I read this story in one of my Punjabi classes in the school around twelve to fifteen years back, but it hasn’t left me since. There was a prisoner at the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ji. He was full of negativity, always hurling abuses at the gatekeepers and about Maharaja Sahib. He was burning […]
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At times, I feel that we all, including me, are criticism-addict. We criticize anyone and everyone for anything and everything. Wherever we go, we pinpoint “This is wrong with this place”, “This is wrong with this institution”, “This is wrong with this committee”, “This is wrong with this Gurudwara”, “This is wrong with this management”.
The path of Gurbani is the path of love. A follower of Gurbani is forever yearning for God’s love to spring from his heart. God or Waheguru loves us intensely, immeasurably, and unconditionally. ਸਦ ਬਖਸਿੰਦੁ ਸਦਾ ਮਿਹਰਵਾਨਾ ਸਭਨਾ ਦੇਇ ਅਧਾਰੀ ॥ Always forgiving and merciful, he sustains everyone. However, we cannot feel his love till
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Humility inside expresses itself in sweetness (“ਮਿਠਾ ਬੋਲਣਾ” or talking and behaving respectfully) outside. Gurbani says humility and sweetness are the essence of all virtues. The question is: do we have them inside us? Are we even trying to cultivate these virtues? Sant Sujan Singh ji used to say that the first sign of spiritual
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When I realize that my beloved Guru Nanak is within all, whom will I criticize? Whom will I hate? Whom will I cheat? When I realize that my Guru Nanak sees through the eyes of everyone, smells through the nose of everyone, touches through the hands of everyone, speaks through the tongue of everyone, and
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