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Welcome! The attempt of this website is to descend deeper into the realm of the Gurbani (Sri Guru Granth Sahib, SGGS). Many themes of the SGGS' Universal Teaching are reflected upon as is. Currently, there are over 325 Gurbani Reflections - articles. New ones are continually added; and the site is routinely updated.

It is repeatedly indicated in the SGGS that there are only two different groups of people living together on earth: the Gurmukhs (the followers of Truth and truthful living, etc.) and the Manmukhs (the deniers of Truth and truthful living, etc.). The SGGS asks us to become the Gurmukhs.

A complete practical Guide, the SGGS is the Source of Wisdom (Giaan) pertaining to the quest of Truth, and provides all that's needed to raise consciousness to the highest dimension: the plane of the truthful living (the Gurmukh Lifestyle). But, Truth cannot be understood with material nature. Likewise, the Gurbani cannot be understood or acted upon with material tendencies either. Being in the framework of time and space, the human body-mind-intellect personality is also limited; further limiting human understanding. The SGGS reflects on this aspect of limited understanding of the human mind on a grand scale. Furthermore, majority of us read SGGS, listen to its recitations, or listen to the Wise ones through the mind's colorings: quagmire of various concepts of our Haume (ego) regime. For the mind so identified with the body-consciousness, the spiritual knowledge has no meaning.

Free of dogmas, the Gurbani has a simple message: there is One, All-pervading Reality. We are That. The purpose of human life is to understand this Truth through self-purification and self-observation while alive - not after death, but here and now. Only then we can take off from levels of Bikaars (ego's passions, negativity, etc.) into heights of our True Nature (Joti-Svaroopa or godly status), spontaneity (Sahaj), Perfection, etc.

To this end, the SGGS urges us to: lead a Divine Life (the Gurmukh Lifestyle); make truthfulness the core of daily life; make a dedicated life of selfless service (Sevaa) to all beings the prayer; make Wisdom, humility and contentment the temple within; make the practice of selfless love and compassion for all the devotion and the noblest conduct; make meditation (Simran) the rosary enshrined in the heart; realize Oneness with the One Spirit within; recognize the Sameness in all; become Jeevanmukta (Living Enlightened or Liberated) and experience Bliss (Anand), Peace, Harmony, Joy; etc., within, while alive.

Otherwise, what's the use of reasoning, intellectuality, reading scriptures and listening to their recitations? And what's the use of talking about religion, spirituality, and Truth if not lived?