siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYru Akwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ] (1-1, mÚ 1)
Mool Mantar - The Blueprint of Sikhi Marg.
Before we indulge into the message of Mool Mantar, lets transport ourselves back with the help of time machine of Sikh history and try to visualize the religious events occurring at that time.
In 1469, When Guru Nanak came into this world, the world was a very chaotic place. Roman Catholic church was being challenged by one of its followers Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), who was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines of Protestant and other Christian traditions. Luther declared his intolerance for the Roman Church’s corruption on Halloween in 1517, by nailing his 95 Theses of Contention to the WittenbergChurch door. http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.htmlMartin.
Galileo (1564-1642) was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. His discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Prior to the Copernican system, it was held that the universe was geocentric, meaning the sun revolved around the earth. Because of his discovery, which contradicted with the doctrines of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church till 1992 always asserted that the Earth is the center of the Universe-Subjective Truth. Galileo was condemned to indefinite imprisonment, and, after some negotiation, was confined to his villa until his death in 1642.
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/gal_life.htm
http://galileo.rice.edu/.
At the time of Guru Nanak, Mughals were the rulers. Their kingdom spread from Turkey to India. The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Babur (reigned 1526–30), who was descended from the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father's side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother's side. Ousted from his ancestral domain in Central Asia, Babur turned to India to satisfy his appetite for conquest. He massacred thousands of Hindus, raped young women, forcefully converted millions to Islam ( As recently as last year Fox news journalists, Steve Santani and Olaf , who were abducted by the Muslim radicals, were also forcefully converted into Islam- more the things change , more they remain the same).
People were being killed because of their belief systems whose ‘Subjective Truth’ did not match the Islamic (one of the 3 Semitic religions Judaism and Christianity are other 2) ‘Truth’- dogma.
Sikhi is the only religion amongst the five major ones that is not personality based but idea based. Islam (Mohammed), Christianity (Jesus), Judaism (Messiah in coming) and Hinduism (Ram Chander ji, Krishan ji and many other deities), all had their respective embodiments personified as Gods or Goddesses proclaiming a direct link to the Almighty. If Sikhi were to be one more religion based on personalities, then Guru Granth Sahib would only have the writings by the ten Gurus rather than six Gurus and thirty-one Saints from other religions like Hinduism and Islam. Our Gurus would be worshipping each other, rather than Ek Ong Kaar. If Sikhi were based on personalities, then Harmandir Sahib - the most sacred shrine of Sikhi - would not have four doors to invite all mankind, nor would a Muslim have laid the Harmandir Sahib's foundation stone. If it were based on personalities, we would not have the Sangat and Pangat concept of breaking bread with everyone and anyone from any hue, creed or faith in the way of Guru ka Langar.
If Guru Nanak had tried to create one more personality based religion and in which if he had declared that God told him, his was the only way to reach God- Heaven-, then he would surely have been murdered for creating a competition in an already crowded market of dogmas. Guru Nanak felt that what the world needed at that time was a pragmatic approach to life which transmitted compassion and empathy rather than judgment and punishment where all are equal and children of ONE SOURCE, irrespective of their belief systems.
In order for it to happen, the world required an extreme makeover, metamorphosis in its thought process- from a caterpillar to a butterfly-, a novel way to look at the world through the pragmatic kaleidoscope.
siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYru Akwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ] (1-1, mÚ 1)
Wow!! What beautiful words that changed the face of mankind! Now lets try to decipher the value and the importance of these words – The Blueprint of Sikhi.
Ik Ong Kaar.
ONE SOURCE of ALL. ( God is a deity personified in all 5 major religions except in Sikhi).
Sat Naam (Transliteration-Truth is its name).
All religions flaunted their respective ‘Subjective Truths’ claiming them to be ‘Absolutes’ irrespective of their contradictory outcomes. For example, Christianity says, if one doesn’t believe in Jesus as his/her God/savior then, the person will end up in Hell and it calls these people Nonbelievers. In Islam, Allah is the only God/savior and only known to Mohammed and if people don’t adhere to that then they are Kafirs and should be killed.( Our Sikh history is filled with examples of the sacrifices starting from our 5th Guru, Guru Arjan Dev).
Satnaam- One Source-, which is not a deity, but ‘Objective Reality’, which Guru Sahib expanded, in the first pauri of Japji.
Kartapurkh. (Transliteration-Creative Being Personified).
We all know that personality based religions required a personified deity and at the time when Guru Nanak penned the Mool Mantar all citizens believed in God in person. Here we can see the open-mindedness of Guru Nanak. He spoke the language of the people, but in the following words he shows the followers of the personified deities what traits Kartapurkh possesses.
Nirbhau, Nirvair:- (Transliteration- no fear, no hatred, no rancor against none- the true lover.)
All the above-mentioned religions except Sikhi are based on Hell and Heaven- ‘Subjective Truth’ sold as ‘Absolute Truth’. Hell and Heaven show that Kartapurkh is angry, vengeful and a punisher. All religions based on Hell and Heaven are fear based and use carrot and stick approach.
Nirbhau, Nirvair- Here Guru Nanak is saying that Kartapurkh- The Creative being personified- is fearless and hates no one. This shows a couple of things. Fear based religions teach that one should be fearful of God. Fear of going to Hell. Guru ji Shows here that how can one be fearful of a lover? In other words, Fear is darkness; Love is light. Fear breeds repression and submission; Love breeds freedom. Fear makes us cringe; Love makes us open our arms. Fear breeds rebellion; Love creates harmony. Fear is shackles; Love is 5K's.
As our 10th Guru said, ‘Jin prem keeyoh, ti hee prabh payeio’.
The message: There no Hell nor Heaven.
Guru Ji is telling the people of the time that the deity they believe in as an angry, hateful and vengeful that would send them to Hell according to thier books, is rather all loving Creative Energy.
Akaalmurat((Transliteration- timeless image). Here Guru Sahib is showing what the believers call Kartapurkh –Creative being personified-, is actually timeless image, hence formless.
What kind of timeless image?
Ajuni, Saibangh:- ( Transliteration-Never incarnated, Self existent):- This is how Guru ji defines IK ONG KAAR. Formless, Genderless CREATIVE ENERGY based on SatNaam, ‘Objective Reality’.
Gurparsad.:- (Transliteration –By Guru’s grace). We need a Guru, a teacher, a guide that can lead us. Lead us where?
To,
Jap
aad sach jugaad sach.
hai bhee sach naanak hosee bhee sach. ||1||
The first Pauri of Japji says it all. It shows us that Truth is absolute but there No absolute Truth because Truth is still unfolding itself in the nature where Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Milkyways are being formed and some are sucked by the black hole. All this is due to THE CREATIVE ENERGY called IK ONG KAAR.
Need we say more?
What Guru Nanak calls SATNAAM- Objective Reality.
Now it is for an individual to decide whether Sikhi is a dogmatic religion, a belief system or a pragmatic way of life.
Tejwant
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Mool Mantar - The Blueprint of Sikhi Marg.
Before we indulge into the message of Mool Mantar, lets transport ourselves back with the help of time machine of Sikh history and try to visualize the religious events occurring at that time.
In 1469, When Guru Nanak came into this world, the world was a very chaotic place. Roman Catholic church was being challenged by one of its followers Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), who was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk whose teachings inspired the Protestant Reformation and deeply influenced the doctrines of Protestant and other Christian traditions. Luther declared his intolerance for the Roman Church’s corruption on Halloween in 1517, by nailing his 95 Theses of Contention to the WittenbergChurch door. http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/martin-luther.htmlMartin.
Galileo (1564-1642) was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. His discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Prior to the Copernican system, it was held that the universe was geocentric, meaning the sun revolved around the earth. Because of his discovery, which contradicted with the doctrines of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church till 1992 always asserted that the Earth is the center of the Universe-Subjective Truth. Galileo was condemned to indefinite imprisonment, and, after some negotiation, was confined to his villa until his death in 1642.
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/gal_life.htm
http://galileo.rice.edu/.
At the time of Guru Nanak, Mughals were the rulers. Their kingdom spread from Turkey to India. The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Babur (reigned 1526–30), who was descended from the Turkic conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) on his father's side and from Chagatai, second son of the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, on his mother's side. Ousted from his ancestral domain in Central Asia, Babur turned to India to satisfy his appetite for conquest. He massacred thousands of Hindus, raped young women, forcefully converted millions to Islam ( As recently as last year Fox news journalists, Steve Santani and Olaf , who were abducted by the Muslim radicals, were also forcefully converted into Islam- more the things change , more they remain the same).
People were being killed because of their belief systems whose ‘Subjective Truth’ did not match the Islamic (one of the 3 Semitic religions Judaism and Christianity are other 2) ‘Truth’- dogma.
Sikhi is the only religion amongst the five major ones that is not personality based but idea based. Islam (Mohammed), Christianity (Jesus), Judaism (Messiah in coming) and Hinduism (Ram Chander ji, Krishan ji and many other deities), all had their respective embodiments personified as Gods or Goddesses proclaiming a direct link to the Almighty. If Sikhi were to be one more religion based on personalities, then Guru Granth Sahib would only have the writings by the ten Gurus rather than six Gurus and thirty-one Saints from other religions like Hinduism and Islam. Our Gurus would be worshipping each other, rather than Ek Ong Kaar. If Sikhi were based on personalities, then Harmandir Sahib - the most sacred shrine of Sikhi - would not have four doors to invite all mankind, nor would a Muslim have laid the Harmandir Sahib's foundation stone. If it were based on personalities, we would not have the Sangat and Pangat concept of breaking bread with everyone and anyone from any hue, creed or faith in the way of Guru ka Langar.
If Guru Nanak had tried to create one more personality based religion and in which if he had declared that God told him, his was the only way to reach God- Heaven-, then he would surely have been murdered for creating a competition in an already crowded market of dogmas. Guru Nanak felt that what the world needed at that time was a pragmatic approach to life which transmitted compassion and empathy rather than judgment and punishment where all are equal and children of ONE SOURCE, irrespective of their belief systems.
In order for it to happen, the world required an extreme makeover, metamorphosis in its thought process- from a caterpillar to a butterfly-, a novel way to look at the world through the pragmatic kaleidoscope.
siq nwmu krqw purKu inrBau inrvYru Akwl mUriq AjUnI sYBM gur pRswid ] (1-1, mÚ 1)
Wow!! What beautiful words that changed the face of mankind! Now lets try to decipher the value and the importance of these words – The Blueprint of Sikhi.
Ik Ong Kaar.
ONE SOURCE of ALL. ( God is a deity personified in all 5 major religions except in Sikhi).
Sat Naam (Transliteration-Truth is its name).
All religions flaunted their respective ‘Subjective Truths’ claiming them to be ‘Absolutes’ irrespective of their contradictory outcomes. For example, Christianity says, if one doesn’t believe in Jesus as his/her God/savior then, the person will end up in Hell and it calls these people Nonbelievers. In Islam, Allah is the only God/savior and only known to Mohammed and if people don’t adhere to that then they are Kafirs and should be killed.( Our Sikh history is filled with examples of the sacrifices starting from our 5th Guru, Guru Arjan Dev).
Satnaam- One Source-, which is not a deity, but ‘Objective Reality’, which Guru Sahib expanded, in the first pauri of Japji.
Kartapurkh. (Transliteration-Creative Being Personified).
We all know that personality based religions required a personified deity and at the time when Guru Nanak penned the Mool Mantar all citizens believed in God in person. Here we can see the open-mindedness of Guru Nanak. He spoke the language of the people, but in the following words he shows the followers of the personified deities what traits Kartapurkh possesses.
Nirbhau, Nirvair:- (Transliteration- no fear, no hatred, no rancor against none- the true lover.)
All the above-mentioned religions except Sikhi are based on Hell and Heaven- ‘Subjective Truth’ sold as ‘Absolute Truth’. Hell and Heaven show that Kartapurkh is angry, vengeful and a punisher. All religions based on Hell and Heaven are fear based and use carrot and stick approach.
Nirbhau, Nirvair- Here Guru Nanak is saying that Kartapurkh- The Creative being personified- is fearless and hates no one. This shows a couple of things. Fear based religions teach that one should be fearful of God. Fear of going to Hell. Guru ji Shows here that how can one be fearful of a lover? In other words, Fear is darkness; Love is light. Fear breeds repression and submission; Love breeds freedom. Fear makes us cringe; Love makes us open our arms. Fear breeds rebellion; Love creates harmony. Fear is shackles; Love is 5K's.
As our 10th Guru said, ‘Jin prem keeyoh, ti hee prabh payeio’.
The message: There no Hell nor Heaven.
Guru Ji is telling the people of the time that the deity they believe in as an angry, hateful and vengeful that would send them to Hell according to thier books, is rather all loving Creative Energy.
Akaalmurat((Transliteration- timeless image). Here Guru Sahib is showing what the believers call Kartapurkh –Creative being personified-, is actually timeless image, hence formless.
What kind of timeless image?
Ajuni, Saibangh:- ( Transliteration-Never incarnated, Self existent):- This is how Guru ji defines IK ONG KAAR. Formless, Genderless CREATIVE ENERGY based on SatNaam, ‘Objective Reality’.
Gurparsad.:- (Transliteration –By Guru’s grace). We need a Guru, a teacher, a guide that can lead us. Lead us where?
To,
Jap
aad sach jugaad sach.
hai bhee sach naanak hosee bhee sach. ||1||
The first Pauri of Japji says it all. It shows us that Truth is absolute but there No absolute Truth because Truth is still unfolding itself in the nature where Planets, Stars, Galaxies, Milkyways are being formed and some are sucked by the black hole. All this is due to THE CREATIVE ENERGY called IK ONG KAAR.
Need we say more?
What Guru Nanak calls SATNAAM- Objective Reality.
Now it is for an individual to decide whether Sikhi is a dogmatic religion, a belief system or a pragmatic way of life.
Tejwant
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