Pride, Body Depravation, Fake Practices are no use: Blessed Understand Creator

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<div>A wonderful Shabad for discourse. My understanding in Red and as always I stand corrected.<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> Quote:
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The more one is a person of letters, the greater pride builds in.


[SIZE=+1]ਬਹੁ ਤੀਰਥ ਭਵਿਆ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]ਤੇਤੋ ਲਵਿਆ ॥[/SIZE]

One goes on pilgrimage to holy places, and tells everyone and ego builds.


[SIZE=+1]ਬਹੁ ਭੇਖ ਕੀਆ ਦੇਹੀ ਦੁਖੁ ਦੀਆ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]ਸਹੁ ਵੇ ਜੀਆ ਅਪਣਾ ਕੀਆ ॥[/SIZE]

One does many impersonations and tortures the body. One needs to accept the self-inflicted pain.
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[SIZE=+1]ਅੰਨੁ ਨ ਖਾਇਆ ਸਾਦੁ ਗਵਾਇਆ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]ਬਹੁ ਦੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਦੂਜਾ ਭਾਇਆ ॥[/SIZE]

One fasts and loses desires of taste. With this strangeness the life is made miserable.
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[SIZE=+1]ਬਸਤ੍ਰ ਨ ਪਹਿਰੈ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]ਅਹਿਨਿਸਿ ਕਹਰੈ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]
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One does not wear clothes, suffers day and night.
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[SIZE=+1]ਮੋਨਿ ਵਿਗੂਤਾ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]ਕਿਉ ਜਾਗੈ ਗੁਰ ਬਿਨੁ ਸੂਤਾ ॥[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]
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<font size="4">One does not speak and is lost, one wonders how one wakes up from such without the creator<i><font color="red"><font face="Batang">

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