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"Fine, kill me! I cannot hold your hand but at least let me meditate upon the Lord before you kill me, so that if you do kill me I can at least be emancipated by the Lord."
Bhai Gurdas ji gives so many examples one after another so that we can easily judge between right and wrong. We can sing Bhai Sahib varrans as Kirtan.
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The composition was so spiritually elevating that Guru Arjan declared that it would be included in the Adi Granth – the huge compilation he was creating to embody the best of all spiritual expression at that time from all traditions.
Chardi Kala Jatha playing kirtan in celebration of Guru Gaddi Divas.
ਆਗਿਆ ਭਈ ਅਕਾਲ ਕੀ ਤਬੀ ਚਲਾਇਓ ਪੰਥ ॥ ਸਭ ਸਿਖਨ ਕੋ ਹੁਕਮ ਹੈ ਗੁਰੂ ਮਾਨਿਓ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ॥
"Under orders of the Immortal Being, the Panth was created. All the Sikhs are enjoined to accept the Granth as their Guru. Consider the Guru Granth as embodiment of the Gurus. Those who want to meet God, can find Him in its hymns. The pure shall rule, and impure will be no more, Those separated will unite and all the devotees shall be saved."
Bhisham Pitama, the son of the Ganges, meditated on that Naam; his consciousness delighted in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord's Feet.
When you feel anger, you cannot feel love. When you feel lust, which is sex for sex's sake, that sophisticated sensitivity disappears. Greed. Pride. Attachment. All of them block the experience of love.
Akrur taught the people of Mathra to remember the Lord in pain and peace and to stop slandering one another. Mathra became a very peaceful and holy place, where the Lord's name was chanted by all.
Those who take the religious-secular dichotomy for granted will fail to recognise Sikhism, as ‘what the modern Anglophone consciousness understands as the religion of the Sikhs.’