Gurmat Ramza - Bhai Randhir Singh

[Lord Raiden]

1) Aatmik Rass and Mental Rass (Mystical or Spiritualpleasure Vs Mental pleasure)

Only after tasting Aatmik Rass, Vismaad (wonderous) rass can be tasted. InAtmik Rass alone, Vismaad Rass can be tasted or known right inside this body.Below this Aatmik Rass are the Mental Rass that can be tasted through the mannbut these mental rass are all frivolous because they don't have any trace ofVismaad rass in them.

2) Spiritual life is not a subject of mental intelligence:

Often people try to measure and explain the Aatmik jeevan (Gurmat Spirituallife) through intelligence but in order to understand the deep and profoundspiritual secrets how can intellectualism suffice. All these attempts tounderstand spiritualism through intellectualism are just futile. Even thetopmost philosophers and scholars of philosophy and intellectualism cannotfathom the truth of Gurmat spirituality and divinity. It is not appropriate totry to understand Gurmat spiritualism through worldly intelligence and usingmeasures of intellectualism.

3) Worldly Morality / Ethics and Divine or True Wisdom

Worldly goodness, ethics and morality have a worldly status or level. Manyfriends unwittingly consider worldly wisdom as true wisdom but they don't knowthat real wisdom or the true wisdom is realized only in "Sehaj Avastha" andthis true wisdom is unique from the reasoning of philosophers. Sehaj Avasthahas been explained in the following Pankiti:

ਕਰਮੀਸਹਜੁਨਊਪਜੈਵਿਣਸਹਜੈਸਹਸਾਨਜਾਇ॥………….

ਕਹੈਨਾਨਕਗੁਰਪਰਸਾਦੀਸਹਜੁਉਪਜੈਇਹੁਸਹਸਾਇਵਜਾਇ॥

4) Naam Simran and Earning Sach

Naam simran and earning Sach are not two different things but same. Actually,Naam simran is earning Sach (sach laaha) as this Gurvaak says:

ਸਚਿਸਿਮਰਿਐਹੋਵੈਪਰਗਾਸੁ……..॥

Which means that through Naam Simran alone Parkash (enlightenment) happens;therefore doing Naam simran is earning Sach.

5) Elimination of Haume

As per Gurmat, Haume is destroyed only through Naam. In support of thisprinciple there are many Gurvaaks. The medicine that can destroy Haume is onlyNaam. Only through Naam Haume is destroyed and through Naam only Liv (smadhi)occurs. <br style="mso-special-character:line-break"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">

6) The form of Real Knowledge (Tatt Gyaan): The formof real knowledge appears or manifests in the Hirda (a place, short distanceabove Naabhi), then it illuminates the inside, as per this Gurvaak:

ਜਾ ਕੈ ਰਿਦੈ ਬਿਸ੍ਵਾਸੁ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਆਇਆ ॥

ਤਤੁ ਗਿਆਨੁ ਤਿਸੁ ਮਨਿ ਪ੍ਰਗਟਾਇਆ ॥

7) Self Realization: After getting concentration in Naam, self realizationoccurs, as per this Gurvaak:

ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਆਪੁ ਪਛਾਣੈ ਸੰਤਹੁ ਰਾਮ ਨਾਮਿ ਲਿਵ ਲਾਈ ॥੮॥

8) Greatest Hukam (order) – Sifat Salaah (Praising Vaheguru): Guru Sahib'sgreatest Hukam is Sifat-Salaah i.e. Naam Simran. Per Gurvaak:

ਏਕੋ ਨਾਮੁ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਹੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਸਤਿਗੁਰਿ ਦੀਆ ਬੁਝਾਇ ਜੀਉ ॥੫॥

Therefore obeying the Hukam actually means to chant Naam, or to earn the profitof Gurmantr or Gur-Shabad.

ਗੁਰਮੁਖਿ ਆਪਣਾ ਮਨੁ ਮਾਰਿਆ ਸਬਦਿ ਕਸਵਟੀ ਲਾਇ ॥

Meaning, through the touchstone of Paaras roop Gur-shabad (Naam), Gurmukhsbring their mind under control; this is what is meant by destruction of Haume(ego). By taking refuge of Satguru and by being at the doorstep of Guru andthen through Gurmat Naam alone does the mind get purified; as is mentioned inthe following Gurvaak:

ਮਨ ਮੇਰੇ ਗੁਰ ਸਰਣਿ ਆਵੈ ਤਾ ਨਿਰਮਲੁ ਹੋਇ ॥

Otherwise the Nigura (Guru less) person does not even have Naam, then how canhe purify his mind, as is mentioned in the Gurvaak:

ਮਨਮੁਖ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਕਰਿ ਥਕੇ ਮੈਲੁ ਨ ਸਕੀ ਧੋਇ ॥੧॥

9) Reading Gurmat books is a mean of controlling the mind:

One of the means of controlling the mind is reading Gurmat books. For thisreason reading Gurmat related books don't go in vain. Reading non-Sikhi aredefinitely a waste because by reading them one cannot derive any spiritualtaste nor they provide any mean to control the mind:

ਪੜਣਾ ਗੁੜਣਾ ਸੰਸਾਰ ਕੀ ਕਾਰ ਹੈ ਅੰਦਰਿ ਤ੍ਰਿਸਨਾ ਵਿਕਾਰੁ ॥

ਹਉਮੈ ਵਿਚਿ ਸਭਿ ਪੜਿ ਥਕੇ ਦੂਜੈ ਭਾਇ ਖੁਆਰੁ ॥

ਸੋ ਪੜਿਆ ਸੋ ਪੰਡਿਤੁ ਬੀਨਾ ਗੁਰ ਸਬਦਿ ਕਰੇ ਵੀਚਾਰੁ ॥

10) By chanting Naam, vices are eliminated:

By earning Gurshabad i.e. by chanting Naam, vices get eliminated because Naamis a medicine:

ਨਾਮ ਅਉਖਧੁ ਜਿਹ ਰਿਦੈ ਹਿਤਾਵੈ ॥ ਤਾਹਿ ਰੋਗੁ ਸੁਪਨੈ ਨਹੀ ਆਵੈ ॥

ਭਰੀਐ ਮਤਿ ਪਾਪਾ ਕੈ ਸੰਗਿ ॥ ਓਹੁ ਧੋਪੈ ਨਾਵੈ ਕੈ ਰੰਗਿ ॥

This does not make sense that first your vices should get eliminated and thenyou can attain Naam.

[DilchaspSingh]

Vaheguru!