January 21, 2012 by Gur Sikh
I received “The Effects of the Pauris of Japji Sahib Compiled by the Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogi Ji and Bhai Sahiba Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa” in an email today. What is going on here?
Doesnt this remind you of the hindu http://www.mailerindia.com/slokas/mantras/index.php?ggayatri ?
Further read: “Counting beads” by gurbani.org
Published on: Aug 31, 2010 Bumped today
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jantar mantar kali kalantar
This has been around I must assume for a quarter of a century at least. It has the ring of those little messages inside a Chinese fortune cookie.
Perhaps the next chapter in trying to understand why we need a jingle to go with our jap will require a psychological approach. Perhaps try to find out what emotional or psychic need is addressed by this. It stymies me.
Let me try my best to use an analogy from Christianity in the early American colonies. There were no public schools as such funded at the state level. There were little schools here and there that towns would cobble together, and parents would pay out of pocket, if they had the money, so their children would learn to read. And the Bible was the text book. Of course all of this changed by the mid 1800′s, and reading books like McGuffy’s reader came into being.
But why the Bible? Because the only point of learning to read in those days long ago was to be able to read the Bible. Then how to make it easy to remember? With little jingles, “In Adams fall we sinned all.” That was how to remember the letter “A” and so forth all the way through to Z.
Do we need a catchy reminder to get all 38 of the paurees? I am stumped. I thought they were pretty good as they are. Who can forget that “the great giver gives on giving?” Apparently it is necessary in the thinking of some people, and we need to find out why they need more than what Guruji has already said for improved recollection and understanding.
That is all I can say. Those sayings and more are found everywhere in the Sikh Dharma literature. Every plane of consciousness is covered. IMHO, this gives everyone more to remember not less. And it gets in the way of understanding. But of course this is only my humble opinion.
It does not mean there is no reference of MANTRAs in Gurbanee.We come across the following Mantras in SGGS ji as
1…MAHA MANTRa
2…MOOL MANTRA
3…BEEJ MANTRA
4…GuR MANTRA and
5…NAAM MANTRA
It seems we have been ignoring the significance of these Mantras.These should be clarified in reference of Gurbanee messages.What is the view of these mantras in Gurbanee.?
Unless we are able to spread real knowledge about these mantra people
will always be getting trapped in unscrupulous practies of so called YOGA.
Prakash.S.Bagga
In Gurbani, there is only one Mantra though it is called with many names as Maha Mantra,Mool Mantra, Beej Mantra, Gur Mantra and Naam Mantra, and that is Hari Naamu and singing ” Naamu glory”; in the beginning of Japji, Mool Mantra is all about Harii/Prabh/Ekkankaar. Gurbani guides us to understand that:
ਸਚ ਬਿਨੁ ਸਤੁ ਸੰਤੋਖੁ ਨ ਪਾਵੈ ॥ ਬਿਨੁ ਗੁਰ ਮੁਕਤਿ ਨ ਆਵੈ ਜਾਵੈ ॥ (1040 SGGS)
Sacẖ bin saṯ sanṯokẖ na pāvai. Bin gur mukaṯ na āvai jāvai.
In Essence: Without eternal Prabh, one cannot obtain purity and contentment, without the Guru, one doesn’t get liberated, and one continues coming and going.
ਮੂਲ ਮੰਤ੍ਰੁ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਰਸਾਇਣੁ ਕਹੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਪੂਰਾ ਪਾਇਆ ॥੫॥
Mūl manṯar har nām rasā▫iṇ kaho Nānak pūrā pā▫i▫ā. ||5||
Mool Mantra Hari Naam (u) is the source of all essences; Nanak says, one obtains perfect Prabh who utters Hari Naamu
ਸੁਨਤ ਜਪਤ ਹਰਿ ਨਾਮ ਜਸੁ ਤਾ ਕੀ ਦੂਰਿ ਬਲਾਈ ॥ (814 SGGS)
Sunaṯ japaṯ har nām jas ṯā kī ḏūr balā▫ī.
In Essence: a person who listens and does the praises of Hari Naam, gets free of afflictions.
ਮਹਾ ਮੰਤ੍ਰੁ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਕਥੈ ਹਰਿ ਕੇ ਗੁਣ ਗਾਈ ॥੪॥੨੩॥੫੩॥
Mahā manṯar Nānak kathai har ke guṇ gā▫ī. ||4||23||53||
Nanak utters the great Mantra (what?) Sing praises of Hari.
If reciting of certain stanzas of Japji were fruitful in certain ways; it would have been expressed in Gurbani; this idea of “special fruits coming from special stanzas of Jap Ji” is Yogi Bhajan’s own coined up ideology, there is no proof in Gurbani to support such ideology; it has nothing to do with Gurmat. Gurbani doesn’t attach us with Prabh for financial or other individual gains but to get liberated from Maya that keeps a strong wall built between Prabh and us.
Regards
G Singh