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As a wave of water becomes one with the ocean, in the same way the practitioner's atma (soul) merges with the great divine light. Guru Nanak says that the veil of ignorance of the practitioner lifts, and the soul is no longer trapped in the net of illusion (maya).
Those who are ignorant of the inner celestial sounds madly pursue the pleasures of this world. They waste their precious human life and squander their time chasing these pleasures. Guru Nanak says that only one inner sound, which is OmKar, is the nectar. The one who can find this sound (submerge in the ecstasy of the divine sound) is the guru's true disciple.
The Method of Meditation
The meditation technique of Guru Nanak clearly illustrates the way to seek the divine, while living in this world.
Guru Nanak Dev explains.
Just as the lotus born from the water cannot be drowned by the rising of the waters, but always stays above the water, in the same way we are born in this world and live in this world. We should live in this world just as the lotus does and rise above the world. The water of worldliness should not be able to drown us. As the sweet fragrance from the lotus permeates the air in all directions, so also we must attain knowledge and that knowledge and glory will spread through the world as the fragrance of the lotus.
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