1. Kam (Lust) 2. Krodh (Rage) 3. Lobh (Greed) 4. Moh (Attachment) 5. Ahankar (Ego)
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58-485: A mirage, a factual nullity; it is a delusion which represents transient as permanent and a part as the whole. Moh for maya, i.e. for this transient world of the senses, hinders the soul's search for its ultimate goal and is, therefore, one of the Five Evils. It is related, on the one hand, to kam (desire, love) and lobh (possessiveness, covetousness) and, on the other, to ahankar (sense of I, my and mine). That
87-621: A textbook for the first-year undergraduate students. In 1969 he also launched a biannual Journal of Religious Studies and became its founder-Editor. During his tenure as Professor of Sikh Studies and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, he hosted many international conferences and brought distinguished scholars to the Punjabi University. He also travelled extensively, lecturing on different facets of Sikhism in Japan, Belgium,
116-577: A title commonly used for the senior government official of a health department or agency Medication overuse headache , pain occurring when analgesics are taken frequently to relieve headaches Metal hydroxide Ministry of Health (disambiguation) Montgomery High School (San Diego) , a public high school Music on hold , the business practice of playing recorded music to fill the silence for telephone callers placed on hold Moh [ edit ] Moh , material attachment in Sikhism, one of
145-592: A vital role in the establishment of a full-fledged department of the academic study of religion. He became the founder chair of the first department of religious studies in India that offered courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It reflected the best modalities of this kind of study in American and European universities. Called the Guru Gobind Singh Department of Religious Studies, it
174-562: Is defined in ancient Indic texts for perplexity or confusion and for the cause of confusion, that namely being, avidya or ajnana (ignorance or illusion). It is called aaskti "आसक्ति" in Hindi, which is considered a root cause for राग द्वेष "all the sorrows in life". In Hindu religious texts it is a cause of ignorance अज्ञान which is due to worldly illusion माया ( maya ). In another context, it stands for “the snare of worldly illusion, infatuation.” Its purpose has two elements: it obscures
203-617: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages moh Moh ( Punjabi : ਮੋਹ mōha ; Sanskrit : muh ) is a word in Punjabi and Sanskrit which describes attachment to worldly possessions or individuals. It is one of the five thieves within Sikh philosophy which hinder one's spiritual development. The term has been translated by Harbans Singh as meaning: “to become stupefied, to be bewildered or perplexed, to err, to be mistaken”. It
232-731: Is how moh has been referred to as a net, maiajal . Guru Nanak advises shedding of moh as it is the source of all evil and a cause for repeated births and deaths. Moh prevents the union of the human soul with the Divine , such a state of spiritual union is known as Sehaj . The antidote to moh is non-attachment ( vairāg ). This is not easy, for the Gurus preach active participation in life rather than renunciation and escapism. Ultimately, all depends on nadar or God's grace. Says Guru Nanak “ nadari kare ta ehu mohu jai —by (His) grace alone will this moh be cancelled”. The right remedy
261-465: Is the understanding ( gian ) that the mundane world, its relations and affairs, demanding one's participation and involvement are transient. Non-attachment thus is not non-action, but an attitude to action characterized by Guru Nanak as that of a bajigar , participant in a sport. The world, says Guru Nanak in a hymn in Maru measure, “is like a seasonal pastureland where one passeth but a few days. . . Like
290-696: The Punjab . His mother, Roop Kaur, belonged to the Sodhi family and traced her ancestry to the Hari Singh Nalwa clan. She deeply influenced his religious sensibilities. He received his schooling at Khalsa Secondary School at Muktsar . Thereafter, much to the disappointment of his parents, he refused to attend Medical School, and joined the Khalsa College in Amritsar , where he became president of
319-645: The Khalsa College Students Association, Editor of the Darbar, and president of the Khalsa College Hockey Club. He received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from this premier Sikh institute. The college authorities were so familiar with his academic potential that they offered him his first academic position even before his exam results were out. Harbans Singh started his career as a lecturer of English at
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#1732775546080348-772: The Khalsa College in Amritsar in 1943. His daughter, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh , is Crawford Professor of Religious Studies at Colby College in Maine, USA. In 1944 he joined the Brijindra College at Faridkot as head of the department of English. Soon thereafter the Maharaja of Faridkot took him on lien from the Punjab State Education department. He wrote his first book on the history of
377-700: The Member-Secretary of the Punjabi University Commission with Maharaja Yadvindra Singh of Patiala as the president. The commission was instrumental for creating the Punjabi University to advance Punjabi language, literature, and culture. The Hebrew University in Israel is the only other University founded on language. Though extremely busy with the administrative demands of the growing University, he kept up with his scholarship, writing important books, including Guru Gobind Singh (which
406-1224: The Netherlands, England, Ireland, and the US. The series of lectures that he delivered at Berkeley at the invitation of its university in May 1984 were published in a book, The Berkeley Lectures on Sikhism. He was an active member of the World Conference on Religion and Peace , and he also joined the International Consultation in Search of Non-Violent Alternatives in Derry, Northern Ireland. All through he kept up with his scholarship in Sikh history and literature by writing books, contributing articles to journals and newspapers, translating Punjabi authors like Bhai Vir Singh, Amrita Pritam, and Ajeet Cour into English, and editing collections of short-stories, essays, and conference papers. His book on Bhai Vir Singh , which first appeared in " Makers of Indian Literature " series sponsored by
435-668: The SGPC president, Jathedar Gurcharan Singh Tohra, bestowed a siropa on him in the presence of Mr Parkash Singh Badal. During the Khalsa Tercentenary Celebrations in 1999, he was posthumously invested with the "Order of the Khalsa." The Punjabi University honored him by prefixing his name "Professor Harbans Singh" to the Department of the Encyclopedia of Sikhism to which he had totally dedicated himself during
464-678: The Sahitya Akademy, was republished posthumously in Punjabi by the Bhai Vir Singh Sadan in New Delhi. Harbans Singh wrote an autobiographical essay in Punjabi after losing his beloved wife Kailash Kaur. The culmination of his life was the momentous Encyclopaedia of Sikhism , the first in the English language. This comprehensive work covers different aspects of Sikh history, literature, and philosophy. The four-volume set
493-728: The State of Faridkot depicting its rulers’ sponsorship and enshrinement of Sikh traditions. During that initial phase he also wrote a history of the Sikh rule under Maharaja Ranjit Singh – the first major book on the Maharaja and his times by a scholar other than the European travelers and political observers. In 1958 he rejoined his position with the Punjab State Education Department and became Principal of Government College, Muktsar. During his tenure he wrote his book on Aspects of Punjabi Literature. In 1960 he became
522-543: The bajigar one plays one’s part here and departs”. A common and repeating theme in gurbani describing the ideal life is that of the lotus which, although living in water, keeps its head above it without allowing itself to be submerged. The symbolism of the lotus is repeated throughout the hymns of the Gurus as a state to aspire to in-order to keep away the ill-effects of Moh upon the spiritual seeker. Harbans Singh Harbans Singh (6 March 1921 – 30 May 1998)
551-628: The cornerstone of the Evening Studies program at the Punjabi University. Harbans Singh spent the 1968–69 academic year at the Center for World Religions at Harvard. It was here that he prepared a biography of Guru Nanak entitled Guru Nanak and Origins of the Sikh Faith (1969) to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Guru. Upon his return to the Punjabi University, he played
580-407: The discernment of truth, prevents the perception of reality, and it creates an error of judgement or leads to wrong knowledge ( mithya jnana ). Humans believe in an eternal reality of their own existence or ego; they see truth in what is false and seek happiness in what brings suffering. In Punjabi moh generally means love of and attachment to worldly things and relations. In Sikh scripture ,
609-527: The five evils Mohu (Hungarian: Móh ), a village in the Romanian commune of Șelimbăr Clarisse Moh (born 1986), French middle-distance runner Tzuong-Tsieng Moh, one of the formulators of the Abhyankar–Moh theorem See also [ edit ] MHO (disambiguation) Mo (disambiguation) Moe (disambiguation) Mow (disambiguation) Moha (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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#1732775546080638-544: The last decades of his life. This full-fledged Department will continue to ensure that the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism is made available in Punjabi and is constantly revised and updated. An online version is published on the internet by Punjabi University. Essays in Honour of Professor Harbans Singh were published by Dr. Dharam Singh entitled Sikhism and Secularism. Harbans Singh was a sage-like figure who worked away from
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696-414: The term frequently occurs coupled with maya ( maia ) as maya-moh interpreted both as infatuation for or clinging to the illusory world of the senses and as illusion of worldly love and attachment. Sikh interpretation of maya , however, differs from that of classical, Advaita philosophy, which considers the phenomenal world unreal and therefore an illusion caused by human ignorance. In Sikhism ,
725-406: The visible world is a manifestation of God and is therefore real; yet it is not satya or true in the sense of immutable and eternal. This world of mass, form and movement woven into the warp and weft of time and space is God's play created at His pleasure and is as such real and sacred; but it represents only one transient aspect and not Ultimate Reality. Maya is not an illusion in the sense of
754-520: Was an educationist, administrator, scholar and the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia of Sikhism . He was respected for his contributions to Sikh scholarship and Punjabi literary studies and had a vital and pervasive influence in the field of religious studies, with special reference to Sikhism. Harbans Singh was born on 6 March 1921 in the village of Kotha Guru in the Bathinda district of
783-413: Was established by the Punjabi University to commemorate the quincentenary of the Guru's birth. For the celebrations Harbans Singh arranged an international seminar on Guru Nanak (September 1969). He then published the proceedings of the seminar in a volume entitled Perspectives on Guru Nanak (1975). In collaboration with Dr. L.M. Joshi he published An Introduction to Indian Religions (1973) to serve as
812-583: Was released by the Prime Minister of India on 5 March 1999 at New Delhi in a special function. Though Harbans Singh suffered a paralytic stroke, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Guru Nanak Dev University , and continued working on his project until his death on 30 May 1998. He was also honored by the Shiromani Gurdwara Committee on 17 August 1992, at a function at his residence in Punjabi University where
841-745: Was translated into 14 Indian languages) and The Heritage of the Sikhs (one of the most popular of his titles, which went to several editions with significant additions and revisions). In 1964 he was invited by the United States Government to study the administrative functioning and educational system of universities in the US. He compiled his impressions of this visit in the form of a book Higher Education in America (1966), which has been appreciated for its informative and educative value and its insights on continuing education – this last became
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