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Is chanting just a religious ritual? || Acharya Prashant, on Guru Granth Sahib (2019)
Scriptures and Saints
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Sukhmani Sahib
Guru Nanak Sahib
Spirituality
Maya
Negation
Mind
Upanishads
Ritual
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Acharya Prashant explains that the battlefield is already set and one must act according to the situation. He emphasizes that before a war, the right action is to prevent it, but once on the battlefield, one must fight with the focus of an eagle rather than a dove. Addressing a question about Guru Nanak Sahib's teachings in the Sukhmani Sahib, he clarifies that the remembrance of the Lord's name is not a religious ritual but a practice of sincerity and careful living. He describes the mind as being clouded by a million worldly names that are hollow and baseless, often mistaking these names for the actual things they represent. Spirituality, therefore, is the knack of realizing that the mind lives in names and has no true cognition of the actual thing.