Additional Sloks : ADDITIONAL SLOKS When Guru Nanak visited Ceylon he gave the following advice to its queen, who was proud of her beauty and her state:-- Hear, young woman with the gazelle eyes, hear my serious and weighty words. First examine thy goods and make thy traffic. Dismiss the evil and welcome the good...
Preface : PREFACE I BRING from the East what is practically an unknown religion. The Sikhs are distinguished throughout the world as a great military people, but there is little known even to professional scholars regarding their religion. I have often been asked by educated persons in countries which I have...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter V : CHAPTER V The Guru set out towards the east, having arrayed himself in a strange motley of Hindu and Muhammadan religious habiliments. He put on a mango-coloured jacket, over which he threw a white safa or sheet. On his head he carried the hat of a Musalman Qalandar, while he wore a necklace...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Vi : CHAPTER VI The Guru and Mardana went to Kamrup,[l] a country whose women were famous for their skill in incantation and magic. It was governed by a queen called Nurshah in the Sikh chronicles. She with several of her females went to the Guru and tried to obtain influence over him. Then the Guru...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter I : LIFE OF GURU NANAK CHAPTER I To recapitulate what has been more fully stated in the Introduction, Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, was born, according to all ancient Sikh records, in the early morning of the third day of the light half of the month of Baisakh (April-May) in the year...
The Rahiras : THE RAHIRAS SODAR GURU NANAK, RAG ASA WHAT is that grate, what is that mansion where Thou, O God, sittest and watchest over all things? How many various and countless instruments of Thine are played! How many Thy musicians, How many Thy musical measures with their consorts, and how many singers...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE fifteenth century of the Christian era was a period of singular mental and political activity. Both in Europe and India men shook off the torpor of ages, and their minds awoke to the consciousness of intellectual responsibility. For this result, it is true, important...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xv : CHAPTER XV After his sojourn with the Sidhs the Guru returned to the plains of the Panjab and travelled in a north westerly direction until he reached Hasan Abdal, [1. Sidh Gosht.] {p. 172} then a great centre of Muhammadan religious enthusiasm. There abode on a small hillock a bigoted and selfish...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xiv : CHAPTER XIV The Guru continued his journey to the north He wore leather on his feet and on his head, twisted a rope round his body, and on his forehead stamped a saffron tilak. He was accompanied by Hassu, a smith, and Sihan, a calico-printer. The party went as far as Srinagar in Kashmir, where...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xiii : CHAPTER XIII The Guru then turned his thoughts towards Ceylon, and succeeded in reaching that country, where he took his seat in Raja Shivnabh's garden. [1. Sri Rag, Ashtapadi.] {p. 155} At that time it was barren, but it is said to have become green on the Guru's arrival. The gardener requested...
Asa Ki War : ASA KI WAR THERE is but one God whose name is true, the Creator, devoid of fear and enmity, immortal, unborn, self-existent, great and beneficent. GURU HAR GOBIND This "War" includes "sloks". The "sloks" also were written by the first Guru, and should be sung to the air of 'Tunda As Raja'. SLOK...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xvii : CHAPTER XVII The Guru, knowing that his end was approaching, appointed Angad his successor. The Guru's sons had not obeyed him. Their minds were insincere, and they had rebelled and deserted him. Wherefore he subsequently placed the umbrella [1. Man shall take with him the result of his acts. 2...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Viii : CHAPTER VIII Mardana had by this time had enough of travel, hardship, and. hunger, and thus addressed his master: 'Blessings on thy devotion and thy deeds! Thou art a holy man who hast abandoned the world, who neither eatest nor drinkest, and who never enterest a village. How can I remain with...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II When Nanak had attained the age of nine years, his father determined to have him invested with the janeu, or sacrificial thread of the Hindus. Until a boy is so invested, he is deemed almost an outcast. When the members and relations of the family, and all the neighbours, secular...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Iv : CHAPTER IV After a short stay with the holy men with whom he had recently been consorting, the Guru, in company with Mardana, proceeded to Saiyidpur, the present city of Eminabad, in the Gujranwala district of the Panjab. Nanak and his companion took shelter in the house of Lalo, a carpenter. When...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III The Guru, on one occasion seeing his parents and relations standing around him to consider his condition, composed a hymn in the Rag Gauri Cheti:-- Since when have I a mother? Since when a father? Whence have we come? [1. Malr. 2 Gauri is a "rgini" or consort of Sri Rg, and has nine...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Ix : CHAPTER IX The Guru and Mardana again set out on their travels. It is said that they went to the west and crossed the rivers Ravi and Chanab, and, after a long circuitous route through a desert country, made their way again to Pak Pattan to pay another visit to Shaikh Brahm. They sat down to rest...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xii : CHAPTER XII Meanwhile the Guru made a journey to the south of India. He wore wooden sandals, took a stick in his hand, twisted a rope round his head as a turban, and on his forehead put a patch and a streak. On that occasion he was accompanied by Saido and Gheho of the Jat tribe. He proceeded...
The Sohila : THE SOHILA GURU NANAK, RAG GAURI DIPAKI IN the house in which God's praise is sung and He is meditated on, Sing the Sohila and remember the Creator. Sing the Sohila of my Fearless Lord; I am a sacrifice to that song of joy by which everlasting comfort is obtained. Ever and ever living things are...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Vii : CHAPTER VII The Guru and Mardana after their travels in Eastern India returned to the Panjab, and proceeded on a visit to the shrine of Shaikh Farid, a Moslem saint, at a place then called Ajodhan, but now Pak Pattan, in the southern part of that province. A saint called Shaikh Brahm (Ibrahim) w...
Hymns Of Guru Nanak : HYMNS OF GURU NANAK SRI RAG THE following was addressed to a man addicted to intoxicants:-- The Giver gave man a pill of the intoxicant illusion. In his intoxication he forgot death and enjoyed pleasure for four days. The abstainers obtained truth to keep them in God's court. Nanak, know the True...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xvi : CHAPTER XVI There lived in a town called Khadur a Sikh named Jodha who used to repeat God's name while [1. It is stated in several Sikh works that Mardana's body was cremated. 2 The recipe for the preparation of "karh parshd", or Sikh sacred food, will be given in the life of Guru Gobind Singh, vol...
Title Page : THE SIKH RELIGION ITS GURUS, SACRED WRITINGS AND AUTHORS BY MAX ARTHUR MACAULIFFE The egg of superstition hath burst; the mind is illumined: The Guru hath cut the fetters off the feet and freed the captive. GURU ARJAN IN SIX VOLUMES VOL. I Oxford University Press 1909 scanned at sacred-texts...
Japji : DIVINE SERVICES BY GURU NANAK AND OTHER GURUS THE JAPJI THERE is but one God whose name is true, the Creator, devoid of fear and enmity, immortal, unborn, self-existent by the favour of the Guru. REPEAT HIS NAME The True One was in the beginning; the True One was in the primal age. The True One is...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter X : CHAPTER X The Guru then departed for Pasrur, and thence to Sialkot, the fortress of the Sial tribe, now a cantonment in the northern part of the Panjab. He rested under a wild caper tree, which still exists outside the city. Having taken refreshment, he sent Mardana to the market-place for a pais...
Life Of Guru Nanak. Chapter Xi : CHAPTER XI The Guru proceeded to the river Ravi and thence to Lahore. The Lahore territory was then farmed from the Emperor by a millionaire Khatri, whose name was Duni Chand. He was performing the ceremony of shradh for his father, when he heard of the devout Nanak's arrival. He took the Guru...
