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Guru Nanak gave the knowledge of the divine in this essential doctrine when he says:
God is Omkar, which is the primal sound of the universe, as well as the True Name, the Creator, the Ancient One, without fear, without hatred, Timeless. and Birth less. One can only know God by the grace of the preceptor (guru).
He clearly stated that God is beyond human comprehension, beyond the realm of time and space, beyond birth and death, and that God transcends the senses. The question arises of how to discover this God.
Guru Nanak answers:
Everything is in the house (within the body) and whoever looks outside of the house for the answer is deluded.
Our house is the one in which our body lives, and our body is the house in which the soul lives. Therefore, in this bodily house we can find everything necessary to make the journey to God. Those who look for God outside the body are deluded. The outside is delusion and the inside is the Divine (Brahma).
Guru Nanak says:
To find the Divine it is not necessary to go to the forest, for God is always within. He resides in every being, yet is not attached, and is always with you. As the fragrance lives in the flower and the reflection lives in the mirror, in the same way the Divine
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