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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 70043" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lust and</span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Message of Gurbani</span></strong></p><p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Main article: </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS_on_lust" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">SGGS on lust</span></span></span></u></a></em></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">To quote </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Arjan</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, Nanak V: <em>“O Kam, thou landest people in hell and makest them wander through many births, enticest all minds, swayest all the three worlds and undoest one's meditation, austerities and restraint. The pleasure is ephemeral and thou afflictest high and low alike"</em> (GG, 1358). </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Tegh Bahadur</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Nanak IX, says: <em>"In the sinning heart reigns kam and the fickle mind breaks out of control. Kam casts its noose even upon yogis, jangams and sannyasis. Only those imbued with God's Name (fall not a prey to it) and are able to go across the ocean of existence"</em> (GG, 1186). </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhai_Gurdas" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Bhai Gurdas</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> describes an ideal </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sikh</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> as one who is loyal to his wife and <em>"regards all other women as mothers, sisters and daughters"</em> (Varan, XXIX. 11). </span></span></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Gobind Singh</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> also said: <em>"Love your own wedded wife ever so more, but do not go to another woman's bed even in a dream."</em> </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sikh</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> codes of conduct strictly prohibit extramarital relations. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">While prescribing self-control and restraint and not total annihilation of kam, the </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Gurus</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> suggested two ways of channelizing and sublimating it. On the one hand, they pronounced grihastha or married life to be the ideal one, and, on the other laid down love of God and absorption in His Name as the essential principle of spiritual discipline. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Says </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Gobind Singh</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <em>"Hear ye all, I proclaim here the truth: only they who love God find Him."</em> The image of a devotee most common in </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh_Scripture" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sikh Scripture</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> is one of a wife deeply in love with her "kant" or husband presently separated from him, and waiting, craving, praying for a reunion with him. Such fervent devotion cannot but bridle the wayward passion in man. According to </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Arjan</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, a person who has cultivated the love of the Lord’s feet would desire neither kingship, nor worldly power, nor even mukti or liberation (GG 534). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In the following </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Shabad" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Shabad</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, the Guru explains in very clear terms that lust and wrath will eat away the body away just as </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/borax" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">borax</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> dissolves and eats away pure gold. So the pure God-given body will be wasted away if one allows the mind to be overcome by rage, anger or lust. One is given a very clear warning to guard oneself from these negative emotions. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #ff6600">ਕਾਮੁ ਕ੍ਰੋਧੁ ਕਾਇਆ ਕਉ ਗਾਲੈ ॥ ਜਿਉ ਕੰਚਨ ਸੋਹਾਗਾ ਢਾਲੈ ॥</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #ff6600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Kām kroḏẖ kā&shy;i&shy;ā ka&shy;o gālai. Ji&shy;o kancẖan sohāgā dẖālai.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #ff6600"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lust and wrath wastes the body away, as borax melts gold. </span></span></span></p> </p> <p style="text-align: right"><p style="text-align: right"><strong><span style="color: #ff6600"><a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=932&g=1&h=1&r=1&t=2&p=0&k=0" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #0000ff">sggs page 932</span></span></u></a></span></strong></p> </p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 70043, member: 5290"] [B][FONT=Times New Roman]Lust and[/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman]Message of Gurbani[/FONT][/B] [I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Main article: [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS_on_lust"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]SGGS on lust[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]To quote [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Arjan[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], Nanak V: [I]“O Kam, thou landest people in hell and makest them wander through many births, enticest all minds, swayest all the three worlds and undoest one's meditation, austerities and restraint. The pleasure is ephemeral and thou afflictest high and low alike"[/I] (GG, 1358). [/FONT][/SIZE] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Tegh Bahadur[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] Nanak IX, says: [I]"In the sinning heart reigns kam and the fickle mind breaks out of control. Kam casts its noose even upon yogis, jangams and sannyasis. Only those imbued with God's Name (fall not a prey to it) and are able to go across the ocean of existence"[/I] (GG, 1186). [/FONT][/SIZE] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhai_Gurdas"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Bhai Gurdas[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] describes an ideal [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] as one who is loyal to his wife and [I]"regards all other women as mothers, sisters and daughters"[/I] (Varan, XXIX. 11). [/FONT][/SIZE] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Gobind Singh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] also said: [I]"Love your own wedded wife ever so more, but do not go to another woman's bed even in a dream."[/I] [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Sikh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] codes of conduct strictly prohibit extramarital relations. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]While prescribing self-control and restraint and not total annihilation of kam, the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Gurus[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] suggested two ways of channelizing and sublimating it. On the one hand, they pronounced grihastha or married life to be the ideal one, and, on the other laid down love of God and absorption in His Name as the essential principle of spiritual discipline. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Says [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Gobind Singh[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [I]"Hear ye all, I proclaim here the truth: only they who love God find Him."[/I] The image of a devotee most common in [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh_Scripture"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Sikh Scripture[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] is one of a wife deeply in love with her "kant" or husband presently separated from him, and waiting, craving, praying for a reunion with him. Such fervent devotion cannot but bridle the wayward passion in man. 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One is given a very clear warning to guard oneself from these negative emotions. [/FONT][/SIZE] [CENTER][CENTER][CENTER][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#ff6600]ਕਾਮੁ ਕ੍ਰੋਧੁ ਕਾਇਆ ਕਉ ਗਾਲੈ ॥ ਜਿਉ ਕੰਚਨ ਸੋਹਾਗਾ ਢਾਲੈ ॥[/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [CENTER][COLOR=#ff6600][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Kām kroḏẖ kā­i­ā ka­o gālai. Ji­o kancẖan sohāgā dẖālai. Lust and wrath wastes the body away, as borax melts gold. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER][/CENTER] [RIGHT][RIGHT][B][COLOR=#ff6600][URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=932&g=1&h=1&r=1&t=2&p=0&k=0"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#0000ff]sggs page 932[/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][/COLOR][/B][/RIGHT][/RIGHT] [/CENTER] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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