So what's this blog about?

GurbaaNee, The Satguroo’s Form, is such a thing that its ultimate spiritual beauty and meaning cannot truly be conveyed by one human to another.

Like water, The Satguroo's subtleties shift and change the more you try to capture them. Our words are heavy-handed gestures which only serve to squeeze GurbaaNee away from us and the people we hope to engage, as we try to clutch it as though our words will solidify it.

This is because to explain is not necessarily to know - the Truth of GurbaaNee will only seem solid and tangible to us and others when we personally live it:

ਕੇਤੇਬੰਧਨਜੀਅਕੇਗੁਰਮੁਖਿਮੋਖਦੁਆਰ ॥
kaethae bandhan jeea kae guramukh mokh dhuaar
There are so many entanglements for the soul, only as Gurmukh [The Satguroo’s Accomplished Students] do we find the Door of Liberation.

ਸਚਹੁਓਰੈਸਭੁਕੋਉਪਰਿਸਚੁਆਚਾਰੁ ॥੫॥
sachahu ourai sabh ko oupar sach aachaar 5
Truth is higher than everything; but higher still is truthful living. 5

Yes - books, websites, forums, blogs and conversations can help, but no – the experienced reality of GurbaaNee won't hang around long enough for such blunt symbols as words. GurbaaNee has got other things on it’s mind like emancipation and enlightenment – it certainly doesn’t have time for language games.

Of course we should discuss GurbaaNee, but let’s never kid ourselves that we are deft enough to do The Satguroo’s job. The Satguroo is not only the conduit between us and Vaheguroo; the Satguroo is the the very form of The Directly Experienced Vaheguroo. Hence, Satguroo and Vaheguroo are One:

ਦੂਜਾਨਹੀਜਾਨੈਕੋਇ ॥
dhoojaa nehee jaanai koe
Let no one think of some seperate second or other.

ਸਤਗੁਰੁਨਿਰੰਜਨੁਸੋਇ ॥
suthugur nirunjun soe
The True Guroo is The Immaculate.
(Ang/Page 895)

So what place is there for middle-men/women? Well, those truly blessed souls who earn deepest insights and traverse lofty spiritual heights, they give us hints regarding The Immaculate - through their words and their lives. Yet these hints are not answers – they are pointers and the greatest and most experienced souls, the Gurmukhs, always point away from themselves and towards their Satguroo, GurbaaNee.

This blogger certainly doesn’t want the inexperienced to become so reliant on the seemingly experienced to the point that the inexperienced don’t directly connect with GurbaaNee. Did that make sense? Lol.

I definitely can't define the indefinable, or comment on the unspeakable. I simply hope to encourage you, whoever you are, to connect with GurbaaNee and thereby start experiencing The Satguroo, through your experiences – through your everyday sikhee.

( ( ( :-) >>> Atma Singh