Who are Five Thugs or Thieves According to Sikhism?
In Sikhism the number 5 is very important because of its existence in nature, spirituality or in human body. It doesn't mean that this number is sacred or Sikhs are superstitious about this number. This number is chosen by The Creator to create The Creation. Let’s talk about the external world first. There are only 5 fundamental elements according to Sikhism (I am not talking about the 112 or so elements in the periodic table but the basic elements the whole Universe is made up from).
These 5 elements are below;
- Gases (Such as Air)
- Liquids (Such as Water)
- Solids (Such as planets)
- Heat (Such as Fire), and
- Space for all the above to exist in.
Now let’s come to humans. Each hand have 5 fingers, each foot has 5 toes. There are 5 sense organs (Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue and Skin).
If we go internal, I mean to spiritual level to find about the number 5. There are 5 Senses (Visual, Hearing, Odor, Taste and Touch) inside the human body and these 5 senses work through 5 sense organs.
Once we start the spiritual journey, we start to go our inner-self more often than interacting with the outer world. Then we start to recognize further use of senses and sense organs (Senses are internal and Sense Organs are external).
Sikhism emphasizes a lot on going inside ourselves, further deep inside to understand how our thinking process works, how we take the outside world inside through the 5 sense organs and how it affects our 5 senses and then how our Mind decides to act externally through 5 action organs (Mouth, Hands, Feet, Genitals and Rectum).
Once we get internal then we find out that our mind have a very close friendship with the following 5;
- Kaam (Lust)
- Krodh (Rage)
- Lobbh (Greed)
- Mohh (Attachment) and
- Ahngkaar (Conceit)
Sikh Holy Book Calls these 5 Thugs or 5 Thieves. Sikhism teaches how to take our mind above all these 5 and how to protect ourselves against them? Where these five came from? Can we get rid of them?
All the above we will discuss in the coming presentations and I will try to use my minuscule knowledge to explain what these five are, why do they exist and how to control them.
You can't get rid of them, you can only control them. They are part of existence, ying and yang.
Dear @pompe72 you are stealing my thunder!!
If we can control five of them....then... we become a holy man. NIce thank you for sharing :)
Absolutely right dear brother @happyphoenix. Yes, its all about control either we control these five or controlled by these five!!
Absolutely brilliant, I am grateful to you for sharing this knowledge. For me as a Singh in South Africa , we are limited to our true culture. So to have someone explain it to me is truly a blessing. I wish you a many Namaste!
Thanks a lot for your feedback dear brother @sashin, it encourage me to do more posts about Sikhism and give me a lot of satisfaction. This is just the beginning dear brother, we just have finished learning about Mool Mantra.
Next Bani is JAPP (we call it Japp Ji Sahib with respect) Guruji Blessed me with a lot more knowledge about JAPP and I will be sharing it in the coming days.
Stay in touch brother it is very much same way as one little candle lit the other one, soon you will be able to lit many candles around you.
Many Namaste
Manjit
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