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I have a very clear idea of what I believe Hukam to be, whether it is in line with established Sikh thought, I do not know, but it is a foundation of my current thinking,
In the past I have struggled to be live by the truth, really struggled, the truth screams out at me at every oppertunity, from the unemployed pensioner who really could do with a repair done for free, to my wife in the morning when she could really do with a cuddle, and just a cuddle, to my mother and father when they ring up for a chat, my brother, who wants so badly to look up to me as a responsible Bhaji, in my heart I know what all these people want from me, and to live in Hukam is to be the person all these people want, if I ignore the pensioner and charge him, if I sulk because all my wife wants is a cuddle, if I promise to ring mum and dad back and don't, and if I speak to my brother like a clown, I am ignoring Hukam, ignoring the truth, I am not following the very divine suggestions that are so obvious, I am following the base, I am doing what I want to do, not what is the right thing to do, the true thing to do.
To sum up, for me, Hukam is not an order, it is not written, it is the ideal and perfect future for us all if we would only follow the hints and suggestions that we see every day that are given by God, its not hard to know what to do, it is hard to do it sometimes,
I reject completely the notion that it is all written, that everything happens for a reason, life gives us challanges, and we deal with them using the wisdom of Bani, not by chanting or word repetition, we make our own future, but the Hukam is there to guide us, and if we follow it, then we will live the best life we could have lived. For sure bad things will still happen, it is no guarantee of a happy life, but it is still the best one out of all the ones that are open to us.
Please post what Hukam means to you
In the past I have struggled to be live by the truth, really struggled, the truth screams out at me at every oppertunity, from the unemployed pensioner who really could do with a repair done for free, to my wife in the morning when she could really do with a cuddle, and just a cuddle, to my mother and father when they ring up for a chat, my brother, who wants so badly to look up to me as a responsible Bhaji, in my heart I know what all these people want from me, and to live in Hukam is to be the person all these people want, if I ignore the pensioner and charge him, if I sulk because all my wife wants is a cuddle, if I promise to ring mum and dad back and don't, and if I speak to my brother like a clown, I am ignoring Hukam, ignoring the truth, I am not following the very divine suggestions that are so obvious, I am following the base, I am doing what I want to do, not what is the right thing to do, the true thing to do.
To sum up, for me, Hukam is not an order, it is not written, it is the ideal and perfect future for us all if we would only follow the hints and suggestions that we see every day that are given by God, its not hard to know what to do, it is hard to do it sometimes,
I reject completely the notion that it is all written, that everything happens for a reason, life gives us challanges, and we deal with them using the wisdom of Bani, not by chanting or word repetition, we make our own future, but the Hukam is there to guide us, and if we follow it, then we will live the best life we could have lived. For sure bad things will still happen, it is no guarantee of a happy life, but it is still the best one out of all the ones that are open to us.
Please post what Hukam means to you