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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 70109" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>MOH</strong> in <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Punjabi" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Punjabi</span></u></a> means <strong>attachment to worldly things and relations</strong>. The word is derived from <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sanskrit" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Sanskrit</span></u></a> root <strong>"muh"</strong> meaning “to become stupefied, to be bewildered or perplexed, to err, to be mistaken,” stands in ancient texts for perplexity or confusion as also for the cause of confusion, that is, avidya or ajnana (ignorance or illusion). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In another context, it stands for “the snare of worldly illusion, infatuation.” Its function is twofold: it bedims the discernment of truth, prevents the discernment of reality, and it creates an error of judgement or leads to wrong knowledge (mithya jnana). Men believe in an eternal reality of their own existence or ego; they see truth in what is false and seek happiness in what begets suffering. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Punjabi" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Punjabi</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> <strong>Moh</strong> generally means <strong>unshakeable and deep love of and attachment to worldly things and relations</strong>. 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">, the term frequently occurs coupled with </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">maya</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> (maia) as </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">maya</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">-moh interpreted both as infatuation for or clinging to the illusory world of the senses and as illusion of worldly love and attachment. Sikh interpretation of </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">maya</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, however, differs from that of classical, advaita philosophy, which considers the phenomenal world unreal and therefore an illusion caused by human ignorance. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Sikhism</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, the visible world is a manifestation of God Himself and is therefore real; yet it is not satya or true in the sense of being immutable and eternal. This world of mass, form and movement woven into the warp and woof of time and space is God’s play created at His pleasure and is as such real and sacred; but it represents only one transient aspect and not the Ultimate Reality. </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Maya</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> is not an illusion in the sense of a mirage, a factual nullity; it is a delusion which represents transient as permanent and a part as the whole. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>Moh</strong> for <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">maya</span></u></a>, i.e. for this transient world of the senses, hinders the soul’s search for its ultimate goal and is, therefore, one of the Five Evils. It is related, on the one hand, to kam (desire, love) and lobh (possessiveness, covetousness) and, on the other, to ahankar (sense of I, my and mine). That is how moh has been referred to as a net, maiajal (GG, 266). <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Nanak</span></u></a> advises shedding of moh as it is the source of all evil and a cause for repeated births and deaths. (GG, 356). </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The antidote to <strong>moh</strong> is non-attachment. This is not easy, for 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-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> preach active participation in life rather than renunciation and escapism. Ultimately, of course, all depends on nadar or God’s grace. Says </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Nanak</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> “nadari kare ta ehu mohu jai—by (His) grace alone will this moh be cancelled” (GG, 356). The right remedy is the understanding (gian) that the mundane world, its relations and affairs, demanding one’s participation and involvement are transient. Non-attachment thus is not non-action, but an attitude to action characterized by </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Nanak</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> as that of a bajigar, participant in a sport. The world, says </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">Guru Nanak</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> in a hymn in Maru measure, “is like a seasonal pastureland where one passeth but a few days. . . Like the bajigar one plays one’s part here and departs” (GG, 1023). An image in </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurbani" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">gurbani</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> describing the ideal life is that of the lotus which, although living in water, keeps its head above it without allowing itself to be submerged</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 70109, member: 5290"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B]MOH[/B] in [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Punjabi"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Punjabi[/COLOR][/U][/URL] means [B]attachment to worldly things and relations[/B]. The word is derived from [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sanskrit"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Sanskrit[/COLOR][/U][/URL] root [B]"muh"[/B] meaning “to become stupefied, to be bewildered or perplexed, to err, to be mistaken,” stands in ancient texts for perplexity or confusion as also for the cause of confusion, that is, avidya or ajnana (ignorance or illusion). [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In another context, it stands for “the snare of worldly illusion, infatuation.” Its function is twofold: it bedims the discernment of truth, prevents the discernment of reality, and it creates an error of judgement or leads to wrong knowledge (mithya jnana). Men believe in an eternal reality of their own existence or ego; they see truth in what is false and seek happiness in what begets suffering. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]In [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Punjabi"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Punjabi[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [B]Moh[/B] generally means [B]unshakeable and deep love of and attachment to worldly things and relations[/B]. 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], the term frequently occurs coupled with [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]maya[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] (maia) as [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]maya[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]-moh interpreted both as infatuation for or clinging to the illusory world of the senses and as illusion of worldly love and attachment. Sikh interpretation of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]maya[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], however, differs from that of classical, advaita philosophy, which considers the phenomenal world unreal and therefore an illusion caused by human ignorance. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]In [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Sikhism[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], the visible world is a manifestation of God Himself and is therefore real; yet it is not satya or true in the sense of being immutable and eternal. This world of mass, form and movement woven into the warp and woof of time and space is God’s play created at His pleasure and is as such real and sacred; but it represents only one transient aspect and not the Ultimate Reality. [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Maya[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] is not an illusion in the sense of a mirage, a factual nullity; it is a delusion which represents transient as permanent and a part as the whole. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B]Moh[/B] for [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Maya"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]maya[/COLOR][/U][/URL], i.e. for this transient world of the senses, hinders the soul’s search for its ultimate goal and is, therefore, one of the Five Evils. It is related, on the one hand, to kam (desire, love) and lobh (possessiveness, covetousness) and, on the other, to ahankar (sense of I, my and mine). That is how moh has been referred to as a net, maiajal (GG, 266). [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Nanak[/COLOR][/U][/URL] advises shedding of moh as it is the source of all evil and a cause for repeated births and deaths. (GG, 356). [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The antidote to [B]moh[/B] is non-attachment. This is not easy, for 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][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] preach active participation in life rather than renunciation and escapism. Ultimately, of course, all depends on nadar or God’s grace. Says [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Nanak[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] “nadari kare ta ehu mohu jai—by (His) grace alone will this moh be cancelled” (GG, 356). The right remedy is the understanding (gian) that the mundane world, its relations and affairs, demanding one’s participation and involvement are transient. Non-attachment thus is not non-action, but an attitude to action characterized by [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Nanak[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] as that of a bajigar, participant in a sport. The world, says [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]Guru Nanak[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] in a hymn in Maru measure, “is like a seasonal pastureland where one passeth but a few days. . . Like the bajigar one plays one’s part here and departs” (GG, 1023). An image in [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurbani"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]gurbani[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] describing the ideal life is that of the lotus which, although living in water, keeps its head above it without allowing itself to be submerged[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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