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Listening, Listening. Suniai (Excerpted From SikhChic)
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<blockquote data-quote="japjisahib04" data-source="post: 120813" data-attributes="member: 971"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In Guru Ghar so much importance is given to listening to the Name and teaching of God that even prime route to merge back into God and means of prayer is also considered to be listening His guidance which is the root. Listening/connecting to the sabad (through naam) is the only way out. . Unlike reading and singing which is natural, listening is sadhna. It requires concentration, hard work and ras. On Page 1240.9 gurbani tells us, </span><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkharLight'">nwie suixAY sB isiD hY iriD ipCY AwvY ]</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> Hearing the Name, all supernatural spiritual powers are obtained, and wealth follows along. </span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Guru Nanak promulgates his experience in just one phrase ... : Only love and understanding the message of God and development of humility will help to attain salvation ("bhaa-o bhagat kar neech sadaa-ay, ta-o naanak mokhantar paa-ay. Guru Nanak puts it as a succinct and easily understandable statement. In Sikh Philosophy we are looking for the Love of True Naam and all other kind of love is false (Koorh). The Will of the Lord gives the love of True Naam when one is blessed with his Grace.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">We accept ‘word’ as the source to meet God and thus most important is to know the taste of and cultivate the Guru's words by listening.<?"urn:<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />ffice<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />ffice" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />> </o<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In Japjisahib Guru Nanak has recited four-four stanzas only on one subject and among those stanzas, listening is first and they are in four stanzas. In these four Stanzas he has said persistently and repeatedly that if the devotee listens to the Name of God quite attentively he will be enriched with infinite spiritual gifts. But the Word “listen” has two meanings. First is “hearing” when another person is reading loudly. Second is hearing when we are reading or reciting ourselves. In these stanzas we are more concerned of hearing when we ourselves are reading or reciting. Gurbani tells us, “</span><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkharLight'">sRvn goibMd gunu sunau Aru gwau rsnw gIiq </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">]</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"> - hear the Glorious Praises of God of the Universe with your ears, what you sing with your own tongue.” - Guru Granth ang.631.11. <span style="color: black">God’s Name and word when enters to the heart through ears, it transforms to unstruck sound, spiritual assets into supreme bliss. Hence Sabd is the subject of listening. Earlier Guruji had stated briefly the benefits of singing and hearing the glory of the indwelling Name of God with wholehearted devotion in stanza V. There Guruji says “Oh, devotee; you just sing or hear praise of God with love from the core of your heart. Thereafter the entire burden of your sufferings are not only taken care automatically but you take home wagon full of happiness.”</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: black">Now in stanza VIII to XI comprehensive detail of the aforesaid happiness has been given. In these four stanzas he talked </span></span><TT><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">about 'Bliss of Listening' (</span></span></TT><TT><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkharLight'">suixAY</span></span></TT><TT><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">). He glorifies Name and its contribution to the development of mental, moral and spiritual stature by the votary of the Name. He says listening requires attention and concentration plus off course urge to listen from within. The perception of sound by hearing mechanism, when interpreted based on the pragmatic experiences; helps human beings become 'one with universe' or the self-centered egoists without realization their real function in the cosmos. Thus Sabd is our perpetual insurance for internal security against all kinds of visible or invisible onslaught. Listening in JAPJI means comprehending the philosophy of God in the Gurbani to become ‘one with universe’.By listening the gur sabd one get attached and the karta takes his place in the heart thus,</span></span></TT> <?xml::<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" />ffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />lace w:st="on"><strong><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkharLight'">nis</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkharLight'"> vM\hu iklivKhu krqw Gir AwieAw ] dUqh dhnu BieAw goivMdu pRgtwieAw ]</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Run away, O sins; the Creator has entered my home.</span></strong><TT> </TT><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The demons within me have been burnt; the Lord of the Universe has revealed Himself to me.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Best regards</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="japjisahib04, post: 120813, member: 971"] [FONT=Verdana]In Guru Ghar so much importance is given to listening to the Name and teaching of God that even prime route to merge back into God and means of prayer is also considered to be listening His guidance which is the root. Listening/connecting to the sabad (through naam) is the only way out. . Unlike reading and singing which is natural, listening is sadhna. It requires concentration, hard work and ras. On Page 1240.9 gurbani tells us, [/FONT][FONT=GurbaniAkharLight]nwie suixAY sB isiD hY iriD ipCY AwvY ][/FONT][FONT=Verdana] Hearing the Name, all supernatural spiritual powers are obtained, and wealth follows along. [/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Guru Nanak promulgates his experience in just one phrase ... : Only love and understanding the message of God and development of humility will help to attain salvation ("bhaa-o bhagat kar neech sadaa-ay, ta-o naanak mokhantar paa-ay. Guru Nanak puts it as a succinct and easily understandable statement. In Sikh Philosophy we are looking for the Love of True Naam and all other kind of love is false (Koorh). The Will of the Lord gives the love of True Naam when one is blessed with his Grace.[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Verdana]We accept ‘word’ as the source to meet God and thus most important is to know the taste of and cultivate the Guru's words by listening.<?"urn::office:office" />[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]<o:p> </o:p>[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]In Japjisahib Guru Nanak has recited four-four stanzas only on one subject and among those stanzas, listening is first and they are in four stanzas. In these four Stanzas he has said persistently and repeatedly that if the devotee listens to the Name of God quite attentively he will be enriched with infinite spiritual gifts. But the Word “listen” has two meanings. First is “hearing” when another person is reading loudly. Second is hearing when we are reading or reciting ourselves. In these stanzas we are more concerned of hearing when we ourselves are reading or reciting. Gurbani tells us, “[/FONT][FONT=GurbaniAkharLight]sRvn goibMd gunu sunau Aru gwau rsnw gIiq [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]][/FONT][FONT=Verdana] - hear the Glorious Praises of God of the Universe with your ears, what you sing with your own tongue.” - Guru Granth ang.631.11. [COLOR=black]God’s Name and word when enters to the heart through ears, it transforms to unstruck sound, spiritual assets into supreme bliss. Hence Sabd is the subject of listening. Earlier Guruji had stated briefly the benefits of singing and hearing the glory of the indwelling Name of God with wholehearted devotion in stanza V. There Guruji says “Oh, devotee; you just sing or hear praise of God with love from the core of your heart. Thereafter the entire burden of your sufferings are not only taken care automatically but you take home wagon full of happiness.”[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=black]Now in stanza VIII to XI comprehensive detail of the aforesaid happiness has been given. In these four stanzas he talked [/COLOR][/FONT]<TT>[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]about 'Bliss of Listening' ([/FONT][/COLOR]</TT><TT>[COLOR=black][FONT=GurbaniAkharLight]suixAY[/FONT][/COLOR]</TT><TT>[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]). He glorifies Name and its contribution to the development of mental, moral and spiritual stature by the votary of the Name. He says listening requires attention and concentration plus off course urge to listen from within. The perception of sound by hearing mechanism, when interpreted based on the pragmatic experiences; helps human beings become 'one with universe' or the self-centered egoists without realization their real function in the cosmos. Thus Sabd is our perpetual insurance for internal security against all kinds of visible or invisible onslaught. Listening in JAPJI means comprehending the philosophy of God in the Gurbani to become ‘one with universe’.By listening the gur sabd one get attached and the karta takes his place in the heart thus,[/FONT][/COLOR]</TT>[B][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/B]<?xml:::office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">[B][FONT=GurbaniAkharLight]nis[/FONT][/B][B][FONT=GurbaniAkharLight] vM\hu iklivKhu krqw Gir AwieAw ] dUqh dhnu BieAw goivMdu pRgtwieAw ][/FONT][/B][B][FONT=Verdana]Run away, O sins; the Creator has entered my home.[/FONT][/B]<TT>[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR]</TT>[B][FONT=Verdana]The demons within me have been burnt; the Lord of the Universe has revealed Himself to me.[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Verdana]Best regards[/FONT][/B][B][U][/U][/B] [/QUOTE]
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