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<blockquote data-quote="BhagatSingh" data-source="post: 151857" data-attributes="member: 2610"><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Harry ji and Ishna ji,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">I would try meditating and contemplating on both the literal and metaphorical interpretations of Gurbani. It is only when all perspectives are brought together and seen to be an expression of Divine light, that one comes to be enlightened.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">The thing is when you rationally solve out a translation in your head, a translation that you think is false, you end up with a metaphorical reading. Correct?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">But it is because you have been born into this modern environment, that you saw the literal interpretation as false.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Keep that in mind and continue reading.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">In the very beginning of Jap ji Sahib. Guru Nanak says that Truth is:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'AnmolUniPr'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #800000"><a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF" target="_blank">ਆਦਿ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81" target="_blank">ਸਚੁ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF" target="_blank">ਜੁਗਾਦਿ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81" target="_blank">ਸਚੁ </a> ॥</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #008080">आदि सचु जुगादि सचु ॥</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'TAHOMA'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Āḏ sacẖ jugāḏ sacẖ.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'TAHOMA'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000080">True In The Primal Beginning. True Throughout The Ages.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span> <span style="font-family: 'AnmolUniPr'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #800000"><a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%88" target="_blank">ਹੈ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%AD%E0%A9%80" target="_blank">ਭੀ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81" target="_blank">ਸਚੁ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%95" target="_blank">ਨਾਨਕ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80" target="_blank">ਹੋਸੀ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%AD%E0%A9%80" target="_blank">ਭੀ </a> <a href="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81" target="_blank">ਸਚੁ </a> ॥੧॥</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #008080">है भी सचु नानक होसी भी सचु ॥१॥</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'TAHOMA'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Hai bẖī sacẖ Nānak hosī bẖī sacẖ. ||1||</span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-family: 'TAHOMA'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #000080">True Here And Now. O Nanak, Forever And Ever True. ||1||</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">So that which is always True, is the Truth. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Now your modern interpretation of a translation may not have been seen as Truth through-out the ages. It may not be true tomorrow. Indeed the literal interpretation also falls in the same trap.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Your modern upbringing is also false. As it is only here now. It may change in the future. Certainly in the past, this upbringing was not there.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Not being struck by death and not being struck by fear (of death), both point towards a greater Truth that cannot be conceptualized. When it is (in the mind) conceptualized, that is, when the Truth is given some form in the mind as anything other than an intuitive understanding, two expressions of the Truth will contradict.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">To repeat, when you try to hold the Truth-elephant in your mind, you will fail to hug the entire creature, and will end up hugging only one false notion. 1. </span><span style="font-size: 10px">Not being struck by death</span> or 2. <span style="font-size: 10px">not being struck by fear,</span> 1. abrahamic faiths vs 2. eastern faiths.</p><p></p><p>So how to hold the entire elephant?</p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Now this maybe getting old and maybe frustrating as an answer, but I cannot stress it enough... How to see the greater Truth? kiv sacheara hoiea kiv koorhe tutte paal? Hukam rajai chalna nanak likhiya naal. Nanak says, Walk in the way of the Hukam. (Which happens to be the first pauri that follows the description of Truth above...)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Yes we have read some shabads of Gurbani now. Great! When I have done so, I find that it is more important to step away from the computer and go into solitude rather than try to solve it out and reply to people.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-size: 10px">Cheers peacesign</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-size: 10px">*then steps away from the computer and falls asleep* Hahaha!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BhagatSingh, post: 151857, member: 2610"] [SIZE=2]Harry ji and Ishna ji, I would try meditating and contemplating on both the literal and metaphorical interpretations of Gurbani. It is only when all perspectives are brought together and seen to be an expression of Divine light, that one comes to be enlightened. The thing is when you rationally solve out a translation in your head, a translation that you think is false, you end up with a metaphorical reading. Correct? But it is because you have been born into this modern environment, that you saw the literal interpretation as false. Keep that in mind and continue reading. In the very beginning of Jap ji Sahib. Guru Nanak says that Truth is: [/SIZE][FONT=AnmolUniPr][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000][URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF"]ਆਦਿ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81"]ਸਚੁ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BF"]ਜੁਗਾਦਿ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81"]ਸਚੁ [/URL] ॥[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#008080]आदि सचु जुगादि सचु ॥[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][FONT=TAHOMA][SIZE=2]Āḏ sacẖ jugāḏ sacẖ.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][FONT=TAHOMA][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000080]True In The Primal Beginning. True Throughout The Ages.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE] [FONT=AnmolUniPr][SIZE=2][COLOR=#800000][URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%88"]ਹੈ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%AD%E0%A9%80"]ਭੀ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81"]ਸਚੁ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%95"]ਨਾਨਕ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B9%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80"]ਹੋਸੀ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%AD%E0%A9%80"]ਭੀ [/URL] [URL="http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.dictionary?Param=%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%9A%E0%A9%81"]ਸਚੁ [/URL] ॥੧॥[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#008080]है भी सचु नानक होसी भी सचु ॥१॥[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][FONT=TAHOMA][SIZE=2]Hai bẖī sacẖ Nānak hosī bẖī sacẖ. ||1||[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][FONT=TAHOMA][SIZE=2][COLOR=#000080]True Here And Now. O Nanak, Forever And Ever True. ||1||[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=2] So that which is always True, is the Truth. Now your modern interpretation of a translation may not have been seen as Truth through-out the ages. It may not be true tomorrow. Indeed the literal interpretation also falls in the same trap. Your modern upbringing is also false. As it is only here now. It may change in the future. Certainly in the past, this upbringing was not there. Not being struck by death and not being struck by fear (of death), both point towards a greater Truth that cannot be conceptualized. When it is (in the mind) conceptualized, that is, when the Truth is given some form in the mind as anything other than an intuitive understanding, two expressions of the Truth will contradict. To repeat, when you try to hold the Truth-elephant in your mind, you will fail to hug the entire creature, and will end up hugging only one false notion. 1. [/SIZE][SIZE=2]Not being struck by death[/SIZE] or 2. [SIZE=2]not being struck by fear,[/SIZE] 1. abrahamic faiths vs 2. eastern faiths. So how to hold the entire elephant? [SIZE=2] Now this maybe getting old and maybe frustrating as an answer, but I cannot stress it enough... How to see the greater Truth? kiv sacheara hoiea kiv koorhe tutte paal? Hukam rajai chalna nanak likhiya naal. Nanak says, Walk in the way of the Hukam. (Which happens to be the first pauri that follows the description of Truth above...) Yes we have read some shabads of Gurbani now. Great! When I have done so, I find that it is more important to step away from the computer and go into solitude rather than try to solve it out and reply to people. [/SIZE][SIZE=2]Cheers peacesign [/SIZE][SIZE=2]*then steps away from the computer and falls asleep* Hahaha![/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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