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<blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 90814" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Guru Nanak was critical of the yogic discipline of his time (Patanjali, later to become that of Sivananda). Investigate Gurbani and find that Gurbani has both the diagnosis and the cure.</p><p></p><p>Respected pk70 ji describes it this way.</p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.sikhism.us/../guru-nanak-dev/" target="_blank">Guru Nanak</a> <span style="color: Blue">criticizes Yoga because it is a physical show off that can attract people and it is very much possible to exploit them. In Nam Simran, one has to go there to experience, who do, they totally become unique and worldly miracle -claims have no place in them. After having said that, still there are those who give “NAAM”</span></strong><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><strong> I wonder!</strong></span> </p><p></p><p><strong>The Diagnosis -- What was wrong?</strong></p><p></p><p>What did Guru Nanak see wrong with the yoga of his time? There was too much focus on outward show – the physical practices were raised to the same level of importance as dhyanna. Body was divided from spirit. </p><p></p><p>Ang556 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਤਿਸੁ ਜੋਗੀ ਕੀ ਨਗਰੀ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਵਸੈ ਭੇਖੀ ਜੋਗੁ ਨ ਹੋਇ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">this jogee kee nagaree sabh ko vasai bhaekhee jog n hoe ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">In the body-village of that Yogi are all blessings; this Yoga is not obtained by outward show.</span></p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak taught that the practices of yoga are no different from the practice of eating, and the eating of a pleasure-seeker and the practice of a yogi were equally driven by obsessions of the mind and compulsions of the body. </p><p></p><p>Ang730 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਜੋਗੀ ਹੋਵੈ ਜੋਗਵੈ ਭੋਗੀ ਹੋਵੈ ਖਾਇ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">jogee hovai jogavai bhogee hovai khaae ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">The Yogi practices yoga, and the pleasure-seeker practices eating.</span></p><p></p><p>Sant Kabir notes that yogis shave their heads, chant mantras, but they are bound up in the chains of their practices. They do not find peace in any of this. This is echoed by Guru Arjan Dev. </p><p></p><p>Ang98 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਨਿਵਲੀ ਕਰਮ ਆਸਨ ਚਉਰਾਸੀਹ ਇਨ ਮਹਿ ਸਾਂਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਜੀਉ ॥੨॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">nivalee karam aasan chouraaseeh ein mehi saanth n aavai jeeo ||2||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">They perform the inner cleansing practice with water and adopt the eighty-four Yogic postures; but still, they find no peace in any of these. ||2||</span></p><p></p><p><strong>The Cure - A Better Sadhana</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong> Guru Nanak noted how to be a true yogi. Who contemplate jugath the eternal path of dharma that binds us to truth and virtue are yogis.</p><p></p><p>Ang223 Line 9 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਐਸਾ ਜੋਗੀ ਜੁਗਤਿ ਬੀਚਾਰੈ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">aisaa jogee jugath beechaarai ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Those who contemplate the Way are Yogis. </span></p><p></p><p>True yogis are those who see the interconnectedness of all creation are yogis, as they conquer their egos and with that find connection with everyone.</p><p></p><p>Ang 6 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਆਈ ਪੰਥੀ ਸਗਲ ਜਮਾਤੀ ਮਨਿ ਜੀਤੈ ਜਗੁ ਜੀਤੁ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">aaee panthhee sagal jamaathee man jeethai jag jeeth ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.</span></p><p></p><p>Those who focus upon Shabad instead of the play yogi’s horn (this is a reference to the horn played by various orders of Yogis) are true yogis. They are the ones who receive the darshan of the SatGuru. Guru Nanak is talking about the naad or sound current of the shabad. Those who contemplate the shabadGuru are the ones who attain the vision of the SatGuru.</p><p></p><p>Ang351 </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਬੀਣਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਵਜਾਵੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਦਰਸਨਿ ਰੂਪਿ ਅਪਾਰਾ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">beenaa sabadh vajaavai jogee dharasan roop apaaraa ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">The Yogi who plays on the instrument of the Shabad gains the Blessed Vision of the Infinitely Beautiful Lord.</span></p><p></p><p>The ancient scriptures -- all the sources of knowledge about the cosmos and creation revealed and handed down by the ancients shape and tone the intellect, but they do not open the intellect up to awareness. Therefore Guru Ram Das says, </p><p></p><p>Ang 368 </p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਜੋਗੀ ਹਰਿ ਦੇਹੁ ਮਤੀ ਉਪਦੇਸੁ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">jogee har dhaehu mathee oupadhaes ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">O Yogi, give your intellect the Teachings of the Lord.</span></p><p></p><p>And Guru Nanak says, He is a yogi who understands the way of dharma</p><p></p><p>Ang 662 </p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਸੋ ਜੋਗੀ ਜੋ ਜੁਗਤਿ ਪਛਾਣੈ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">so jogee jo jugath pashhaanai ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">He alone is a Yogi, who understands the Way.</span></p><p></p><p>He is a yogi who looks at all with a single eye – which means with the understanding that has no duality of perspective, that gold and dust are the same, that high and low caste are the same, in other words, with detachment, without emotionality, without bias or preference. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਏਕ ਦ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਕਰਿ ਸਮਸਰਿ ਜਾਣੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਕਹੀਐ ਸੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">eaek dhrisatt kar samasar jaanai jogee keheeai soee ||1|| rehaao ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">One who looks upon all with a single eye, and knows them to be one and the same - he alone is known as a Yogi. ||1||Pause||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਏਕ ਦ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਕਰਿ ਸਮਸਰਿ ਜਾਣੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਕਹੀਐ ਸੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">eaek dhrisatt kar samasar jaanai jogee keheeai soee ||1|| rehaao ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">One who looks upon all with a single eye, and knows them to be one and the same - he alone is known as a Yogi. ||1||Pause||</span> </p><p></p><p>The way of a yogi should be the discipline of truth, contentment, and the feast should be of the name of truth, the Sat Nam. The practice of the yogi should be found in the support and shelter of meditation. </p><p></p><p>Ang 908 </p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਸਤੁ ਸੰਤੋਖੁ ਪਤੁ ਕਰਿ ਝੋਲੀ ਜੋਗੀ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਨਾਮੁ ਭੁਗਤਿ ਪਾਈ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">sath santhokh path kar jholee jogee anmrith naam bhugath paaee ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Make truth and contentment your plate and pouch, Yogi; take the Ambrosial Naam as your food.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਧਿਆਨ ਕਾ ਕਰਿ ਡੰਡਾ ਜੋਗੀ ਸਿੰਙੀ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਵਜਾਈ ॥੨॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">dhhiaan kaa kar ddanddaa jogee sinn(g)ee surath vajaaee ||2||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Make meditation your walking stick, Yogi, and make higher consciousness the horn you blow. ||2||</span> </p><p></p><p>Guru Nanak is saying give up the physical yoga, the aasana of postures, and make a s table mind the posture one sits in. In other parts of Gurbani Guruji says sit in the home of your own mind.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਮਨੁ ਦ੍ਰਿੜੁ ਕਰਿ ਆਸਣਿ ਬੈਸੁ ਜੋਗੀ ਤਾ ਤੇਰੀ ਕਲਪਣਾ ਜਾਈ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">man dhrirr kar aasan bais jogee thaa thaeree kalapanaa jaaee ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Make your stable mind the Yogic posture you sit in, Yogi, and then you shall be rid of your tormenting desires.</span></p><p></p><p>Do not wander about as a mendicant, making a show of poverty. Don’t go wandering about playing musical instruments. Instead realize that The Divine is in your own lap – find your nourishment close to your own heart. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਕਾਇਆ ਨਗਰੀ ਮਹਿ ਮੰਗਣਿ ਚੜਹਿ ਜੋਗੀ ਤਾ ਨਾਮੁ ਪਲੈ ਪਾਈ ॥੩॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">kaaeiaa nagaree mehi mangan charrehi jogee thaa naam palai paaee ||3||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">Go begging in the village of the body, Yogi, and then, you shall obtain the Naam in your lap. ||3||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਇਤੁ ਕਿੰਗੁਰੀ ਧਿਆਨੁ ਨ ਲਾਗੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਨਾ ਸਚੁ ਪਲੈ ਪਾਇ ॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">eith kinguree dhhiaan n laagai jogee naa sach palai paae ||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">This harp does not center you in meditation, Yogi, nor does it bring the True Name into your lap.</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">ਇਤੁ ਕਿੰਗੁਰੀ ਸਾਂਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਅਭਿਮਾਨੁ ਨ ਵਿਚਹੁ ਜਾਇ ॥੪॥</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">eith kinguree saanth n aavai jogee abhimaan n vichahu jaae ||4||</span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed">This harp does not bring you peace, Yogi, nor eliminate egotism from within you. ||4||</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spnadmin, post: 90814, member: 35"] Guru Nanak was critical of the yogic discipline of his time (Patanjali, later to become that of Sivananda). Investigate Gurbani and find that Gurbani has both the diagnosis and the cure. Respected pk70 ji describes it this way. [B][URL="http://www.sikhism.us/../guru-nanak-dev/"]Guru Nanak[/URL] [COLOR=Blue]criticizes Yoga because it is a physical show off that can attract people and it is very much possible to exploit them. In Nam Simran, one has to go there to experience, who do, they totally become unique and worldly miracle -claims have no place in them. After having said that, still there are those who give “NAAM”[/COLOR][/B][COLOR=Blue] [B] I wonder![/B][/COLOR] [B]The Diagnosis -- What was wrong?[/B] What did Guru Nanak see wrong with the yoga of his time? There was too much focus on outward show – the physical practices were raised to the same level of importance as dhyanna. Body was divided from spirit. Ang556 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਤਿਸੁ ਜੋਗੀ ਕੀ ਨਗਰੀ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਵਸੈ ਭੇਖੀ ਜੋਗੁ ਨ ਹੋਇ ॥ this jogee kee nagaree sabh ko vasai bhaekhee jog n hoe || In the body-village of that Yogi are all blessings; this Yoga is not obtained by outward show.[/COLOR] Guru Nanak taught that the practices of yoga are no different from the practice of eating, and the eating of a pleasure-seeker and the practice of a yogi were equally driven by obsessions of the mind and compulsions of the body. Ang730 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਜੋਗੀ ਹੋਵੈ ਜੋਗਵੈ ਭੋਗੀ ਹੋਵੈ ਖਾਇ ॥ jogee hovai jogavai bhogee hovai khaae || The Yogi practices yoga, and the pleasure-seeker practices eating.[/COLOR] Sant Kabir notes that yogis shave their heads, chant mantras, but they are bound up in the chains of their practices. They do not find peace in any of this. This is echoed by Guru Arjan Dev. Ang98 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਨਿਵਲੀ ਕਰਮ ਆਸਨ ਚਉਰਾਸੀਹ ਇਨ ਮਹਿ ਸਾਂਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਜੀਉ ॥੨॥ nivalee karam aasan chouraaseeh ein mehi saanth n aavai jeeo ||2|| They perform the inner cleansing practice with water and adopt the eighty-four Yogic postures; but still, they find no peace in any of these. ||2||[/COLOR] [B]The Cure - A Better Sadhana [/B] Guru Nanak noted how to be a true yogi. Who contemplate jugath the eternal path of dharma that binds us to truth and virtue are yogis. Ang223 Line 9 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਐਸਾ ਜੋਗੀ ਜੁਗਤਿ ਬੀਚਾਰੈ ॥ aisaa jogee jugath beechaarai || Those who contemplate the Way are Yogis. [/COLOR] True yogis are those who see the interconnectedness of all creation are yogis, as they conquer their egos and with that find connection with everyone. Ang 6 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਆਈ ਪੰਥੀ ਸਗਲ ਜਮਾਤੀ ਮਨਿ ਜੀਤੈ ਜਗੁ ਜੀਤੁ ॥ aaee panthhee sagal jamaathee man jeethai jag jeeth || See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.[/COLOR] Those who focus upon Shabad instead of the play yogi’s horn (this is a reference to the horn played by various orders of Yogis) are true yogis. They are the ones who receive the darshan of the SatGuru. Guru Nanak is talking about the naad or sound current of the shabad. Those who contemplate the shabadGuru are the ones who attain the vision of the SatGuru. Ang351 [COLOR=DarkRed]ਬੀਣਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਵਜਾਵੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਦਰਸਨਿ ਰੂਪਿ ਅਪਾਰਾ ॥ beenaa sabadh vajaavai jogee dharasan roop apaaraa || The Yogi who plays on the instrument of the Shabad gains the Blessed Vision of the Infinitely Beautiful Lord.[/COLOR] The ancient scriptures -- all the sources of knowledge about the cosmos and creation revealed and handed down by the ancients shape and tone the intellect, but they do not open the intellect up to awareness. Therefore Guru Ram Das says, Ang 368 [COLOR=DarkRed] ਜੋਗੀ ਹਰਿ ਦੇਹੁ ਮਤੀ ਉਪਦੇਸੁ ॥ jogee har dhaehu mathee oupadhaes || O Yogi, give your intellect the Teachings of the Lord.[/COLOR] And Guru Nanak says, He is a yogi who understands the way of dharma Ang 662 [COLOR=DarkRed] ਸੋ ਜੋਗੀ ਜੋ ਜੁਗਤਿ ਪਛਾਣੈ ॥ so jogee jo jugath pashhaanai || He alone is a Yogi, who understands the Way.[/COLOR] He is a yogi who looks at all with a single eye – which means with the understanding that has no duality of perspective, that gold and dust are the same, that high and low caste are the same, in other words, with detachment, without emotionality, without bias or preference. [COLOR=DarkRed]ਏਕ ਦ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਕਰਿ ਸਮਸਰਿ ਜਾਣੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਕਹੀਐ ਸੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ eaek dhrisatt kar samasar jaanai jogee keheeai soee ||1|| rehaao || One who looks upon all with a single eye, and knows them to be one and the same - he alone is known as a Yogi. ||1||Pause|| ਏਕ ਦ੍ਰਿਸਟਿ ਕਰਿ ਸਮਸਰਿ ਜਾਣੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਕਹੀਐ ਸੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ eaek dhrisatt kar samasar jaanai jogee keheeai soee ||1|| rehaao || One who looks upon all with a single eye, and knows them to be one and the same - he alone is known as a Yogi. ||1||Pause||[/COLOR] The way of a yogi should be the discipline of truth, contentment, and the feast should be of the name of truth, the Sat Nam. The practice of the yogi should be found in the support and shelter of meditation. Ang 908 [COLOR=DarkRed] ਸਤੁ ਸੰਤੋਖੁ ਪਤੁ ਕਰਿ ਝੋਲੀ ਜੋਗੀ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਨਾਮੁ ਭੁਗਤਿ ਪਾਈ ॥ sath santhokh path kar jholee jogee anmrith naam bhugath paaee || Make truth and contentment your plate and pouch, Yogi; take the Ambrosial Naam as your food. ਧਿਆਨ ਕਾ ਕਰਿ ਡੰਡਾ ਜੋਗੀ ਸਿੰਙੀ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਵਜਾਈ ॥੨॥ dhhiaan kaa kar ddanddaa jogee sinn(g)ee surath vajaaee ||2|| Make meditation your walking stick, Yogi, and make higher consciousness the horn you blow. ||2||[/COLOR] Guru Nanak is saying give up the physical yoga, the aasana of postures, and make a s table mind the posture one sits in. In other parts of Gurbani Guruji says sit in the home of your own mind. [COLOR=DarkRed]ਮਨੁ ਦ੍ਰਿੜੁ ਕਰਿ ਆਸਣਿ ਬੈਸੁ ਜੋਗੀ ਤਾ ਤੇਰੀ ਕਲਪਣਾ ਜਾਈ ॥ man dhrirr kar aasan bais jogee thaa thaeree kalapanaa jaaee || Make your stable mind the Yogic posture you sit in, Yogi, and then you shall be rid of your tormenting desires.[/COLOR] Do not wander about as a mendicant, making a show of poverty. Don’t go wandering about playing musical instruments. Instead realize that The Divine is in your own lap – find your nourishment close to your own heart. [COLOR=DarkRed]ਕਾਇਆ ਨਗਰੀ ਮਹਿ ਮੰਗਣਿ ਚੜਹਿ ਜੋਗੀ ਤਾ ਨਾਮੁ ਪਲੈ ਪਾਈ ॥੩॥ kaaeiaa nagaree mehi mangan charrehi jogee thaa naam palai paaee ||3|| Go begging in the village of the body, Yogi, and then, you shall obtain the Naam in your lap. ||3|| ਇਤੁ ਕਿੰਗੁਰੀ ਧਿਆਨੁ ਨ ਲਾਗੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਨਾ ਸਚੁ ਪਲੈ ਪਾਇ ॥ eith kinguree dhhiaan n laagai jogee naa sach palai paae || This harp does not center you in meditation, Yogi, nor does it bring the True Name into your lap. ਇਤੁ ਕਿੰਗੁਰੀ ਸਾਂਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਜੋਗੀ ਅਭਿਮਾਨੁ ਨ ਵਿਚਹੁ ਜਾਇ ॥੪॥ eith kinguree saanth n aavai jogee abhimaan n vichahu jaae ||4|| This harp does not bring you peace, Yogi, nor eliminate egotism from within you. ||4||[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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