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Sukhmani Sahib - Pauri 1 Of Asthpadi 2
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<blockquote data-quote="Amarpal" data-source="post: 21121" data-attributes="member: 10"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Dear Khalsa Ji,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">What I understand from the 1st Pauri of the 2nd Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib, I share with you.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">1. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">jh mwq ipqw suq mIq n BweI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jah maa<u>t</u> pi<u>t</u>aa su<u>t</u> mee<u>t</u> na <u>bh</u>aa-ee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Where there is no mother, father, siblings, friends or brother.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This sentence is not to be taken literally or physically. All our Gurus were house holders and had all the relations associated with it – mother, father, sisters, brothers, and friends. Yet it has a message. Here Guru Sahib yells me that I have to get rid of the selfish nature; I have to dissolve my ‘I’ and ‘mine nature. Every entity in this world belongs to ‘The Sat’; I have to get over my possessing attitudes. In every entity there is ‘The Sat’. All have to be equally dear to me and not just my blood relatives and friends alone, with whom I have direct relationships. This state of mind I have to create. In this state alone I will realize that I too belong to ‘The Sat; there is nothing that belongs to me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">mn aUhw nwmu qyrY sMig shweI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">man oohaa naam <u>t</u>ayrai sang sahaa-ee.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> In such mind is Naam, which is all with you and supports you.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This sentence is to be understood with the previous sentence. It conveys that once all the selfishness is removed from one’s being the mind becomes pure. This mind is the place of ‘Naam’ i.e. the remembrance of ‘The Sat’ who is always with us. We forget this fact because all our thinking space of mind gets filled with ‘I’ and ‘my’. It clouds our thinking so much that we forget the presence of ‘The Sat’ there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">3. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">jh mhw BieAwn dUq jm dlY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jah mahaa <u>bh</u>a-i-aan <u>d</u>oo<u>t</u> jam <u>d</u>alai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Where there is great fear of the agents of death (Jam or Yama).</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In this Guru Sahib refers to this world where we all live under the constant fear of death. Though it is the ultimate fait of all living entities, still no one wants to die. The fear of death haunts all the humans. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">4. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">qh kyvl nwmu sMig qyrY clY ] </span></span><u><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-size: 12px">t</span></span></u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">ah kayval naam sang <u>t</u>ayrai chalai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">There only “Naam’ accompanies the person.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This sentence is to be understood in the context of what is said in the previous one. Guru Sahib says that once the space of mind is filled with ‘Naam’ i.e. remembrance of ‘The Sat’, there is nothing that is mine, every thing belongs to ‘The Sat’ and it includes the life of the individual. Once the person has already understood and realized in its being that the life too belongs to ‘The Sat’, she or he has nothing to loose. What can death take away from her or him? Such an individual is free from all attachments; this individual lives this empirical life with a sense of ‘Hukam’ from ‘The Sat’. Death is not a fear for such a person; this person cannot be crushed by it. The person is imbued with remembrance of ‘The Sat’. The mental space of this individual is filled with ‘Naam’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">5. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">jh muskl hovY Aiq BwrI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">jah muskal hovai a<u>t</u> <u>bh</u>aaree.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> Where the difficulties of life become too intense.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib is telling that when the difficulties in life become too intense. If it becomes extremely difficult for the individual to handle them </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">6. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">hir ko nwmu iKn mwih auDwrI ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">har ko naam <u>kh</u>in maahi u<u>Dh</u>aaree.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ lifts the person above the difficulties.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib says that it is the remembrance of ‘The Sat’ which helps the individual to come out of difficult position or find solutions to the difficult position in which the individual finds herself or himself. I understand that one is in difficult position and deliberates intensely over it. The deeper layers (subconscious) of the brain get involves in solving the problem. With remembrance of ‘The Sat’ (Naam) the mind becomes pure and the fuzziness in thinking disappears; ‘I’ and ‘mine’ gets dissolve and the individual sees the situation as it truly is. This is the environment in which the right solution emerges. This way, ‘Naam’ provides solution for the individual to come out of difficult situations with success.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">7. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">Aink punhcrn krq nhI qrY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">anik punahcharan kara<u>t</u> nahee <u>t</u>arai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Performing several un-sinful acts does not carry the person through.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Guru Sahib says that doing rituals to dissolve the sins do not help the individual to dissolve her or his past Karma. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">8. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">hir ko nwmu koit pwp prhrY ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">har ko naam kot paap parharai.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’, dissolves the sinful acts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <strong><u>My understanding</u>:</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">This sentence too has to be read along with the previous sentence. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I understand that all Karmas, good or bad, when done with a sense of ‘I’ or ‘mine’ get into the Karmic cycle. I also understand that Karmas that are done without ‘I’ or ‘my’ are out of Karmic cycle as they cannot be tagged to any individual because there is no ‘I’ or ‘my’. Such Karmas are divine. It was of this reason Gautam Buddha had said;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The Dharma that I do is Karma. The Dharma that happens is Divine.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Here it should be noted that there is no ‘I’ in the second part of this saying.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib here is very clear. When the person has become pure in her or his mind and its ‘I’ or ‘my’ are all dissolved, then the individual too who has done the specific karma in the past to stands dissolved; there is only ‘The Sat’ who fills this person’s being. We know that ‘The Sat’ is beyond the cycle of Karma. The person who has freed itself from the five vices; who has dissolved its attachments and desires and who now lives a truthful life has no ‘I’ or ‘my’ left in her or in him. The person has become a living expression of the Shabad; the person has become a Gurmukh. Expect the body, this person is no longer the same; it’s being is no longer the same as it was when she or he has done the past Karmas. The Karmic cycle can no longer find the doer of the past sin and so the karmic cycle can no longer impact on this purified individual. This way the person gets protected from the adverse impact of her or his past deeds. This is what I understand Guru Sahib is conveying to me.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">9. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">gurmuiK nwmu jphu mn myry ] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">gurmu<u>kh</u> naam japahu man mayray.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">As Gurmukh, O’ my mind, repeat ‘Naam’.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib has put me on the path of continuous spiritual elevation. This path is simple even illiterates can follow it. It is that of ‘Naam’ which purifies the individual’s being.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This is a great teaching from my Guru Sahib. ‘Wah-e-guru’. ‘Wah-e-guru’. ‘Wah-e-guru’.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10. </span></span><span style="color: maroon"><span style="font-family: 'WebAkharThick'">nwnk pwvhu sUK Gnyry ]1] </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">naanak paavhu soo<u>kh</u> <u>gh</u>anayray. ||1||</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">O’ Nanak, will find intense joyful serene peace.</span></span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><u>My understanding</u>:</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Sahib restates the advantage of the path of ‘Naam’ -. Truthfully living the life of a house holder and in remembrance of ‘The Sat’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With this I close today’s post.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With love and respect for all.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Amarpal Singh</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amarpal, post: 21121, member: 10"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Dear Khalsa Ji,[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]What I understand from the 1st Pauri of the 2nd Ashtapadee of Sukhmani Sahib, I share with you.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]1. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jh mwq ipqw suq mIq n BweI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jah maa[U]t[/U] pi[U]t[/U]aa su[U]t[/U] mee[U]t[/U] na [U]bh[/U]aa-ee. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Where there is no mother, father, siblings, friends or brother.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This sentence is not to be taken literally or physically. All our Gurus were house holders and had all the relations associated with it – mother, father, sisters, brothers, and friends. Yet it has a message. Here Guru Sahib yells me that I have to get rid of the selfish nature; I have to dissolve my ‘I’ and ‘mine nature. Every entity in this world belongs to ‘The Sat’; I have to get over my possessing attitudes. In every entity there is ‘The Sat’. All have to be equally dear to me and not just my blood relatives and friends alone, with whom I have direct relationships. This state of mind I have to create. In this state alone I will realize that I too belong to ‘The Sat; there is nothing that belongs to me.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]2. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]mn aUhw nwmu qyrY sMig shweI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]man oohaa naam [U]t[/U]ayrai sang sahaa-ee. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] In such mind is Naam, which is all with you and supports you.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This sentence is to be understood with the previous sentence. It conveys that once all the selfishness is removed from one’s being the mind becomes pure. This mind is the place of ‘Naam’ i.e. the remembrance of ‘The Sat’ who is always with us. We forget this fact because all our thinking space of mind gets filled with ‘I’ and ‘my’. It clouds our thinking so much that we forget the presence of ‘The Sat’ there.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]3. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jh mhw BieAwn dUq jm dlY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jah mahaa [U]bh[/U]a-i-aan [U]d[/U]oo[U]t[/U] jam [U]d[/U]alai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]Where there is great fear of the agents of death (Jam or Yama).[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]In this Guru Sahib refers to this world where we all live under the constant fear of death. Though it is the ultimate fait of all living entities, still no one wants to die. The fear of death haunts all the humans. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]4. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]qh kyvl nwmu sMig qyrY clY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][U][FONT=Tahoma][SIZE=3]t[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]ah kayval naam sang [U]t[/U]ayrai chalai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]There only “Naam’ accompanies the person.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This sentence is to be understood in the context of what is said in the previous one. Guru Sahib says that once the space of mind is filled with ‘Naam’ i.e. remembrance of ‘The Sat’, there is nothing that is mine, every thing belongs to ‘The Sat’ and it includes the life of the individual. Once the person has already understood and realized in its being that the life too belongs to ‘The Sat’, she or he has nothing to loose. What can death take away from her or him? Such an individual is free from all attachments; this individual lives this empirical life with a sense of ‘Hukam’ from ‘The Sat’. Death is not a fear for such a person; this person cannot be crushed by it. The person is imbued with remembrance of ‘The Sat’. The mental space of this individual is filled with ‘Naam’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]5. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]jh muskl hovY Aiq BwrI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]jah muskal hovai a[U]t[/U] [U]bh[/U]aaree. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman] Where the difficulties of life become too intense.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib is telling that when the difficulties in life become too intense. If it becomes extremely difficult for the individual to handle them [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]6. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]hir ko nwmu iKn mwih auDwrI ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]har ko naam [U]kh[/U]in maahi u[U]Dh[/U]aaree. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’ lifts the person above the difficulties.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib says that it is the remembrance of ‘The Sat’ which helps the individual to come out of difficult position or find solutions to the difficult position in which the individual finds herself or himself. I understand that one is in difficult position and deliberates intensely over it. The deeper layers (subconscious) of the brain get involves in solving the problem. With remembrance of ‘The Sat’ (Naam) the mind becomes pure and the fuzziness in thinking disappears; ‘I’ and ‘mine’ gets dissolve and the individual sees the situation as it truly is. This is the environment in which the right solution emerges. This way, ‘Naam’ provides solution for the individual to come out of difficult situations with success.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]7. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]Aink punhcrn krq nhI qrY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]anik punahcharan kara[U]t[/U] nahee [U]t[/U]arai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]Performing several un-sinful acts does not carry the person through.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Guru Sahib says that doing rituals to dissolve the sins do not help the individual to dissolve her or his past Karma. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]8. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]hir ko nwmu koit pwp prhrY ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]har ko naam kot paap parharai. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]The ‘Naam’ of ‘The Sat’, dissolves the sinful acts.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] [B][U]My understanding[/U]:[/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]This sentence too has to be read along with the previous sentence. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I understand that all Karmas, good or bad, when done with a sense of ‘I’ or ‘mine’ get into the Karmic cycle. I also understand that Karmas that are done without ‘I’ or ‘my’ are out of Karmic cycle as they cannot be tagged to any individual because there is no ‘I’ or ‘my’. Such Karmas are divine. It was of this reason Gautam Buddha had said;[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] The Dharma that I do is Karma. The Dharma that happens is Divine.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Here it should be noted that there is no ‘I’ in the second part of this saying.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib here is very clear. When the person has become pure in her or his mind and its ‘I’ or ‘my’ are all dissolved, then the individual too who has done the specific karma in the past to stands dissolved; there is only ‘The Sat’ who fills this person’s being. We know that ‘The Sat’ is beyond the cycle of Karma. The person who has freed itself from the five vices; who has dissolved its attachments and desires and who now lives a truthful life has no ‘I’ or ‘my’ left in her or in him. The person has become a living expression of the Shabad; the person has become a Gurmukh. Expect the body, this person is no longer the same; it’s being is no longer the same as it was when she or he has done the past Karmas. The Karmic cycle can no longer find the doer of the past sin and so the karmic cycle can no longer impact on this purified individual. This way the person gets protected from the adverse impact of her or his past deeds. This is what I understand Guru Sahib is conveying to me.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]9. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]gurmuiK nwmu jphu mn myry ] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]gurmu[U]kh[/U] naam japahu man mayray. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]As Gurmukh, O’ my mind, repeat ‘Naam’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib has put me on the path of continuous spiritual elevation. This path is simple even illiterates can follow it. It is that of ‘Naam’ which purifies the individual’s being.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]This is a great teaching from my Guru Sahib. ‘Wah-e-guru’. ‘Wah-e-guru’. ‘Wah-e-guru’.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]10. [/FONT][/SIZE][COLOR=maroon][FONT=WebAkharThick]nwnk pwvhu sUK Gnyry ]1] [/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][FONT=Tahoma]naanak paavhu soo[U]kh[/U] [U]gh[/U]anayray. ||1|| [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]O’ Nanak, will find intense joyful serene peace.[/FONT][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][U]My understanding[/U]:[/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Sahib restates the advantage of the path of ‘Naam’ -. Truthfully living the life of a house holder and in remembrance of ‘The Sat’. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With this I close today’s post.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]With love and respect for all.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Amarpal Singh[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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