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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanwaljit.Singh" data-source="post: 173666" data-attributes="member: 14616">---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Gursharan SinghWas just thinking about my fav question - hukam. Guru granth sahib teaches us many many things, things as humans we should do (daya, daan, kirat, udham, etc) Udhham karendeya jeeh tu, kamawadeya sukh bhunch, dhiyandeya tun prabhu mil, Nanak utri chintand avoid (tobacco, alcohol, etc).ਪਾਨ ਸੁਪਾਰੀ ਖਾਤੀਆ ਮੁਖਿ ਬੀੜੀਆ ਲਾਈਆ ॥ ਹਰਿ ਹਰਿ ਕਦੇ ਨ ਚੇਤਿਓ ਜਮਿ ਪਕੜਿ ਚਲਾਈਆ ॥੧੩॥"Those people who eat and chew "Paan" (nicotine betel nuts), and smoke tobacco (meaning that they those who in indulge in intoxicants), and, do not contemplate or do Simran of Vaheguru - (the cycle of) Death will seize them and take them away (to become entangled in the cycle of reincarnation)." (Ang 726)On doing what the Guru has asked to avoid to "fit" in this world, we suffer as per Hukam. ਕਬੀਰ ਦੀਨੁ ਗਵਾਇਆ ਦੁਨੀ ਸਿਉ ਦੁਨੀ ਨ ਚਾਲੀ ਸਾਥਿ ॥ਪਾਇ ਕੁਹਾੜਾ ਮਾਰਿਆ ਗਾਫਲਿ ਅਪੁਨੈ ਹਾਥਿ ॥੧੩॥O Kabeer! a human loses his 'faith' for the sake of the world, but the world shall not go along with him in the end. (In this way) the idiot strikes their own foot with the axe by their own hand (meaning they are doing their own harm). ||13||(Ang 1365)  Now, we have the Guru's hukam to follow. Then whats the Hukam we keep talking about when something happens, or the Bhaana? Some thoughts on how they're different.Two things - 1. Instructions from the Guru - Hukam. YOU  follow it, you are NOT made to follow it by akal purakh. Your own mehnat. And you suffer consequences if you don't. Drop the glass, it will break. Rules of nature. Nothing "magical". When baani says whats in you my hands, I think its talking about the rules - since we are too small to define what nature has manifested in itself. The truth.2. Bhaana - something not in YOUR hands and has a certain and uncertain face. Certain - You followed/did not follow Hukam and faced consequences. Uncertain - Why is it not in your own hands? Because you live in the world, and there are actions of others around you, the nature, and things beyond your mind at a given time. The actions of others affect you, but YOU did not violate Hukam there! May be they did, that has lead to you getting affected, but its NOT something unknown Waheguru WANTED. Its all Hukam at the end - followed or not followed, leading to Bhaana. You being around them, near them, related to them is an uncertain (or unexplainable) part. And nature ,its laws etc, is to some extent in our hands - through our generations but its so vast in time and expanse that we cannot capture it. It may not be too, and thats also an uncertain component of bhaana. What do you think?--Gursharan SinghADMIN NOTE: EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED AS IT IS NOT SAFE INTERNET PRACTICE.</blockquote>

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