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Hi everyone, Please take a moment to read the this part of Hukamnama 22/11/10: BIHAAGRAA, FIFTH MEHL: Grant Your Grace, O Guru, O Perfect Supreme Lord God, that I might chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, night and day. I speak the Ambrosial Words of the Guru’s Bani, praising the Lord. Your...

I will try to ask my question and subsequent posts respectfully but plainly and directly. If someone feels offended please point it out and I shall apologize as well as change/edit the post. In light of Gurbani what can be said on Buddhism? (Since Buddhism is a major world religion and has many...

Hello all! I am fully ready to convert to the Sikh faith, because I believe it is the way I was meant for.. (long story). But, as a "white" women, it is hard to "be" a Sikh. I have been to my local Gurdwara, but the only other white women there talks about Kundilini, and not the religion. I am a...

MISINTERPRETATION OF GURBANI AND MISREPRESENTATION OF SIKHISM:HOW TO HANDLE THIS PROBLEM? Prof Devinder Singh Chahal, PhD 
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Guru Nanak (1469-1539) laid...

<table><tbody><tr><td>Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji Ki Fateh!! Editorial: Here's a question from the first line after Mul Mantar: ਸੋਚੈ ਸੋਚਿ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਸੋਚੀ ਲਖ ਵਾਰ ॥ Socẖai socẖ na hova▫ī je socẖī lakẖ vār. The English translation by H. McLeod (and another I have but don't have the author...

Sat Sri Akal Hi everyone I've started this thread as a place to gather questions specifically relating to translations of Japji Sahib. Here's a question from the first line after Mul Mantar: ਸੋਚੈ ਸੋਚਿ ਨ ਹੋਵਈ ਜੇ ਸੋਚੀ ਲਖ ਵਾਰ ॥ Socẖai socẖ na hova▫ī je socẖī lakẖ vār. The English...

Someone recently asked me how do you know that your interpretation is correct when there are so many different ways of thinking? I thought I would demonstrate my way of thinking using a shabad that most people know but that I commonly see misinterpreted - RamDas Sarovar Nate. However, Sikhi is a...

ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ ਵਿੱਚ ‘ਹਾਥੀ’ ਦੇ ਅਰਥਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੁੰਚਰ, ਹਸਤੀ, ਗਜ, ਮੈਗਲ ਆਦਿ ਸ਼ਬਦ 50 ਤੋਂ ਵੱਧ ਵਾਰ ਵਰਤੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ ਪਰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਹੈਰਾਨ ਹੋਵੋਗੇ ਕਿ ਕੀੜੀ, ਕੁੱਤਾ, ਸੂਰ ਆਦਿਕ ਨਖਿੱਧ ਸਮਝੇ ਜਾ ਰਹੇ ਜਾਨਵਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਤਾਂ ਕੋਈ ਨਾ ਕੋਈ ਗੁਣ ਦੱਸ ਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਪ੍ਰੇਰਣਾ ਲੈਣ ਦਾ ਉਪਦੇਸ਼ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਮਿਲਦਾ ਹੈ। ਜਿਵੇਂ-‘ਹਰਿ ਹੈ ਖਾਂਡੁ ਰੇਤੁ ਮਹਿ ਬਿਖਰੀ, ਹਾਥੀ ਚੁਨੀ ਨ ਜਾਇ॥...

Sat Sri Akal I would like to know the sangat's opinion on the level of respect to accord to gurbani in various written forms. Do you feel translations should be shown the level of respect as gurmukhi? Would you cover your head if reading, for example, an article at www.gurbani.org, as opposed...

Dear SPNers, Does the following lines stand good? Pl do give your views. Almighty Lord means "ਪ੍ਰਭ" Technique to merge in HIM is called “GUR” (GUR in Punjabi stands for Technique, Method or Formula). Remember only a True and Complete Guru can provide “GUR” That’s why to learn all this we...

What will happen: * If each & every member of the site starts living on the teachings of "Gurbani" Seriousely or whole heartedly to become "Gurmukh" than "Manmukh". * If each & every person of the world starts living on the teachings of "Gurbani" Seriousely or whole heartedly to become...

Redirected from this thread http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/9096-reincarnation.html#post132441 Narayanjot Kaur ji I agree ultimately when the Gurmukhi words are processed through our brain, what we come know and understand is from our own intellect and filters within that...

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I find the following Puari ( no 8 ) of Vaar 5 of Bhai Gurdass Ji as a good proof that Gurbani specifically rejects superstition & practices based upon astrology . what else can be termed as rejecting astrological superstitions specifically in Gurbani in view of all SPNrs...

ੴ ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ ੴ सति नामु करता पुरखु निरभउ निरवैरु अकाल मूरति अजूनी सैभं गुर प्रसादि ॥ Ik*oaʼnkār saṯ nām karṯā purakẖ nirbẖa*o nirvair akāl mūraṯ ajūnī saibẖaʼn gur parsāḏ. One Universal Creator God. The Name Is...

From the Sikh scriptures, the Respected Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred hymn at ang (appendage of the living body) 679 (page 569:) (uttered by Guru Arjan Dev, the Fifth Nanak): Saas (breath) saas (breath) simroh (meditate ) Gobind (God) [ With each breath of your body meditate upon God...

gurbani kirtan guru arjan dev ji One's light merges with the Supreme Light, & becomes perfect...

SSA, I am giving a webpage link ( which was sent to me by a gurmukh friend) of a news published in an internet paper. I request sikh scholers of this forum to read it and see what head priest is saying:- Ambedkar Lehar How Giyani ji could use gurbani in brahmanical way. This is not as per...

waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh I'm searching for gurbani transliteration in adobe pdf format in any of Punjabi, Hindi or English. I'v found such gurbani files on gurbanifiles.org but they are having sentence by sentence meanings. But I need word by word meanings. Please give me...

Scripture that pits man against woman is not consistent with the bani of our Gurus and is contradicted by Sri Guru Granth Sahib Maharaj ji. I have copied some portions from an article Woman: The Sikh Perspective taken from the site Sikhism - Reflections On Gurbani. Because the articles at that...