![]() ![]() The poetry of the Guru Granth Sahib is, for the most part, in Punjabi. When Guru Arjan arranged the Adi Granth, he ordered its 31 sections according to musical raga. All of the shabads contained in the Guru Granth Sahib are set to particular traditional musical scales called ragas, each meant to be played at a particular time of day or to evoke a particular mood. The full spirit and power of the word is in the singing of it. The Guru Granth Sahib is poetry, and its poetry is sung. There are also famous and beloved hymns composed by the Sikh savants Bhai Gurdas and Bhai Nand Lal, always favorites in the singing of kirtan. They are gurbani, the hymns of the Gurus, or bhagatbani, the hymns of the saints. ![]() Most of the hymns, called shabads, are from the Guru Granth Sahib. Usually, they sing to the accompaniment of an accordion-style harmonium. Men and women, young and old, learn to sing the divine word, individually and congregationally. Nanak prays that this is the reason why the slave of your slaves is sometimes big and strong enough to fight these vices, and sometimes weak and incapable of fighting and winning against these vices.Kirtan means “singing the praises of God.” In Glen Rock, New Jersey, as in gurdwaras throughout the world, there is no more important component of the life of the gathered community than kirtan. This mind spends time with those who never listen to good advice and dont admit the mistakes they make and never get satisfied with indulging themselves with the five vices The sign that can help tell that a person has merged with god is that they have compassion/patience/tolerance/mercy/forgiveness within them Only that person can be considered as merged in god who destroys the other mother(ignorance) within themselves These vices are burning like a fire within my body and creating turbulent waves within this ocean of mind and body (this leads to uneasiness and discomfort within my mind, body and life)īut the sun (god) whose warmth pleases me and the moon (peace and satisfaction) whose coolness soothes me are sitting within me, yet you do not teach me how to find or attain them. Rather, teach me, how to find my Lord God. O Pandit, you teach me all these meaningless things, O Pandit/learned person, contemplate and reflect on this. ![]() This boy king has two mothers(intelligence/knowledge and ignorance), and two fathers(god and maaya). This city(our body) is a ruled by a boy king(our mind) who is attached to evil friends(the five vices- anger, lust, greed, arrogance, material attachment) who mean to do him harm. ![]() Please forgive me if I made mistakes and feel free to let me know if there are corrections that need to be made to this.īased on my understanding, this shabad means that: This is just a vague translation based on my very limited understanding. ![]()
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