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Gurbani (1118-1123)
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Gurbani (1125-1152)
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Gurbani (1254-1293)
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Gurbani (1294-96)
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Gurbani (1319-23)
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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 148485" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>ishna ji</p><p></p><p>Would you please say a little more about this </p><p></p><p>I have read Ang 417 over two or three times and am having trouble understanding the connection between the shabad and your saying "its very difficult for me to de-personalise Waheguru when I read some of the following tuks." The passages you cite are depictions of the fate of women in Lahore (but also describe the fate of widows in general in Brhaminical India then and even now. <strong>Guru Nanak is giving an eye-witness account,</strong> as well as pondering the material fate and spiritual condition of those who cling to material position and wealth. In these passages, Guru Nanak is also setting the stage for later passages in the raag where he puts serious moral questions forward to those who wield power and abuse wealth.) </p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak actually asks the moral question for you, for us: </p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">ਜੇ ਤਿਸੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਦੇ ਵਡਿਆਈ ਜੇ ਭਾਵੈ ਦੇਇ ਸਜਾਇ ॥੪॥ </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Je ṯis bẖāvai ḏe vadi▫ā▫ī je bẖāvai ḏe▫e sajā▫e. ||4|| </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">If it please Him, He grants greatness, If it please Him He awards punishment. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">ਅਗੋ ਦੇ ਜੇ ਚੇਤੀਐ ਤਾਂ ਕਾਇਤੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਸਜਾਇ ॥ </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Ago ḏe je cẖeṯī▫ai ṯāʼn kā▫iṯ milai sajā▫e. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">If the mortal meditates, on the Lord before hand, then why should he receive punishment. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">Then later Guru Nanak answers the question</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">ਜੋ ਤਿਸੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਸੋ ਥੀਐ ਨਾਨਕ ਕਿਆ ਮਾਨੁਖ ॥੭॥੧੧॥ जो तिसु भावै सो थीऐ नानक किआ मानुख ॥७॥११॥ </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Jo ṯis bẖāvai so thī▫ai Nānak ki▫ā mānukẖ. ||7||11|| </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Whatever pleases Him, that alone does happen, O Nanak! What is man? </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue">Farther on Ang 417 he repeats this idea:</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">ਇਹੁ ਜਗੁ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੂ ਗੋਸਾਈ ॥ </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Ih jag ṯerā ṯū gosā▫ī. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">This world is Thine and Thou art the Lord of Universe. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">ਏਕ ਘੜੀ ਮਹਿ ਥਾਪਿ ਉਥਾਪੇ ਜਰੁ ਵੰਡਿ ਦੇਵੈ ਭਾਂਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">Ėk gẖaṛī mėh thāp uthāpe jar vand ḏevai bẖāʼn▫ī. ||1|| rahā▫o. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><span style="font-size: 9px">In a moment Thou establishest and disestablishest. Thou distributest wealth as Thou pleasest. Pause. </span></span></p><p></p><p>Are you asking why Waheguru would visit suffering on the women of Lahore, permitting them to be dishonored by soldiers and carried away? (The shabad is part of Guru Nanak's longer hymn about the destruction of Lahore by Babar) If you are, then your question is very like the classic question: </p><p></p><p>Why does God (in any vision of god) will catastrophes and tragedies to occur and devastate creation, which he created? Why would he allow rape to occur? Why would he allow all the atrocities visited upon women to occur?</p><p></p><p>The follow-up is usually: What kind of God is that who would permit harm to otherwise harmless beings? </p><p></p><p>Another: Why does the hukam of Waheguru permit powerful or evil people prey on the powerless?</p><p></p><p>Or: When the harmless and innocent suffer, does that happen because of past karmas in past lives?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am not sure if you are asking one of these questions, or asking about something and I just have not understood. Or perhaps my misunderstanding comes from a different sense of "personal" god.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 148485, member: 35"] ishna ji Would you please say a little more about this I have read Ang 417 over two or three times and am having trouble understanding the connection between the shabad and your saying "its very difficult for me to de-personalise Waheguru when I read some of the following tuks." The passages you cite are depictions of the fate of women in Lahore (but also describe the fate of widows in general in Brhaminical India then and even now. [B]Guru Nanak is giving an eye-witness account,[/B] as well as pondering the material fate and spiritual condition of those who cling to material position and wealth. In these passages, Guru Nanak is also setting the stage for later passages in the raag where he puts serious moral questions forward to those who wield power and abuse wealth.) Guru Nanak actually asks the moral question for you, for us: [COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="1"] ਜੇ ਤਿਸੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਦੇ ਵਡਿਆਈ ਜੇ ਭਾਵੈ ਦੇਇ ਸਜਾਇ ॥੪॥ Je ṯis bẖāvai ḏe vadi▫ā▫ī je bẖāvai ḏe▫e sajā▫e. ||4|| If it please Him, He grants greatness, If it please Him He awards punishment. ਅਗੋ ਦੇ ਜੇ ਚੇਤੀਐ ਤਾਂ ਕਾਇਤੁ ਮਿਲੈ ਸਜਾਇ ॥ Ago ḏe je cẖeṯī▫ai ṯāʼn kā▫iṯ milai sajā▫e. If the mortal meditates, on the Lord before hand, then why should he receive punishment. [/SIZE] Then later Guru Nanak answers the question [SIZE="1"]ਜੋ ਤਿਸੁ ਭਾਵੈ ਸੋ ਥੀਐ ਨਾਨਕ ਕਿਆ ਮਾਨੁਖ ॥੭॥੧੧॥ जो तिसु भावै सो थीऐ नानक किआ मानुख ॥७॥११॥ Jo ṯis bẖāvai so thī▫ai Nānak ki▫ā mānukẖ. ||7||11|| Whatever pleases Him, that alone does happen, O Nanak! What is man? [/SIZE] Farther on Ang 417 he repeats this idea: [SIZE="1"]ਇਹੁ ਜਗੁ ਤੇਰਾ ਤੂ ਗੋਸਾਈ ॥ Ih jag ṯerā ṯū gosā▫ī. This world is Thine and Thou art the Lord of Universe. ਏਕ ਘੜੀ ਮਹਿ ਥਾਪਿ ਉਥਾਪੇ ਜਰੁ ਵੰਡਿ ਦੇਵੈ ਭਾਂਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ Ėk gẖaṛī mėh thāp uthāpe jar vand ḏevai bẖāʼn▫ī. ||1|| rahā▫o. In a moment Thou establishest and disestablishest. Thou distributest wealth as Thou pleasest. Pause. [/SIZE][/COLOR] Are you asking why Waheguru would visit suffering on the women of Lahore, permitting them to be dishonored by soldiers and carried away? (The shabad is part of Guru Nanak's longer hymn about the destruction of Lahore by Babar) If you are, then your question is very like the classic question: Why does God (in any vision of god) will catastrophes and tragedies to occur and devastate creation, which he created? Why would he allow rape to occur? Why would he allow all the atrocities visited upon women to occur? The follow-up is usually: What kind of God is that who would permit harm to otherwise harmless beings? Another: Why does the hukam of Waheguru permit powerful or evil people prey on the powerless? Or: When the harmless and innocent suffer, does that happen because of past karmas in past lives? I am not sure if you are asking one of these questions, or asking about something and I just have not understood. Or perhaps my misunderstanding comes from a different sense of "personal" god. [/QUOTE]
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