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Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living (sggs 62).

Awau hmwrY rwm ipAwry jIau: Aaou hamaarai Raam piaare jeeou (sggs 217).

gurmiq swcI swcw vIcwru: Gurmati Saachee Saachaa Veechaar (sggs 666).

aUqm krxI sbd bIcwr: Uttam Karnee Shabad Beechaar (sggs 158).

isKI isiKAw gur vIcwir: Sikhee sikhiaa gur veechaar (sggs 465).

"Sarbat daa bhalaa" -- May All Beings Be Happy!


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The attempt of this website is to experience deeper Understanding of the Gurbani (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, SGGS). Many themes mentioned in the universal teachings of the SGGS are reflected upon, through the Gurbani. The website has over 315 Reflections online. New ones are continually added. The site is routinely updated.

A complete practical Guide, the SGGS is the reliable source of Wisdom (Agaadh Bodh, Giaan) pertaining to the quest of the Truth, and thus provides all that's needed to raise one's consciousness to the highest dimension: the plane of the truthful living. But, the Truth cannot be understood with material nature. Likewise, the Gurbani cannot be understood or acted upon with material tendencies either. Being in the framework of time and space, the body-mind-intellect personality is also limited; further limiting human understanding. The SGGS reflects on this aspect of limited understanding of the human mind on a grand scale. Furthermore, majority of us read or listen to recitations of the SGGS, or listen to the Wise ones through the mind's colorings: quagmire of various concepts of our Haume (ego) regime. For the mind so identified with the body-consciousness, the spiritual knowledge has no meaning.

The Gurbani has a simple message: there is One, All-pervading Reality. We are That. The purpose of human life is to understand this Truth through self-purification and self-observation while alive, here and now, and not after death. Only then we can take off from levels of negativity (Bikaars) into heights of our True Nature (Joti-Svaroopa or godly status), spontaneity (Sahaj), Perfection, etc.

To this end, the SGGS urges us to: lead a Divine Life; make truthfulness the core of daily life; make a dedicated life of selfless service (Sevaa) the prayer; make Wisdom, humility and contentment the temple within; practice selfless love, compassion and mercy for all beings the greatest devotion and the noblest conduct; enshrine the rosary of meditation in the heart; recognize Sameness in all; realize Oneness with the One Spirit; become Jeevanmukt (living liberated) and experience within Bliss (Anand), Peace, Harmony, Joy; etc.

Otherwise, what's the use of reasoning, intellectuality, reading scriptures and listening to their recitations? And what's the use of talking about religion, spirituality, and the Truth if not lived? As repeatedly indicated in the SGGS, there are only two different groups of people living together on earth: Gurmukhs (followers of the Truth and truthful living) and Manmukhs (deniers of the Truth and truthful living). The Gurbani urges us to become the Gurmukh.


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