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<blockquote data-quote="luv4u" data-source="post: 54827" data-attributes="member: 4819"><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="color: darkorange"> SatGuru , Ik Ong Kar and Mool Mantra : A relook at Mool Mantra</span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Nanak passed this truth to the mankind through the verse</span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn1" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">[1]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px">. It will be useful to note that t</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">he term '<span style="color: blue">Satguru</span>' is for that entity that manifests the “<span style="color: blue">true dispeller of darkness</span>”. The Gurbani tells us numerous characteristics of the Satguru: Satguru is complete, is spiritual, exists forever, has been existing forever, is free from the cycle of birth and death and is divine knowledge (Satguru ki Baani). As a divine word (the Shabd/Gurmantar), is divine spirit (Jyot) with melody, residing in everybody? <span style="color: blue">This is the intermediate link between the devotee and God, as the vehicle/channel to meet God.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: blue">“Ong”</span> a Sanskrit word– means “Brahm” the cosmic sound symbol, the vibration that is prevalent alike in each and every bit of Creation and it is from this vibration that entire universe has manifested. Ik-Ong-Kar is the language of God. It is pronounced in three words “Ik-Ong-Kar” means (One Word-One Spirit). Gurbani tells us that this revelation descended on Guru Nanak</span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn2" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">[2]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px">, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">“Duin mih iDAwnu iDAwn mih jwinAw”</span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> Ik-ong-kar sabd is the sound current of the soundless sound (Anhad Naad) and is “divine light to illuminate this world, which comes to abide within the mind by His grace<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn3" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[3]</span></u></a>.”</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">‘Ek<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn4" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[4]</span></u></a>’ is the first primal un-manifested Form of the One Nirgun or Transcendent, Formless God. The next two are manifested Forms ‘Ong-kar’ and ‘SATNAM’, from ‘KARTA PURAKH’ to ‘Sai-Bhang’ are the attributes of God<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn5" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[5]</span></u></a>.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The creator is the Formless One, The Supreme-word: Ong-Kar is His Emanation. Therefore Supreme Word ‘Ek-Ong-Kar’ is His Emanation and as Gurbani tells us form of formless.</span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn6" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">[6]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px">’Ik’ or ‘Ek’ may be accepted to reflect that there is only One God. </span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Japji Sahib begins with Mool Mantar. It is also called Mangla Charan</span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn7" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">[7]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">It gives the concept and </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">comprehensive definitions of God<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn8" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[8]</span></u></a></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">. It would tantamount to as if God has seven facets and the realization of truth or worship of God requires the realization of sevenfold ideal in human being . ‘</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Ong-kar’ represents the manifestation of EK in the creation to include all worlds, all humanity, and all human beings with one soul residing within them. It makes us believe that we can experience God through experiencing his creations. It motivates us to recognize the presence of the Divine Light in every living being and discourages the society from profiling people into good and bad by promoting recognition of the same soul that each one carries<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn9" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[9]</span></u></a>. It is like the concept of Individual consciousness and the supreme conscious ness. </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">‘Gurprasad’ denoted realization of God as Grace of the Guru. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Guru Nanak says emphatically that, “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">eyko hY BweI eyko hY ] swihbu myrw eyko hY<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn10" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[10]</span></u></a></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">O</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">ng-kar signifies that it is the unstruck celestial sound of Brahmand of the ONE God<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn11" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[11]</span></u></a>. Guru Gobind Singh Ji further makes it clear<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn12" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></u></a>. What we call creation, in reality spells only the transformation of God<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn13" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[13]</span></u></a> Himself first into the jewel of Naam and then into the material world<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn14" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[14]</span></u></a>. He ‘created’ the universe out of Himself to shower His Love upon it.<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn15" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[15]</span></u></a> The invocation of Mool Mantra ends with the Word, ‘Gur-parsad<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn16" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[16]</span></u></a>’. These three senses (God, Guru and Guru's Word) are ultimately inseparable. The human gurus, the Guru Panth and finally the Guru Granth Sahib forged the Sikh religion. However, in the scriptural teachings, Gurus refers to Guru Sabd<a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn17" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #800080">[17]</span></u></a>. </span></span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkorange">[ For fuller exposition Please refer to : </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhism.ws/mool-mantar-1501/" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkorange">http://www.sikhism.ws/mool-mantar-1501/</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkorange"> by Japjisahib004]</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref1" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[1]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> “God has revealed to him to know that without the Guru (the source of Spiritual Knowledge i.e. baani), liberation is not attained, so one must follow and adheres to the teachings of Guru.” - Guru Granth ang.864.7. He further says, “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">siq purKu ijin jwinAw siqguru iqs kw nwau </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">] - as the one who knows and recognizes the path which leads to His palace, his Name is Satguru and this Satguru is true source of Divine knowledge (truth).” - Guru Granth ang.286.12. Guru Nanak further declares, </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">“siqgur ivic Awpu riKEnu kir prgtu AwiK suxwieAw</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> - He has placed Himself within the True baani (truth); thus revealing Himself, He declares this openly.” - Guru Granth ang.466.8.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref2" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[2]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> “</span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">through celestial sound while in meditation.” - Guru Granth ang.879.3.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref3" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[3]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> Guru Granth ang.67.10. Gurbani is the guru of Sikh and guru abides within the baani.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref4" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[4]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">All matter and space is Him.</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> Guru Nanak further made clear, “Twkuru eyku sbweI nwir ] - there is only one ‘pursha’ the creator God and the rest all are His followers or His form.” - Guru Granth ang.933.12. So all have to worship the God only.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref5" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[5]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">It is God alone who is the Doer of deeds. There is none else.” – Guru Granth ang.276.18. Hence the creation has to worship the Creator – the Almighty God in His abstract form i.e. baani.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref6" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[6]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">“</span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">siqgur kI bwxI siq srUpu hY gurbwxI bxIAY ]</span></span><span style="color: #5b5b5b"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> [the Word of the True Guru's Bani is the embodiment of Truth; and through simran of Gurbani, one becomes perfect and merges with the Truth.” - Guru Granth ang.304.16.]</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref7" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[7]</span></span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="color: blue">R</span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">emembrance of God</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> – A Vandana, which is followed by a Sloka. Mool </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">means the origin or beginning. Guru Granth Sahib is the extension and elaboration of Mool Mantar.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref8" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080">[8]</span></span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> The Mool Mantar recorded ahead of the Japji is in full form. This Mool Mantar, which is glorifying or is indicating God also becomes the invocation for us to remember every time we begin a new work. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Bhai Gurdas ji wrote that every time you do Mool Mantar you get ten times closer to the Infinite Being, that's how powerful Mool Mantar is. Guru Nanak defines in Gurbani as, “</span></span><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">mUl mMqRü hir nwmu rswiexu khu nwnk pUrw pwieAw </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">] by Chanting the Mool Mantra, and the Name of the God, the source of nectar, I have found the Perfect God.” –Guru Granth ang.1040.19. It is also chanted (in full or short form) not only in the beginning of each set of Guru hymns but also before writing the Bhagat hymns as a prayer to seek blessings of the gracious God. </span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref9" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[9]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">But Guru Nanak Ji warned, </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">“so muKu jlau ijqu khih Twkur jonI</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> ] - let that mouth be burnt, which calls anyone God and Master, who is subject to birth and death.” - Guru Granth ang.1136.4.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref10" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[10]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> He is the One and Only One. He is the One alone. My God and Master is One. - Guru Granth ang.350.5</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref11" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[11]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">‘Ong-kar ek dhun ekay eikaiy raag allpay’.[ p885.]</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref12" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[12]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Jaap Sahib too with the sabd, </span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">‘ong-kar aad kathnee anaad</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">’ - the entire Brahmand is being created.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref13" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[13]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Gurbani reaffirms and tells us, “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">iliK Aru mytY qwih n mwnw </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">] - I do not believe in those whom He created and destroyed. I only know the One God who is from the beginning and is not created by anyone but is enlightened by Himself.” - Guru Granth ang.340.8. </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">reincarnation of God into anthropomorphic forms various gods and goddesses), </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Further it may be observed that wherever the Guru has been described by such words as ‘Gobind Rup’ - Guru Granth ang.1272.17, this means that the Guru possesses all the attributes of God and has merged into His baani. It does not mean that he is the incarnation of God, thus Guru rup is not any human form but is exclusively the Guru-Sabd, as it is the Sabd which ultimately remains and not the body (Thus the Sabd which merges or mind has to link during meditation is Guru-Sabd). Further, “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Word is the embodiment of the God and the God is in the Word.”- Guru Granth ang. 982.10 and the revealed Word of God is not meant, to be worshiped as ritual but read, listened to and acted upon as the wise counsel of the GURU.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref14" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[14]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">One can think as to what impelled God to manifest Himself into form of a universe; or from the human viewpoint, what makes Him create? According to the Sikh doctrine, God being Love, wanted to dispense out His Love. Guru tells us, “To dispense His Love, He created the cosmic expanse.” - Guru Granth ang.463.5. “Kar (>) ” means the changeless and uniformly pervading in everything and all over </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">(zry zry ivc iek rs, ijs ivc qbdIlI nw Awvy).</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref15" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[15]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Question arises, how can it be same in each and particles. It is “just as light permeates the rays of the sun, so does God permeate in every being through and through.” - Guru Granth ang.1177.14. Hence Ek-Ong-kar is the symbol of God. Further use of the numeral ‘one’ is to stress that all have to worship only One God, who is everlasting Entity and none else. Before Guru Nanak, ancient Indian faith believed in Trinity-Trimurti-Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer respectively. But Nanak says that “Ek-Ong-kar” is the Creator meaning thereby that “He Alone” is the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. And we have to discover One in His infinite manifestation. Like, “</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'AnmolLipiLight'">guru guru eyko vys Anyk </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">] - teacher of teachers is the One, who appears in so many forms. With this declaration the very concept of trinity was dismissed.</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref16" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[16]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Again for grant of grace one has to pray and align the ground to seize.</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> The basic mantra is to bring the consciousness in tune with the Sabd of Satguru. </span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref17" target="_blank"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="color: #800080">[17]</span></span></u></a><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Thus it means God can be realized or life comes to this state of mind ‘by the Grace of Guru (Holy Book - source of Spiritual Knowledge or Sabd/verse).God is ever in gratitude of infinite wisdom for realizing one’s real personality. Just as biological processes create favorable circumstances for a seed first to become a tree and then to transform itself into a fruit, meditation on the Sacred Words (Sabd) creates the necessary energy through which an individual human may reach the heights of supreme attributes and merge in eternal union with the Infinite Wisdom.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="luv4u, post: 54827, member: 4819"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [B][SIZE=3][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=darkorange] SatGuru , Ik Ong Kar and Mool Mantra : A relook at Mool Mantra[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/B] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]Guru Nanak passed this truth to the mankind through the verse[/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn1"][U][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][1][/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=3]. It will be useful to note that t[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]he term '[COLOR=blue]Satguru[/COLOR]' is for that entity that manifests the “[COLOR=blue]true dispeller of darkness[/COLOR]”. The Gurbani tells us numerous characteristics of the Satguru: Satguru is complete, is spiritual, exists forever, has been existing forever, is free from the cycle of birth and death and is divine knowledge (Satguru ki Baani). As a divine word (the Shabd/Gurmantar), is divine spirit (Jyot) with melody, residing in everybody? [COLOR=blue]This is the intermediate link between the devotee and God, as the vehicle/channel to meet God.[/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=blue]“Ong”[/COLOR] a Sanskrit word– means “Brahm” the cosmic sound symbol, the vibration that is prevalent alike in each and every bit of Creation and it is from this vibration that entire universe has manifested. Ik-Ong-Kar is the language of God. It is pronounced in three words “Ik-Ong-Kar” means (One Word-One Spirit). Gurbani tells us that this revelation descended on Guru Nanak[/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn2"][U][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][2][/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]“Duin mih iDAwnu iDAwn mih jwinAw”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia] Ik-ong-kar sabd is the sound current of the soundless sound (Anhad Naad) and is “divine light to illuminate this world, which comes to abide within the mind by His grace[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn3"][U][COLOR=#800080][3][/COLOR][/U][/URL].”[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]‘Ek[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn4"][U][COLOR=#800080][4][/COLOR][/U][/URL]’ is the first primal un-manifested Form of the One Nirgun or Transcendent, Formless God. The next two are manifested Forms ‘Ong-kar’ and ‘SATNAM’, from ‘KARTA PURAKH’ to ‘Sai-Bhang’ are the attributes of God[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn5"][U][COLOR=#800080][5][/COLOR][/U][/URL].[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]The creator is the Formless One, The Supreme-word: Ong-Kar is His Emanation. Therefore Supreme Word ‘Ek-Ong-Kar’ is His Emanation and as Gurbani tells us form of formless.[/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn6"][U][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][6][/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=3]’Ik’ or ‘Ek’ may be accepted to reflect that there is only One God. [/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]The Japji Sahib begins with Mool Mantar. It is also called Mangla Charan[/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn7"][U][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][7][/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=3].[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]It gives the concept and [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]comprehensive definitions of God[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn8"][U][COLOR=#800080][8][/COLOR][/U][/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]. It would tantamount to as if God has seven facets and the realization of truth or worship of God requires the realization of sevenfold ideal in human being . ‘[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Ong-kar’ represents the manifestation of EK in the creation to include all worlds, all humanity, and all human beings with one soul residing within them. It makes us believe that we can experience God through experiencing his creations. It motivates us to recognize the presence of the Divine Light in every living being and discourages the society from profiling people into good and bad by promoting recognition of the same soul that each one carries[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn9"][U][COLOR=#800080][9][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. It is like the concept of Individual consciousness and the supreme conscious ness. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]‘Gurprasad’ denoted realization of God as Grace of the Guru. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=#5b5b5b][/COLOR][SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Guru Nanak says emphatically that, “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]eyko hY BweI eyko hY ] swihbu myrw eyko hY[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn10"][U][COLOR=#800080][10][/COLOR][/U][/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia].[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia] O[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]ng-kar signifies that it is the unstruck celestial sound of Brahmand of the ONE God[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn11"][U][COLOR=#800080][11][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. Guru Gobind Singh Ji further makes it clear[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn12"][U][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. What we call creation, in reality spells only the transformation of God[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn13"][U][COLOR=#800080][13][/COLOR][/U][/URL] Himself first into the jewel of Naam and then into the material world[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn14"][U][COLOR=#800080][14][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. He ‘created’ the universe out of Himself to shower His Love upon it.[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn15"][U][COLOR=#800080][15][/COLOR][/U][/URL] The invocation of Mool Mantra ends with the Word, ‘Gur-parsad[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn16"][U][COLOR=#800080][16][/COLOR][/U][/URL]’. These three senses (God, Guru and Guru's Word) are ultimately inseparable. The human gurus, the Guru Panth and finally the Guru Granth Sahib forged the Sikh religion. However, in the scriptural teachings, Gurus refers to Guru Sabd[URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftn17"][U][COLOR=#800080][17][/COLOR][/U][/URL]. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorange][ For fuller exposition Please refer to : [/COLOR][/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhism.ws/mool-mantar-1501/"][U][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorange]http://www.sikhism.ws/mool-mantar-1501/[/COLOR][/SIZE][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkorange] by Japjisahib004][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=Georgia][/FONT] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref1"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][1][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] “God has revealed to him to know that without the Guru (the source of Spiritual Knowledge i.e. baani), liberation is not attained, so one must follow and adheres to the teachings of Guru.” - Guru Granth ang.864.7. He further says, “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]siq purKu ijin jwinAw siqguru iqs kw nwau [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]] - as the one who knows and recognizes the path which leads to His palace, his Name is Satguru and this Satguru is true source of Divine knowledge (truth).” - Guru Granth ang.286.12. Guru Nanak further declares, [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]“siqgur ivic Awpu riKEnu kir prgtu AwiK suxwieAw[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] - He has placed Himself within the True baani (truth); thus revealing Himself, He declares this openly.” - Guru Granth ang.466.8.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref2"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][2][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] “[/FONT][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia]through celestial sound while in meditation.” - Guru Granth ang.879.3.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref3"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][3][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia] Guru Granth ang.67.10. Gurbani is the guru of Sikh and guru abides within the baani. [/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref4"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][4][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]All matter and space is Him.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] Guru Nanak further made clear, “Twkuru eyku sbweI nwir ] - there is only one ‘pursha’ the creator God and the rest all are His followers or His form.” - Guru Granth ang.933.12. So all have to worship the God only.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref5"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][5][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]It is God alone who is the Doer of deeds. There is none else.” – Guru Granth ang.276.18. Hence the creation has to worship the Creator – the Almighty God in His abstract form i.e. baani.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref6"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][6][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]“[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]siqgur kI bwxI siq srUpu hY gurbwxI bxIAY ][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][FONT=Georgia] [the Word of the True Guru's Bani is the embodiment of Truth; and through simran of Gurbani, one becomes perfect and merges with the Truth.” - Guru Granth ang.304.16.][/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref7"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][7][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] [COLOR=blue]R[/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=blue][FONT=Georgia]emembrance of God[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] – A Vandana, which is followed by a Sloka. Mool [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]means the origin or beginning. Guru Granth Sahib is the extension and elaboration of Mool Mantar.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref8"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][8][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] The Mool Mantar recorded ahead of the Japji is in full form. This Mool Mantar, which is glorifying or is indicating God also becomes the invocation for us to remember every time we begin a new work. [FONT='Arial Unicode MS']Bhai Gurdas ji wrote that every time you do Mool Mantar you get ten times closer to the Infinite Being, that's how powerful Mool Mantar is. Guru Nanak defines in Gurbani as, “[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]mUl mMqRü hir nwmu rswiexu khu nwnk pUrw pwieAw [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]] by Chanting the Mool Mantra, and the Name of the God, the source of nectar, I have found the Perfect God.” –Guru Granth ang.1040.19. It is also chanted (in full or short form) not only in the beginning of each set of Guru hymns but also before writing the Bhagat hymns as a prayer to seek blessings of the gracious God. [/FONT][/SIZE] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref9"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][9][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]But Guru Nanak Ji warned, [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]“so muKu jlau ijqu khih Twkur jonI[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] ] - let that mouth be burnt, which calls anyone God and Master, who is subject to birth and death.” - Guru Granth ang.1136.4.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref10"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][10][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] He is the One and Only One. He is the One alone. My God and Master is One. - Guru Granth ang.350.5[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref11"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][11][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]‘Ong-kar ek dhun ekay eikaiy raag allpay’.[ p885.][/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref12"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][12][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Jaap Sahib too with the sabd, [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=blue][FONT=Georgia]‘ong-kar aad kathnee anaad[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]’ - the entire Brahmand is being created.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref13"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][13][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Gurbani reaffirms and tells us, “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]iliK Aru mytY qwih n mwnw [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]] - I do not believe in those whom He created and destroyed. I only know the One God who is from the beginning and is not created by anyone but is enlightened by Himself.” - Guru Granth ang.340.8. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]reincarnation of God into anthropomorphic forms various gods and goddesses), [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Further it may be observed that wherever the Guru has been described by such words as ‘Gobind Rup’ - Guru Granth ang.1272.17, this means that the Guru possesses all the attributes of God and has merged into His baani. It does not mean that he is the incarnation of God, thus Guru rup is not any human form but is exclusively the Guru-Sabd, as it is the Sabd which ultimately remains and not the body (Thus the Sabd which merges or mind has to link during meditation is Guru-Sabd). Further, “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Word is the embodiment of the God and the God is in the Word.”- Guru Granth ang. 982.10 and the revealed Word of God is not meant, to be worshiped as ritual but read, listened to and acted upon as the wise counsel of the GURU.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref14"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][14][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]One can think as to what impelled God to manifest Himself into form of a universe; or from the human viewpoint, what makes Him create? According to the Sikh doctrine, God being Love, wanted to dispense out His Love. Guru tells us, “To dispense His Love, He created the cosmic expanse.” - Guru Granth ang.463.5. “Kar (>) ” means the changeless and uniformly pervading in everything and all over [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight](zry zry ivc iek rs, ijs ivc qbdIlI nw Awvy).[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref15"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][15][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Question arises, how can it be same in each and particles. It is “just as light permeates the rays of the sun, so does God permeate in every being through and through.” - Guru Granth ang.1177.14. Hence Ek-Ong-kar is the symbol of God. Further use of the numeral ‘one’ is to stress that all have to worship only One God, who is everlasting Entity and none else. Before Guru Nanak, ancient Indian faith believed in Trinity-Trimurti-Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer respectively. But Nanak says that “Ek-Ong-kar” is the Creator meaning thereby that “He Alone” is the Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. And we have to discover One in His infinite manifestation. Like, “[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=AnmolLipiLight]guru guru eyko vys Anyk [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]] - teacher of teachers is the One, who appears in so many forms. With this declaration the very concept of trinity was dismissed.[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref16"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][16][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Again for grant of grace one has to pray and align the ground to seize.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia] The basic mantra is to bring the consciousness in tune with the Sabd of Satguru. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#5b5b5b][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/newreply.php?do=postreply&t=15342#_ftnref17"][U][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#800080][17][/COLOR][/FONT][/U][/URL][COLOR=black][FONT=Georgia]Thus it means God can be realized or life comes to this state of mind ‘by the Grace of Guru (Holy Book - source of Spiritual Knowledge or Sabd/verse).God is ever in gratitude of infinite wisdom for realizing one’s real personality. Just as biological processes create favorable circumstances for a seed first to become a tree and then to transform itself into a fruit, meditation on the Sacred Words (Sabd) creates the necessary energy through which an individual human may reach the heights of supreme attributes and merge in eternal union with the Infinite Wisdom.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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