Ajuni - He is Without Birth or Beginning
7. Ajuni - He is Without Birth or Beginning
God has no birthday. He was never born. That which is born must one
day die. God is beyond birth and death. So is the Aatmaa. What is
born is the body, not the Aatmaa and what dies is also the body, not
the Aatmaa.
Not recognizing our true nature, we identify with the perishing and
ever-changing body-mind-intellect complex and consider ourselves to
be the limited entity called jeeva. This deluded jeeva or 'ego'
asserts to itself the sense of doer-ship and enjoyer-ship, and
according to its desires and actions or vassanas and karmas, is
forced to take up various bodies or junees to enjoy or suffer the
result of its actions. Thus it remains entangled in the cycle of
birth and death called sansaara.
Ishwara or the Lord has no ignorance or ego, therefore no vaasanas or
karmas. So He does not have to take up any form and undergo the
experiences of life forms such as plants, animal or human. That is
why He is also called Ajuni.
However, out of love and compassion for His devotees, and with full
knowledge of His own nature, He manifest Himself by His own maya.
Such a manifestation of the Lord is called an avtaara. He who in
devotion surrenders to the Lord and realizes His own true nature as
the Aatmaa, which is ajuni, 'unborn', is freed from the cycle of
birth and death.
Go is the one changeless cause of the universe. Still, someone may
ask," If God created the entire universe, who created God?”Children
very often ask that question, don't they? Shri Guru Nanakji says," He
is Saibangh.”
7. Ajuni - He is Without Birth or Beginning
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Guru Granth Sahib: 1. Mool Mantra - Fundamental Meanings
Guru Granth Sahib: 2. Ik Onkaar - The One God, the Absolute Reality
Guru Granth Sahib: 3. Satnaam - His name is Sat, Ever True
Guru Granth Sahib: 4. Kartaa Purakh - The Only Doer, the One Creator
Guru Granth Sahib: 5. Nirbhau Nirvair - Fearless and All-loving is He
Guru Granth Sahib: 6. Akaal Moorat - His Form (Existence) Transcends Time
Guru Granth Sahib: 7. Ajuni - He is Without Birth or Beginning
Guru Granth Sahib: 8. Saibangh - He is Self-existent and Self-illuminating
Guru Granth Sahib: 9. Gurparsaad - The Grace of the Guru
Guru Granth Sahib: 10. Jap - Chant
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