Compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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This discase can be cradicated from us only when we in complete
devotion reflect our mind on the Infinite Spirit of God, Who abidcs
within us. When we submit to Him, we realize the Creator’s Infmity
and All Virtues in Him and do consider ourselves as His insignificant
creatures in His Vast Creation. By meditating on God’s Name, one
does become humble, but virtuous, amenable and adjustable under
all conditions on the basis of Truth and Morality. The Second Most
Important Commandment is to Accept God as the Doer and accept
His Will Cheerfully and live upto it. This is the Basis of Happy and
Contented Life on the Basis of Equality of All. There is no scope to
treat anyone as inferior on any count. The Society envisioned by
the 5th Nanak, Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji, as given in Siri Rag, page 74,
Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, is given below -
The Merciful Lord has now given the Command.
No One now shall dominate and hurt anyone.
All shall now abide in peace.
Such shall be the Order of the Meek and Selfless ones. 13.
Egoism, which is an ordinate love of self, is the basic cause of
all evils and sins, consequent unhappiness in man. This is the only
reason of man’s separation from his self righteous role in punishing
others, is not the answer, but an evil practive. Practice of Truth is
the ahswer. God shows us the way to preserve ourselves in odd
situations. We must have implicit reliance on God, the Doer.
The Gurus taught the people that man should totally efface
his egoism to meet with God. Love for God should have no selfish
motive, even for one’s own salvation. The loved object is not to be
possessed to use for selfish purposes. The real love means, yearning
to be nearer to the object and to fmd pleasure in the spiritual union
by admiring the qualities of the love object. The tragedy of the
moral life, whereby a concern for the best in oneself becomes the
very root of evil, is unavoidable, if goal of the moral life is the
cultivation of virtue in the self. This evil can be averted if the attention
is turned outward from the moral and intellectual properties of the
self to goals beyond the self. If there is to be an object of supereme
devotion, it must be someting other than the self, other than one’s
own salvation, other than one’s own virtues or dignity, or integrity,

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