JUP BANEE VIDEO PART 9 BY DR KSD – A REVIEW
REVIEW OF JUP BANEE VIDEO PART 9 BY DR KSD
Video at: www.sikhivicharforum YOU TUBE Channel
THE CONNECTIONS – the Preamble to Jup , First Salok, Paurees, Last Salok are all connected.
- The Preamble – is about the Creator (Gur Parsad is the enlightenment)
- Jup – realize that the Creator is Within
- First Salok – the Creator is Within
- First Pauree – seeking to Realize the Creator WITHOUT won’t work
- 38 Paurees – the Path
- Last Salok – the Outcome
PRE 1469 SPIRITUALLY CONCEPTUALIZED
- All practices assume that God is EXTERNAL / OUTSIDE/ UP THERE – WITHOUT.
- Karam Kand/Rituals form the basis – Purity/Cleansing
- Penance is the higher level – Jup/Tup
- Ideology in the texts is the apex – Vedas/Puranas/Upanishdas/Shashtras
1469 – PAUREE 1 – GURU NANAK’S PHILOSOPHY IS IN TOTAL CONTRAST
- God is WITHIN so rituals and penance as per the texts (Without) is rejected
- The starting process of the realization Within is in Pauree 1
- Guru Nanak’s Conception of Spirituality in SGGS ji begins in Jup Banee and all the 1429 pages will elucidate how to achieve the realization Within
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
- ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥ Kiv Sachiara Hoeyey Kiv Kooray Tootey Paal
- Available translations state: So how can you become truthful? And how can the veil of illusion be torn away?
- Critique : What was the Problem ? That people were not truthful? That if we replace the old practices (chanting etc) and texts (Vedas etc) by chanting Gurbani and having Akhand Path (continuous) readings etc one will become “truthful?”
- The real issue is not that the ritual is conducted untruthfully but of the ritual itself. A ritual is meaningless and only done as a rite, merely a futile practice and not of use in attaining the realization Within.
- What was the REAL Problem then? It was that people were searching for God WITHOUT – They were NOT getting anywhere with the prevalent practices.
- The problem in Guru Nanak’s Language is ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥ Kiv Sachiara Hoeyey Kiv Kooray Tootey Paal
And the solution to this problem in Guru Nanak’s language is
Realize God Within – become ਸਚਿਆਰਾ Sachiara instead of the practices
rejected in the preceding pangtis (Sochey Soch to Sehas Sianpa)
CRITIQUE OF PREVALENT TRANSLATION
- Mistakes in translations
- Sachiara is mistranslated as “becoming truthful.” Truthfulness was
never the issue.
- The context of the Preamble, Title, First Salok and First Pauree were IGNORED when translating “sachiara”
- Koor is mistranslated as “illusion” – this is out of context
- ਕੂੜੁ Koor is Defined as ‘without Him, devoid of realization of God”
(SGGS 468 Salok M : 1)
ਕੂੜੁ ਰਾਜਾ ਕੂੜੁ ਪਰਜਾ ਕੂੜੁ ਸਭੁ ਸੰਸਾਰੁ ॥
Koor Raja Koor Parja Koor Sabh Sansaar.
ਕੂੜੁ ਮੀਆ ਕੂੜੁ ਬੀਬੀ ਖਪਿ ਹੋਏ ਖਾਰੁ ॥
Koor Meeya Koor Bibi Khup Hoey Khaar
ਕੂੜਿ ਕੂੜੈ ਨੇਹੁ ਲਗਾ ਵਿਸਰਿਆ ਕਰਤਾਰੁ ॥
Koor Koorey Neho Lagga Visreya Kartaar
And the culmination is
ਨਾਨਕੁ ਵਖਾਣੈ ਬੇਨਤੀ ਤੁਧੁ ਬਾਝੁ ਕੂੜੋ ਕੂੜੁ ॥੧॥
Nanak Vkhaney Benti TUDH BAJH KOORO KOOR.
DEFINITION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
- ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥
Kiv Sachiara Hoeyey Kiv Kooray Tootey Paal
Kiv – How then
Sachiara – (from the word SACH for the Creator)
God–realized Being – WITHIN
Hoeyey – do we become
Kurey – Non realized–within state, Creator–Vacuumed State. Opposite of Sachiara
Tutey – Literally : break, remove, eliminate
Paal – Literally : wall,obstacle
- Pre 1469 spirituality: all who looked Without were in fact spiritually “dead’ but Guru Nanak’s first message was that to be spiritually “alive” the first step is the Realization of Within – the first bakhsish (Grace, Blessing – Gur Parsad) is the first Salok. The vision is to bring us out of this maze that even now we are in – by looking Without
– (SGGS 102 Rag Maajh M: 5)
ਸਭ ਕਿਛੁ ਘਰ ਮਹਿ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਨਾਹੀ ॥ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਟੋਲੈ ਸੋ ਭਰਮਿ ਭੁਲਾਹੀ ॥
Sabh Kich Ghar Meh Bahar Nahee || Bahar Tolai So Bharam Bhulaee ||
Everything is within the home of the self; there is nothing beyond.
One who searches outside is deluded by doubt.
Spirituality is an intellectual choice, not a preordained path. Gurbani
provides us a list of choices.
– (SGGS 1245 Rag Saarang M: 1)
ਅਕਲੀ ਸਾਹਿਬੁ ਸੇਵੀਐ ਅਕਲੀ ਪਾਈਐ ਮਾਨੁ ॥ ਅਕਲੀ ਪੜ੍ਹ੍ਹਿ ਕੈ ਬੁਝੀਐ ਅਕਲੀ ਕੀਚੈ ਦਾਨੁ ॥
Akalee Saahib Saeveeai Akalee Paaeeai Maan ||
Akalee Parrih Kai Bujheeai Akalee Keechai Dhaan ||
By wisdom is the Lord served, by wisdom is attained honor
By wisdom are books interpreted; by wisdom is dispensed charity.
Our choices precede our actions
- (SGGS 1376 Bhagat Kabir)
ਕਬੀਰ ਮਨੁ ਜਾਨੈ ਸਭ ਬਾਤ ਜਾਨਤ ਹੀ ਅਉਗਨੁ ਕਰੈ ॥ ਕਾਹੇ ਕੀ ਕੁਸਲਾਤ ਹਾਿਥ ਦੀਪੁ ਕੂਏ ਪਰੈ
Kabeer Munn Janey Sabh Baat, Janut Hee Augun Karey. Kahey Kee Kuslaat Hath Deep Kuey Praey.
The mind knows, and chooses to commit vices in such knowing. What else can one say if one knows there is a well ahead, but choses to fall into it.
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਕਿਵ ਸਚਿਆਰਾ ਹੋਈਐ ਕਿਵ ਕੂੜੈ ਤੁਟੈ ਪਾਲਿ ॥
Kiv Sachiara Hoeyey Kiv Kooray Tootey Paal
– How then can I become a God-realized Being Within; how can I
remove the obstacle of my non-realized state Within?
THE ANSWER TO THE PROBLEM
- The seminal response by Guru Nanak to this question is in the final verse of Pauree 1
ਹੁਕਮਿ ਰਜਾਈ ਚਲਣਾ ਨਾਨਕ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਨਾਲਿ ॥੧॥
Hukm Rajayee Chalnaa Nanak Likhiya Naal
- Available translations state: O Nanak, it is written that you shall obey the Hukam of His Command, and walk in the way of His Will.
CRITIQUE OF TRANSLATION
- Likhya Naal is mistranslated as “it is written.” Likya is “written” in the literal sense.
- Context of previous verse and entire pauree is ignored. The context is that God is to be realized within us.
DEFINITION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
- Word Hukm in various forms
ਹੁਕਮੁ Hukm – the Hukm of the Creator
ਹੁਕਮਿ Hukm – Within the confines of the Hukm
ਹੁਕਮੀ Hukmee – The Creator
ਹੁਕਮੈ Hukmeh – Realization of the Hukm
ਹੁਕਮ Hukm – Plural – Hakumat – Political power
(SGGS 406 Rag Asa M :5)
ਰਾਜ ਨ ਭਾਗ ਨ ਹੁਕਮ ਨ ਸਾਦ ਨ ॥ ਕਿਛੁ ਕਿਛੁ ਨ ਚਾਹੀ ॥੨॥
Raj Na Bhag Na Hukm N Sadan || Kich Kich Na Chahee
– Kingdom, territory, jurisdiction nor administration. I desire none.
TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
Hukm (with sihari) – within the confines of His Hukm
Rajayee – Rzaa Walla – The Creator
Chalnaa – Literally flow. Abide in Sehej (go with the flow without
opposition, fear or resistance)
Nanak (note no aungkar to the kekka ਕ) – Nanak’s view
Likhiya Naal – Contained Within, accounted for Within
ਹੁਕਮਿ ਰਜਾਈ ਚਲਣਾ ਨਾਨਕ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਨਾਲਿ ॥੧॥
Hukm Rajayee Chalnaa Nanak Likhiya Naal
- The way to Realise the Creator within is to ‘Remain within the
confines and abide in Sehej (Chalna) His Hukm, as contained within
us.’ (Words in bold are in context of the previous verse).
- Points to note:
- Realization of the Creator is WITHIN
- The Creator is WITHIN
- His Hukm is therefore WITHIN (The Creator Cannot be WITHIN us Without His Hukm)
- Accounting is therefore WITHIN (Dharamraj, Chitar Gupat, Lekha etc)
Question : what about individuals with disabilities (like blindness, deaf or mute, mentally unsound etc) Answer : their Hukm is theirs and within them; because each of us has a different Hukm WITHIN. Hence we must be thankful that we have normal facilities to guide us to light the lamp Within. If we miss this opportunity to light the lamp with our intellect, then it is our choice and not of the Hukm within.
- Accounting Within
– (SGGS 668 Rag Thanasree M : 4)
ਲੇਖਾ ਚਿਤ੍ਰ ਗੁਪਤਿ ਜੋ ਲਿਖਿਆ ਸਭ ਛੂਟੀ ਜਮ ਕੀ ਬਾਕੀ ॥੨॥
Lekha Chitar Gupat Jo Likhya Sabh Chutee Jum Kee Bakee
Chitar – picture
Gupat – concealed
Likhya – written
Bakee – remaining
Sabh Chutee Jum Kee Bakee – Realization after death? Or while
alive?
– (SGGS 793 Rag Suhi Bhagat Kabir)
ਬਹਤਰਿ ਘਰ ਇਕੁ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਸਮਾਇਆ ਉਨਿ ਦੀਆ ਨਾਮੁ ਲਿਖਾਈ ॥
Behtar Ghar Ek Purakh Samayeah Unn Deeya Naam Likhayee ||
ਧਰਮ ਰਾਇ ਕਾ ਦਫਤਰੁ ਸੋਧਿਆ ਬਾਕੀ ਰਿਜਮ ਨ ਕਾਈ ॥੩॥
Dharam Raye Ka Daftar Sodhiya Bakee Rijum Na Kayee ||3||
Daftar Sodiya – After death?
– (SGGS 1104 Rag Maroo Bhagat Kabir)
ਧਰਮ ਰਾਇ ਜਬ ਲੇਖਾ ਮਾਗੈ ਬਾਕੀ ਨਿਕਸੀ ਭਾਰੀ ॥
Dharam Rai Jub Lekha Mangey Bakee Niksee Bharee ||
ਪੰਚ ਕ੍ਰਿਸਾਨਵਾ ਭਾਗਿ ਗਏ ਲੈ ਬਾਧਿਓ ਜੀਉ ਦਰਬਾਰੀ ॥੨॥
Panch Krisanva Bhag Gaye Le Badheo Jeo Darbaree ||
ਕਹੈ ਕਬੀਰੁ ਸੁਨਹੁ ਰੇ ਸੰਤਹੁ ਖੇਤ ਹੀ ਕਰਹੁ ਨਿਬੇਰਾ ॥
Kahe Kabeer Sunho Rey Santo Khet Hee Karho Nabera ||
ਅਬ ਕੀ ਬਾਰ ਬਖਸਿ ਬੰਦੇ ਕਉ ਬਹੁਰਿ ਨ ਭਉਜਲਿ ਫੇਰਾ ॥੩॥੭॥
Ab Kee Baar Bhaksh Bandey Ko Bahur Na Bhaujal Fera ||3||7||
Dharam Rai – (Sanatanic son of Sun God) – our inner conscience Within
Lekha Mangey – accounting
Bakee Niksee Bharee – accounts are always in the black n not red
Santo – all those who desire Realization Within
Khet – literally field – self
Karo Nabera – final accounting
Ab Kee Baar – this life now
Bhaujal – human life
Na Fera – No return/repeat
TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
- In this life is the Hukam, the Realization and the accounting of our
Karam (deeds) not in after death AS ALL ARE WITHIN, no afterlife to undergo any accounting
PAUREE 2
- ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਆਕਾਰ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਨ ਕਹਿਆ ਜਾਈ ॥
Hukmee Hovan Akaar Hukm Na Kahyea Jayee
Hukmee (sihari) – The Creator
Hovan – Come about
Akaar – Physical Existence
Hukm (aunkar) – Will of the Creator
Na Kahyea Jayee – Cannot be stated in totality
TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਆਕਾਰ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਨ ਕਹਿਆ ਜਾਈ ॥
Hovan Akaar Hukm Na Kahyea Jayee
- My human existence is by His Hukm, even if His entire Hukm cannot
be fathomed.
- This is the first realization – that my human existence is by His Hukm and this explains why each of us is different (beauty, intelligence, status, lineage, handicaps etc)
(The context is thus continuous from Pauree 1)
- ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਜੀਅ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਮਿਲੈ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥
Hukmee Hovan Jee Hukm Miley Vadeayee
Hukmee (sihari) – The Creator
Hovan – Come about/is/exists
Jee – Life
Hukm (sihari) – by His Hukm
Miley – receive
Vadeayee – honour
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਹੋਵਨਿ ਜੀਅ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਮਿਲੈ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥
Hukmee Hovan Jee Hukm Miley Vadeayee
– That I am alive is an honour within the confines of His Hukm
- ਹੁਕਮੀ ਉਤਮੁ ਨੀਚੁ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਲਿਖਿ ਦੁਖ ਸੁਖ ਪਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
Hukmee Utam Neech Hukm Likh Dukh Sukh Payaeah
Hukmee (sihari) –The Creator
Utam Neech – Literally high and low; good and bad deeds
Hukm (with sihari) – within the confines of His Hukm
Likh –Lekha –result, outcome, consequence
Dukh Sukh – Joy and sorrow
Payaeh – attain
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਹੁਕਮੀ ਉਤਮੁ ਨੀਚੁ ਹੁਕਮਿ ਲਿਖਿ ਦੁਖ ਸੁਖ ਪਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
Hukmee Utam Neech Hukm Likh Dukh Sukh Payaeah
- The consequences – joys and sorrows – of my deeds – good or bad –
are within the Creator’s Hukm
- (SGGS 4 Jup Pauree 20)
ਆਪੇ ਬੀਜਿ ਆਪੇ ਹੀ ਖਾਹੁ ॥ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਆਵਹੁ ਜਾਹੁ ॥੨੦॥
Apey Beej Aypey Hee Khahu || Nanak Hukmee Avahu Jahu ||20|
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As you sow so you will reap – your choice is bound only within the
parameters of the capacity afforded by God to you – how you utilise
this God–given capacity is your choice and destination
- ਇਕਨਾ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਬਖਸੀਸ ਇਕਿ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਸਦਾ ਭਵਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
Ekna Hukmee Bakhseesh Ek Hukmee Sada Bhaveayeah
Ekna (Ek added with na becomes plural) – Some
Hukmee (sihari) –the Creator
Bakhseesh – Blessed
Ek (with sihari ) – Multitudes
Hukmee – the Creator
Sada Bhaveayeah – in constant wilderness
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਇਕਨਾ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਬਖਸੀਸ ਇਕਿ ਹੁਕਮੀ ਸਦਾ ਭਵਾਈਅਹਿ ॥
Ekna Hukmee Bakhseesh Ek Hukmee Sada Bhaveayeah
- The Creator blesses some with realization within ; while multitudes
remain astray in constant search without.
(words in bold are in the context from the previous Pauree)
- so as a Sikh if you have the realization that the Creator is within, take
it as a blessing /enlightenment from the guru.
- ਹੁਕਮੈ ਅੰਦਰਿ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਹੁਕਮ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥
Hukmey Andur Sabh Ko Bahur Hukam Na Koye
Hukmey – Realization of the Hukm
Hukmey Andur – Realization of the Creator Within
Sabh Ko – All
Bahur – Outside
Hukam (no aungkar) – Jurisdiction/Power
Na Koye – None
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਹੁਕਮੈ ਅੰਦਰਿ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਹੁਕਮ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥
Hukmey Andur Sabh Ko Bahur Hukam Na Koye
- The Creator is realized WITHIN for all, none can realize Him outside of His jurisdiction (which is WITHIN us)
(word in bold is in context from the previous pauree)
- ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੈ ਜੇ ਬੁਝੈ ਤ ਹਉਮੈ ਕਹੈ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥੨॥
Nanak Hukmey Jey Bujhey Ta Haomai Kahey Na Koye
Nanak (without aungkar) ( Pause at the word Nanak) – Nanak’s view
Hukmey Jey Bujhey – Realizes the Creator WITHIN
Ta – Then
Haomai – literally ego ; that I exist (I am in charge, I control)
Kahey Na Koye – ceases to exist in my speech
- TRANSLATION AS PER GURBANI FRAMEWORK
ਨਾਨਕ ਹੁਕਮੈ ਜੇ ਬੁਝੈ ਤ ਹਉਮੈ ਕਹੈ ਨ ਕੋਇ ॥੨॥
Nanak Hukmey Jey Bujhey Ta Haomai Kahey Na Koye
- Nanak, upon realizing the Creator Within, any realization that I exist
outside of His Hukm ceases to exist
(words in bold are in context from the previous verse – Bahur Hukam
Na Koye)
- Point to note :
There is continuity of the context from Pauree 1 to 2 on the Realization Within.