Today is full moon again and it is the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev. I wrote about him in the last year, too, and mentioned how his teachings are showing love and simplicity. Of course, he is nowadays seen as the founder of a new religion but in that time, he himself probably did not see it in this way. I believe he simply was a very spiritual person with no intention to actually start a new tradition.
He saw God in truth. This is why he called God ‘Satnam’ which means eternal truth. In one of his scriptures, the Japji Sahib, there is a phrase that I liked:
Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach Hai Bhee Sach, Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach |
A common translation is ‘The True One was in the beginning, the True One was in the primal age, the True One is now also and Nanak says the True One also shall be.’
Truth was in the beginning, has always been, is right now in the present and will be always in the future. God is truth.
If you have a look in the Vedanta philosophy you will actually find the same idea. The Vedanta says ‘Om Tat Sat’. Both philosophies say that truth is stable and truth will prevail.
For Nanak God created everything but was not Himself created. The same thing is believed in Vedanta, too. In Hinduism there are more scriptures that say ‘The biggest religion is truth’. People have told me that in Christianity, too, one of the ten amendments is that you should not lie.
I don’t believe that any religion would ask you to lie. Every religion, every belief will tell you to be honest, to be true and to that truth is right. I don’t believe in any religion but one of my own main beliefs is that you have to be honest. It doesn’t matter whom you follow or if you don’t follow anyone, there are some basic principles that everybody can take in his heart and follow. One of them is truth, another one is love. For me this is God. Whether you call it God, satnam, truth or love, it is all the same in the end.
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From my point of view if you are saying lie with any body so it means you are not truthful within yourself. And if you are not honest with yourself so how can you trust yourself and if you do not trust yourself so how anybody can trust you so just be honest with yourself then everybody will trust you and you will get love from everybody.
I think the essential thing is being honest with oneself-about one’s own nature and desires. If a person can manage that they’ll develop a healthy relationship with life.
I wonder how exciting it must be to be a follower at the time a new religion is created. I have respect for some of the wise people who were a catalyst for new religions, many of them were just searching for truth and sharing it, and then it took fire. from the moment a religion begins a deviation from the search for truth also begins. Imagine what the world would be like if instead of looking for religion we all became creators. if the only thing a person sought after was wisdom… imagine the power and love we’d operate with. We should all be creators. This is the one way to truth. To be a wise man instead of following a wise man.
Gotta find out more about this guy!