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Is Whaeguru Impersonal or Personal?


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So I know that we are a Monotheistic Faith, but I know that we don't believe in the Abrahamic View of a god which is that he a guy with a beard who lives in a sky,  but we believe in a god that is formless, timeless, genderless, and is everywhere, but I am just wondering if we believe in an Impersonal God, or a Personal God? I know that we don't fully believe in an anthropomorphic god where its an actual person, but in a way, we have a relationship with God like a friend, brother, mother, father, sister, etc; however, we describe God in a Pantheistic sense, like for example like everything in the universe is made up of Waheguru like matter, time, galaxies, planets, and etc, in a way its like God is the Universe. I am just confused whether we are Panentheists or Pantheists regarding Whaeguru, and whether we believe that Whaeguru is Impersonal or Personal to us or its both like a mix.

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In order to answer your question, if I could take your attention back to mool mantar/maha mantar, it has all the answers to your questions:

It starts with Impersonal all pervading ONE non dual Vahiguru/God which we all believe in -

IKongkar(Non dual One Universal Aware being)

Satnaam (its name is Eternal Truth/Existence)

Karta Purkh(creative conscious)

Nirbhauo (Without fear as its one in all, all in one its one without second)

Nirvair(without enemy as its one in all, all in one its one without second)

Akaal Morat (Timeless Being)

Ajooni (Unborn)

Saihbhang (Self Aware/Illuminating) 

Gurparsad (Pure Awareness Existence Bliss) / realized by grace of personal God/Satguru (Jot of all our ten Gurus in PERSONIFIED JAGAT JOT -Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji)

Sri Guru Granth Sahib is infinite ocean of bhramgyan (eternal divine wisdom), we pay devotion to Sri guru granth sahib ji by nine types of bhagti http://www.sikhawareness.com/topic/16852-nine-types-of-bhagtee/ to give us grace/wisdom to meet and realize Vahiguru/IkOngkar-eternal truth.

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17 hours ago, CanadianSingh said:

. I am just confused whether we are Panentheists or Pantheists regarding Whaeguru, and whether we believe that Whaeguru is Impersonal or Personal to us or its both like a mix.

We could well say, to start with, from our human level we have a personal relationship with the Impersonal Being.

Then when we become one with Him by His kirpa, the personal relationship ends, then only He, the impersonal Being, Akal Purukh exists.

 

Sat Sree Akal.

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On 4/29/2018 at 12:06 PM, harsharan000 said:

We could well say, to start with, from our human level we have a personal relationship with the Impersonal Being.

Then when we become one with Him by His kirpa, the personal relationship ends, then only He, the impersonal Being, Akal Purukh exists.

 

Sat Sree Akal.

That makes a lot of a good sense, and I was thinking of your statement when we have a relationship with Waheguru its personal, but when you remove all of that in a way Whaeguru is impersonal.

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