used along with the word God. Are the feet of the body; if we take this meaning of the word ‘charan’ ever sung or repeated/ recited. Then God is Formless. Only body form can have feet. How can the formless have feet. The sikh scholar got extremely perplexed and agitated and with a bit of wrath asked the author as to which meaning he attributed to the word ‘Charan’ in the above quotations. The author said, “Who am I to attribute meanings. The meanings which Satguru (True Guru) has given to this word in Shri Guru Granth Sahib I will repeat only that which I s as under:“Enshrine the ‘Charan’ in the mind is enshrining the ‘word’ of true Guru in the mind. Nanak has clearly under stood this (principle)”.Page 680/13“Bowing with respect at the lotus ‘Charan ‘ (of Guru ) is that one should deliberate on the merits of the world-creator.”Page 679/4So the word ‘moorat’ means Entity (of God), and ‘Charan’ means word (of true Guru). I told that sikh scholar, with due respect, that many times one does not consider other meanings of a particular word and so understands the meaning of the word incorrectly and based on that forms a particular idea which is not correct. It is a natural principle that when one hears another thought, which is opposed, to the idea that he has formed then differences of opinion emerge. All of us have to become disciples of the True Guru (Shri Guru Nanak Dev) and not of our own self-willed or self-conceived ideas. The sikh scholar agreed with the above explanation but said that God is Formless and can’t be seen and how can one meditate on Him. The author replied that to meditate on God, we need not get help from any other source even from the system of Yoga developed by Shri Patanjal and we should get guidance only from Gurbani. We should never depend on Yoga and its different postures, systems of meditatio...
