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Is brahmin and cow a metaphor ? i cannot understand the meaning of this shabad.

 

https://www.sikhitothemax.org/ang?ang=1413&source=G

bRhmx kYlI Gwqu kM\kw AxcwrI kw Dwnu ]
brahaman kailee ghaat ka(n)n(j)kaa anachaaree kaa dhaan ||
The four Hindu cardinal sins of murdering a Brahmin, a cow, a female infant, and acceptance of the offerings of an evil person,
iPtk iPtkw koVu bdIAw sdw sdw AiBmwnu ]
fiTak fiTakaa koR badheeaa sadhaa sadhaa abhimaan ||
cursed by the world and diseased by leprosy; he is forever and ever filled with egotistical pride.
pwih eyqy jwih vIsir nwnkw ieku nwmu ]
paeh ete jaeh veesar naanakaa ik naam ||
One who forgets the Naam, O Nanak, is covered by these sins.
 
sB buDI jwlIAih ieku rhY qqu igAwnu ]4]
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29 minutes ago, shastarSingh said:

Is brahmin and cow a metaphor ? i cannot understand the meaning of this shabad.

 

https://www.sikhitothemax.org/ang?ang=1413&source=G

bRhmx kYlI Gwqu kM\kw AxcwrI kw Dwnu ]
brahaman kailee ghaat ka(n)n(j)kaa anachaaree kaa dhaan ||
The four Hindu cardinal sins of murdering a Brahmin, a cow, a female infant, and acceptance of the offerings of an evil person,
iPtk iPtkw koVu bdIAw sdw sdw AiBmwnu ]
fiTak fiTakaa koR badheeaa sadhaa sadhaa abhimaan ||
cursed by the world and diseased by leprosy; he is forever and ever filled with egotistical pride.
pwih eyqy jwih vIsir nwnkw ieku nwmu ]
paeh ete jaeh veesar naanakaa ik naam ||
One who forgets the Naam, O Nanak, is covered by these sins.
 
sB buDI jwlIAih ieku rhY qqu igAwnu ]4]

Strikes me as meaning that forgetting Naam is the Sikh equivalent of those four cardinal sins. So in Sikhi forgetting Naam is THE "cardinal sin". 

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