Basically, Guru Ji has made a bold declaration that everyone is asleep. Guru Ji has also defined what does he mean by asleep. Guru Ji is implying we have been lulled to sleep by our senses.. Guru Ji likens the life after birth to being asleep because what we see in dreams is not real, as it vanishes when we are awakened. Guru Ji feels the same with the material world experienced in human life as perishable and which cannot be taken with us after death.
Five centuries ago Guru Nanak began his mission by alerting people against this clergy-made God. Instead, he preached God as a virtual reality in all creation. Thus, the God of Guru Nanak is associated with and realized through a genuine appreciation of the natural designs that flourish within and around us.
Is life a matter of chance, a roll of dice? Are life-choices fated or random?
The need was for a new world order for the New Age. Guru Nanak’s response was the Nirmal Panth
The term ‘Paath’ is used to distinguish this reading, which is akin to ‘recitation’
A talk given by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa at the Sikh Temple of North Texas on Vaisakhi 2017
We transmute the ego into love and forgiveness through constant surrender