Gurbani has some amazing scenery and metaphors. One of the most predominant themes in Gurbani is about the boat. I finally got some creative energy and painted after about a two year break or maybe longer.
Translation:
"The Lord Himself is the Boat, the Raft and the Boatman.
The Lord Himself, through the Guru's Teachings, saves us.
O Nanak, The Lord Himself carries us across to the other side."
Translation:
"The Lord Himself is the Boat, the Raft and the Boatman.
The Lord Himself, through the Guru's Teachings, saves us.
O Nanak, The Lord Himself carries us across to the other side."
ਮਨਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਕੌਰ ਸਿਧੂ ਜੀ that's a beautiful painting. I have watched Bob Ross painting show on PBS and heard from many many people how just watching him paint is relaxing. He seems to make it look like so easy
ReplyDeleteRobert Norman Ross was an American painter, art instructor, and television host. He was the creator and host of The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, and also aired in Canada, Latin America, and Europe
Bob Ross The Joy of Painting Full episodes
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAEQD0ULngi67rwmhrkNjMZKvyCReqDV4
Mathematical numbers and Gurbani - See link below.
ReplyDeleteAnd also tie this to Fibonacci Numbers - see link below
"Consciousness is a mathematical pattern" - MIT(Prestigious, best University in the world)Physicist Consciousness is a mathematical pattern
This makes sense if we live in a virtual reality - Nobel Prize winner Physicist George Smoot You are a Simulation & Physics Can Prove It. - Gurbani says It's God's game
Numbers in Gurbani
0 - Sunn -State before Big bang. Guru Nanak, while considering the creation and evolution of the universe, states ਨਾ ਦਿਨੁ ਰੈਨਿ ਨ ਚੰਦੁ ਨ ਸੂਰਜੁ ਸੁੰਨ ਸਮਾਧਿ ਲਗਾਇਦਾ ॥੧॥. This means that there was no day or night, no moon or sun, God sat in his primal or sunn (zero) state.
1 - God -Ek Onkar. 2-davaita(two sides of God -both Satguru and Maya(separation) -duha siria ka aap swami Khele bigse anterjami -Shri Sukhmani Sahib. 3 -trai gun of Maya, 4 _Yugas(ages - times in history), 5 senses or Kam krodh, loab,ankhar.moh the 5 goods, 5 elements in the creation -Earth,water,fire,space,air etc 6 Shey gur, shey updesh, 7Guru Ram Das on page 84, line 4 refers to Sapaṯ (seven) ḏīp (islands) sapaṯ (seven) sāgrā (seas),8 n Gurbani, the Sikh scripture of Guru Granth Sahib, the term pahar represents a watch, or unit of three hours, so atth pahar represents a twenty-four hour period of time:
"Atthee peharee atth khandd naavaa khandd sareer ||
During the eight watches, destroy the eight (three qualities plus five evils) and the ninth, mortality (egoism) is conquered." SGGS||146
In the Sikh scripture asatt is also used in conjunction with the number eight and usually references sidhic, or yogic powers:9ccording to Manmohan Singh in the appendix of his eight-volume Steek, or translation of Sikh scripture, the significance of number nine may include but is not limited to:
Nav greh - nine Stars, (sun, moon and several planets).
Nau khand or chaar - nine regions of earth, (locations in Middle East).
Nav chhia - Vedic grammars.
Links:Numbers in Gurbani -
https://www.learnreligions.com/gurmukhi-numbers-in-gurbani-illustrated-4122889
Guru Granth Sahib and Numbers
A short essay on Guru Granth Sahib and Numbers by Iqbal Singh Manhas written in celebration the 300th year of the Gurush..
https://www.sikhnet.com/inspiration/guru-granth-sahib-and-numbers
Fibonacci numbers - See wikipedia..same asThe Golden Ratio: Phi, 1.618
ReplyDeleteIn mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers, commonly denoted Fn, form a sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, such that each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1.Fibonacci numbers are strongly related to the golden ratio: Binet's formula expresses the nth Fibonacci number in terms of n and the golden ratio, and implies that the ratio of two consecutive Fibonacci numbers tends to the golden ratio as n increases.
Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, later known as Fibonacci. In his 1202 book Liber Abaci, Fibonacci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics,[5] although the sequence had been described earlier in Indian mathematics,[6][7][8] as early as 200 BC in work by Pingala on enumerating possible patterns of Sanskrit poetry formed from syllables of two lengths.
The beginning of the sequence is thus:
0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144.................n
Notice the second number is the addition of the First 2.For example, if you add 0+1 =1,1+1=2,1+2=3,2+3=5,3+5=8
0 sunn state before big bang,out came our concept of God(1),2(two sides of God(Satguru(the good side)and Maya - the force which takes us away from God -The manmukh. 3 traiguns of maya - then the 5..elements etc
World Wide Webb is FULL of the Golden Ratio videos
Here is my favorite from PBS Science Programme - Nova. - The Great Math Mystery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpcpzXuzdQk
If we live in God's simulated world, it makes sense that Math and Science works - PBS video
ReplyDeleteA provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpcpzXuzdQk
Mario Livio Astrophysicist: Is God a Mathematician
ReplyDeleteIs God A Mathematician? (2009) discusses the ability of mathematics to describe and predict accurately the physical world. Livio also attempts to answer a question with which mathematicians and philosophers have struggled for centuries: Is mathematics ultimately invented or discovered? The book was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best books of 2009.[6]
Mario Livio (born 1945) is an Israeli-American astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. From 1991 till 2015 he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. His book on the irrational number phi, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002), won the Peano Prize and the International Pythagoras Prize for popular books on mathematics.