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Why Our Souls Separated From God?

Harkiran Kaur

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Great !! So now the question is How to experience this Onenss .obivously reading sriptures ,granths ,books will not bring the realisation of this oneness.What are the PRACTICAL METHODS?? Gurus are not meant to teach or indoctrinate .The Guru is here to throw light on dimesnions beyond your sensory perceptions .Gurus is supposed to throw light on the very nature of consciouness .
For me personally, I had looked to bridge science philosophy and religion. Quantum physics, to me, defines the same truth. That consciousness is the base of reality. That is, one universal consciousness. This reality is as a dream (which gurbani likes it to as well), dreams are essentially thoughts, thoughts are vibrations... waves. Brain waves can be measured by eeg. So to me. I look to bridge that gap between gurbani and science to see the truth. For others, they may not agree... but to me, I see absolute correlations there. So gurbani is saying the same thing, in a different way, mostly through allegory, so that those with a poetic mind might glimpse what its saying. Other practical ways? Seva I think. Because when you humble yourself, you see yourself in someone else's eyes. How there is a connection. Only by lowering yourself can you feel that. I see it in animals eyes. That same divine light. Im sorry I may not have answered your question. I dont think there is a direct set of instructions on how to realize the universal truth about reality. That's why gurbani is poetry. Its not something that can easily be written as step 1. Do this step 2. Do that. Wish I could say more...
 
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Since according to sikhi, the ultimate aim of human life is to become ONE with god, I wonder why souls separated from god in the first place?

P.S. I don't wanna hurt anyone's feelings so please bear with it if my question sounds arrogant.
To be fair all answers below are in ways right each one wise. but in truth nobody knows. not even the gurus and bhagats. He who proclaims to describe or fully understand gods limit and infinite creativity, as nanak says will ultimitely regret the attempt. We are one with god, but god is still god. sargun, nirgun, perfect. Master.
 

Harkiran Kaur

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To be fair all answers below are in ways right each one wise. but in truth nobody knows. not even the gurus and bhagats. He who proclaims to describe or fully understand gods limit and infinite creativity, as nanak says will ultimitely regret the attempt. We are one with god, but god is still god. sargun, nirgun, perfect. Master.

Gurbani says that One Universal Creator is ALL there is. There is no other. How can we conceptualize that? Maybe the same way we can play all the many characters in the same one dream at night, we are all just dream characters in the same One Universal dream. That means the primal consciousness behind ALL is the same ONE. In that sense we are already connected because we were never separate. Just like the dream characters in our dreams at night are never separate from us, but the one observing through the characters eyes is one and the same. The consciousness exists even when the dream characters cease to exist.... as the One dreamer when they awaken. That's how I came to try to envision it anyway from this meager and isolated point of view.
 
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