Waheguru ji ka khalsa
Waheguru ji ki fateh
A NIGURA is a person who has NO GURU.
Baba Amar Das was living in a village called Basarke near Amritsar. Before coming in contact with the second Nanak, he was a firm believer of Vaishnav faith and used to fast regularly. Every year he went to Hardwar for pilgrimage, bathed in the river Ganges and would give alms to the poor. It was the twenty-first year of his pilgrimage and he was sixty-two years old when an incident shook him to the core. He was coming back from Hardwar when he decided to lay down to sleep outside the village of Mihra. Here he met a Vaishnav Sadhu (a monk) with whom he became quite friendly. They cooked the food and ate their meal together. As they continued their journey and as the monk found Baba Amar Das zealously discharging all the duties of a pious Hindu, he asked him (Baba) who his guru was who taught him such piety and wisdom. Baba Amar Das replied that he had no guru. On hearing this monk said,"I have committed a sin by eating from the hands of a man who has no guru. My ablutions, bathing in the Ganges, are of no avail now. I can only be purified if I return to bathe in the Ganges again." After lamenting like this, the Sadhu departed. This was a great shock to Baba Amar Das and he was jolted to the core of his heart thinking he was a man of no guru (Nigura). He started thinking seriously how he could find a guru and he prayed for that. One day early in the morning he heard a divine melody which thrilled his heart and he stood spell-bound listening to the hymn. This was voice of Bibi Amro, Guru Angad's daughter, who was recently married to Baba Amar Das' nephew. It was Bibi Amro's daily routine to wake up early, bathe and recite Japji and other hymns of Guru Nanak. Bibi Amro had recited the following Shabad which was heard by Baba Amar Das: "Neither sisters, sisters-in-law, nor mothers-in-law remain with one; but the true relationship with the Beloved, when found through the Guru, shall never be sundered. I am a sacrifice to my Guru, I am ever a sacrifice unto him. I have grown weary of wandering so far without a Guru; Now the Guru hath united me with my Beloved. (Maru M'halla 1, p-1015)
The purpose in telling this episode is that a GURU is VITAL. All through the Yugs the GURU alwasy gave DIKHYA to a CHELA..INITIATION RITES. Without the Initiation Rite no one could be a Chela. A YOGI had to be buried up to his neck, and his ears torn to accomodate a pair of Blobs of glass and then only could he call himslef a YOGI....simialr initiation rites were for all sects. Guru nanak Ji to Guur teg bahadur Ji..the initiation rite was CHARAN PAHUL..
When in 1699 Guru gobind Rai ji initiated the PUNJ into the KHALSA..and then TOOK the PAHUL from THEM to transform from Guru Gobind rai to GURU GOBIND SINGH..this INITIATION RITE of Khanda Batte dee Pahul became the SIKH PAHUL. Thus the PUNJ in the Form of GURU GOBIND SINGH JI now Give this PAHUL to those who seek it.
Thus ONLY the PAHUL ABHILAKHEES are given the Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji KI fateh "WAHEGURU" GURMANTAR. ONLY after this PAHUL Ceremony of DIKHYA..can an initiate call himself KHALSA and recite WAHEGURU.
Since 1699 NO SINGLE PERSON..no matter how holy exalted baba ji mahraj ji, satguru ji guru ji whatever...can GIVE this GURMANTAR PAHUL to anyone...ONLY the PUNJ CAN. And even the FIVE KHALSA Ji can give this Gurmantar in the PRESENCE of GURU GRANTH JI SAHIB ONLY..no where else.
Without being a member of the Khalsa...the word "waheguru" is just a word. Just like i can say i am "doctor"..but without the Authorised "degree" from an authorised medical university Board...the word "doctor" is just a word...no body can stop me from saying i am a doctor..but it just wont work. To get full benefit from WAHEGURU GURMANTAR..one MUST recieve it as GURU DIKHYA from the PUNJ KHALSA in the presence of GURU Granth ji.
Without "Khande batte de pahul"..you can Japp any of the Kiratm naams of Waheguru that occur in GURBANI..you can jap har har, hari hari, gobind gobind...all HELP...but the ULTIMATE is WAHEGURU. IF you can reach the PEAK of Everest...why be satisfied with the plains of BIHAR..although no harm done if BIIHAR satisfies you..aapo aapnee marzee hai. Remember Har har etc EXISTED before GURU NANAK JYOT...IF they were "sufficent" there was no need for GURU JI to come..but GURU JI came to offer this better faster solution...in KALYUG.
Har Gunn SUNNEH..is "LISTENING". Har gunnParddeh..is also LISTENING..and this is only possible through Naam japp..and that will lead you to Har Gunn samaieea...immersion
Gyaan Shabds are to Give GYAAN..the "how to"..and the Naam japp shabads are the RESULT of "how to". Our ultimate aim is RESULT ORIENTED....reading the RECIPE is fine..read it again and again to memeorise it...so as to be perfect..BUT the TEST is in the TASTE of the CAKE we bake from the RECIPE...the more we "know" the recipe..the better will be our cake...the more we read the GYAAN shabds..the Tastier will be our Naam japp..bt the ULTIMATE RESULT is NAAM JAPP - without this..NO MUKTEE..we have to present our CAKE...not tell GOD..we read your recipe a million times...sorry no time to bake a cake !!
Source :
GURU ANGAD DEV
(taken from a reply posted earlier at this forum by Gyani Jarnail Singh ji)
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/gurmat...gurbani-2.html
Some people say that a person goes to the Panj with "information" he already has.
I beleive Veer ji is referring to WAHEGURU GURMANTAR. Nearly everyone has 'heard" the word WAHEGURU...even if one is NOT an Amrtidharee. I had known about this word since i was FIVE but I only took Amrit at age 55...so DID the PANJ give me "knowledge" that i already had for 50 years ??
The answer is NO. I "knew" the WORD WAHEGURU....for 50 years..BUT it was given to me as a GURMANTAR by the FIVE, when I chhak Amrit.
Anybody can know the WORD Waheguru, hear it, read it, know about it...BUT ONLY the PANJ can give it to an AMRITDHAREE during the Amrit Sanchaar. Then ONLY does it become the GURMANTAR....as a NIGURRA ( without Guru) cannot have a GURMANTAR.
A Medical student may go into the examination Hall with all the "information" he needs to be a doctor...BUT unless He PASSES the EXAMINATION and is awarded a MEDICAL DEGREE...all that INFORMATION is of NO USE to him. He cannot PRACTISE as a Doctor....UNTIL he is awarded the DEGREE...by the Examination Board of the University.
Similarly a SIKH may have all the knowledge, all the gurbani, etc etc..He is a NIGURA until he appears before the PUNJ, takes Amrit, and gets the GURMANTAR.
Source: (taken from a reply posted earlier at this forum by Gyani Jarnail Singh ji)
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-s...antar-hai.html
A reminder to us all to wake up and follow the dictates of Guru Gareeb Niwaz Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji to take Amrit Pahul and relinquish our ways and follow the Sikh Rehat. Without Rehat we can not call ourselves Sikhs of the Guru.
Even the name of the Nigura person is not worth mentioning. This is what Satguru Ji has said in Gurbani about persons who do not take Amrit Pahul and live according to the dictations of the Guru.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਬਾਝਹੁ ਗੁਰੁ ਨਹੀ ਕੋਈ ਨਿਗੁਰੇ ਕਾ ਹੈ ਨਾਉ ਬੁਰਾ ॥੧੩॥
[SIZE=+1]सतिगुर बाझहु गुरु नही कोई निगुरे का है नाउ बुरा ॥१३॥[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Saṯgur bājẖahu gur nahī ko­ī nigurė kā hai nā­o burā. ||13||[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Without the True Guru, there is no Guru at all; one who is without a Guru has a bad reputation. ||13||[/SIZE]
Source: Sri Granth: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Waheguru ji ka khalsa
Waheguru ji ki fateh
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Waheguru ji ki fateh
A NIGURA is a person who has NO GURU.
Baba Amar Das was living in a village called Basarke near Amritsar. Before coming in contact with the second Nanak, he was a firm believer of Vaishnav faith and used to fast regularly. Every year he went to Hardwar for pilgrimage, bathed in the river Ganges and would give alms to the poor. It was the twenty-first year of his pilgrimage and he was sixty-two years old when an incident shook him to the core. He was coming back from Hardwar when he decided to lay down to sleep outside the village of Mihra. Here he met a Vaishnav Sadhu (a monk) with whom he became quite friendly. They cooked the food and ate their meal together. As they continued their journey and as the monk found Baba Amar Das zealously discharging all the duties of a pious Hindu, he asked him (Baba) who his guru was who taught him such piety and wisdom. Baba Amar Das replied that he had no guru. On hearing this monk said,"I have committed a sin by eating from the hands of a man who has no guru. My ablutions, bathing in the Ganges, are of no avail now. I can only be purified if I return to bathe in the Ganges again." After lamenting like this, the Sadhu departed. This was a great shock to Baba Amar Das and he was jolted to the core of his heart thinking he was a man of no guru (Nigura). He started thinking seriously how he could find a guru and he prayed for that. One day early in the morning he heard a divine melody which thrilled his heart and he stood spell-bound listening to the hymn. This was voice of Bibi Amro, Guru Angad's daughter, who was recently married to Baba Amar Das' nephew. It was Bibi Amro's daily routine to wake up early, bathe and recite Japji and other hymns of Guru Nanak. Bibi Amro had recited the following Shabad which was heard by Baba Amar Das: "Neither sisters, sisters-in-law, nor mothers-in-law remain with one; but the true relationship with the Beloved, when found through the Guru, shall never be sundered. I am a sacrifice to my Guru, I am ever a sacrifice unto him. I have grown weary of wandering so far without a Guru; Now the Guru hath united me with my Beloved. (Maru M'halla 1, p-1015)
The purpose in telling this episode is that a GURU is VITAL. All through the Yugs the GURU alwasy gave DIKHYA to a CHELA..INITIATION RITES. Without the Initiation Rite no one could be a Chela. A YOGI had to be buried up to his neck, and his ears torn to accomodate a pair of Blobs of glass and then only could he call himslef a YOGI....simialr initiation rites were for all sects. Guru nanak Ji to Guur teg bahadur Ji..the initiation rite was CHARAN PAHUL..
When in 1699 Guru gobind Rai ji initiated the PUNJ into the KHALSA..and then TOOK the PAHUL from THEM to transform from Guru Gobind rai to GURU GOBIND SINGH..this INITIATION RITE of Khanda Batte dee Pahul became the SIKH PAHUL. Thus the PUNJ in the Form of GURU GOBIND SINGH JI now Give this PAHUL to those who seek it.
Thus ONLY the PAHUL ABHILAKHEES are given the Waheguru Ji ka Khalsa Waheguru ji KI fateh "WAHEGURU" GURMANTAR. ONLY after this PAHUL Ceremony of DIKHYA..can an initiate call himself KHALSA and recite WAHEGURU.
Since 1699 NO SINGLE PERSON..no matter how holy exalted baba ji mahraj ji, satguru ji guru ji whatever...can GIVE this GURMANTAR PAHUL to anyone...ONLY the PUNJ CAN. And even the FIVE KHALSA Ji can give this Gurmantar in the PRESENCE of GURU GRANTH JI SAHIB ONLY..no where else.
Without being a member of the Khalsa...the word "waheguru" is just a word. Just like i can say i am "doctor"..but without the Authorised "degree" from an authorised medical university Board...the word "doctor" is just a word...no body can stop me from saying i am a doctor..but it just wont work. To get full benefit from WAHEGURU GURMANTAR..one MUST recieve it as GURU DIKHYA from the PUNJ KHALSA in the presence of GURU Granth ji.
Without "Khande batte de pahul"..you can Japp any of the Kiratm naams of Waheguru that occur in GURBANI..you can jap har har, hari hari, gobind gobind...all HELP...but the ULTIMATE is WAHEGURU. IF you can reach the PEAK of Everest...why be satisfied with the plains of BIHAR..although no harm done if BIIHAR satisfies you..aapo aapnee marzee hai. Remember Har har etc EXISTED before GURU NANAK JYOT...IF they were "sufficent" there was no need for GURU JI to come..but GURU JI came to offer this better faster solution...in KALYUG.
Har Gunn SUNNEH..is "LISTENING". Har gunnParddeh..is also LISTENING..and this is only possible through Naam japp..and that will lead you to Har Gunn samaieea...immersion
Gyaan Shabds are to Give GYAAN..the "how to"..and the Naam japp shabads are the RESULT of "how to". Our ultimate aim is RESULT ORIENTED....reading the RECIPE is fine..read it again and again to memeorise it...so as to be perfect..BUT the TEST is in the TASTE of the CAKE we bake from the RECIPE...the more we "know" the recipe..the better will be our cake...the more we read the GYAAN shabds..the Tastier will be our Naam japp..bt the ULTIMATE RESULT is NAAM JAPP - without this..NO MUKTEE..we have to present our CAKE...not tell GOD..we read your recipe a million times...sorry no time to bake a cake !!
Source :
GURU ANGAD DEV
(taken from a reply posted earlier at this forum by Gyani Jarnail Singh ji)
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/gurmat...gurbani-2.html
Some people say that a person goes to the Panj with "information" he already has.
I beleive Veer ji is referring to WAHEGURU GURMANTAR. Nearly everyone has 'heard" the word WAHEGURU...even if one is NOT an Amrtidharee. I had known about this word since i was FIVE but I only took Amrit at age 55...so DID the PANJ give me "knowledge" that i already had for 50 years ??
The answer is NO. I "knew" the WORD WAHEGURU....for 50 years..BUT it was given to me as a GURMANTAR by the FIVE, when I chhak Amrit.
Anybody can know the WORD Waheguru, hear it, read it, know about it...BUT ONLY the PANJ can give it to an AMRITDHAREE during the Amrit Sanchaar. Then ONLY does it become the GURMANTAR....as a NIGURRA ( without Guru) cannot have a GURMANTAR.
A Medical student may go into the examination Hall with all the "information" he needs to be a doctor...BUT unless He PASSES the EXAMINATION and is awarded a MEDICAL DEGREE...all that INFORMATION is of NO USE to him. He cannot PRACTISE as a Doctor....UNTIL he is awarded the DEGREE...by the Examination Board of the University.
Similarly a SIKH may have all the knowledge, all the gurbani, etc etc..He is a NIGURA until he appears before the PUNJ, takes Amrit, and gets the GURMANTAR.
Source: (taken from a reply posted earlier at this forum by Gyani Jarnail Singh ji)
http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-s...antar-hai.html
A reminder to us all to wake up and follow the dictates of Guru Gareeb Niwaz Sri Guru Gobind Singh ji to take Amrit Pahul and relinquish our ways and follow the Sikh Rehat. Without Rehat we can not call ourselves Sikhs of the Guru.
Even the name of the Nigura person is not worth mentioning. This is what Satguru Ji has said in Gurbani about persons who do not take Amrit Pahul and live according to the dictations of the Guru.
ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਬਾਝਹੁ ਗੁਰੁ ਨਹੀ ਕੋਈ ਨਿਗੁਰੇ ਕਾ ਹੈ ਨਾਉ ਬੁਰਾ ॥੧੩॥
[SIZE=+1]सतिगुर बाझहु गुरु नही कोई निगुरे का है नाउ बुरा ॥१३॥[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Saṯgur bājẖahu gur nahī ko­ī nigurė kā hai nā­o burā. ||13||[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Without the True Guru, there is no Guru at all; one who is without a Guru has a bad reputation. ||13||[/SIZE]
Source: Sri Granth: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Waheguru ji ka khalsa
Waheguru ji ki fateh
More...