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Chhant (687-691)
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Gurbani (696-703)
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Chhant (843-848)
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<blockquote data-quote="charanjit" data-source="post: 183910" data-attributes="member: 5693"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">In relation to the post I think that the most important question is asked at the beginning “Do you believe in Waheguru?” that is the most important thing that needs to be addressed. The story itself is pretty sad and appeals to sentimental hogwash which many people are sadly fall prey to. The story appears to be one which tries to justify belief in something greater. For each story which tries to justify the existence and the need to believe in God/Waheguru, there are numerous others which justify the converse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">These appear to be stories by the feeble minded, that we tell ourselves so that we can delay action. It is just a fanciful story told by those that are fearful of death intended to give people hope that life after this life will be better and that your ills and woes will be dispelled with faith in this thing called God/Waheguru. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">This story seems to imply that life here and now is interminably dull and dissatisfying and that one should seek consolance in a creator, in a mother and father. We are unable to deliver ourselves and therefore seek deliverance from another, one that is greater, one that knows more, God/Waheguru. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I was sent an email by SPN with the question “Do you believe in Waheguru?” and I thought finally some Sikhs appear to be asking relevant questions, rather than the daily mundane idiotic questions whether one should read Raag Mala, eat meat etc. The question “do you believe in Waheguru” is an excellent question and should be investigated by all!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Before going into the question, please note that any criticism that I make is not intended as personal criticism of anyone, but is intended as a criticism of myself, hence everyone as my decisions and experiences are not too different from others commenting on this site. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">In response to the question itself, anything that I believe in is always going to be limited by my limited knowledge and limited experience. The more knowledge and experience I gain may add to my knowledge and experience, but still it remains limited for I appear to be finite and limited by my faculties. The Self is created by my experiences, through the Self I experience, hence any experience through a limited medium will always be limited and ignorant. The same will always be so in relation to whether I believe in Waheguru. I can never have the right answer. It is perhaps on the coming to the end of this search and then end of belief that one may know. Nanak came to an end. He dived in the river, and died to everything so that he may live. It is something no Sikh will ever be capable of doing as Sikhs are far too busy copying, and imitating and living life vicariously through others and their experiences. </span></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Those that are posting on this website appear to be asking for guidance, asking whether this is mainstream, whether this or that is acceptable or not. I have no idea why you are asking a fellow idiot for guidance? If you yourself do not know, how is the fool that you have chosen to guide you going to know. If you yourself have no clue and need guidance then surely the person that you have selected to guide you is chosen out of your ignorance and therefore will always lead you up the same garden path that you have started on. [Not intended as personal criticism, it is an observation also of myself.]</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Sikhs are in an incredible bad state, regurgitating the same nonsense for possibly hundreds of years. You choose either to become a Sikh or it has been chosen for you because of your family and supposed history. If you have chosen to become a Sikh then there was something terribly wrong with your life prior, and becoming a Sikh will not make it any better, it may however hide the gaping hole and emptiness in your life, but then you will be misguiding yourself, and lulling yourself to sleep with the repetition of a word which has no meaning whatsoever, and then you will claim that in the repetition of this word Waheguru you have achieved a higher state of consciousness, but really the constant repetition of any word will do the same, be it WAheguru, Allah, Ram or pad pad ding ding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Now to the question “Do you believe in Waheguru?” To enquire into that question, you will possibly need to ask what is this thing Waheguru? And why do you want to believe in this thing? If I were to ask myself whether I believe in Waheguru, the answer would be yes in the past, however this was based upon the way I was brought up. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Today I would ask what is this thing Waheguru, where does it come from, and why do I want to believe in this thing. The only answers I know of are that this thing Waheguru is an aggregation of all the knowledge that I have collected whilst having been a Sikh (in the conventional sense). It is essentially a thing that has been created in my head from my all my experiences. It is based upon what my parents have told me, and what I have read. It is the thing that I have prayed to in the past. Looking back at this thing, it appears that it was in my imagination. My imagination is created by my experiences. I had no imagination until I started to record experiences as a baby or young child. It was something that was created in my head from my experiences and the experiences that others gave to me. Therefore, does this thing that was in my head actually exist? As far as I can tell it does not exist. It is matter. It is just as materialistic as anything else that is experienced. Yet I prayed to this dead thing!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">In reality I created this thing which is called Waheguru. I created it, placed it on the mantelpiece, and then I started to pray to it for deliverance. In effect I am simply praying to the thing that I have created, that has come from the foolishness of the limited humans before me. Praying to God/Waheguru is perhaps the greatest egotistical thing that anyone can do, you are simply praying to something you have created, or thought has created. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Now to the question “why do I want to believe in this thing called Waheguru?” I can only say that one of the answers must be that we are unable to live our lives with vitality and freedom, we are unable to say what is right action, we are unable within ourselves to act rightly and therefore we depose responsibility for our lives and actions to this thing called Waheguru. We are therefore simply chasing our tales – unable to live our lives for ourselves we have created Waheguru, and then we seek guidance from this thing called Waheguru, which in effect is only us responding to ourselves, yet we think it is something greater. All sounds incredibly foolish to me! ???</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Oh well. I bid you adieu and keep doing as you keep doing! (as I am pretty sure I may also continue in my foolish ignorant ways…who knows??)</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="charanjit, post: 183910, member: 5693"] [FONT=Tahoma]In relation to the post I think that the most important question is asked at the beginning “Do you believe in Waheguru?” that is the most important thing that needs to be addressed. The story itself is pretty sad and appeals to sentimental hogwash which many people are sadly fall prey to. The story appears to be one which tries to justify belief in something greater. For each story which tries to justify the existence and the need to believe in God/Waheguru, there are numerous others which justify the converse. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]These appear to be stories by the feeble minded, that we tell ourselves so that we can delay action. It is just a fanciful story told by those that are fearful of death intended to give people hope that life after this life will be better and that your ills and woes will be dispelled with faith in this thing called God/Waheguru. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]This story seems to imply that life here and now is interminably dull and dissatisfying and that one should seek consolance in a creator, in a mother and father. We are unable to deliver ourselves and therefore seek deliverance from another, one that is greater, one that knows more, God/Waheguru. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]I was sent an email by SPN with the question “Do you believe in Waheguru?” and I thought finally some Sikhs appear to be asking relevant questions, rather than the daily mundane idiotic questions whether one should read Raag Mala, eat meat etc. The question “do you believe in Waheguru” is an excellent question and should be investigated by all![/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Before going into the question, please note that any criticism that I make is not intended as personal criticism of anyone, but is intended as a criticism of myself, hence everyone as my decisions and experiences are not too different from others commenting on this site. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]In response to the question itself, anything that I believe in is always going to be limited by my limited knowledge and limited experience. The more knowledge and experience I gain may add to my knowledge and experience, but still it remains limited for I appear to be finite and limited by my faculties. The Self is created by my experiences, through the Self I experience, hence any experience through a limited medium will always be limited and ignorant. The same will always be so in relation to whether I believe in Waheguru. I can never have the right answer. It is perhaps on the coming to the end of this search and then end of belief that one may know. Nanak came to an end. He dived in the river, and died to everything so that he may live. It is something no Sikh will ever be capable of doing as Sikhs are far too busy copying, and imitating and living life vicariously through others and their experiences. [/FONT] [B][FONT=Tahoma]Those that are posting on this website appear to be asking for guidance, asking whether this is mainstream, whether this or that is acceptable or not. I have no idea why you are asking a fellow idiot for guidance? If you yourself do not know, how is the fool that you have chosen to guide you going to know. If you yourself have no clue and need guidance then surely the person that you have selected to guide you is chosen out of your ignorance and therefore will always lead you up the same garden path that you have started on. [Not intended as personal criticism, it is an observation also of myself.][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Tahoma]Sikhs are in an incredible bad state, regurgitating the same nonsense for possibly hundreds of years. You choose either to become a Sikh or it has been chosen for you because of your family and supposed history. If you have chosen to become a Sikh then there was something terribly wrong with your life prior, and becoming a Sikh will not make it any better, it may however hide the gaping hole and emptiness in your life, but then you will be misguiding yourself, and lulling yourself to sleep with the repetition of a word which has no meaning whatsoever, and then you will claim that in the repetition of this word Waheguru you have achieved a higher state of consciousness, but really the constant repetition of any word will do the same, be it WAheguru, Allah, Ram or pad pad ding ding.[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Now to the question “Do you believe in Waheguru?” To enquire into that question, you will possibly need to ask what is this thing Waheguru? And why do you want to believe in this thing? If I were to ask myself whether I believe in Waheguru, the answer would be yes in the past, however this was based upon the way I was brought up. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Today I would ask what is this thing Waheguru, where does it come from, and why do I want to believe in this thing. The only answers I know of are that this thing Waheguru is an aggregation of all the knowledge that I have collected whilst having been a Sikh (in the conventional sense). It is essentially a thing that has been created in my head from my all my experiences. It is based upon what my parents have told me, and what I have read. It is the thing that I have prayed to in the past. Looking back at this thing, it appears that it was in my imagination. My imagination is created by my experiences. I had no imagination until I started to record experiences as a baby or young child. It was something that was created in my head from my experiences and the experiences that others gave to me. Therefore, does this thing that was in my head actually exist? As far as I can tell it does not exist. It is matter. It is just as materialistic as anything else that is experienced. Yet I prayed to this dead thing![/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]In reality I created this thing which is called Waheguru. I created it, placed it on the mantelpiece, and then I started to pray to it for deliverance. In effect I am simply praying to the thing that I have created, that has come from the foolishness of the limited humans before me. Praying to God/Waheguru is perhaps the greatest egotistical thing that anyone can do, you are simply praying to something you have created, or thought has created. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Now to the question “why do I want to believe in this thing called Waheguru?” I can only say that one of the answers must be that we are unable to live our lives with vitality and freedom, we are unable to say what is right action, we are unable within ourselves to act rightly and therefore we depose responsibility for our lives and actions to this thing called Waheguru. We are therefore simply chasing our tales – unable to live our lives for ourselves we have created Waheguru, and then we seek guidance from this thing called Waheguru, which in effect is only us responding to ourselves, yet we think it is something greater. All sounds incredibly foolish to me! ???[/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Oh well. I bid you adieu and keep doing as you keep doing! (as I am pretty sure I may also continue in my foolish ignorant ways…who knows??)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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