Who is a Soul Bride ?

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Sat Nam, Amarbir Kaur ji -

I love your question and especially your open minded way of expressing why it

matters to you. This question (especially in the way you've asked it) is one of

the most important questions I've every read on this site. Truly.

 

I would like to point out, respectfully, that one of the challenges of your

question is that an entire reformulation of our understanding of gender,

relationship and spirituality is required in order to " see " what Guru Nanak

taught. It is not an alpha male dominant perspective. Similarly, but in the

opposite way, the teaching that " Shakti (woman) is 16 times more powerful than a

male " is not an anti-male teaching. Both " molecular cell biology " and Guru

Nanak agree that the feminine principle is dominant in the " living life " of the

Universe. Evolutionary biology confirms that the separation and creation of the

male principle happened as haploid cells of reproduction were divided out of the

female principle, to create a means for multi-celled animal reproduction.

Biologist Lynn Margulis is a wonderful and authoritative source for these

profound insights (another factoid: she also married Carl Sagan as an 18 year

old graduate of the University of Chicago). She and James Lovelock also

developed the Gaia Theory of Earth as a massive " organism-like " entity. This

all very " female-centric. "

 

All Ten " Guru Nanaks " (from Nanak himself to Guru Gobind Singh) are in basic

agreement with the basic and essential insights that Margulis is also saying:

" In Life (both biological and spiritual), the Female came first and the Female

comes first. "

 

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THE ARDAS (primary prayer of the Dharma of Nanak) BEGINS:

" PRITHAM BHAGOTI SIMAR KE, GURU NANAK LAIHN DHI-AY " Which means " After FIRST

worshiping the Adi Shakti (the Primal Sword and the Primal Female Power), THEN

meditate on Guru Nanak, et al, etc. "

 

Now, from a conventional paradigm, it would seem that all this " new " structure

and evaluation of what is " reality " COULD BE inherently female " DOMINANT " and

anti-masculine. But this isn't the truth either. Guru Nanak offered an entire

metaphysical reformulation of Universe and Reality in the Muhl Mantra, and this

formulation was simplified even further by Guru Amar Das into EIGHT SYLLABLES:

" Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam Siri Wahe Guru. " In the Muhl Mantra Guru Nanak tells us

quite clearly that the " One Infinity " is the ONLY thing of reality that is

" AJUNI. " Juni means " yoni " - the female sexual organ. All other " THINGS "

WITHIN the Universe are NOT " A-nuni " (ie., EVERYTHING else that " is, " is born

from the feminine principle. Seems like a very feminine-centric Universe (and

it is so, in Guru Nanak's view).

 

The infinite reality of " INFINITY " (which Gurusikhs know otherwise as " Wahe

Guru " ) is the masculine POLARITY to the entire rest of " Everything. " We are

part of that " everything. " THIS masculine polarity happens also to be a

" Perfect Male " just as PRITHAM BHAGOTI (Adi Shakti Primal Sword) is a " Perfect

Female. " And so THEY are also the model for Marriage in Guru Nanak's teaching.

BUT not in the way that " Adam and Eve " were the model marriage in Torah, Bible

or Koran. For Guru Nanak, Infinity did NOT create marriage as primarily a

relationship between two human beings at all. For Guru Nanak, MARRIAGE is

primarily a relationship between SOUL BRIDE and WAHE GURU, wherein the Soul

Bride is in devotion to Wahe Guru (not a human male, and EVERY HUMAN (female or

male) is meant to be a Soul BRIDE. Now, to an ordinary male perspective, this

would seem like the ultimate put down of masculinity - whereas you (Amarbir

Kaur) were reading this whole system as ANTI-FEMININE.

 

Isn't this ironic (to say the least)?

 

In reality, Guru Nanak's primordial insight is neither anti-feminine, nor

anti-masculine. But to appreciate (and to " live " ) this truly - that will

require a TOTALLY NEW SYNTHESIS OF " WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING? "

 

In addition to the inception of the primacy of the unitary conception of " Ek Ong

Kar " this redefinition of Humanity is both revolutionary and evolutionary in

history of human culture and " thoughts. " The Universe is infinitely curved and

variable, and AT THE SAME, utterly simple, " Infinity is INSEPARABLE from Every

FINITE experience. " This means that the Infinite Masculinity is One and

Inseparable from EVERY ONE OF US - who are the SOUL BRIDES (feminine polarities)

of Wahe Guru. I assure you, Wahe Guru is NOT a " macho alpha male, wife beating,

dominating, authoritarian, misogynistic woman hater. " Most of all, Wahe Guru

wants " HIS " wife to be the enlightened model of grace, beauty, power,

intelligence, freely knowing and blessing everything. Which is exactly the

destiny of every human being - to Experience the pre-existing enlightenment

(Wahe Guru) already within us ALL.

 

It's an amazing PROPOSAL - if you are able to say " Yes. I Do. " to Wahe Guru,

then one belongs to Wahe Guru, and the Seal of Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru

ji ki Fateh " is one's living experience, and all success (which belongs to Wahe

Guru) is most certainly " shared in " by Wahe Guru's retinue of Soul Brides, and

everyone lives happily ever after in gender respect and equity, while we wait

for the recalcitrant macho alpha male egos to get a grip and to get a clue.

This is the Master Game we're all witnessing and living today, as the Piscean

illusions of male dominant reality are being cleanses (in many ways, some of

which seem very painful for all concerned). Just remember the Wahe Guru aspect

of ourselves feels no pain, and rushes in compassion for the relief of the pains

of others in the most enlightened manner possible for each situation.

 

Thank you, thank you, for asking this question. A definitive book and research

organization is actually needed for the evolution of " How do we LIVE this

miracle? " SSS Yogiji started the ball rolling in our part of the world, but the

work is now, still, entirely unfinished and depends completely on US (all of

us). Yet, that depends entirely on Wahe Guru, in Wahe Guru's own sweet time.

 

Love and Blessings, may your paths toward the experience of " True Love " be truly

blessed,

 

Krishna Singh

 

 

 

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Sat nam yogis,

 

Is all the mantra scripture designed in accordance with misogynist spiritual

lens of the universe? Is the mantra literature written with a male-centric view

of the Universe - I.E. that infinity is male, or is it the careful translation

to English?

 

I'm still curious about the attachment the translations have to gender - is it

from the source material or the lack of gender neutral words in English?

 

" The time of rejoicing has come; I sing of my Lord God. I have heard of my

Imperishable

Husband Lord, and happiness fills my mind. My mind is in love with Him; when

shall I realize my great good fortune, and meet with my Perfect Husband?

 

I pose this question as a selfish attempt to authentically connect with the

language of the mantras, and to intellectually develop my own language to

support my practice - outside of the misogynist spiritual view of life and the

universe.

 

If in fact the translations hold true, and this is the language which supports

my spirit and cleanses my subconscious, then all I can do is express is my

gratitude for the ancestors who practiced this holy exercise in the spirit of

bliss and elevation, and trust that my journey is supported even in the lens of

misogyny, and trust that the spirit of the practice is not lost in translation.

 

Thank you for your patience in reviewing this post,

 

With much love and respect,

April/Amarbir Kaur