{"id":10,"date":"2008-02-18T05:04:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T12:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/2008\/02\/18\/remain-dead-whilst-still-alive\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T16:16:35","slug":"remain-dead-whilst-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/2008\/02\/18\/remain-dead-whilst-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Remain Dead Whilst Still Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Siree Raag on Pannaa 20 <\/strong><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

muieAw ijqu Gir jweIAY iqqu jIvidAw mru mwir ]
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mu<\/strong><\/font>ei<\/strong><\/font>aa<\/strong><\/font> ji<\/strong><\/font>th ghar jaa<\/strong><\/font>ee<\/strong><\/font>ai<\/strong><\/font> thi<\/strong><\/font>th jee<\/strong><\/font>vadhi<\/strong><\/font>aa<\/strong><\/font> mar maa<\/strong><\/font>r ||
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To reach your True Home after you die, you must conquer death while you are still alive.<\/em>
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wow………….pretty powerful words our Master Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji uttered here………..we “sikhs” shout this everywhere………….we know the path to liberation, we know the price we have to pay……..but why dont we?<\/p>\n

Why can we not see past the troubles, anxieties, stresses, wordly pleasures………? even if somehow we manage to convince the world and put on the show of being a “Sikh of Guru Nanak” it all counts for nothing. The filth on Maya still clings, tight as ever to the soul, dragging it back into the three virtues…………..back into pain, unease, suffering…………i like to call it the “Want”<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have a nice car but i want a better car………….i have a house but i want a better house……….but when we actually look inside…………..do we want this?<\/p>\n

as we aquire more our desires increase…………Daas was listening to Katha a few days ago and i heard something quite amazing…………..when we focusing our wants and desires on anything other than waheguru….say for example…….a car…….waheguru\u00a0may fulfill our desires according to our devotion but once we have our shiny new car, a new worry arises……….what if something happens to this car? then our prayers become: – “waheguru please, u given me this car, please dont let anything happen to it” the list of “wants” simply increasing as does the tension and worry about maintaining our wants…….nothing but grief will come from praying for wordly goods, which when all sed and done will not go with us when we depart from this world……..Pray for strength to rise at amritvela for nitnem, pray\u00a0for His proctection to fight the 5 thieves…………pray for His the ability to chant his glorious Naam………………which is the true and only source of liberation…………..<\/p>\n

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but who wants to spend thier lives being a nobody rite?<\/p>\n

Bhagat Kabeer did, Bhangat Ravidass did, Bhagat Namdev did…………..these very beings of waheguru…………..turned within themselves and found liberation………………..They found the wealth of Naam within themselves……………how many of us make the consious effort to stop and look within………..we are so piled with filth that we immediatly look to the world……………….which is only an outer refection of the very filth with have inside of us……………..The path of the double edge sword is sharp and narrow but it never wavers………………….it is only US who waver……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Shabad is by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Siree Raag on Pannaa 20 muieAw ijqu Gir jweIAY iqqu jIvidAw mru mwir ] mueiaa jith ghar jaaeeai thith jeevadhiaa mar maar || To reach your True Home after you die, you must conquer death while you are still alive. wow………….pretty powerful words our Master Dhan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.sikhsangeet.com\/justme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}