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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambarsaria" data-source="post: 192809" data-attributes="member: 14194">Ishna ji thanks for wonderful and invigorating threads and posts.  Great contributions indeed.I saw the thread title and was ready to pounce till I fully read the other posts.  The reason for premature invigoration was the concept I hold that there is but one thought or messaging in SGGS.  So as a matter of fact there are not many flavors but one.  Now if we break down flavors as experienced by each and every one uniquely based on their unique ability to taste, experience, absorb or contemplate then we will realize that in practical terms one flavor may appear as many different across thousands and millions of readers.What helps me to get to the essence of some parts of Gurbani is to treat the writers as great teachers.  They may share a contemplative, logical, cool headed persuasion but like all teachers they must have also encountered dozing off students.  Nothing like a little kick in the pants to get the attention and help in learning.  This kick or style may be driven by local environ of the times, subjects of interest of the times, fables and beliefs of the learners and so on.  Hence the beauty of variation versus monotony of singular style, rhythm or approach.I believe the others above have alluded to some aspects of the environ but I believe it is more fundamentally related to teaching in the most effective way to get the message across recognizing now as well as posterity.Just some thoughts.Sat Sri Akal.<img src="/images/smilies/sikhsmileys/kaur_hug.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":kaurhug:" title="Kaur Hug    :kaurhug:" data-shortname=":kaurhug:" /></blockquote>

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