Guru Arjun Dev Ji has written that the biggest reason for birth and death is the lack of devotion or love for God.
Maya is name-form and there is a reason for the creation of every name-form. In the religious scriptures, many reasons have been given for the living beings to assume name and form, such as aversion towards God, ignorance, attachment, desires, actions etc. The aversion towards God means that the soul has its back turned towards God due to which it does not see God but its shadow Maya and it gets attached to Maya itself, this is described as the main reason for bondage in devotional texts. According to Adhyatma Ramayana, ignorance is the reason behind the birth and death of a living being. Guru Nanak Dev Ji has also written that the entire creation is in the cycle of birth and death due to being devoid of knowledge. According to Acharya Shankar, sorrow and attachment are the seeds of this world. Goswami Tulsidas has called attachment the elder son of Maya. Guru Amardas ji writes that the creator created the origins of the world by creating attachment. According to Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the living being continues to earn the same karma in the future as per the sanskars of his past actions. The result of this is that the living being is born and dies again and again and thus remains in the cycle of transmigration. This has created confusion regarding the reason for the cycle of birth and death that has been going on since time immemorial. From the point of view of karma, one has to take birth and death to enjoy the fruits of good and bad deeds; from the point of view of knowledge, birth and death occur due to ignorance; and from the point of view of devotion, birth and death occur due to aversion towards God. What is the main reason among these three? Answering this question, Guru Arjun Dev Ji has written that the biggest reason for birth and death is the lack of devotion or love for God. Karmic bondage occurs due to selfish tendencies in actions. Selfishness in actions is due to ignorance. The reason for ignorance is alienation i.e. lack of love for God. Excerpted from ‘Ajuni Saibhan’ Part 1.
Key highlights from the text:
The text talks about the concept of Maya, which is the illusion that keeps us attached to the material world and away from God.
There are different reasons for birth and death according to different philosophies: karma (actions and their fruits), ignorance, and aversion towards God.
Guru Arjun Dev Ji says that the biggest reason for birth and death is the lack of devotion or love for God.
What the text wants to tell its readers:
The text tells the readers that the cycle of birth and death is caused by our lack of devotion to God.
It emphasizes the importance of devotion in achieving liberation from the cycle of birth and death.
How this text can help readers:
This text can help readers understand the concept of Maya and how it keeps us trapped in the cycle of birth and death.
It can also help readers develop devotion to God as a way to achieve liberation.
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