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Ang 634: Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji Maharaj ਸੋਰਠਿ   ਮਹਲਾ   ੯   ॥ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ   ਜਾਨਿ   ਲੇਹੁ   ਮਨ   ਮਾਹੀ   ॥ ਅਪਨੇ   ਸੁਖ   ਸਿਉ   ਹੀ   ਜਗੁ   ਫਾਂਧਿਓ   ਕੋ   ਕਾਹੂ   ਕੋ   ਨਾਹੀ   ॥ ੧ ॥   ਰਹਾਉ   ॥ ਸੁਖ   ਮੈ   ਆਨਿ   ਬਹੁਤੁ   ਮਿਲਿ   ਬੈਠਤ   ਰਹਤ   ਚਹੂ   ਦਿਸਿ   ਘੇਰੈ   ॥ ਬਿਪਤਿ   ਪਰੀ   ਸਭ   ਹੀ   ਸੰਗੁ   ਛਾਡਿਤ   ਕੋਊ   ਨ   ਆਵਤ   ਨੇਰੈ   ॥ ੧ ॥ ਘਰ   ਕੀ   ਨਾਰਿ   ਬਹੁਤੁ   ਹਿਤੁ   ਜਾ   ਸਿਉ   ਸਦਾ   ਰਹਤ   ਸੰਗ   ਲਾਗੀ   ॥ ਜਬ   ਹੀ   ਹੰਸ   ਤਜੀ   ਇਹ   ਕਾਂਇਆ ...

The gold ornaments studded with red jewels look like flames of fire. That is everyone notices them and the individual wearing them. Such ornaments signify riches, lavish life, show-off of and pompous life style. But for Devotee like Kabeer Ji, who is attuned with mind and heart to The Lord, such ornaments look like burnt twigs. How that is possible? Well, wearing such ornaments, if not attached to 'Naam of The Lord’ will give rise to ego. How? Almost all mortals will take excessive pride in holding such riches, people will appreciate the beauty adding more fuel to ego and those who don't have will grow jealous and may also burn in fire of greed with fire of jealousy. And what fire does best; it burns the forest and make trees look like burnt twigs. So words of Devotee Kabeer Ji signify: Gathering worldly riches without attuning to Lord is futile, One should give up wrong lifestyle and attune himself to The Lord, One who us truly spiritual is not distracted by afflue...

अध्याय १: एक पतित सारांश : हर मनुष्य के भीतर एक ऐसा पहलू होता है जो उसके गुणों को चुनौती देता है। यह पहलू उसका ही एक भाग है। यही पहलू उसे दुष्टता करने के लिए उकसाता है। इस अध्याय में हम इसी पहलू के बारे में जानेगे। यह केवल एक मिथ्या है कि हम उसे अपने से भिन्न समझते हैं। इसी कारण हम केवल अपने को बाहर के विकारों से बचाते हैं लेकिन अपने अंतर्मन में पनप रही दुष्टता को नाकार देते हैं। हम यह समझते हैं की बुराइयों का जन्म दाता नर्क का स्वामी है जो कहीं और बसता है। इसलिए इस अध्याय में हम नर्क और स्वर्ग को समझने का और कहाँ तक वो हमारी मानसिकता में समा चुके हैं, जानने का प्रयास भी करेंगे? मृत्यु के बाद क्या होगा इसकी जिज्ञासा हमें बनी रहती है। परन्तु हम कैसे अपना जीवन व्यापन करें? हम उसमें क्या परिवर्तन करने का प्रयास करें? अगर हम इन पर विचार करें और उस पर कदम उठायें शायद हम बदल सके की हम अपने अंत को कैसे देखते और उसे स्वीकार करते हैं। पुस्तक का लिंक eBook का लिंक

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When we hear the term Night Life, most of us visualize people dancing crazily after getting drunk. Well this is dark aspect of night life which is unfortunately engulfing youth of every county. In ideal words night life should mean that an individual can move freely in night like day. He does not face any limitations associated with security, food, fun etc. But with the most common mindset, only fun with ‘Sinister Attributes’ are correlated with night life. Further security becomes a challenge and concern when people no longer remain in their senses [1] . Most of the personal vendetta is picked up during ‘night life’. Night life, the term seemed to be coined in West, to throw away loads of surplus affluence down the drain [2] . The outlets of such money are factors responsible for ever diminishing morals like alcoholism, drugs, gambling, casual ‘sexual encounters’ etc for fun. Indulgence in such activities can even take ugly turns such as violence, murders or rapes especial...

Ang 918: Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Baani Shri Guru Amardas Ji Ki ਰਾਮਕਲੀ    ਮਹਲਾ    ੩    ਅਨੰਦੁ ਸੁਰਿ    ਨਰ    ਮੁਨਿ    ਜਨ    ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ    ਖੋਜਦੇ    ਸੁ    ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ    ਗੁਰ    ਤੇ    ਪਾਇਆ।। ਪਾਇਆ    ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ    ਗੁਰਿ    ਕ੍ਰਿਪਾ    ਕੀਨੀ    ਸਚਾ    ਮਨਿ    ਵਸਾਇ ॥ ਜੀਅ    ਜੰਤ    ਸਭਿ    ਤੁਧੁ    ਉਪਾਏ    ਇਕਿ    ਵੇਖਿ    ਪਰਸਣਿ    ਆਇਆ ॥   ਲਬੁ    ਲੋਭੁ    ਅਹੰਕਾਰੁ    ਚੂਕਾ    ਸਤਿਗੁਰੂ    ਭਲਾ    ਭਾਇਆ ॥ ਕਹੈ    ਨਾਨਕੁ    ਜਿਸ    ਨੋ    ਆਪਿ    ਤੁਠਾ    ਤਿਨਿ    ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ    ਗੁਰ    ਤੇ    ਪਾਇਆ   ॥ ੧੩ ॥ ----------------------------------------------------------------------...

Subjected to sorrows, difficult time and faith of an individual gets shattered. He finds himself all over the place. He begins to question his faith, why it has happened? It seems to him that faith hurts, he asks how being a faith bearer he suffered? Well, if he asks such questions then he never had faith. And he succumbs to malpractices to find happiness. He was always under illusion of having faith. Else he would have consoled himself like Devotee Kabeer Ji.  Words uttered by Devotee Kabeer Ji signify that: All the happiness come from One Formless Lord, Only faith can save the honor of individual as it keeps him in touch with the Lord, In tough time hold onto your faith and keep saying to yourself what Devotee Kabeer Ji is saying to himself, Other than One Formless Lord no one can save an individual, HE is The Savior of all time even when time was not present and even when time will not be present. Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 🙏🙏🙏

Today the whole of India is celebrating Teacher's Day. Students are congratulating and thanking their teachers. But did we spare some time to thank 'The Real Teacher - The Great Guru'? Nah! Why? Because we remember Him in hours of needs; in moments of troubles; in times of pain; in periods of suffering. So, the bitter reality is if life is smooth, without troubles then we have a tendency to forget Him. His thoughts elude us. That is the irony of human life we all have been living. We don't want to remember what all He has given us. Well, if we start thanking Him it should have ideally begun from the moment we were born. And if we live a life of 100 years by His Grace and remember Him every moment still our gratitude will be insufficient to thank Him. But a moment spent in His remembrance with all the devotion would be good enough to thank 'The Great Guru - Dhan Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji'. Let us spare a few moments this Teacher's Day to express o...

I wrote this article in 2008 to pay my tribute to Kargil War Heroes.  The article highlights the impact of Kargil War, fought in 1999, on India’s present. All the soldiers who have died in the Kargil War were not associated with me but now there loss hurt me. Over years, I have realized that they were mine so what I had not met them at any instance. We shared a relationship so what they were not part of my kinship. I might have realized the association when the war was on, but never took it to next level since I was more worried about my higher education in USA. They and I both were concerned. They were trying to throw out the ‘rodents’ and I was planning to leave the country. One was determined to die and other was trying to live. There were so much difference between our thoughts but still we shared a common bond. Yeah, to everyone we were citizens of same country. The blood which was spilt on Himalayas never had the same genes as mine but still we were brothers. I was selfish an...