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Guru Gobind Toh Ek Hain, Dooja Yahu Akar
Aapa Mate Jeevat Mare, Toh Pave Kartar
Translation
Both Guru and Gobind (God) are One
The second is this form (body)
Annihilating Ego “I” dies (one Awakens)
Then realizes God
My Understanding
Placing the true Guru, the preceptor, on the same pedestal as God, Kabir explains that because we identify ourselves with the body; hence experience the conflicts of duality. True awakening – rather true life – is experienced when the Ego gets annihilated.
What exactly is Ego? Ego is an irresistible sense of every individual that manifests around the importance of the subjective “I” in relation to the objective “other”. The “other” can be another person or an object. The ego breeds comparisons thus making the person feel superior or inferior, tall or small, fair or dark, etc. In other words, Ego thrives in duality. With ego at the helm, the result of any action done appears incomplete and not fully satisfactory. The person forgets his real self (Jeevatman – soul) and thereby lives with a feeling of incompleteness – or ignorance – with a biased view about his or her own self.
The objective of the Guru is to guide the disciple to annihilate the Ego (destruction of ignorance) so that a feeling of completeness permeates and the awakened disciple becomes a witness to the unity in diversity – or oneness of life. Once this happens, all dualities vanish; everything appears as a whole and is experienced as one totality. Only then one attains the state of godhood (Jeevanmukta - liberated soul) – and realizes God.
August 4, 2013