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Third Pauri (Step 3)

Third Pauri (Step 3)

Moving ahead in the series of gurbani (the word of the Guru) wallpapers, below is the third pauri (third step). The narrative to this step states that thoughts about God form a “rainbow of colors blending in white”. This can be applied to entire Japuji Sahib as well: there are so many different explanations, none [...]

Second Pauri (Step 2)

Second Pauri (Step 2)

Continuing the series the second pauri of Japuji Sahib is below as two images (click to enlarge): As one single image:

First Pauri (Step 1)

First Pauri (Step 1)

To continue the series of Japuji Sahib wallpapers, I present the First Pauri (Japji Sahib) below. Japji Sahib shows us the way to uplift yourself from falsehood to Truth in 38 steps. In the first lines of this Pauri ‘soch’ refers to the sanskrit work ‘shauch’ which means ‘to cleanse’. There are two wallpapers of [...]

300 years of blessings by the Guru

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Saal_Guru_de_Naal India is celebrating today 300 years of the inception (consecration) of the Holy Book ‘Sri Guru Granth Sahib’ as the spiritual Guru of the Sikhs. It’s a state holiday in Delhi. The celebrations have really started around a year back, on 15th of September 2007. Today the epicenter is Nanded Sahib, where this historic [...]

Raja Ravi Verma

Raja Ravi Verma

There is an interesting folklore in India, where Raja Harishchandra, one of the ancestors of Lord Rama promised a saint a large sum of money. He had to sell off himself, his wife and his son in order to repay the debt of this saint. I came across a nice painting by Raja Ravi Verma [...]