Guru Nanak Dev Ji (15th April 1469 – 7 May 1539) has given a beautiful summary of his teachings in one of his hymns as follows:—
Love the saints of every faith:
Put away thy pride.
Remember the essence of religion
Is humility and sympathy,
Not fine clothes,
Not the Yogi’s garb and ashes,
Not the blowing of the horns,
Not the shaven head,
Not long prayers,
Not recitations and torturings,
Not the ascetic way,
But a life of goodness and purity,
Amid the world’s temptations.
Nanak Ji is also wrote the mool (central) mantra in Sikh holy book Guru Granth Sahib Ji :
"Ek Onkaar Satnam Karta Purkh Nirbhau Nirvair, Akaal murat Ajuni Sabhang Gur Parsad"
"There is only one God, His Name is true, He is the Creator, He is without fear, He is without enmity, He is timeless and without form, He is beyond birth and death, the enlighted one , He can be known by the master's Grace".
The Granth Sahib
[Excerpted from:http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/]
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8 comments:
My Dearest Beloved Dipti,
" Wahe Guruji da Khalsa, Wahe Guruji di Fateh"!!
Extremly beautiful my dear:) I so deeply Love and Respect Guru Nanakji- He personifies the True Spirit of Spirituality and Oneness:))
May Wahe Guruji bless you with all that your innocent,pure heart desires:))
Love, prayers and hugs!
( pls excuse me dipti, i have been so busy with my work have very little time for blogging but i desperately try and post up once a week..missed your posts too dear sister;)Keep up the excellent work..my love for you and your blessed family.
This is perfect dear sister,
Thank you for sharing this beautiful wisdom with us,
Love, M
So beautiful, dear Sister :) The wisdom of all ages and of all sages are in these true and blessed words.
May God bless the noble soul of Guru Nanak Ji. Amen.
Ya Haqq!
Salaams Dipti
God bless you for posting this beautiful poetry of Guru Nanak Dev Ji.
Abdur Rahman
My dear sweet friends ... thanks so much for your loving and kind words ..you all inspire me to share and celebrate all that is bright , warm and full of affection and inspiration ... i find myself so full of imperfections and yet so blessed that i find such pure and loving souls on each step of the way ..to guide me.. May God bless all my friends...always ..
I am touched by this quote from the Great Seer Nanak Ji. Thanks...but I want to take it a bit further...how do we attain the virtues prescribed by these Prophets?
Dear Brother .. you are so right in your question, this is what I struggle with all the time ... Somebody has said that Knowledge without practice is a liability ..
Sheikh Saadi a famous Sufi Poet has once said that "having knowledge without putting it in practice is just a burden . Its like all the books that my donkey carries on his back .. there is a vast amount of knowledge that he is carrying as a burden on his back but it is useless for him as he does not makes any use of it .. similarly if we just learn and dont put it in practice , its useless burden and just a web of words ..."
Again , I confess that I am guilty of it .. still a student ..still stumbling to learn .. it helps me to talk to all my friends .. it helps me to write the same message again and again because it generates a 'consciousness' ..i am at the very beginning of my journey ..still taking baby steps ..a friend has said that the to make your 'imaan' to generate this awareness to cleanse yourself is a uphill task ..if you dont constantly struggle to improve than gravity will pull you down ...
The practice is a movement of the body as well as the thought...they both are the source of knowledge...and our body is directly linked with our senses…the senses are the input and the thought is a processor and the knowledge is its output…
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