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Aasaa Ki Vaar: I Don't Understand This Analogy
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<blockquote data-quote="Tejwant Singh" data-source="post: 104617" data-attributes="member: 138"><p>Sadh Sangat,</p><p></p><p>Guru Fateh</p><p></p><p>Allow me to add my 2 cents from another angle of this beautiful prism called Gurbani. Muslims, like the Christians believe in Hell and Heaven. In Islam,they believe that only by burial a Muslim goes to Heaven which is considered a cool place unlike Hell which is hot. The Bible calls it the Lake of fire. So Guru Nanak in Asa di Vaar shows how the clay is made hot by the Potter. One more important thing to remember here is that Potter means GOD in Semitic religions, unlike a low caste person in Hinduism. So Potter here is used as Allah in the Shabad not as any low caste Hindu whose job is to make pots from clay. This is a very important distinction because our Gurus spoke the language of the people, in this case Guru Nanak was talking to the Muslims not to the Hindus.</p><p></p><p>The Potter- Allah- makes the clay cry in the heat. Nothing cool about it. So if Heaven is a cool place then why does the Potter- Allah makes the clay where the Muslims are buried, hot like Hell? In other words there is no Heaven or Hell. We all get recycled. Dust to dust.</p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak explains it beautifully in the last verse :</p><p></p><p>ਨਾਨਕ ਜਿਨਿ ਕਰਤੈ ਕਾਰਣੁ ਕੀਆ ਸੋ ਜਾਣੈ ਕਰਤਾਰੁ ॥੨॥ </p><p>नानक जिनि करतै कारणु कीआ सो जाणै करतारु ॥२॥ </p><p>Nānak jin karṯai kāraṇ kī▫ā so jāṇai karṯār. ||2|| </p><p>O <a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/guru-nanak-dev/" target="_blank">Nanak</a>, the Creator created the creation; the Creator Lord alone knows. ||2|| </p><p>ਨਾਨਕ, ਕੇਵਲ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ, ਸਿਰਜਣਹਾਰ ਹੀ, ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਸਾਜਿਆ ਹੈ, ਜਾਣਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਸਾੜਨਾ ਚੰਗਾ ਹੈ ਜਾਂ ਦੱਬਣਾ। </p><p></p><p>This is one more reason I do not believe in the Sakhi of Ram Rai. I doubt it if it ever existed. The distortion of Gurbani the way I take is not in changing its words but by not putting the tools given to us in SGGS into practice to breed goodness within but just preaching it like parrots.</p><p></p><p> Secondly, it shows the punishing traits in Guru Har Rai ji whereas Gurbani says that Ik Ong Kaar is Nirbhau and Nirvair- I see no stranger, I feel no enmity- Nan koi beri, nahin beghana-.</p><p></p><p>To explain my thoughts about the non existent of the Ram Rai Sakhi in a more elaborate manner, I wrote something about it in the following thread sometime ago:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/interfaith-dialogues/43-mitti-musalman-ki-paire-paye-kumiyaar.html" target="_blank">http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/interfaith-dialogues/43-mitti-musalman-ki-paire-paye-kumiyaar.html</a></p><p></p><p>Tejwant Singh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tejwant Singh, post: 104617, member: 138"] Sadh Sangat, Guru Fateh Allow me to add my 2 cents from another angle of this beautiful prism called Gurbani. Muslims, like the Christians believe in Hell and Heaven. In Islam,they believe that only by burial a Muslim goes to Heaven which is considered a cool place unlike Hell which is hot. The Bible calls it the Lake of fire. So Guru Nanak in Asa di Vaar shows how the clay is made hot by the Potter. One more important thing to remember here is that Potter means GOD in Semitic religions, unlike a low caste person in Hinduism. So Potter here is used as Allah in the Shabad not as any low caste Hindu whose job is to make pots from clay. This is a very important distinction because our Gurus spoke the language of the people, in this case Guru Nanak was talking to the Muslims not to the Hindus. The Potter- Allah- makes the clay cry in the heat. Nothing cool about it. So if Heaven is a cool place then why does the Potter- Allah makes the clay where the Muslims are buried, hot like Hell? In other words there is no Heaven or Hell. We all get recycled. Dust to dust. Guru Nanak explains it beautifully in the last verse : ਨਾਨਕ ਜਿਨਿ ਕਰਤੈ ਕਾਰਣੁ ਕੀਆ ਸੋ ਜਾਣੈ ਕਰਤਾਰੁ ॥੨॥ नानक जिनि करतै कारणु कीआ सो जाणै करतारु ॥२॥ Nānak jin karṯai kāraṇ kī▫ā so jāṇai karṯār. ||2|| O [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/guru-nanak-dev/"]Nanak[/URL], the Creator created the creation; the Creator Lord alone knows. ||2|| ਨਾਨਕ, ਕੇਵਲ ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ, ਸਿਰਜਣਹਾਰ ਹੀ, ਜਿਸ ਨੇ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਸਾਜਿਆ ਹੈ, ਜਾਣਦਾ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਸਾੜਨਾ ਚੰਗਾ ਹੈ ਜਾਂ ਦੱਬਣਾ। This is one more reason I do not believe in the Sakhi of Ram Rai. I doubt it if it ever existed. The distortion of Gurbani the way I take is not in changing its words but by not putting the tools given to us in SGGS into practice to breed goodness within but just preaching it like parrots. Secondly, it shows the punishing traits in Guru Har Rai ji whereas Gurbani says that Ik Ong Kaar is Nirbhau and Nirvair- I see no stranger, I feel no enmity- Nan koi beri, nahin beghana-. To explain my thoughts about the non existent of the Ram Rai Sakhi in a more elaborate manner, I wrote something about it in the following thread sometime ago: [URL]http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/interfaith-dialogues/43-mitti-musalman-ki-paire-paye-kumiyaar.html[/URL] Tejwant Singh [/QUOTE]
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