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Gurbani (660-685)
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Gurbani (696-703)
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Gurbani (795-831)
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Gurbani (975-980)
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Gurbani (984-988)
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Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
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Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
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Bara Maha (1107-1110)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
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Gurbani (1197-1200)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
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Gurbani (1352-53)
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 89838" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>daggeroftruth ji</p><p></p><p>Do not worry yourself. These verses, and there are other equally confusing verses as well throughout our Holy Granth, have caused more than one controversy on this forum as well as in other places. This is my humble and meager effort to explain.</p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak Dev ji began his understanding with this mantra, with an unequivocal and firm belief that there is one and only one God.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ </span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ikoankaar sathnaam karathaa purakh nirabho niravair akaal moorath ajoonee saibhan gurprasaadh||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth.Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace~</span></p><p></p><p>There is one God, the creator and the <strong>doer</strong> of everything, Beyond Birth with no father or mother, Self Created. That is it, and nothing is different. The mool mantar above is the beginning of the Guru Granth Sahib and is the framework in which everything else <strong>i</strong>n the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Maharaj<strong> must </strong>be understood. God who is self created without father or mother never incarnates, and therefore is neither male nor female. </p><p></p><p>So what is this all about? <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">The One Divine Mother conceived and gave birth to the three deities.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">Guru Nanak was moving spiritual understanding of his day to a different level -- there is one God beyond birth and death. He was re-explaining a religious concept that was more ancient than Hinduism or Islam, harking back to one of the earliest beliefs, that of the "sanatam dharma" or awareness of the eternal truth of dharma (the truth of the laws of the universe).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">Dharma was and is early and persistent understanding in India, Tibet, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Ceylon and among F{censored}es in Persia for thousands of years. This idea 'dharma" did not go away. But how Dharma is explained changes and differs from belief system to belief system.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">The One Divine Mother who conceived and gave birth to three is not a human mother but instead she is the Universe itself, the world, material reality, the cosmos, the universe of material reality. She gave birth to a creator, a sustainer, a destroyer. Notice that the creative force is <em>sansaaree</em> -- this means the creative forces or energies of nature. Same with the destroyer and the sustainer. They are all forces or energies, the natural laws that explain the workings of the universe. They are not incarnations or human forms. Dharma "the wheel of the universe" is the truthfulness of these natural laws. Dharma is represented in everything that exists.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">Guru Nanak did not ignore these ideas. He was speaking to people 500 years ago who understood the forces of the natural universe in this way, in terms of the "wheel" of dharma. He was teaching them using ideas that were familiar to them. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">So what did he change? He is saying that there is something beyond the forces and energies that the Mother set into motion. Because this One god is the Creator of Everything, he is greater than His Creation. He is the creator, the destroyer and sustainer, and His laws are the laws that rule the universe, but He is also greater than all of that.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: Black">This is what Sikhism believes. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"></span></span></span> <span style="color: DarkRed">ਕੀਮਤਿ ਕਹਣੁ ਨ ਜਾਈਐ ਪਰਮੇਸੁਰੁ ਬੇਅੰਤੁ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span> <span style="color: DarkRed"> keemath kehan n jaaeeai paramaesur baeanth ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span> <span style="color: DarkRed"> His Value cannot be evaluated. The Transcendent Lord is endless.</span><span style="color: DarkRed"> (And 137)</span></p><p></p><p>Those who walk on His path</p><p></p><p> <span style="color: DarkRed">ਅਬਿਨਾਸੀ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਪਰਮੇਸਰੁ ਬਹੁ ਸੋਭ ਖੰਡ ਬ੍ਰਹਮੰਡਾ ਹੇ ॥੩॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span> <span style="color: DarkRed"> abinaasee purakh paaeiaa paramaesar bahu sobh khandd brehamanddaa hae ||3||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span> <span style="color: DarkRed"> They have obtained the Imperishable Supreme Being, the Transcendent Lord God, and they obtain great honor throughout all the worlds and realms. ||3||</span><span style="color: DarkRed"> (Ang 13)</span></p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak was taking understanding of God to another level. God, the Satguru, Akaal Purakh(u) is dharma itself, and He is greater than dharma. He is found in every part of the natural and universal order. He is the creator, destroyer, sustainer of the natural order, and He is greater than all of that.</p><p></p><p>Forgive me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 89838, member: 35"] daggeroftruth ji Do not worry yourself. These verses, and there are other equally confusing verses as well throughout our Holy Granth, have caused more than one controversy on this forum as well as in other places. This is my humble and meager effort to explain. Guru Nanak Dev ji began his understanding with this mantra, with an unequivocal and firm belief that there is one and only one God. [COLOR=DarkRed]ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ ikoankaar sathnaam karathaa purakh nirabho niravair akaal moorath ajoonee saibhan gurprasaadh|| One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth.Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent. By Guru's Grace~[/COLOR] There is one God, the creator and the [B]doer[/B] of everything, Beyond Birth with no father or mother, Self Created. That is it, and nothing is different. The mool mantar above is the beginning of the Guru Granth Sahib and is the framework in which everything else [B]i[/B]n the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Maharaj[B] must [/B]be understood. God who is self created without father or mother never incarnates, and therefore is neither male nor female. So what is this all about? [FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]The One Divine Mother conceived and gave birth to the three deities. [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=Black]Guru Nanak was moving spiritual understanding of his day to a different level -- there is one God beyond birth and death. He was re-explaining a religious concept that was more ancient than Hinduism or Islam, harking back to one of the earliest beliefs, that of the "sanatam dharma" or awareness of the eternal truth of dharma (the truth of the laws of the universe). Dharma was and is early and persistent understanding in India, Tibet, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Ceylon and among F{censored}es in Persia for thousands of years. This idea 'dharma" did not go away. But how Dharma is explained changes and differs from belief system to belief system. The One Divine Mother who conceived and gave birth to three is not a human mother but instead she is the Universe itself, the world, material reality, the cosmos, the universe of material reality. She gave birth to a creator, a sustainer, a destroyer. Notice that the creative force is [I]sansaaree[/I] -- this means the creative forces or energies of nature. Same with the destroyer and the sustainer. They are all forces or energies, the natural laws that explain the workings of the universe. They are not incarnations or human forms. Dharma "the wheel of the universe" is the truthfulness of these natural laws. Dharma is represented in everything that exists. Guru Nanak did not ignore these ideas. He was speaking to people 500 years ago who understood the forces of the natural universe in this way, in terms of the "wheel" of dharma. He was teaching them using ideas that were familiar to them. So what did he change? He is saying that there is something beyond the forces and energies that the Mother set into motion. Because this One god is the Creator of Everything, he is greater than His Creation. He is the creator, the destroyer and sustainer, and His laws are the laws that rule the universe, but He is also greater than all of that. This is what Sikhism believes. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [COLOR=DarkRed]ਕੀਮਤਿ ਕਹਣੁ ਨ ਜਾਈਐ ਪਰਮੇਸੁਰੁ ਬੇਅੰਤੁ ॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkRed] keemath kehan n jaaeeai paramaesur baeanth || [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkRed] His Value cannot be evaluated. The Transcendent Lord is endless.[/COLOR][COLOR=DarkRed] (And 137)[/COLOR] Those who walk on His path [COLOR=DarkRed]ਅਬਿਨਾਸੀ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਪਰਮੇਸਰੁ ਬਹੁ ਸੋਭ ਖੰਡ ਬ੍ਰਹਮੰਡਾ ਹੇ ॥੩॥ [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkRed] abinaasee purakh paaeiaa paramaesar bahu sobh khandd brehamanddaa hae ||3|| [/COLOR] [COLOR=DarkRed] They have obtained the Imperishable Supreme Being, the Transcendent Lord God, and they obtain great honor throughout all the worlds and realms. ||3||[/COLOR][COLOR=DarkRed] (Ang 13)[/COLOR] Guru Nanak was taking understanding of God to another level. God, the Satguru, Akaal Purakh(u) is dharma itself, and He is greater than dharma. He is found in every part of the natural and universal order. He is the creator, destroyer, sustainer of the natural order, and He is greater than all of that. Forgive me. [/QUOTE]
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