hmm i guess i should just shutup ...and learn from you...since u seem to know more(not tryin to be sarcaztic)
u seem to be above the attanchment and control over your thoughtz and action...thz wikid! im no where close to that so...
If you agree with
anything I say, then instead of trying to "learn from [me]", just go back to
gurbani and learn from
it...because that's from where I get everything I say.
However, don't rely on third-hand interpretations of
gurbani. Understand the context, understand the poetry, understand the overall purpose of what
gurbani is about. And then, make your own deductions, using logic and common sense, as to what it's all about.
There is, however, one very small but invaluable thing I will share with you:
Imagine that the philosophy of Sikkhism is a large house or a mansion. That mansion has a number of smaller doors that take you through different routes, but essentially lead to that same grand hallway in the middle of the house.
People have all gotten so used to using these smaller doors, because they're so excited by the smaller, lavish-looking rooms they walk past. In fact, most people have decided that they won't even continue on their journey to the Great Hall...they rather like it in one of these smaller rooms. But there are a few who don't stop at those rooms, and manage to arrive at the wonderful Great Hall, and couldn't possible to back to those smaller rooms.
People have, in fact, become so used to using those smaller doors that the Great Door - which, as the front door, would be the most direct access point to the Great Hall - has fallen into almost complete disuse. But those who brush away the vines and rediscover the simplicity of the Truth can't help but feel sorry for or feel like helping those stuck in other locations within the house, because they know how easy it is!
Most of the world religions in their existing forms, and most of the interpretations I have encountered of Sikkhism are this "small door" route. Some people get trapped in insignificant practices and routines along the way, but some are able to transcend that completely and realise that 'religion' actually has no meaning, and that it is merely a sugar-coated topping designed to make people feel as though the Cosmic and the Divine is somehow in their control.
However, the Pure Path through Sikkhi is like that Great Door.
You just need the key.
And where is the key?
It's under the welcome mat of the Great Door...it's called the
mool mantra.
If you can understand that this one simple passage is the essence to
every shabbad written in gurbani, things will start to make sense to you in a way you never conceived. Every philosophical musing by every philosophical mind will suddenly fall into place. Every religion's interpretation of God will start to make sense. The
mool mantra is, for human beings, the closest thing to magic you can find.
Master the meaning of the
mool mantra, and you will have mastered the meaning of life and the universe itself.
I'm no 'wise man' (to the contrary, I consider myself rather foolish). I'm not in any way more 'learned' than anyone else.
The only quality I have, if anything at all, is that I try and keep my ego at bay.
Because I try and do this (to varying degrees of success
), I am able to let go of beliefs that I had invested in that were told to me by other people, and I subsequently free myself to being able to learn the Truth in the purest form it can be learned by a limited human mind.
And
that is true freedom.
