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<blockquote data-quote="NamHariKaur" data-source="post: 12277" data-attributes="member: 1453"><p><strong>Re: Language - A barrier for New Sikhs</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Sat Nam, CaramelChocolate Ji;</span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="color: magenta">(What a lovely name!)</span></em></p><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta">I beg to differ with you. </span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Are you not remembering the sound current?</span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">I am no expert on this although I have direct experience with the transformative power of the sound current and I have read everything I can find on the subject. </span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Most of what has been written comes from Harbhajan Singh Khalsa aka "Yogi Bhajan." While his teachings are about 10% of all of what I read and study and I am not a "devotee" of Yogi Bhajan, nonetheless he has revealed a great deal to us.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta">The sound current is said to have the capacity to perform transformations of the material world - including human consciousness and "brain functioning." Consider this quote from the Guru:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><strong><em>As long as the mortal does not come to understand the mystery </em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><em><strong>of the Shabad — Transcendendal Vibratory Sound — he will </strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><em><strong>continue to be tormented by the fear of death (sggs 1126). </strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><em><strong>But rare is that person, who, by becoming a Spiritual Being</strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><em><strong>(Gurmukh), understands this mystery (sggs 1139).</strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"><strong><em>Taken from: <a href="http://www.gurbani.org/webart179.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gurbani.org/webart179.htm</a></em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: blue"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Some of the basic notions are these: that all of the material manifestations of the creation consist of sets of vibrations that were created by God. Sanskrit is said to be the earliest or one of the earliest languages of humankind and consists of syllables which create some of the same vibrations that are manifest throughout the material world. </span></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Gurbani is said to be very close to Sanskrit. Buddhists have many mantras that are in Sanskrit for these same reasons - the power of the vibrations to change the way the material world is manifesting. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta">Here is the first paragraph of a lengthy treatise on this subject by Yogi Bhajan:</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: seagreen"><em><strong>Naad means "the essence of all sounds". All languages contain sounds which relate to one or more of the five elements of air, fire, water, earth or ether. Gurbani is a perfect combination and permutation of sounds relating to all the five elements in complete balance. When Guru Arjun Dev, the fifth Guru Nanak, compiled the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, in 1604, he put in only those Banis which were in Naad. These compositions are called Gurbani.</strong></em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: seagreen"><em><strong>There are eighty-four meridian points on the upper palate of a human’s mouth. One can feel that upper palate with the tongue and experience its different surfaces. There are two rows of meridian points on the upper palate and on the gum behind the upper teeth. The tongue stimulates those meridian points, and they in turn stimulate the hypothalamus which makes the pineal gland radiate. When the pineal gland radiates, it creates an impulsation in the pituitary gland. When the pituitary gland gives impulsation, the entire glandular system secretes and a human being obtains bliss. </strong></em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><strong><em>...One who knows the Naad knows the Aad, the Primal Creativity....</em></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">The whole language of Gurbani has the power to make a person divine, just in its recitation, if done correctly. One need not be concerned with the meaning for a change in consciousness. Bani has to be understood by the heart, not by the head. </span></em></strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">Taken from:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/sikhism.nsf/d9c75ce4db27be328725639a0063aecc/66c81f913f9c651b872565b7007b33a7!OpenDocument" target="_blank">http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/sikhism.nsf/d9c75ce4db27be328725639a0063aecc/66c81f913f9c651b872565b7007b33a7!OpenDocument</a></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: magenta">For me, from the beginning, which was a scant 16 months ago - March 2004 - listening to Gurbani had profound effects on my body and consciousness. The same Hukhams read in English immediately afterwards had little impact on me. I can truthfully testify that simply hearing Gurbani changed my life completely. I began a life of worship first by attending morning Sadhana with increasing frequency. I had many visions while listening to Gurbani, the most important of which was one which was auditory rather than visual and "suggested" that I say goodbye to life as I had known it and go with God. At the time I thought this meant that I was going to die. Although I did not want to die or leave this life, being 55 I had enough experience with saying "no" to God to know that I did not want to live without the Grace of God Blessing my life. I fell to my knees saying "I do not want to go, just take me." Tears were streaming down my face and I repeated this over and over. </span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: magenta">Then two months later after many visits to the ashram to hear kirtan and Hukhams, I quit my job, retiring three years earlier than expected, because "circumstances" made this both reasonable and possible and most of all this came after saying during that vision that I would give my life to God. </span><span style="color: #ff00ff">My way of seeing this was and is that the Guru arranged for me to say goodbye to my career so that I could fully attend to my life of devotion. </span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">Since that time, over the next 14 months most of each day is occupied with first doing JapJi and Kundalinii yoga and an hour of chanting followed by Ardas and a Hukham. The rest of the day I am either doing seva - counseling others for free in spiritual and personal growth matters - or else I am studying Sikhism. (The career I retired from was teaching Physics at a junior college). I really have almost no secular life at this time. I have complete freedom to do what I want but I never go to the coast to walk the beach or go to films or engage in "entertainment." Such things seem to have lost most of their pull on me. The desires that used to torment me -desires to fall in love and have a partner - have vanished completely. Events which used to make me happy or bring me down only bring a smile or a frown but have little deep impact on me. My greatest Bliss - anand - is to meditate at the Ashram while Gurbani is chanted or chanting along with the Sanghat. My entire body vibrates to the Naad and my mental consciousness sometimes begins to vanish. </span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"><span style="color: #ff00ff">I have most recently taught myself to read Gurmukhi, though still at the level of a 4 year old, sounding out each syllable first before pronouncing the whole word. I have done this so that eventually I can read from the Guru and experience Naad directly myself. </span></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"> </span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"><span style="color: #ff00ff">All of these changes came about as a result of hearing Gurbani that I did not have any understanding of whatsoever. </span></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff"></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">I will end by saying that my most transformative experience, the one described above happened while listening to a chant of the 28th pauri of JapJi by Snatam Kaur. Many months later, really a full year after it happened, I found that the following is said of the 28th pauri:</span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: green"><strong><em>"The 28th pauri is the strongest permutation and combinations of words in the world. It unites you with God." </em></strong></span></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">When I read this a few months ago, I gasped, for that is exactly what it did to me. </span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">"Nanak Nadaree karamee daat" is the story of these changes in my life; By the merciful glance of God, I have been given gifts and Blessings.</span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="font-family: 'GurbaniAkhar'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: purple"><strong>nwnk ndrI krmI dWiq</strong></span></span></span></strong></em></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa,</span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh!</span></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong></strong></em></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><span style="color: #2e8b57"><em><strong><span style="color: #ff00ff">Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene Oregon.</span></strong></em></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NamHariKaur, post: 12277, member: 1453"] [b]Re: Language - A barrier for New Sikhs[/b] [color=magenta]Sat Nam, CaramelChocolate Ji;[/color] [i][color=magenta](What a lovely name!)[/color][/i] [color=magenta]I beg to differ with you. [/color] [color=magenta]Are you not remembering the sound current?[/color] [color=magenta]I am no expert on this although I have direct experience with the transformative power of the sound current and I have read everything I can find on the subject. [/color] [color=magenta]Most of what has been written comes from Harbhajan Singh Khalsa aka "Yogi Bhajan." While his teachings are about 10% of all of what I read and study and I am not a "devotee" of Yogi Bhajan, nonetheless he has revealed a great deal to us.[/color] [color=magenta]The sound current is said to have the capacity to perform transformations of the material world - including human consciousness and "brain functioning." Consider this quote from the Guru:[/color] [font=Arial Narrow][color=blue][b][i]As long as the mortal does not come to understand the mystery [/i][/b][i][/i] [i][b]of the Shabad — Transcendendal Vibratory Sound — he will [/b][/i] [i][b]continue to be tormented by the fear of death (sggs 1126). [/b][/i] [i][b]But rare is that person, who, by becoming a Spiritual Being[/b][/i] [i][b](Gurmukh), understands this mystery (sggs 1139).[/b][/i] [i][b][/b][/i][b][/b][/color][/font] [font=Arial Narrow][color=blue][b][i]Taken from: [url="http://www.gurbani.org/webart179.htm"]http://www.gurbani.org/webart179.htm[/url][/i][/b][/color][/font] [font=Arial Narrow][color=blue][b][i][/i][/b][i][/i] [i][b][/b][/i][b][/b][/color][/font] [color=magenta]Some of the basic notions are these: that all of the material manifestations of the creation consist of sets of vibrations that were created by God. Sanskrit is said to be the earliest or one of the earliest languages of humankind and consists of syllables which create some of the same vibrations that are manifest throughout the material world. [/color] [color=magenta]Gurbani is said to be very close to Sanskrit. Buddhists have many mantras that are in Sanskrit for these same reasons - the power of the vibrations to change the way the material world is manifesting. [/color] [color=magenta]Here is the first paragraph of a lengthy treatise on this subject by Yogi Bhajan:[/color] [font=Arial Narrow][color=seagreen][i][b]Naad means "the essence of all sounds". All languages contain sounds which relate to one or more of the five elements of air, fire, water, earth or ether. Gurbani is a perfect combination and permutation of sounds relating to all the five elements in complete balance. When Guru Arjun Dev, the fifth Guru Nanak, compiled the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, in 1604, he put in only those Banis which were in Naad. These compositions are called Gurbani.[/b][/i][/color][/font] [font=Arial Narrow][color=seagreen][i][b]There are eighty-four meridian points on the upper palate of a human’s mouth. One can feel that upper palate with the tongue and experience its different surfaces. There are two rows of meridian points on the upper palate and on the gum behind the upper teeth. The tongue stimulates those meridian points, and they in turn stimulate the hypothalamus which makes the pineal gland radiate. When the pineal gland radiates, it creates an impulsation in the pituitary gland. When the pituitary gland gives impulsation, the entire glandular system secretes and a human being obtains bliss. [/b][/i][/color][/font] [b][/b] [font=Arial Narrow][color=#2e8b57][b][i]...One who knows the Naad knows the Aad, the Primal Creativity....[/i][/b][/color][/font] [font=Arial Narrow][color=#2e8b57][b][i][/i][/b][i][/i] [i][b][b][i][font=Arial Narrow]The whole language of Gurbani has the power to make a person divine, just in its recitation, if done correctly. One need not be concerned with the meaning for a change in consciousness. Bani has to be understood by the heart, not by the head. [/font][/i][/b] [b][/b] [b][font=Arial Narrow]Taken from:[/font][/b] [url="http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/sikhism.nsf/d9c75ce4db27be328725639a0063aecc/66c81f913f9c651b872565b7007b33a7!OpenDocument"]http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/sikhism.nsf/d9c75ce4db27be328725639a0063aecc/66c81f913f9c651b872565b7007b33a7!OpenDocument[/url] [color=magenta]For me, from the beginning, which was a scant 16 months ago - March 2004 - listening to Gurbani had profound effects on my body and consciousness. The same Hukhams read in English immediately afterwards had little impact on me. I can truthfully testify that simply hearing Gurbani changed my life completely. I began a life of worship first by attending morning Sadhana with increasing frequency. I had many visions while listening to Gurbani, the most important of which was one which was auditory rather than visual and "suggested" that I say goodbye to life as I had known it and go with God. At the time I thought this meant that I was going to die. Although I did not want to die or leave this life, being 55 I had enough experience with saying "no" to God to know that I did not want to live without the Grace of God Blessing my life. I fell to my knees saying "I do not want to go, just take me." Tears were streaming down my face and I repeated this over and over. [/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=magenta]Then two months later after many visits to the ashram to hear kirtan and Hukhams, I quit my job, retiring three years earlier than expected, because "circumstances" made this both reasonable and possible and most of all this came after saying during that vision that I would give my life to God. [/color][color=#ff00ff]My way of seeing this was and is that the Guru arranged for me to say goodbye to my career so that I could fully attend to my life of devotion. [/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=#ff00ff]Since that time, over the next 14 months most of each day is occupied with first doing JapJi and Kundalinii yoga and an hour of chanting followed by Ardas and a Hukham. The rest of the day I am either doing seva - counseling others for free in spiritual and personal growth matters - or else I am studying Sikhism. (The career I retired from was teaching Physics at a junior college). I really have almost no secular life at this time. I have complete freedom to do what I want but I never go to the coast to walk the beach or go to films or engage in "entertainment." Such things seem to have lost most of their pull on me. The desires that used to torment me -desires to fall in love and have a partner - have vanished completely. Events which used to make me happy or bring me down only bring a smile or a frown but have little deep impact on me. My greatest Bliss - anand - is to meditate at the Ashram while Gurbani is chanted or chanting along with the Sanghat. My entire body vibrates to the Naad and my mental consciousness sometimes begins to vanish. [/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=#ff00ff][color=#ff00ff]I have most recently taught myself to read Gurmukhi, though still at the level of a 4 year old, sounding out each syllable first before pronouncing the whole word. I have done this so that eventually I can read from the Guru and experience Naad directly myself. [/color][/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [color=#ff00ff] [color=#ff00ff]All of these changes came about as a result of hearing Gurbani that I did not have any understanding of whatsoever. [/color] [/color] [color=#ff00ff]I will end by saying that my most transformative experience, the one described above happened while listening to a chant of the 28th pauri of JapJi by Snatam Kaur. Many months later, really a full year after it happened, I found that the following is said of the 28th pauri:[/color] [b][/b] [font=Arial Narrow][color=green][b][i]"The 28th pauri is the strongest permutation and combinations of words in the world. It unites you with God." [/i][/b][/color][/font] [b][i][font=Arial Narrow][color=#008000][/color][/font][/i][/b] [b][i][font=Arial Narrow][color=#008000][/color][/font][/i][/b] [color=#ff00ff]When I read this a few months ago, I gasped, for that is exactly what it did to me. [/color] [color=#ff00ff]"Nanak Nadaree karamee daat" is the story of these changes in my life; By the merciful glance of God, I have been given gifts and Blessings.[/color] [color=#ff00ff][/color] [font=GurbaniAkhar][size=3][color=purple][/color][/size][/font] [font=GurbaniAkhar][size=3][color=purple][b]nwnk ndrI krmI dWiq[/b][/color][/size][/font] [b][font=GurbaniAkhar][size=3][color=#800080][/color][/size][/font][/b] [color=#ff00ff]Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa,[/color] [color=#ff00ff]Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh![/color] [color=#ff00ff]Nam Hari Kaur, Eugene Oregon.[/color][/b][/i][b][/b][/color][/font] [/QUOTE]
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