Menstruation - Mature Topic

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Read Asa Di // and get your answer straight from Maharaj.

salok ma 1 ||

jae kar soothak ma(n)neeai sabh thai soothak hoe ||

gohae athai lakarree a(n)dhar keerraa hoe ||

jaethae dhaanae a(n)n kae jeeaa baajh n koe ||

pehilaa paanee jeeo hai jith hariaa sabh koe ||

soothak kio kar rakheeai soothak pavai rasoe ||

naanak soothak eaev n outharai giaan outhaarae dhhoe ||1||

Salok, First Mehla:

If one accepts the concept of impurity, then there is impurity everywhere.

In cow-dung and wood there are worms.

As many as are the grains of corn, none is without life.

First, there is life in the water, by which everything else is made green.

How can it be protected from impurity? It touches our own kitchen.

O Nanak, impurity cannot be removed in this way; it is washed away only by spiritual wisdom. ||1||

mehla 1 ||

man kaa soothak lobh hai jihavaa soothak koorr ||

akhee soothak vaekhanaa par thria par dhhan roop ||

ka(n)nee soothak ka(n)n pai laaeithabaaree khaahi ||

naanak ha(n)saa aadhamee badhhae jam pur jaahi ||2||

First Mehla:

The impurity of the mind is greed, and the impurity of the tongue is falsehood.

The impurity of the eyes is to gaze upon the beauty of another man's wife, and his wealth.

The impurity of the ears is to listen to the slander of others.

O Nanak, the mortal's soul goes, bound and gagged to the city of Death. ||2||

ma 1 ||

sabho soothak bharam hai dhoojai lagai jaae ||

ja(n)man maranaa hukam hai bhaanai aavai jaae ||

khaanaa peenaa pavithra hai dhithon rijak sa(n)baahi ||

naanak jinhee guramukh bujhiaa thinhaa soothak naahi ||3||

First Mehla:

All impurity comes from doubt and attachment to duality.

Birth and death are subject to the Command of the Lord's Will; through His Will we come and go.

Eating and drinking are pure, since the Lord gives nourishment to all.

O Nanak, the Gurmukhs, who understand the Lord, are not stained by impurity. ||3||

And here's the big boy of them all..people will use this as an interpretation to mean that women are impure....but Guru Sahib is saying that impurity comes from within. It doesn't matter how much you clean your body and think you're "sucham", if your mind is full of crap then you're still doing beadbi.

ma 1 ||

jio joroo siranaavanee aavai vaaro vaar ||

joot(h)ae joot(h)aa mukh vasai nith nith hoe khuaar ||

soochae eaehi n aakheeahi behan j pi(n)ddaa dhhoe ||

soochae saeee naanakaa jin man vasiaa soe ||2||

First Mehla:

As a woman has her periods, month after month,

so does falsehood dwell in the mouth of the false; they suffer forever, again and again.

They are not called pure, who sit down after merely washing their bodies.

Only they are pure, O Nanak, within whose minds the Lord abides. ||2||

Saloks found on Ang 472 of Guru Granth Sahib Ji