Gurvinderpal Singh

Ok so yesterday i started playing Sukhmani Sahib, Learn more in my apartment yesterday, and my Roommate’s fish (two of them) passed away. its rather interesting to think about the impact bani has… even though the “naad and shabd guru” were subtly traveling through the room, they were able to reach his fish… Then his fish were able to reach mutki =) hehe…. then that reminded me of this shabd of Guru Ram Daas Ji’s

so yesterday someone was playing this shabd in espanola sangat….. 

it was really amazing.  Now i was reading the shabad last night, and i kept on looking over it…. some how the whole time about these english translations of Bani tend to really irk me… especially how Naam apparently means Name?  this is not the case.  Naam means one’s own divinity or divine quality.  Hence punjabi/gurmukhi names aren’t really names but rather one’s divine quality… It makes sense Siri Singh Sahib  utilized  this hence his students were given names like Sat Shabd (True Sound) and other names….anyways getting too off topic ok so here in this shabd the Translation says “Hearing your Name , i am blessed with peace…”so i looked and i couldn’t find “naam” then i started chanting the words of the shabd then it hit my upside the head… if you say sunath really long you get the words “Sun” and “naath” or Naad sun means to listen where naad means sound current.           so anhaath shabad, there are so many shabds with these words, and then people ask “Why do you sikhs bow to this book?” “oh we sikhs, worship this holy book, its the sikh bible we bow too!”          freaking idiot! all of you  now i’m not going to curse instead i’m going to quote siri singh sahib from this lecture… “How to create that energy when there’s not time? That is why father of this nation, Guru Gobind Singh, the real father, established Siri Guru Granth as the Guru for the Sikhs. He didn’t give you holy book. It is a damn lie! It is a rotten untruth! Those who called Siri Guru Granth a “Holy Book of the Sikhs,” are stupidly ignorant! It’s not! It’s a living process, a Guru! Organic!‘    -Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Ji lecture 09/18/1988  LA,  How the Guru Granth SAhib Works…   Now you may wonder how in the world is Living Guru a Organic Process? This Shabad Guru allows us to hear the anhaath sahad, the unheard sound.    in the shabad it says 

sarab sookh aana(n)dh sehaj ras sunath thuhaaro naaeiou ||1|| rehaao ||                                          Hearing Your Name, I am blessed with total peace, bliss, poise and pleasure. ||1||Pause||      

That by listening to my own divinity, experience my subtly i am able to experience bliss and peace.  also this bani is able to cut through one’s ego… it just does it so many times guru ji says it, even in Asa Di Vaar Guru Ji says,

                              ”Haumai Shabd Jalai”

                    ”The Shabd Cut/Burn my ego”

also i know another controversy is how come American/3ho Sikhs dont’ read their banis and do yoga for their sadhana… its simple, if you look at the psyche/bloodline of a punjabi sikh, and trace their ancestry majority of them 6-8 generations back, where in punjab, thus someone in their family had to have direct contact with Guru Ji… whether it was by passing or sangat or something… even if they weren’t sikh back then but it was still there… thus the subtly was still there too, where as an american person of european descent wasn’t that fortunate, thus the subtly wasn’t there, thus by doing yoga they are able to clean/cleanse their physical body, mental body (conscious and sub-conscious) and soul….

 then when they read bani they will be able to fully experience it…