Category: GURBANI ARTICLES

A Message To Our Sikh Community

The good descendants do not ever forget their Martyrs; as good Sikhs, we should always remember how small children of our Guru stood fearless before a powerful local ruler and treacherous attack of cowards. A Sikh’s selling his or her dignity for getting a political seat or an opportunity to get power is a blot …

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The Artee Of The Creator Being Done Automatically

gagan, universe, gursoch

I call the Gurbani a source of ultimate freedom, because it frees its true followers from man’s assumed rituals and rites. It attaches its followers to the Creator, who is all pervading and all present with infinite power to create and destroy the visible and invisible universes and beyond.  It verifies that the small deities …

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Har’s Mandir

Golden Temple Amritsar

In Punjab, India, there is a picture of Darbar Sahib on sale everywhere; on that picture there is a Gurbani-verse, ਹਰਿ ਮੰਦਰੁ ਹਰਿ ਜੀਉ ਸਾਜਿਆ ਰਖਿਆ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਸਵਾਰਿ॥ Har manḏar har jī▫o sāji▫ā rakẖi▫ā hukam savār. but  it has nothing to do with the of picture of Darbar Sahib. Its usage is misleading, because it …

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The Knowledge Of Scriptures And A True Spiritual Progression.

In the following shabda Third Nanak makes it clear that it is not the reading or discussing of religious scriptures that helps the seeker to obtain spiritual progression but the grace of the Creator. The Guru advises his followers to reflect on the mind and its different situations it falls for by giving an example …

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Experiencing The Creator Through The Guru Only

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Sikhi settles well only with the Guru’s thought that binds and guides its course; any thought other than the Guru’s words has no meaning in the Sikhi. Any effect of science or modern culture used while understanding the Gurbani will literally become a misgiving. In the past, many people have tried to interpret the Gurbani …

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