Secret of Natural Laws and Principles-God, Nature and We: Metaphysics of Moolmantra of Sikhism and Other Religions Revealing Art of Ascendancy-VIII

The forms are due to different actions taking place in the sea. The action according to its way of action is named, as one action that produces the trough and crust is named wave, the rising and falling down of water due to the Moon is named tides and so on. The similar example is that of the color of the water; whatever color is added to it, it takes the shade of that color. For example if one adds blue color, it appears blue, if yellow is added it appears yellow.


The color of the water changes not the water. It is true with the adjectives that we add to ourselves. If the sentence is that I am good or bad, it does not affect the 'I'. However, we have so many adjectives added to I that our 'real' identity is lost. In old days, people used to use the word 'we' instead of 'I', and it did not have the same meaning and effect as that of 'I'. The word “I” is representations of ego and possessions. Just considering it, in the family if one says, “I want to serve you” it does not have the same feelings as saying “We need to serve”.


In the household, if the husband keeps on repeating word 'I', and the wife too, the bond of affection weakens because the effect of the word “we” is not there. We claim that it is understood that word “we” is hidden in “I”, yet the word “I” by itself is hidden. We can understand the meaning of we but not of I, because I is not body, mind, heart, etc., rather it the consciousness in which I is attributed to a soul.


The soul by its virtue of existence does not do any action. On the other hand the word we does not represent soul, souls are always one, as the concept of zeros when added remain zero. The words 'he', 'she', 'they', 'we' and other forms in the pronoun except for the word 'I' do represent body, mind and heart. When we say ”They”, the feeling of “I-ness” is not present.

Thus, we remember God for feeling His Presence in our ‘I’, the essence of the Naam Japna. We may pause and ponder over it. Thanks!


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