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Gurmat Vichar - Discussions
The Bondage Of Ego
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<blockquote data-quote="pritpal_singh" data-source="post: 79716" data-attributes="member: 4830"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">When something bad happens to someone, one is quick to blame the person who has done that bad to him, but what he doesn’t realise is that it is almighty himself who speaks (good or bad) or does deeds (good or bad) through all of us ( part of his elaborate game ). So when somebody speaks or does bad to us it is not him (the individual) who is doing it. He is actually been made to do that my GOD himself. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So how can we blame him ? and we also can’t blame GOD, Why ? because this pain, sorrow has befallen on us as payback for our past Karmas.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">WE HAVE TO BLAME OURSELVES FOR ALL THE PAIN AND SORROW THAT INFLICTS US.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">………..AAPE BEEJ AAPE HE KHAYE…………….</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SO LET US SET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER BY DOING KARMA THAT GOD LIKES………….</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">When nobody else is to be blamed but yourself, then nobody is your enemy but yourself. Then instead of fighting others, we should fight with ourselves i.e. our MAAN who is the actual culprit, who engrossed in it’s EGO along with MAYA prompts us to do bad Karma.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Beware … all karma performed by us that has been fueled by our ego, becomes a burden for our soul, because the soul always wants to break free and join the supreme soul, but it can’t do so because of the bondage of debts incurred on it by the egoistic karma that our maan indulges in, for which it has to suffer the repurcussions according to WAHEGURU’S HUKAM which is fixed, unforgiving and true (IN FACT THE TRUEST THING IN THIS WORLD IS THE LORD’S HUKAM)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So, our soul can’t set itself free without paying back all it’s debts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now, day in and day out we keep performing these egoistic karmas (irrespective of how much we try) which add to the already huge burden of such past karmas. This endless loop means that the debts on our soul shall never be paid back, even if we take countless births.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So this proves that this bondage on our soul cannot be freed by any of our efforts. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now if the objective of every human birth is to try to set it’s soul free from the bondage of egoistic karma, and we know that all our efforts to do so have failed us till date, then what is the answer to all this filth that we have put our soul into ?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Herein come our GURU’S preachings, the countless words that adorn our GRANTH, all trying to say just one thing – constant remembrance of WAHEGURU ( the supreme soul ) i.e. NAAM-SIMRAN is the only true service that can be performed for the LORD which should be :-</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">1)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">WITHOUT DESIRE (NISHKAM)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">2)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">IN HUMILITY (NIMRATA)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">3)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">WITH PURITY OF INTENTION (HIRDA SHUDH)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">4)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">WITH SINCERETY (CHIT LAE)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">5)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">IN UTTER SELFLESSNESS (VICHON AAP GAVAE)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">and constantly practicing the following :-</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">a)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">HUMILITY, THE WORD (NIVAAN CHA AAKHAR)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">b)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">FORGIVENESS, THE VIRTUE (KHAWAN GUN)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">c)</span> <span style="font-size: 12px">JIHBA MANIYA MANT, THE MAGICAL MANTRA (SWEET SPEECH) </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Such efforts will bring the LORD to reside in us, and once HE comes in then the EGO and all VIKARS, which have bondaged our SOUL till now run away and disappear, Thus freeing our SOUL of all bondages and debts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SO NEXT TIME WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE KILLING SOMEONE, TRY KILLING YOUR MAAN FOR A CHANGE.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pritpal_singh, post: 79716, member: 4830"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]When something bad happens to someone, one is quick to blame the person who has done that bad to him, but what he doesn’t realise is that it is almighty himself who speaks (good or bad) or does deeds (good or bad) through all of us ( part of his elaborate game ). So when somebody speaks or does bad to us it is not him (the individual) who is doing it. He is actually been made to do that my GOD himself. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So how can we blame him ? and we also can’t blame GOD, Why ? because this pain, sorrow has befallen on us as payback for our past Karmas.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]WE HAVE TO BLAME OURSELVES FOR ALL THE PAIN AND SORROW THAT INFLICTS US.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]………..AAPE BEEJ AAPE HE KHAYE…………….[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SO LET US SET OUR HOUSE IN ORDER BY DOING KARMA THAT GOD LIKES………….[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]When nobody else is to be blamed but yourself, then nobody is your enemy but yourself. Then instead of fighting others, we should fight with ourselves i.e. our MAAN who is the actual culprit, who engrossed in it’s EGO along with MAYA prompts us to do bad Karma.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Beware … all karma performed by us that has been fueled by our ego, becomes a burden for our soul, because the soul always wants to break free and join the supreme soul, but it can’t do so because of the bondage of debts incurred on it by the egoistic karma that our maan indulges in, for which it has to suffer the repurcussions according to WAHEGURU’S HUKAM which is fixed, unforgiving and true (IN FACT THE TRUEST THING IN THIS WORLD IS THE LORD’S HUKAM)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So, our soul can’t set itself free without paying back all it’s debts.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Now, day in and day out we keep performing these egoistic karmas (irrespective of how much we try) which add to the already huge burden of such past karmas. This endless loop means that the debts on our soul shall never be paid back, even if we take countless births.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So this proves that this bondage on our soul cannot be freed by any of our efforts. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Now if the objective of every human birth is to try to set it’s soul free from the bondage of egoistic karma, and we know that all our efforts to do so have failed us till date, then what is the answer to all this filth that we have put our soul into ?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Herein come our GURU’S preachings, the countless words that adorn our GRANTH, all trying to say just one thing – constant remembrance of WAHEGURU ( the supreme soul ) i.e. NAAM-SIMRAN is the only true service that can be performed for the LORD which should be :-[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]1)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]WITHOUT DESIRE (NISHKAM)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]2)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]IN HUMILITY (NIMRATA)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]3)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]WITH PURITY OF INTENTION (HIRDA SHUDH)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]4)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]WITH SINCERETY (CHIT LAE)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]5)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]IN UTTER SELFLESSNESS (VICHON AAP GAVAE)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]and constantly practicing the following :-[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]a)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]HUMILITY, THE WORD (NIVAAN CHA AAKHAR)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]b)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]FORGIVENESS, THE VIRTUE (KHAWAN GUN)[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]c)[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]JIHBA MANIYA MANT, THE MAGICAL MANTRA (SWEET SPEECH) [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Such efforts will bring the LORD to reside in us, and once HE comes in then the EGO and all VIKARS, which have bondaged our SOUL till now run away and disappear, Thus freeing our SOUL of all bondages and debts.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SO NEXT TIME WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE KILLING SOMEONE, TRY KILLING YOUR MAAN FOR A CHANGE.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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