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Faith in wisdom contained in Guru sahib


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We have blind faith (anni shardha) in rituals such as akhand path, chavar, parikrama, sukhasan / parkash , rumala charana, nishan sahib, matha tekna, nagar kirtans , karah parshad but we have zero faith in knowledge imbibed in the book we call our Guru (which literally means 'guide').
 
In fact deep down in our hearts we firmly believe that reading SGGS and them implementing the teachings in our day to day life will not bring any special benefit and hence we are willing to study lot of self help books but overlook the timeless wisdom contained in the guru.
 
If you do agree then rather than merely liking this post, please start studying one or two pages with full concentration (as if you were to write an exam tomorrow) and contemplate all day long on what you read.
 
Sabsai upar gur shabad veechar ||
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I agree, I believe faith and knowledge goes hand in hand. If you believe, have faith or do any paath, its important to understand the meaning, the purpose, the message which we are blessed with. This is an issue with the world and religions across the world. I am grateful for organisations such has basics of sikhi and others organisations which break down and help us all to understand the teachings, paath within our guru granth sahib ji.

   

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2 hours ago, nehkeval said:
We have blind faith (anni shardha) in rituals such as akhand path, chavar, parikrama, sukhasan / parkash , rumala charana, nishan sahib, matha tekna, nagar kirtans , karah parshad but we have zero faith in knowledge imbibed in the book we call our Guru (which literally means 'guide').
 
In fact deep down in our hearts we firmly believe that reading SGGS and them implementing the teachings in our day to day life will not bring any special benefit and hence we are willing to study lot of self help books but overlook the timeless wisdom contained in the guru.
 
If you do agree then rather than merely liking this post, please start studying one or two pages with full concentration (as if you were to write an exam tomorrow) and contemplate all day long on what you read.
 
Sabsai upar gur shabad veechar ||

'the book' honestly you think that was something any Sikh would take in and listen to the rest of your spiel ? kudh beadbhi karke kisse hor nu matt sunauna ... es nu kehnde nasamji

The easiest way is for beginners is to listen to kirtan then look up the shabads and read around that shabad in Guru ji , it consolidates the meaning of the shabad kirtan and helps motivate singing of that Gurbani and the exposure to the shabads around that first shabad in Guru ji helps expand knowledge in a natural way.

 

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