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<blockquote data-quote="TheSikhRenaissance" data-source="post: 221454" data-attributes="member: 23670"><p>The term <em>Conscience </em>(<strong>ਜ਼ਮੀਰ</strong>) is loaded with potent meaning and symbolism in the humanistic paradigm. It denotes the cognitive process which transpires within one’s mind prior to making a decision. What lends it a profound gravitas is the fact that the conscience is no simple arbitration. Rather it implies the adjudgment of the ethicality and morality behind a decision. Is what we are deciding within the parameters of fairness, impartiality and natural justice? Are we conceding upon our personal principles rooted in integrity and legitimacy? The decision we are about to take, can it stand up to the judgement of posterity? Will the final outcome be virtuous? These are the considerations which play out in one’s mind prior to committing themselves to a course of action.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Conceptually:</strong></span></p><p>Speaking theoretically, <em>Conscience </em>has permeated human self-awareness since the dawn of man. For the Ancient Greeks, it was encompassed by the Aristotelian term <em>Phronesis. Phronesis </em>and virtue went hand-in-hand so far as the imbibement of virtue meant seeking to live life by reason. Reason could only be attained through interaction with the world under certain parameters. This entire process was labelled <em>Phronesis. </em>But <em>Phronesis </em>could only be grasped by living life under parameters provided by Classical Greek culture. Outside the latter, it was believed, there was no <em>Phronesis.</em></p><p></p><p>The next revolution in humankind’s comprehension of <em>Conscience </em>was provided by the medieval theologist Thomas Aquinas. He proposed that the human as individual was animated by <em>Synderesis. </em>This was a divine spark which provided moral guidance, internally, as to what was right and what was wrong based on a Natural Order of things solidified by God. But while Aquinas pushed beyond the pall of evangelical doctrine considerably, contending that man was a moral arbiter second to God, he was unable to furnish whether the Natural Order arose out of evangelical doctrine or whether the latter was rooted in adhering to the said Order. It was similar to the Aristotelian quandary which hamstrung the Greeks-that only one exclusive pathway could define <em>Conscience.</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Hair-Splitting:</strong></span></p><p>Aquinas and the Greeks unwittingly opened a Pandora’s chest of contradictions through their philosophical journeys. Did <em>Conscience</em>, in its natural state as Order/rationale, define and justify the existence of a faith and the set of ethics which a particular faith disseminated? Or did a faith lend <em>Conscience </em>its own tint and define its essence? The future witnessed intellectuals, polemicists, scientists, theologians and countless others grapple with this barbed complexity. Logicians, Rationalists and Scientists proposed that a Natural Order of Creation existed insofar as it was tangible and comprehensible to human senses. Clerics, Priests and Prophets in turn retaliated that such a state of affairs was only a distraction as metaphysically speaking Creation was a falsity. The hair-splitting ossified over the centuries. For the first class of contenders, <em>Conscience </em>was unchanging and static. For the second class, <em>Conscience </em>was compartmentalized via whichever faith was true. As there was no criterion to judge which faith was true, <em>Conscience </em>was more a matter of subjective belief than impartial approach.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Sikhi:</strong></span></p><p>Guru Nanak proposed a new dimension in the unceasing conflict between the tangible and ultra-orthodox spiritualism. His life coincided with Hindu and Islamic theocratism. The former assumed that <em>Conscience </em>ran analogous to <em>Vedic </em>injunctions and varied from caste to caste and did not extend beyond <em>Vedic </em>parameters. As such, faith defined <em>Conscience </em>for its own purposes. Islam was no different, assiduously proclaiming that <em>Conscience </em>was solely subject to <em>Koranic </em>norms. The Guru went beyond both the contemporary paradigms as well as their predecessors: the Aristotelian and Aquinas purviews. He articulated the notion of <em>Hukam</em>, the divine writ or impersonal law emanating from a sentient Creator. <em>Conscience </em>was the cognitive rationale provided by interacting with <em>Hukam </em>and comprehending its salient elements. Virtue could only be gleaned through imbibing <em>Hukam’s </em>fairness and impartiality.</p><p></p><p>Faith could not constrict <em>Conscience </em>by defining it and subjecting it to its own purview. Rather, what defined a true faith was a belief system’s ability to discipline a believer and posit them on the path towards synchronizing with <em>Hukam. </em>This way, <em>Conscience </em>would forever remain rooted in a static set of ethics and disallow society from relativizing it.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>ਜ਼ਮੀਰ:</strong></span></p><p>Once an individual honed their innate <em>Conscience </em>by adhering to <em>Hukam</em>, they would comprehend the reality of life. This would posit them on the path of living a conscientious life. Such a life would be replete with righteousness and virtue. It would be defined by the pursuit of truth and morality and their imbibement in life. More critically, a conscientious individual would prevent aggrandizement and tyranny from overtaking their society and also imposing upon them. Such a Sikh would be regarded as a Khalsa; an enlightened <em>Gurmukh</em> unwilling to concede ground on individual liberty and societal justice.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>A Call To Arms:</strong></span></p><p>Retaining no <em>Conscience </em>of its own, the <em>Pujari</em> rabble has expended considerable energy in negating the more profound injunctions of <em>Gurbani </em>by willfully mistranslating them. Unable to alter the words of the Guru Granth, it has nefariously modified the meaning of those words. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the case of the alleged <em>Babur-Vani. </em>Contrary to the claim that this composition of the Guru solely deals with the Timurid conquest of the subcontinent, it is in fact a clarion call to arms for all conscientious individuals. Below, we provide a more conscientious translation of the verse than is provided by the <em>Pujariwaadi Deras </em>and <em>Taksals.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>ਖੁਰਾਸਾਨ ਖਸਮਾਨਾ ਕੀਆ ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨੁ ਡਰਾਇਆ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਆਪੈ ਦੋਸੁ ਨ ਦੇਈ ਕਰਤਾ ਜਮੁ ਕਰਿ ਮੁਗਲੁ ਚੜਾਇਆ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਏਤੀ ਮਾਰ ਪਈ ਕਰਲਾਣੇ ਤੈਂ ਕੀ ਦਰਦੁ ਨ ਆਇਆ ॥੧॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਕਰਤਾ ਤੂੰ ਸਭਨਾ ਕਾ ਸੋਈ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਜੇ ਸਕਤਾ ਸਕਤੇ ਕਉ ਮਾਰੇ ਤਾ ਮਨਿ ਰੋਸੁ ਨ ਹੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਸਕਤਾ ਸੀਹੁ ਮਾਰੇ ਪੈ ਵਗੈ ਖਸਮੈ ਸਾ ਪੁਰਸਾਈ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਰਤਨ ਵਿਗਾੜਿ ਵਿਗੋਏ ਕੁਤੀ ਮੁਇਆ ਸਾਰ ਨ ਕਾਈ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਆਪੇ ਜੋੜਿ ਵਿਛੋੜੇ ਆਪੇ ਵੇਖੁ ਤੇਰੀ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥੨॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਜੇ ਕੋ ਨਾਉ ਧਰਾਏ ਵਡਾ ਸਾਦ ਕਰੇ ਮਨਿ ਭਾਣੇ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਖਸਮੈ ਨਦਰੀ ਕੀੜਾ ਆਵੈ ਜੇਤੇ ਚੁਗੈ ਦਾਣੇ ॥</strong></em></p><p><em><strong></strong></em></p><p><em><strong>ਮਰਿ ਮਰਿ ਜੀਵੈ ਤਾ ਕਿਛੁ ਪਾਏ ਨਾਨਕ ਨਾਮੁ ਵਖਾਣੇ ॥੩॥੫॥੩੯॥</strong></em></p><p></p><p>“The one Maker has formed both <em>Khurasan </em>(Persia) and <em>Hindustan </em>(the subcontinent) alongside the rest of Creation. The residents of <em>Hindustan </em>fear those of <em>Khurasan. </em>The cowards have no one to blame but their own insipid selves for their fear. Yet they cast around to pin the blame on another and this is why the <em>Mughal</em> (tyrant) crushes them underfoot.</p><p></p><p>The cowards make their <em>Conscience </em>the first casualty of conflict. They feel no grief at the calamity befalling them and their fellows. You, the true Maker, are the Providence which provides for all. When one comprehends this fact, they become powerful. When another power attacks such a powerful individual, then the target does not fear the aggressor in their minds for they have become as equally powerful.</p><p></p><p>But the cowards? They die a conscientious death and have only themselves to blame for their lot in life; they moan about like weak herdsmen. The jewel-like <em>Conscience </em>is silenced by obsession with illusory pursuits. Once silenced, then one becomes a dead-dog while living. Unable to express concern at anything. The mind attaches, the mind separates; this is its greatness.</p><p></p><p>But if on uses such a miraculous mind to claim virtue yet indulge in hypocrisy, then they are nothing but insects in their Maker’s gaze. Die and die again to acquire something in life. This is the glory of true wisdom.”</p><p></p><p>-Guru Granth, 360.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>In Conclusion:</strong></span></p><p><em>Conscience </em>can only be matured by nurturing it through comprehension of <em>Hukam </em>and the imbibing of virtue. In Sikhi, <em>Conscience </em>is not defined by faith but rather by an impartial Order of reality. The <em>Gursikh</em>, the Khalsa is one who conforms to their <em>Conscience </em>and does not shirk their obligation even in the face of death-the ultimate cost for defending oneself and others. The true hallmark of the Khalsa is that the Khalsa does not compartmentalize <em>Conscience</em>, but rather adheres to it in its natural state.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://thesikhrenaissance.substack.com/p/being-alive[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSikhRenaissance, post: 221454, member: 23670"] The term [I]Conscience [/I]([B]ਜ਼ਮੀਰ[/B]) is loaded with potent meaning and symbolism in the humanistic paradigm. It denotes the cognitive process which transpires within one’s mind prior to making a decision. What lends it a profound gravitas is the fact that the conscience is no simple arbitration. Rather it implies the adjudgment of the ethicality and morality behind a decision. Is what we are deciding within the parameters of fairness, impartiality and natural justice? Are we conceding upon our personal principles rooted in integrity and legitimacy? The decision we are about to take, can it stand up to the judgement of posterity? Will the final outcome be virtuous? These are the considerations which play out in one’s mind prior to committing themselves to a course of action. [SIZE=7][B]Conceptually:[/B][/SIZE] Speaking theoretically, [I]Conscience [/I]has permeated human self-awareness since the dawn of man. For the Ancient Greeks, it was encompassed by the Aristotelian term [I]Phronesis. Phronesis [/I]and virtue went hand-in-hand so far as the imbibement of virtue meant seeking to live life by reason. Reason could only be attained through interaction with the world under certain parameters. This entire process was labelled [I]Phronesis. [/I]But [I]Phronesis [/I]could only be grasped by living life under parameters provided by Classical Greek culture. Outside the latter, it was believed, there was no [I]Phronesis.[/I] The next revolution in humankind’s comprehension of [I]Conscience [/I]was provided by the medieval theologist Thomas Aquinas. He proposed that the human as individual was animated by [I]Synderesis. [/I]This was a divine spark which provided moral guidance, internally, as to what was right and what was wrong based on a Natural Order of things solidified by God. But while Aquinas pushed beyond the pall of evangelical doctrine considerably, contending that man was a moral arbiter second to God, he was unable to furnish whether the Natural Order arose out of evangelical doctrine or whether the latter was rooted in adhering to the said Order. It was similar to the Aristotelian quandary which hamstrung the Greeks-that only one exclusive pathway could define [I]Conscience.[/I] [SIZE=7][B]Hair-Splitting:[/B][/SIZE] Aquinas and the Greeks unwittingly opened a Pandora’s chest of contradictions through their philosophical journeys. Did [I]Conscience[/I], in its natural state as Order/rationale, define and justify the existence of a faith and the set of ethics which a particular faith disseminated? Or did a faith lend [I]Conscience [/I]its own tint and define its essence? The future witnessed intellectuals, polemicists, scientists, theologians and countless others grapple with this barbed complexity. Logicians, Rationalists and Scientists proposed that a Natural Order of Creation existed insofar as it was tangible and comprehensible to human senses. Clerics, Priests and Prophets in turn retaliated that such a state of affairs was only a distraction as metaphysically speaking Creation was a falsity. The hair-splitting ossified over the centuries. For the first class of contenders, [I]Conscience [/I]was unchanging and static. For the second class, [I]Conscience [/I]was compartmentalized via whichever faith was true. As there was no criterion to judge which faith was true, [I]Conscience [/I]was more a matter of subjective belief than impartial approach. [SIZE=7][B]Sikhi:[/B][/SIZE] Guru Nanak proposed a new dimension in the unceasing conflict between the tangible and ultra-orthodox spiritualism. His life coincided with Hindu and Islamic theocratism. The former assumed that [I]Conscience [/I]ran analogous to [I]Vedic [/I]injunctions and varied from caste to caste and did not extend beyond [I]Vedic [/I]parameters. As such, faith defined [I]Conscience [/I]for its own purposes. Islam was no different, assiduously proclaiming that [I]Conscience [/I]was solely subject to [I]Koranic [/I]norms. The Guru went beyond both the contemporary paradigms as well as their predecessors: the Aristotelian and Aquinas purviews. He articulated the notion of [I]Hukam[/I], the divine writ or impersonal law emanating from a sentient Creator. [I]Conscience [/I]was the cognitive rationale provided by interacting with [I]Hukam [/I]and comprehending its salient elements. Virtue could only be gleaned through imbibing [I]Hukam’s [/I]fairness and impartiality. Faith could not constrict [I]Conscience [/I]by defining it and subjecting it to its own purview. Rather, what defined a true faith was a belief system’s ability to discipline a believer and posit them on the path towards synchronizing with [I]Hukam. [/I]This way, [I]Conscience [/I]would forever remain rooted in a static set of ethics and disallow society from relativizing it. [SIZE=7][B]ਜ਼ਮੀਰ:[/B][/SIZE] Once an individual honed their innate [I]Conscience [/I]by adhering to [I]Hukam[/I], they would comprehend the reality of life. This would posit them on the path of living a conscientious life. Such a life would be replete with righteousness and virtue. It would be defined by the pursuit of truth and morality and their imbibement in life. More critically, a conscientious individual would prevent aggrandizement and tyranny from overtaking their society and also imposing upon them. Such a Sikh would be regarded as a Khalsa; an enlightened [I]Gurmukh[/I] unwilling to concede ground on individual liberty and societal justice. [SIZE=7][B]A Call To Arms:[/B][/SIZE] Retaining no [I]Conscience [/I]of its own, the [I]Pujari[/I] rabble has expended considerable energy in negating the more profound injunctions of [I]Gurbani [/I]by willfully mistranslating them. Unable to alter the words of the Guru Granth, it has nefariously modified the meaning of those words. Nowhere is this more conspicuous than in the case of the alleged [I]Babur-Vani. [/I]Contrary to the claim that this composition of the Guru solely deals with the Timurid conquest of the subcontinent, it is in fact a clarion call to arms for all conscientious individuals. Below, we provide a more conscientious translation of the verse than is provided by the [I]Pujariwaadi Deras [/I]and [I]Taksals. [B]ਖੁਰਾਸਾਨ ਖਸਮਾਨਾ ਕੀਆ ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨੁ ਡਰਾਇਆ ॥ ਆਪੈ ਦੋਸੁ ਨ ਦੇਈ ਕਰਤਾ ਜਮੁ ਕਰਿ ਮੁਗਲੁ ਚੜਾਇਆ ॥ ਏਤੀ ਮਾਰ ਪਈ ਕਰਲਾਣੇ ਤੈਂ ਕੀ ਦਰਦੁ ਨ ਆਇਆ ॥੧॥ ਕਰਤਾ ਤੂੰ ਸਭਨਾ ਕਾ ਸੋਈ ॥ ਜੇ ਸਕਤਾ ਸਕਤੇ ਕਉ ਮਾਰੇ ਤਾ ਮਨਿ ਰੋਸੁ ਨ ਹੋਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ ਸਕਤਾ ਸੀਹੁ ਮਾਰੇ ਪੈ ਵਗੈ ਖਸਮੈ ਸਾ ਪੁਰਸਾਈ ॥ ਰਤਨ ਵਿਗਾੜਿ ਵਿਗੋਏ ਕੁਤੀ ਮੁਇਆ ਸਾਰ ਨ ਕਾਈ ॥ ਆਪੇ ਜੋੜਿ ਵਿਛੋੜੇ ਆਪੇ ਵੇਖੁ ਤੇਰੀ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥੨॥ ਜੇ ਕੋ ਨਾਉ ਧਰਾਏ ਵਡਾ ਸਾਦ ਕਰੇ ਮਨਿ ਭਾਣੇ ॥ ਖਸਮੈ ਨਦਰੀ ਕੀੜਾ ਆਵੈ ਜੇਤੇ ਚੁਗੈ ਦਾਣੇ ॥ ਮਰਿ ਮਰਿ ਜੀਵੈ ਤਾ ਕਿਛੁ ਪਾਏ ਨਾਨਕ ਨਾਮੁ ਵਖਾਣੇ ॥੩॥੫॥੩੯॥[/B][/I] “The one Maker has formed both [I]Khurasan [/I](Persia) and [I]Hindustan [/I](the subcontinent) alongside the rest of Creation. The residents of [I]Hindustan [/I]fear those of [I]Khurasan. [/I]The cowards have no one to blame but their own insipid selves for their fear. Yet they cast around to pin the blame on another and this is why the [I]Mughal[/I] (tyrant) crushes them underfoot. The cowards make their [I]Conscience [/I]the first casualty of conflict. They feel no grief at the calamity befalling them and their fellows. You, the true Maker, are the Providence which provides for all. When one comprehends this fact, they become powerful. When another power attacks such a powerful individual, then the target does not fear the aggressor in their minds for they have become as equally powerful. But the cowards? They die a conscientious death and have only themselves to blame for their lot in life; they moan about like weak herdsmen. The jewel-like [I]Conscience [/I]is silenced by obsession with illusory pursuits. Once silenced, then one becomes a dead-dog while living. Unable to express concern at anything. The mind attaches, the mind separates; this is its greatness. But if on uses such a miraculous mind to claim virtue yet indulge in hypocrisy, then they are nothing but insects in their Maker’s gaze. Die and die again to acquire something in life. This is the glory of true wisdom.” -Guru Granth, 360. [SIZE=7][B]In Conclusion:[/B][/SIZE] [I]Conscience [/I]can only be matured by nurturing it through comprehension of [I]Hukam [/I]and the imbibing of virtue. In Sikhi, [I]Conscience [/I]is not defined by faith but rather by an impartial Order of reality. The [I]Gursikh[/I], the Khalsa is one who conforms to their [I]Conscience [/I]and does not shirk their obligation even in the face of death-the ultimate cost for defending oneself and others. The true hallmark of the Khalsa is that the Khalsa does not compartmentalize [I]Conscience[/I], but rather adheres to it in its natural state. [URL unfurl="true"]https://thesikhrenaissance.substack.com/p/being-alive[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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