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Guru Granth Sahib
Sukhmani Banee
3rd Pauri: 4th Ashtapadee: Sukhmani Sahib: My Understanding
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 46924" 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-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With the blessing of ‘The Sat’, through this post I share my understanding of the 3rd Pauri of 4th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib with you.</span></span></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'">Awid AMiq jo rwKnhwru ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aa<u>d</u> an<u>t</u> jo raa<u>kh</u>anhaar.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> From the beginning till the end who has guarded.</span></span></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'">iqs isau pRIiq n krY gvwru ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t</span></span></u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">is si-o paree<u>t</u> na karai gavaar.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The stupid individuals do not love this entity.</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">Here Guru Sahib points out to his Sikhs the ungratefulness of us human. As indicated by Guru Sahib in his earlier tuks, what an individual is, it is due to the care and protection of ‘The Sat’, yet the individuals do not even realize this fact. They think that all is due to them; few give credit to their parent and those who took care of them during their formative years. Not many realize that all that she or he has got is due to ‘The Sat’ who always remains anonymous. ‘The Sat’ has given us brain to think and arrive at the truth. Yet individuals live and the level of instincts like animals and understand only that which is tangible. The contribution of the abstract entity which is not tangible i.e. ‘The Sat’ does not enter their thinking. It is for this reason Guru Sahib has called such individuals ‘stupid’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Using our brain we are supposed to progressively learn higher and higher truths. Only then we can be called different from animals, which beyond their instincts are stupid. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that all that we have received in our lives is due to ‘The Sat’ the tangible entities, mother, father, brother, sisters and others are only instruments through which the gifts where channelised by ‘The Sat’. We must keep in mind that what has come to us is through individuals and not from them – the ultimate source in only ‘The Sat’. </span></span></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'">jw kI syvw nv iniD pwvY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jaa kee sayvaa nav ni<u>Dh</u> paavai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Serving ‘The Sat’, the nine treasures are realized.</span></span></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'">qw isau mUVw mnu nhI lwvY ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t</span></span></u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aa si-o moo<u>rh</u>aa man nahee laavai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Insensitive mind does not attach to ‘The Sat’.</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">Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that sensitivity is needed to realize the higher truth. As I understand all this is due the way we are brought up during our childhood - the formative years.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">We are totally innocent at the time of birth. As we come to this world, our interaction with the tangible starts immediately. We learn about the world around us through our senses. All this is directed towards the tangibles entities of this world. A special coaching is needed to bring to our mind that there is world beyond the tangibles. This realization has to be tutored – mostly it has to be done by the mothers and the environment in which the child grows. Few individuals, blessed by ‘The Sat’, in a natural course of life, learn that there is an invisible hand leading, guiding and supporting them. When strange coincidences of events in life help them to live better, they realise that it is due to some entity beyond them i.e. ‘The Sat’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Such realization does not come to individuals who do not have the needed sensitivities; they pass over this realization by calling it ‘Luck’ and thus miss it. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Guru Sahib here in these sentences is asking his Sikhs to acquire this sensitivity. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here again Guru Sahib has used a word ‘Serving’ in conjunction with ‘The Sat’. ‘The Sat’ is self sufficient, does not need any thing, as said in ‘Mool Mantra’, in addition ‘The Sat’ is intangible. How can an individual serve ‘The Sat’? This needs to be understood.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The way to serve ‘The Sat’ is to work in the direction ‘The Sat’ works and become instrument of the will of ‘The Sat’. Now we have to understand what the will of ‘The Sat’ is?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As I see, since the beginning of creation there has been continuous evolution among humans. Human body has evolved and so has been the evolution of brain and understanding of forces of nature. This would not have happened if ‘The Sat’ did not wish it. It has not happened in any significant way in case of animals and plants, it has happened only with humans. Based on this observation, I understand that continuous and harmonious evolution is all domains, is the will of ‘The Sat’. This fact is enshrined in the term ‘Chardian Kalan’ in Sikh way of living. We, Sikhs are asked by our Guru Sahib to evolve in all spheres – spiritual and temporal world, not only this we Sikhs are asked by Guru Sahib to protect the environment ( as I understand from the Shalok just after Japji Sahib in Sri Guru Granth Sahib). Harmonizing the two aspects of life – spiritual and temporal – perpetually striving to evolve and protecting the creation of ‘The Sat’, according to me, is acting in accordance to the will of ‘The Sat’ and hence serving the cause of ‘The Sat’, which means serving ‘The Sat’.</span></span></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'">jo Twkuru sd sdw hjUry ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jo <u>th</u>aakur sa<u>d</u> sa<u>d</u>aa hajooray.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The protector-provider is always present, for ever and ever </span></span></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'">qw kau AMDw jwnq dUry ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t</span></span></u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">aa ka-o an<u>Dh</u>aa jaana<u>t</u> <u>d</u>ooray.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The blind (ignorant) take it to be far away.</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">Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that ‘The Sat’ is ever present with each one of us. Yet those ignorant people keep searching as if ‘The Sat’ is far way at place which is beyond them. As I understand, Guru Sahib is saying that ‘The Sat’ is every where in all living and non living entities; ‘The Sat’ even exist even where there is no material. Individual instead of realizing ‘The Sat’ which is ever present in themselves wander around locating places where ‘The Sat’ can be found. This state if understand Guru Sahib has referred to as blindness.</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'">jw kI thl pwvY drgh mwnu ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jaa kee tahal paavai <u>d</u>argeh maan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> In whose service one gets spiritual elevation</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">iqsih ibswrY mugDu Ajwnu ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t</span></span></u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">iseh bisaarai muga<u>Dh</u> ajaan.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Such entity the captivated ignorant forget.</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">Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that individuals are captivated by worldly entities and all their time goes in realizing the satisfaction of senses and ego, these are Mugadh individual who are lost in worldly life; they remain ignorant about the spiritual life. In this state of mind they totally forget ‘The Sat’ who has supported them all their life and who can bring about spiritual elevation. </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'">sdw sdw iehu BUlnhwru ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">sa<u>d</u>aa sa<u>d</u>aa ih <u>bh</u>oolanhaar.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Always, always this one makes this mistake of forgetting ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwnk rwKnhwru Apwru ]3] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naanak raa<u>kh</u>anhaar apaar. ||3||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> O’ Nanak, the sustainer is limitless</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">Guru Sahib tells his audience that with all this erroneous living still the sustainer i.e. ‘The Sat’ does not give up. ‘The Sat’ always remains with each one of its creation and supports it. Guru Sahib is deeply awed by this graciousness of ‘The Sat’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With this I close.</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: 46924, member: 10"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Dear Khalsa Ji,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With the blessing of ‘The Sat’, through this post I share my understanding of the 3rd Pauri of 4th Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib with you.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]1. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]Awid AMiq jo rwKnhwru ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aa[U]d[/U] an[U]t[/U] jo raa[U]kh[/U]anhaar. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] From the beginning till the end who has guarded.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]2. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]iqs isau pRIiq n krY gvwru ] [/FONT][/COLOR][U][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3]t[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]is si-o paree[U]t[/U] na karai gavaar. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The stupid individuals do not love this entity.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My Understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Here Guru Sahib points out to his Sikhs the ungratefulness of us human. As indicated by Guru Sahib in his earlier tuks, what an individual is, it is due to the care and protection of ‘The Sat’, yet the individuals do not even realize this fact. They think that all is due to them; few give credit to their parent and those who took care of them during their formative years. Not many realize that all that she or he has got is due to ‘The Sat’ who always remains anonymous. ‘The Sat’ has given us brain to think and arrive at the truth. Yet individuals live and the level of instincts like animals and understand only that which is tangible. The contribution of the abstract entity which is not tangible i.e. ‘The Sat’ does not enter their thinking. It is for this reason Guru Sahib has called such individuals ‘stupid’. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Using our brain we are supposed to progressively learn higher and higher truths. Only then we can be called different from animals, which beyond their instincts are stupid. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that all that we have received in our lives is due to ‘The Sat’ the tangible entities, mother, father, brother, sisters and others are only instruments through which the gifts where channelised by ‘The Sat’. We must keep in mind that what has come to us is through individuals and not from them – the ultimate source in only ‘The Sat’. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]3. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jw kI syvw nv iniD pwvY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jaa kee sayvaa nav ni[U]Dh[/U] paavai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Serving ‘The Sat’, the nine treasures are realized.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]4. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]qw isau mUVw mnu nhI lwvY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][U][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3]t[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aa si-o moo[U]rh[/U]aa man nahee laavai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Insensitive mind does not attach to ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My Understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that sensitivity is needed to realize the higher truth. As I understand all this is due the way we are brought up during our childhood - the formative years.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]We are totally innocent at the time of birth. As we come to this world, our interaction with the tangible starts immediately. We learn about the world around us through our senses. All this is directed towards the tangibles entities of this world. A special coaching is needed to bring to our mind that there is world beyond the tangibles. This realization has to be tutored – mostly it has to be done by the mothers and the environment in which the child grows. Few individuals, blessed by ‘The Sat’, in a natural course of life, learn that there is an invisible hand leading, guiding and supporting them. When strange coincidences of events in life help them to live better, they realise that it is due to some entity beyond them i.e. ‘The Sat’. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Such realization does not come to individuals who do not have the needed sensitivities; they pass over this realization by calling it ‘Luck’ and thus miss it. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Guru Sahib here in these sentences is asking his Sikhs to acquire this sensitivity. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Here again Guru Sahib has used a word ‘Serving’ in conjunction with ‘The Sat’. ‘The Sat’ is self sufficient, does not need any thing, as said in ‘Mool Mantra’, in addition ‘The Sat’ is intangible. How can an individual serve ‘The Sat’? This needs to be understood.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The way to serve ‘The Sat’ is to work in the direction ‘The Sat’ works and become instrument of the will of ‘The Sat’. Now we have to understand what the will of ‘The Sat’ is?[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]As I see, since the beginning of creation there has been continuous evolution among humans. Human body has evolved and so has been the evolution of brain and understanding of forces of nature. This would not have happened if ‘The Sat’ did not wish it. It has not happened in any significant way in case of animals and plants, it has happened only with humans. Based on this observation, I understand that continuous and harmonious evolution is all domains, is the will of ‘The Sat’. This fact is enshrined in the term ‘Chardian Kalan’ in Sikh way of living. We, Sikhs are asked by our Guru Sahib to evolve in all spheres – spiritual and temporal world, not only this we Sikhs are asked by Guru Sahib to protect the environment ( as I understand from the Shalok just after Japji Sahib in Sri Guru Granth Sahib). Harmonizing the two aspects of life – spiritual and temporal – perpetually striving to evolve and protecting the creation of ‘The Sat’, according to me, is acting in accordance to the will of ‘The Sat’ and hence serving the cause of ‘The Sat’, which means serving ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]5. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jo Twkuru sd sdw hjUry ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jo [U]th[/U]aakur sa[U]d[/U] sa[U]d[/U]aa hajooray. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The protector-provider is always present, for ever and ever [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]6. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]qw kau AMDw jwnq dUry ] [/FONT][/COLOR][U][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3]t[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]aa ka-o an[U]Dh[/U]aa jaana[U]t[/U] [U]d[/U]ooray. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] The blind (ignorant) take it to be far away.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My Understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that ‘The Sat’ is ever present with each one of us. Yet those ignorant people keep searching as if ‘The Sat’ is far way at place which is beyond them. As I understand, Guru Sahib is saying that ‘The Sat’ is every where in all living and non living entities; ‘The Sat’ even exist even where there is no material. Individual instead of realizing ‘The Sat’ which is ever present in themselves wander around locating places where ‘The Sat’ can be found. This state if understand Guru Sahib has referred to as blindness.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]7. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jw kI thl pwvY drgh mwnu ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jaa kee tahal paavai [U]d[/U]argeh maan. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] In whose service one gets spiritual elevation[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]8. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]iqsih ibswrY mugDu Ajwnu ] [/FONT][/COLOR][U][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3]t[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]iseh bisaarai muga[U]Dh[/U] ajaan. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Such entity the captivated ignorant forget.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My Understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells his Sikhs that individuals are captivated by worldly entities and all their time goes in realizing the satisfaction of senses and ego, these are Mugadh individual who are lost in worldly life; they remain ignorant about the spiritual life. In this state of mind they totally forget ‘The Sat’ who has supported them all their life and who can bring about spiritual elevation. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]9. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]sdw sdw iehu BUlnhwru ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]sa[U]d[/U]aa sa[U]d[/U]aa ih [U]bh[/U]oolanhaar. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Always, always this one makes this mistake of forgetting ‘The Sat’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]10. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]nwnk rwKnhwru Apwru ]3] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naanak raa[U]kh[/U]anhaar apaar. ||3|| [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] O’ Nanak, the sustainer is limitless[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My Understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib tells his audience that with all this erroneous living still the sustainer i.e. ‘The Sat’ does not give up. ‘The Sat’ always remains with each one of its creation and supports it. Guru Sahib is deeply awed by this graciousness of ‘The Sat’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With this I close.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With love and respect for all.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Amarpal Singh[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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Guru Granth Sahib
Sukhmani Banee
3rd Pauri: 4th Ashtapadee: Sukhmani Sahib: My Understanding
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