What is Sikhi/ Sikhism ?

Sikh word in itself means 'Learn'. In Sikhism you learn a way of living life. Sikhism is NOT a religion. Making it more clear, Sikhism is not only a religion. It is a lot more than that.

Religion is a part of life but Sikhism is not a part of life. It is a way of living life. In very simple words Sikhism is a way of living a life that gives you complete satisfaction, easy-going life, full of happiness and you face every situation gracefully.

The ideology of Sikhism makes you believe, better way to say is - makes you realize that by offering prayers it's not that your bad days or sufferings will come to an end. No suffering gets eliminated. If there's a day there will be night. If now is winter, there shall be summer, there shall be fall and there shall be spring. Seasons come and seasons go. So are ups and downs in life.

Some time it's high tide in the ocean and other time it is low tide, at some time it may be calm and at one time it may be full of cyclones. The only thing that happens is - You get the strength to face both gracefully. Your day and night passes satisfactorily.

The one of the greatest notion is looking for a person/godman/saint or some one similar who will come and teach you or me Sikhi/Sikhism or the Sikh way of life. Nobody will. Actually nobody can.

I have to be a Sikh for my-self and you have to be a Sikh for yourself. Things in Sikhism are already interpreted. Every thing is laid down very simple and clear.

There is God, you and Shri Guru Granth Sahib (Shabad Guru) who will make you one with the Eternal One. The unison is going to be of you and the Great God through Shri Guru Granth Sahib (Shabad Guru). So where is the need of a third party/person. No question.

There are many things that need to be told or mentioned to explain Sikhi or the Sikh Dharma. All will be put up post by post.

For this post, learn that (Sikh that) - You have to be religious for yourself, you have to do prayer or chant the God's name for yourself and I have too do the same for myself. Sikhi is very simple and already interpreted by the Sikh Gurus so no need of any interpreter. To live a Sikh life all you need is - yourself and Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

You have to sit with yourself and not with some body else. You have to find yourself in yourself. How many times does it happens that you decide something, make a firm decision and when the time comes you are not able to do it, how many times does such a thing happens while getting up in the morning?

Each time when you are not able to make it , you loose yourself to yourself. So you are not the one you are but you are pretending or tending or inclining towards becoming some one else.

This is where Sikhism comes to rescue. It makes you - yourself. You start realizing yourself. You start loving yourself. You become proud of yourself.

Sikhi is a way of living by realization. In it you realize everything. You realize yourself, you realize God and in the process of realization you become God.

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Bhagat Namdev Ji

Date of Birth : October 26, 1270.
Father's Name : Dama Seth
Mother's Name : Gonai
Born into a tailor-cum-calico printer family by profession.

A large number of biographies are available in Marathi, Punjabi, Hindi and English as far as the life of Namdev Ji is concerned. The tough part is that the contents of most of these are conflicting. They do not match with each other.

The most accepted and agreeable biography of Namdev Ji has been written by R.J.Ajgaonkar in 1927. Most of the modern biographers and scholars aree with Ajgaonkar's view.


Namdev's birth place is considered to be village Narsi Bamni or Pandarpur. From the very childhood he was inclined towards religion.

As the story goes. His father, Dama Seth, used to offer milk to the idol of Vitthal daily. One day he asked his son to do the offering in his absence. Namdev was a five year old child at the time so he thought that the idol every day drank the milk offered by his father. So after placing the milk in front of the idol he thought that the idol would drink it. When the milk remained untouched by the idol. He thought there must be some 'failing in himself' that's the reason for not accepting his offering.

He shed tears and felt guilty. He made up his mind that he would not move out unless the Lord would drink his milk. It is said, at last, the idol was moved by the child's intense devotion and drank the milk offered to it.

When he grew older, he was married to Rajai. His wife was not religious at all and often complained about the meager earnings of Namdev Ji.

Namdev Ji was extremely kind and soft hearted. He was very sensitive to the pain of others. Once his mother was suffering from cough and the physician prescribed the medicine that was to be prepared from the bark of a tree. Namdev ji went out to take the bark. When he plunged the knife into the trunk of tree, he saw drops of liquid coming out of the bark. He couldn't bear the scene and returned home without the bark.

Namdev once in the temple of Nagnath. when he entered the temple he was amazed to see an old man lying with his feet on an image of Shiva. Namdev was shocked and asked the old man to take off his feet of the idol. Man said that he was too weak to do so and requested Namdev ji to lift his feet and place where God is not present.

This incident left a deep impact over Namdev's mind and he soon realized that God was omnipresent and not limited to an idol.The man is believed to be Visoba Khechar, a spiritual adept. He's known for opposing idol worship. Earlier Namdev believed in all sorts of rituals like bathing in holy tanks, pilgrimage etc but Visoba Khechar transformed him. He then said, "God, made of stone, never speaks? How can it heal the sorrows? Now I believe God is everywhere but not alone in the places of worship."

He realized God in every living creature. His poem Sant Namdev Ki Hindi Padavali,poem 22 also gives a hint to a story which goes as:
Once Namdev was travelling somewhere and on the way he sat down to take his lunch, which he carried with him. He kept the chappatis (bread) alongside and started taking out butter to apply over it. Mean while a dog came and ran away with the chappatis. Namdev Ji ran after him saying, "Don't eat dry chappatis. Let me apply butter on them."

Namdev is believed to had lived his last years in Punjab in the present Gurdaspur district. A large number of his disciples live there. His place of death is not confirmed and is believed to be either at Ghuman a village in Gurdaspur where he lived 18 years of his life. Some also believe he left his body at the famous Visoba temple.

His bani in SGGS.

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Aasaa, The Word Of The Reverend Naam Dayv Jee:
In the one and in the many, He is pervading and permeating; wherever I look, there He is.
The marvellous image of Maya is so fascinating; how few understand this. ||1||
God is everything, God is everything. Without God, there is nothing at all.
As one thread holds hundreds and thousands of beads, He is woven into His creation. ||1||Pause||
The waves of the water, the foam and bubbles, are not distinct from the water.
This manifested world is the playful game of the Supreme Lord God; reflecting upon it, we find that it is not different from Him. ||2||
False doubts and dream objects - man believes them to be true.
The Guru has instructed me to try to do good deeds, and my awakened mind has accepted this. ||3||
Says Naam Dayv, see the Creation of the Lord, and reflect upon it in your heart.
In each and every heart, and deep within the very nucleus of all, is the One Lord. ||4||1||

His bani appears 19 times in SGGS Ji.

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AN INSIGHT INTO NAVODAYA

The most awaited BOOK is OUT!

To all my readers, friends, navodayans, site visitors I’m really happy to tell you that my FIRST BOOK is finally out in the stores.
It took me about 11 months from my first key stroke to the first hard copy in my hand at the age of 20. These 11 months have been quite busy and full of learning.

• Why I wrote this Book?


I was one of the students who were taken into the NAVODAYAN schooling system through a special lateral entry scheme that was started that very year itself. So being in the ninth class I was quite grown up to ‘feel’ the difference of ‘teaching’ and ‘receiving’ education in Navodaya and city-based schools. By the time I officially walked out of the school gates forever after completing my secondary school education, the system had injected into me a number of values, skills and abilities that I think I would have never had, had I been in a normal city school.



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Bhagat Bhikhan/Bheekhan Ji

Year of Birth - 1473 AD
Place of Birth- Pakain, District Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Family - Kaith Family.

The historians say that Bhagat Bhikan Ji got the Almighty's bliss at the small age of
10-11 years when he attended a True Congregation (Sat Sang) in his village which was organized by Mahatma Mandleshwar.

Bhagat Ji was greatly motivated by Sat Sang. So Bhagat ji went to Mahatma Madleshwar and begged him to be his Guru. He wanted Mahatma Ji to be his Guru so that he could get the Almighty's blessings through him. Mahatma Ji agreed to be Bhagat Ji's Guru.

This made Bhagat Ji to do more of meditation and simran. He was feeling joy out of it.

Before I move any further I would like to make clear that as per history, there are two saints by the name of Bhikan. One was a Sufi Muslim and the other was a devout hermit.

Bhagat Bhikan ji whose hymns are included in Guru Granth Sahib Ji was this muslim - Sheikh Bhikhan of Kakori. Most of the information about Bhikan Ji is available from the records of Bandauni, Persian historian. Bandauni has the following account of him.

" Sheikh Bhikhan was the most learned man of his time, abstemious (perhezgar) and well versed in the holy law, while in devout piety, even ABu hanifa, the greatest of the Imanms, wa his inferiors. For many years he was engaged in teaching and instruction the people. He has committed the whole of the glorious word of God to memory, according to each of the seven method of reading it. He used to give instructions thereon. He reckoned his spiritual succession from Mri Saiyid Ibrahmim of Irij, who was himself the most learned of the learned men of this time. The Sheikh would never mention the Sufi mysteries in a public assembly, but only in private to those who who had been initiated into their secretes; and one of his sayings was 'If the mystical profession of the unity of God be made public, it returns solely to him who uttered it, or to the learned few.'

He would not listen to the singing and outwardly re probated it. He left numerous children who attained perfections, all of whom were adorned with the embellishments of rectitude, piety, wisdom, knowledge and virtue.


The compiler of these historical selections was honoured, in company with late Muhammad Husain Khan by being permitted to pay his respects to the Sheikh of Lucknow. It was the month of Ramzan and a certain one brought to the Sheikh a work of logic, asking him to set him a task in the book. The Sheikh said, 'you should read some book on divinity.' The Sheikh's death occurred in A.H.981 (1573-1574 A.D)."

It has been conjectured with some show of probability, that Bhikham was a follower of Kabir. In his two hymns incorporated in Rag Sorath on page 659 of Guru Granth Sahib he tells us to follow his teachings literally as they are a short-cut to harmony with God and perfect bliss. One should leave everything else to God.

The two hymns of Bhikhan Ji included in Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji are:

In the old age are the eyes flowing with water,

the body enfeebled,

The hair turned grey,

The throat choked, uttering not a word

What power has man now? (1)

Divine King, Lord! turn-you his physician now:

Save your devotees (1 Pause)

The forehead with ache is burning,

the heart throbbing with pain :

Such is the torment that knows no remedy.(2)

The Name Divine is holy amrita-Water-

this the whole world's remedy,

Prayeth Bhikhan, servant of God:

By the grace of the Master

The door of liberation may I attain! (3) (1)

SGGS-659

The invaluable jewel of the

holy Name in reward for good deeds have I attained.

By innumerable devices in my heart have I lodged it

Yet this jewel concealed may not be. (1)

Beyond expression are merits of the Lord,

As taste of sweets for the dumb. (1 pause)

In the tongue's utterance,

the ears listening to the Name,

The mind's contemplation, lies joy.

Saith Bhikhan : Both my eyes now are content:

Wherever 1 look, Him 1 behold.-(2)-(2) SGGS-659

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Sikh theory of reincarnation.

Why Sikhs believe in reincarnation? How do Sikhs justify reincarnation?

These are the most widely asked questions by non-sikhs regarding Sikhism. Yesterday I was going various Sikh sites and while randomly reading articles. I found a testimony on Real Sikhism by Gurinder Singh.I got the answer to the most widely asked question in the testimony. Considering it to be more influential I decided to put it as a reply to the question in my blog. So here it is-

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When I came to United States I started going to the high school in order to complete twelfth grade. I took Ap English along with two other Ap classes and three regular classes. We read three novels in Ap English and one of the novel was “By the River Piedra, I Sat Down and Cried” by Pavlo Coelho. In this novel the author talks about the feminine side of God and asserts the notion that God is a female.

We would have discussions about this topic in our class. I was the only Sikh with turban and beard among my Christian classmates and teacher. My classmates and teacher would ask me about my beliefs about God. I told them that Sikhs believe in One formless God. Since God does not have a particular form or shape the question about whether God is a male or female is insignificant. This notion was very interesting to them, particularly my teacher. So she asked me for more information but I did not know much.

The same day when I went home, I started to read an online version of Guru Granth Sahib with translations and began to find what Sikh Gurus say about God. Not only did I find what Gurus says about God about also His creations. “There are planets, solar systems and galaxies. If one speaks of them, there is no limit, no end. There are worlds upon worlds of His Creation. As He commands, so they exist. He watches over all, and contemplating the creation, He rejoices. Nanak says, to describe this is as hard as steel!” (Guru Granth Sahib, 8). Furthermore, it is stated that God created the whole universe including the earth. “You Yourself created the earth, and the two lamps of the sun and the moon” (Guru Granth Sahib, 83). And, “Many millions are the moons, suns and stars” (Guru Granth Sahib, 275). This was very interesting to me.

I also found mind opening information about the life and its purpose. I was wonder struck when I read about the miracles that God performed in order to save Naamdev and Kabir Ji. I began to disproof any of the beliefs in Guru Granth Sahib with the help of Science but I failed. To my surprise all beliefs in Sikhism has proper reasoning and justification. The information scientist find about galaxies, stars and planets was narrated by Guru Nanak more than 500 years ago.

The following week we had another discussion about the novel and I was well prepared to express Sikh beliefs. During the spiritual discussion, my teacher began to discuss her spiritual experiences. She said that when her mother was at deathbed, she saw some light coming out of her body and claimed that she saw her mother’s soul.
I asked her, "Was the soul you saw a male or a female?" Silence ... for ten minutes, she was unable to answer that question. I said, "If you don't even know that a soul has a gender than how can you say that God has a feminine or a masculine side? Gender exists in human parameters and the world above us is free of gender, race, cast, color and form.

Christians do not believe in reincarnation but it made perfect sense to me. Just like our environment and ecosystem has a perfect cycle, there must be a cycle in the world hereafter but my Christian friends disagreed with me. I ask one of my Christian friend about what happens after death according to Christianity? She said that the soul either goes to heaven or hell and lives there. I further asked how are babies being born then, where does their soul come from? She said that God makes new souls. I asked if God makes new souls then why are children born handicap? She didn’t have the answer. Anyhow if a soul does go to heaven to live there then no matter how big is the heaven it will get full since nothing is getting out of it. There must be a cycle of reincarnation that keeps everything balanced.

Furthermore I searched for the information in Guru Granth Sahib I found that Salvation is not reached just by entering in heaven. Salvation is reached by merging in the Holy Spirit, God. Salvation is not reached by just talking and doing good deeds, it is reached by meditating on God, and living the life by renouncing lust, greed, anger, emotional attachment and egotistical pride. “As long as the mind is filled with the desire for heaven, he does not reach God” (Guru Granth Sahib 325). The desire should be to meet God, not to go to heaven. Heaven and Hell are not created to live but to award and punish. Your good deeds will be paid off in heaven, your bad deeds in hell; you will then take birth again until you become One with God.

The more Christians talked to me about God and tried to disprove my beliefs, the stronger they made me in my faith. I did not previously know that Sikhism has so much reasoning and meaning behind its beliefs. Science cannot disprove any belief of Sikhism. Scientific facts are surprisingly consistent with the teachings of the Guru.

If science cannot find any proof about existence of God, it also fails to find any proof that God does not exist. Having rational thinking, Sikh beliefs totally make sense to me and I have no problem howsoever practicing these beliefs. Sikhism promotes humanity and respect among each other. I love my religion.

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Sikhs asking for peace. (removing nuclear weapons).

I was reading various news items regarding Sikhs across the globe when I got to know about this. Here it is.

London: Following the delivery on 26 January 2009 to the Indian and Pakistan Governments as well as to the UN Security Council of a formula to remove the risk of nuclear war in Punjab that Sikhs consider their Homeland, a delegation of Sikhs has briefed the UK Government about the proposals.

Military experts have warned that Punjab will be the theatre of war in South Asia and the conflict is likely to involve nuclear weapons resulting in millions of casualties.

The proposals call for India to remove all its nuclear weapons systems (and other WMDs) from Punjab and to undertake to the Sikh community that it will not use its homeland for the purposes of firing or targeting such weapons. The formula also involves a commitment from Pakistan not to target the territory. The UN is also requested to oversee implementation of the proposals by establishing and monitoring a no fly zone for those weapons systems. The formula has been endorsed by thirty-six leading Sikh organisations based in the Sikh Homeland as well as across the Diaspora.

The delegation stressed that the British have a special obligation given their role as the ex colonial power as they had formally recognised the Sikh Nation as a stakeholder in the region till at least August 1947. In addition, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council which has influence over the two countries, Britain could be a key player in removing the anxiety the Sikhs and others in the region have about the risk of an all out war.

Indo-Pak tensions over recent days and weeks, with political and military leaders on both sides speaking openly about war, have lead major world powers including the UK to call for restraint. The delegation stressed that the Sikhs, perhaps more than any other party, wanted peace to prevail. They had no option but to raise their concerns at the international level as even the slightest risk of nuclear war in their territory is unacceptable. That risk carries the threat of near annihilation for the world's fifth largest religion; no other people face that level of threat.

Neil Kernohan (Head of the India, Nepal and Bhutan desk at the Foreign Office), Joanne Crabtree (India desk), Carl Spychal (India-Pakistan Desk) and other officials were apprised that the underlying tensions in South Asia remain very high; the political compulsions of the forthcoming Indian general election in a few months would see a further rise in belligerence so the "nightmare scenario" will at some point need to be addressed.

The UK-based delegation comprised Amrik Singh Sahota, OBE, Gurmej Singh Gill, Santokh Singh Saran, Gurcharan Singh, Jaspal Singh, Mandeep Singh, Narinder Singh and Ranjit Singh Srai who delivered the proposals on behalf of the international coalition of thirty six Sikh organisations.

Source: World Sikh News.

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Watch some Gatka

I love watching Gatka. A Sikh Martial Art. I found a video on You-tube and found it interesting too. I loved it. Hope you too will love it. Here it is for you with -'Deh Shiva Bar Mohe' Gurbani from Dasm Granth as the background tune and also as text appearing at the screen in Gurmukhi script.



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Why don't Sikhs eat meat?

Fed up with this question and many other like this -Can Sikhs eat meat? Why do you eat plants?

Here is my reply to all this. Hope you will be satisfied by the reply.

So why can't we eat meat?

If I simply say, "We don't eat meat because we don't eat anything after killing it. " I know many will reply -"Plants and crops are also living." So I think it is better to explain it in detail. I support my statement by two giving out two reasons.

First,Out of Mercy. Causing pain is not justified. All animals, insects, killed by any means feel pain of being killed. They have a nervous system that makes them feel the pain of being killed. Cow, pig, hen, fish, crab all have a nervous system and thus feel the pain. So it's unjust to eat them as a diet.

Plants on the other hand are without nervous system. The various chemicals present in them make them respond to the various physical factors such as light, heat, minerals etc. but they are devoid of nerves and can't feel. So bring them on.

Second reason is- Who you are? If you recall the evolution of life on this planet, that you must have studied in your junior classes - you will find - plants came first, follwed by creepers,carnivores herbivors, and then humans ( I know it's more complicated). If you observe the pattern of diet of the animals as per the evolution you will find, the later animals I mean the animals that evolved later are herbivores.

The complex the digestive system of a ceature is -the lower level of food it takes. Let me explain it a bit. Grass, leaves, fruits are lower levels of energy. We humans, cow, buffalo, deer all have a good developed diegestive system that can extract maximum energy from these lower level energy sources (grass, leaves etc. ) Whereas the lower level animals -don't have a that developed digestive system that can extract/convert the energy present in the lower level foods into their own blood. So they don't have any option but to eat other animal who has capability of eating lower level energy food. That's why carnivores rarely eat carnivores.

We humans have been blessed by the Almighty to accept both types of food. But we should be merciful too. (consider the first reason). So if other options are available then you should go for them rather than taking meat you should go for vegetarian food. Leaving the flesh for the hard days. I think I'm able to drive the point home. Isn't it?

Please: There must be some other reasons too but my micro sized brain at this time is capable of getting these two reasons only. If you have a different and scietifically true reasoning, do put it below in the comments. I would be happy to read it and will also include in the post.

Again I would like to say - the explanation is based on my understanding.

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Sikhism spreading all across Globe

I found this video while searching Youtube, but before I could decide to play and watch it I switched to my gmail inbox. Just then a mail from MrSikhnet arrived and when I followed the link it carried - I got to the same video. So I went back to the Youtube tab I had opened and watched the video and decided to make the post you are reading now.

So just do what I did. Click on the play button and see a beautiful film. I felt great after watching it.



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Bhagat Trilochan Ji -Bhagat of Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

Personal Details:

Life span 1269 - 1335 A.D.
Birth place: Village Barsi, District Sholapur in Maharashtra.

Born in Vaish Caste.

He had already heard about Bhagat Namdev Ji. In his very first meeting he requested Bhagat Namdev Ji to give him a glimpse of the Almightly. Bhagat Namdev Ji replied ,"You shall also have a glimpse of the Almightly if you contemplate on Him with devotion while working with your limbs simultaneously." Namdev Ji also pleaded to the Almightly to fulfill Trilochon's requests.


Bhagat Trilochan Ji decided to accept Namdev Ji as his Guru. Trilochan Ji came back to his village and started serving every mendicant who came that way. The company of the Holy men liberated him of desire for worldly materials and the fear of death.

Time passed away and Bhagat Trilochan Ji beacame very famous among the saints. A group of saints would always remain present at his place.He always served the saints at his residence with the utmost dedication and humanity. Bhagat Trilochan Ji always gave more importance to Bhakti (love & devotion) in preference to selfish interests. He said that he who is always occupied with problems relating to wealth and property will never become happy. As the number of visiting saints kept on increasing it became difficult of Bhagat Trilochan Ji's wife to do the household work. So she asked Bhagat ji to have a servant who could help in the household work.

When Bhagat Ji was about to leave home to search a worker who could help in the household work a boy appeared at the door of his house. Upon inquiring the child told Bhagat Ji that his name was 'Antarjami'. Bhagat Ji introduced Antarjami to his wife and told her to explain him his work and also said that feed him to his satisfaction and don't talk about him and his habits with the people. Time went on and an year passed. Every body was happy by the service of Antarjami.

One day Trilochan Ji's wife was talking with her neighbor. Her neighbor asked her why she was looking pale and weak because she was a very radiant lady. She started telling her neighbor about the Antarjami, about his eating habit. She said, "I'm unable to cope up with his meals. He eats a lot. Her neighbor suggested her to replace the servant with someone else.

Antarjami was the manifestation of the God Himself. He came to knew of the conversation between Bhagat Ji's wife and her neighbor. So he left the home as the wife had violated the condition on which Antarjami had agreed to work in Bhagat Ji's home. When Trilochan Ji's wife returned after having a nice chatting. She was shocked to find the house unattended and servant missing.

Trilochan Ji asked her wife about him but she wasn't able give any satisfactory reply. One day Trilocan Ji were sleeping, voice cried, "Hey Trilochan your servant, Antarjami was indeed a 'antarjami', the Almightly himselfe. He came to you on the recommendations of Bhagat Namdev Ji." Trilochan Ji became very upset. His wife cried that she had made a mistake because the Almighty has not made her a mother. She said, "If I had not been childless, I would not have cared about old age reserves and hadn't chased away Antarjami." She started complaining the Almighty.

On this Bhagat Ji told her not to complain the God because what all you have got is the result of your past deeds. He explained her by the giving the example of Hanuman. He had fought for Ram Ji, brought the Sanjivani plant for Laxman Ji but still the curse of stealing saints clothes remained. Past deeds cannot be erased from anyone's log book. You have sown a seed you are bound to get the fruits.

His hymns in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji:

In Dhanaasaree Rag.

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
Why do you slander the Lord? You are ignorant and deluded.
Pain and pleasure are the result of your own actions.||1|Pause||

The moon dwells in Shiva's forehead; it takes its deansing bath in the Ganges.
Among the men of the moon's family, Krishna was born;
even so, the stains from its past actions remain on the moon's face.||1||

Aruna was a charioteer; his master was the sun, the lamp of the world. His brother was Garuda, the king of birds;
and yet, Aruna was made a cripple, because of the karma of his past actions.||2||

Shiva, the destroyer of the countless sins, the Lord and Master of the three worlds, wandered from sacred shrine to sacred shrine; he never found and end to them.
And yet, he could not erase the karma of cutting off Brahman's head.||3||

Through the nectar, the moon, the wish-fulfilling cow, Lakshmi, the miraculous tree of life, Sikhar the sun's horse, and Dhanavantar the wise physician- all arose from the ocean, the lord of rivers;
and yet, because of its karma, its saltiness has not left it.||4||

Hanuman burnt the fortress of Sri Lanka, uprooted the garden of Raavan, and brought
healing herbs for the wounds of Laxman, pleasing Lord Raamaa;
and yet, because of his karma, he could not be rid of his loin cloth.||5||

The karma of past actions cannot be erased, O wife of my house; this is why I chant
the Name of the Lord.

So prays Trilochan, Dear Lord.||6||1||
(SGGS 695)


Goojaree, Paday Of Trilochan Jee, First House:
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
You have not cleansed the filth from within yourself, although outwardly, you wear the dress of a renunciate.
In the heart-lotus of your self, you have not recognized God - why have you become a Sannyaasee? ||1||

Deluded by doubt, O Jai Chand,
you have not realized the Lord, the embodiment of supreme bliss. ||1||Pause||
You eat in each and every house, fattening your body; you wear the patched coat and the ear-rings of the beggar, for the sake of wealth.
You apply the ashes of cremation to your body, but without a Guru, you have not found the essence of reality. ||2||

Why bother to chant your spells? Why bother to practice austerities? Why bother to churn water?
Meditate on the Lord of Nirvaanaa, who has created the 8.4 million species of beings. ||3||

Why bother to carry the water-pot, O saffron-robed Yogi? Why bother to visit the sixty-eight holy places of pilgrimage?
Says Trilochan, listen, mortal: you have no corn - what are you trying to thresh? ||4||1||
(SGGS 525)


Siree Raag, Trilochan:
The mind is totally attached to Maya; the mortal has forgotten his fear of old age and death.
Gazing upon his family, he blossoms forth like the lotus flower; the deceitful person watches and covets the homes of others. ||1||
When the powerful Messenger of Death comes, no one can stand against his awesome power.
Rare, very rare, is that friend who comes and says,
"O my Beloved, take me into Your Embrace! O my Lord, please save me!"||1||Pause||

Indulging in all sorts of princely pleasures, O mortal, you have forgotten God; you have fallen into the world-ocean, and you think that you have become immortal.
Cheated and plundered by Maya, you do not think of God, and you waste your life in laziness. ||2||

The path you must walk is treacherous and terrifying, O mortal; neither the sun nor the moon shine there.
Your emotional attachment to Maya will be forgotten, when you have to leave this world. ||3||

Today, it became clear to my mind that the Righteous Judge of Dharma is watching us.
His messengers, with their awesome power, crush people between their hands; I cannot stand against them. ||4||

If someone is going to teach me something, let it be that the Lord is pervading the forests and fields.
O Dear Lord, You Yourself know everything; so prays Trilochan, Lord. ||5||2||
(SGGS 92)


Goojaree:
At the very last moment, one who thinks of wealth, and dies in such thoughts,
shall be reincarnated over and over again, in the form of serpents. ||1||
O sister, do not forget the Name of the Lord of the Universe. ||Pause||

At the very last moment, he who thinks of women, and dies in such thoughts,
shall be reincarnated over and over again as a prostitute. ||2||

At the very last moment, one who thinks of his children, and dies in such thoughts,
shall be reincarnated over and over again as a pig. ||3||

At the very last moment, one who thinks of mansions, and dies in such thoughts,
shall be reincarnated over and over again as a goblin. ||4||

At the very last moment, one who thinks of the Lord, and dies in such thoughts,
says Trilochan, that man shall be liberated; the Lord shall abide in his heart. ||5||2||
(SGGS 526)

Thus, he advises mankind not to remain engrossed throughout life in wealth, woman, son & land lest one should have all or any of these in one's consciousness all the time and especially at one's death. Mankind should perform their filial and social obligation in such a way that they never become forgetful of God. This will help them concentrate on the Divine Name as their end draws near. Only this can put an end to the process of their transmigration. The essence of the above hymn by Trilochan ji is to make a person aware of these aweful species which could become their fate. Thus, every individual is exhorted to remember the Lord which is the only means of diverting mankind's sensibilities, given to sensuous pleasure & material comfort, towards the pious Name of God. This reminds human creature of the ultimate objective of life, i.e, remembrance of God always.

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