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Bani Sheikh Farid Ji
Sheikh Fariduddin Masud Ganjshakar, popularly known as Baba Farid Ji (1178-1271 CE), is one of the fifteen Bhagat contributors to the Guru Granth Sahib. He is also known as the pioneer of Panjabi-Sufi literature. Guru more...
Bani Bhagat Beni Ji
Bhagat Beni Ji is one of the fifteen Bhagat contributors to the Guru Granth Sahib. The Guru Granth Sahib contains three of his Sabads. The first Sabad is recorded in Sirirag (Srirag) on page 93. This Sabad has five more...
Var Sat (Mahala 3) 2/2
‘Var Sat’ (seven days) is commonly known as ‘Satvar’ or ‘Satvara.’ Satvara is a classical and popular poetic form based on the seven days of the week. In this poetic form, each stanza begins with a particular day of the more...
Var Sat (Mahala 3) 1/2
‘Var Sat’ (seven days) is commonly known as ‘Satvar’ or ‘Satvara.’ Satvara is a classical and popular poetic form based on the seven days of the week. In this poetic form, each stanza begins with a particular day of the more...
Barah Maha (Mahala 5)
Humans are considered sensitive beings in this creation. At once, the naturally occurring phenomena in this world affect the sensitivity of the being, and the being’s attitude towards these phenomena reflects their own more...
Thiti (Mahala 1)
The word ‘thitī’ is a modified form of the Sanskrit word ‘tithi.’ The interchange of the letters ‘t’ and ‘th’ changes ‘tithi’ to ‘thiti/thitī.’ This word literally means ‘date,’ ‘day,’ or ‘lunar day,’ a count from the more...

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Bhagvant
Literally, the one who possesses fortune, prosperity and happiness; it is a synonym used for IkOankar (the Divine) in the Guru Granth Sahib. The meaning of such terms (often more...
Braham Gyani
The term Brahamgyani literally means ‘one who knows the Supreme Being’ or ‘the enlightened being.’ It refers to an individual who has attained both the knowledge and experience of more...
Chaupai Chand
A four-line verse with 16 or 15 characters each is known as Chaupai more...
Ekankar
The Supreme Being is believed to have two forms: ‘nirguṇ’ (transcendent) and ‘sarguṇ’ (immanent). These forms are not contradictory but are indicators of two different aspects of more...
Kaviling
Kaviling literally means ‘the cause of poetry.’ It is a figure of speech in Indic poetry where the cause and its resulting effect or action are presented together. At its core, more...
Nam
The term ‘Nam,’ widely used in the Guru Granth Sahib, is a key term that serves as the central principle in Sikhi. Nam is the sole medium through which the being unites with more...
Realms
It refers to the three worlds or realms (tri/trai-lok or tri-bhavan) described in ancient Hindu scriptures. Generally, heaven (swarg lok), earth (bhu/mat lok), and the netherworld more...
Thitti
The word ‘thitti’ is a modified form of the Sanskrit word ‘tithi’ and refers to the measurement of the lunar cycle (the waxing and waning of the moon) as a day. The names of these more...
Tipada- Tipade
A Sabad that comprises three stanzas is known as tipada. Here, ‘ti’ means three and ‘pada’ means stanza. Thus, ‘tipada’ is a polysyllabic compound word, in which the numeral ‘ti’ more...