and find the essence of it, at the same time my Guru Sahibs were great philosophers who could condense the details synthesise them and give it to me in very simple language so that I do not get lost in complicated details. All this I elaborate it below.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib has referred to the earth as the great mother. My learning comes by asking myself why Guru Sahib has said so? What is the logic? What is the rationality? As I search for the answer to these questions, the greatness of my Guru Sahib dawns on me.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The fluid flows into the earth and this earth is pregnant with the plant seeds; life sprouts out and the plants come into being. To all beings these plants provide nourishment that is needed to stay alive. When my body was being shaped and after my birth, my mother provided the nourishment to me. As I grew-up, progressively more and more nourishment came from what earth gave to me. The role, which my mother performed during the early period of my life, started to be performed by ‘Earth’. For this reason, Guru Sahib has used the word mother for earth. Guru Sahib has referred to it as ‘Great Mother’ as it provides for all with no discrimination and with no expectation for any sort of return for what it gives us. There is logic in the thought process and the rationality of conclusion is clear.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Since fluid flows into the ‘Great Mother Earth’ and this fluid happens to be water, Guru Sahib has referred to it as ‘Father’. Without water plants cannot come into being; the ‘Great Mother Earth’ cannot deliver the plants and so the nourishment to any one. It is for this reason Guru Sahib has called water as ‘Father’. There is logic in the thought process and the rationality of conclusion is clear.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We live a life as humans because we have knowledge. Devoid of knowledge, we humans are no different than animals. It is the Guru who teaches us how to learn and provides the basic knowledge that enables us to learn more. Guru to we humans is what air is to life. Without the learning from our Gurus we remain virtually as animals: the human in us never gets formed, it dies; it is as the body dies if the air is not available. That why Guru Sahib referred to air as Guru. Every word has basis; there is logic and rationality in the conclusions.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Next question that arise in my mind is what was the need to tell this equivalence in Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The answer that I find is given below.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">By using the word mother for earth, father for water and guru for air, Guru Sahib has asked me the revere these entities of nature (earth, water and air) the same way as I revere my mother, father and Guru. Guru Sahib has used the word ‘Mother’ ‘Father’ and ‘Guru’ as metaphors; such use makes it easy for the individuals to extend the needed reverence to the suggested entities of nature. When we revere some entities intensely, we do all that is needed to protect them; it is the natural consequence of reverence. This way Guru Sahib is extending my instincts to protect nature (clean air, clean water and maintain productivity of the earth and conserve it), with same zeal with which I protect my mother, father and guru. Through the learning of this Shalok, Guru Sahib expects each of his followers to be real protector of our environment; this is what Sikhi demand from each one of us. </span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib has told me the importance of day and night to life. Guru Sahib has referred to one as male nurse and other as female nurse. I absence of any one of them, the life cannot be sustained. Guru Sahib has in a way put both the sexes on the same footing – gender equality in essential part of Sikhi.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In the last four lines Guru Sahib has made me fully responsible for my life. Guru Sahib has told me very clearly that I will get only what I deserve. Guru Sahib has told me that my Karmas (thoughts, speech and action all included) are the bases for my getting or not getting what I seek. This applies to spiritual world as well as to material world. I cannot complain, it is my Karmas that are the basis for what I am and what my environment is. It is only through Naam that I can be librated.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This Shalok is not for casual recitation. In fact, it is a pledge. Every time I read it or recite I am taking a pledge to conserve and protect my environment and to take full responsibility for what I am and what I am not.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Great learning. Sikhi makes me complete and a responsible human.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Wah-e-Guru</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Amarpal</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 3366, member: 10"] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Dear Khalsa Jee,[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Through this post, I share with you what this Shalok means to me.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]1. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]pvxu gurU pwxI ipqw mwqw Driq mhqu ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]pava[u]n[/u] guroo paa[u]n[/u]ee pi[u]t[/u]aa maa[u]t[/u]aa [u]Dh[/u]ara[u]t[/u] maha[u]t[/u]. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Air as Guru, water as father, the earth as great mother.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]2. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]idvsu rwiq duie dweI dwieAw KylY sgl jgqu ] [/font][/color][u][font=Tahoma][size=3]d[/size][/font][/u][font=Tahoma][size=3]ivas raa[u]t[/u] [u]d[/u]u-ay [u]d[/u]aa-ee [u]d[/u]aa-i-aa [u]kh[/u]aylai sagal jaga[u]t[/u]. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Day and night as male and lady nurses, in whose lap the world plays.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]3. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]cMigAweIAw buirAweIAw vwcY Drmu hdUir ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]chang-aa-ee-aa buri-aa-ee-aa vaachai [u]Dh[/u]aram ha[u]d[/u]oor. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Good and bad Karmas are assessed by ‘The Sat’.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]4. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]krmI Awpo AwpxI ky nyVY ky dUir ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]karmee aapo aap[u]n[/u]ee kay nay[u]rh[/u]ai kay [u]d[/u]oor.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]It is ones own Karmas that decided ones closeness to and the distance from ‘The Sat’.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]5. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]ijnI nwmu iDAwieAw gey mskiq Gwil ] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]jinee naam [u]Dh[/u]i-aa-i-aa ga-ay maska[u]t[/u] [u]gh[/u]aal. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Those who revere Naam they depart after having exerted to that end.[/size][/font] [size=3][/size] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]6. [/font][/size][color=maroon][font=WebAkharThick]nwnk qy muK aujly kyqI CutI nwil ]1] [/font][/color][font=Tahoma][size=3]naanak [u]t[/u]ay mu[u]kh[/u] ujlay kay[u]t[/u]ee [u]chh[/u]utee naal. ||1|| [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]O’Nanak, their face radiate, they are the ones librated.[/size][/font] [b][size=3][/size][/b] [b][size=3][/size][/b] [b][size=3][font=Times New Roman][u]My understanding[/u]:[/font][/size][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The greatness of my Guru Sahib is evident in this Shalok as is the case in all what is said in Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Sahib has not just limited himself to spirituality, but has given me the all-encompassing blue print for my life.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The rationality of my Guru Sahib and the logical way in which Guru Sahib has provided for all aspect of my life are evident in this Shalok. This Shalok tells me that my Guru Sahib had a scientific way of thinking. Form this Shalok, I can see that my Guru Sahibs were great analysts who could go deep into the issue and find the essence of it, at the same time my Guru Sahibs were great philosophers who could condense the details synthesise them and give it to me in very simple language so that I do not get lost in complicated details. All this I elaborate it below.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Guru Sahib has referred to the earth as the great mother. My learning comes by asking myself why Guru Sahib has said so? What is the logic? What is the rationality? As I search for the answer to these questions, the greatness of my Guru Sahib dawns on me.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]The fluid flows into the earth and this earth is pregnant with the plant seeds; life sprouts out and the plants come into being. To all beings these plants provide nourishment that is needed to stay alive. When my body was being shaped and after my birth, my mother provided the nourishment to me. As I grew-up, progressively more and more nourishment came from what earth gave to me. The role, which my mother performed during the early period of my life, started to be performed by ‘Earth’. For this reason, Guru Sahib has used the word mother for earth. Guru Sahib has referred to it as ‘Great Mother’ as it provides for all with no discrimination and with no expectation for any sort of return for what it gives us. There is logic in the thought process and the rationality of conclusion is clear.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Since fluid flows into the ‘Great Mother Earth’ and this fluid happens to be water, Guru Sahib has referred to it as ‘Father’. Without water plants cannot come into being; the ‘Great Mother Earth’ cannot deliver the plants and so the nourishment to any one. It is for this reason Guru Sahib has called water as ‘Father’. There is logic in the thought process and the rationality of conclusion is clear.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]We live a life as humans because we have knowledge. Devoid of knowledge, we humans are no different than animals. It is the Guru who teaches us how to learn and provides the basic knowledge that enables us to learn more. Guru to we humans is what air is to life. Without the learning from our Gurus we remain virtually as animals: the human in us never gets formed, it dies; it is as the body dies if the air is not available. That why Guru Sahib referred to air as Guru. Every word has basis; there is logic and rationality in the conclusions.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Next question that arise in my mind is what was the need to tell this equivalence in Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The answer that I find is given below.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]By using the word mother for earth, father for water and guru for air, Guru Sahib has asked me the revere these entities of nature (earth, water and air) the same way as I revere my mother, father and Guru. Guru Sahib has used the word ‘Mother’ ‘Father’ and ‘Guru’ as metaphors; such use makes it easy for the individuals to extend the needed reverence to the suggested entities of nature. When we revere some entities intensely, we do all that is needed to protect them; it is the natural consequence of reverence. This way Guru Sahib is extending my instincts to protect nature (clean air, clean water and maintain productivity of the earth and conserve it), with same zeal with which I protect my mother, father and guru. Through the learning of this Shalok, Guru Sahib expects each of his followers to be real protector of our environment; this is what Sikhi demand from each one of us. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Guru Sahib has told me the importance of day and night to life. Guru Sahib has referred to one as male nurse and other as female nurse. I absence of any one of them, the life cannot be sustained. Guru Sahib has in a way put both the sexes on the same footing – gender equality in essential part of Sikhi.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]In the last four lines Guru Sahib has made me fully responsible for my life. Guru Sahib has told me very clearly that I will get only what I deserve. Guru Sahib has told me that my Karmas (thoughts, speech and action all included) are the bases for my getting or not getting what I seek. This applies to spiritual world as well as to material world. I cannot complain, it is my Karmas that are the basis for what I am and what my environment is. It is only through Naam that I can be librated.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]This Shalok is not for casual recitation. In fact, it is a pledge. Every time I read it or recite I am taking a pledge to conserve and protect my environment and to take full responsibility for what I am and what I am not.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Great learning. Sikhi makes me complete and a responsible human.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Wah-e-Guru[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With love and respect for all.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman]Amarpal[/font] [/QUOTE]
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Guru Granth Sahib
Jup Banee
The Shalok After Japji Sahib: My Understanding
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