God cannot be calculated!

     God cannot be obtained by counting; the mortal wanders in doubt -- Maya, duality etc. (GGS: 510).

All religious symbols and meaningless rituals are openly rejected by the Gurmat. But still, as seen most of the saadhs, sant-asant, Bhais, Raagees, Giaanees, Brahamgianis, Baabaas, or the so called Human God try to promote religious symbols and rituals. This is totally against the divine teaching of the Gurbani.
What is the use of loading the body with Maalaas? Many hang rosary around their neck, or wear a smaller version on their wrist. The beads and the string on which they are strung come in many designs, shapes, colors and materials Rudraksh, Tulsi, Chandan, stainless steel, pearls, precious stones, gold, etc. Some wear them to showoff spirituality, yet others count a fix number of rounds of beads while reciting prayers, and so on. Counting is totally meaningless when it comes to matters like God and His Grace. The Gurbani holds that this sort of display confirms the stubborn ego-mind (Haume).

“Toon ganatai kinai na paaio sache alakh apaaraa.” No one has attained You by clever calculations, O True, invisible and Infinite Being (GGS: 140).
It is the scattered mind free to escape through the uncontrolled senses that keeps wandering around, acting strangely on countless wavelengths. The Gurbani thunders forth the declaration that all calculations are of the differentiated consciousness of ego, Maya, or Haume, and that no one can realize Parameshar by such mechanical process that feeds on conceptualization of the instinctive mind sunk in relativist consciousness. Simply put, counting is the nature of the deluded or selfish ("filthy") mind. It is the way of the false ego or modified consciousness. Since Maya is false, all such calculations are false as well.
     According to the Gurbani, as God cannot be calculated, any businesslike conduct of the ego-mind is rejected by the Gurbani. Because any amount of symbols hung on the perishable body or any amount of empty rituals performed under the spell of lust, greed, selfishness, etc., can never transform one's fickle mind enchanted with reactionary spirituality and unproductive wandering thoughts.

     Calculated service is not a service at all, and what is done is not approved. The flavor of the Shabad is not tasted if the mortal is not in love with God. The stubborn-minded person does not even like the Satguru; he comes and goes (in his stubbornness). (But by doing so - coming and going in stubbornness - he does experience any spiritual progress because) he takes one step forward, and ten steps back (GGS: 1246).
     What sort of rosary are we urged by the Gurbani to carry? Sublime rosary! The beads of such sublime rosary are not made of Rudraksh or Tulsi, etc. According to the Gurbani, this rosary and its beads is none other than one's undivided Shabd-Vichaar; one's good deeds; one's tongue upon which the Divine Name is strung; one's subjugation of the ten senses; one's good conduct; one's noble virtues such as kindness and forgiveness; and so on. This is the rosary of the True Being (Gurmukh or a Spiritual person). Meditation and spiritual Wisdom is not possible without such wholesome inwardly concentration. Therefore, to awaken the Divine Grace within, we are time and again reminded by the Gurbani to enshrine such a sublime rosary in the Heart, and to discard the outer rosary.

“Kabeer meree simaranee rasanaa oopar raam” Kabeer, my rosary is my tongue, upon which the Divine Name is strung (GGS: 1364).
The sublime rosary prescribed for us in the Gurbani, is to naturally be imbued in Divine Essence within while sitting, standing, walking, eating, working, and so on. In other words, by becoming a Spiritual Being (Gurmukh), the seeker must plunge headlong into his Pure Self Within; without calculating and counting his devotion or meditation.

The truth is that the majority of us do not really bother to diligently read the Gurbani and understand the message it was meant to convey. The most of us are selfish (Mayadhaaree). On account of this selfishness, we neither comprehend nor realize when we read the Gurbani.

Mohan Singh (Homeopath)  
Spirit of GURMAT
Toronto, Canada.