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Awesome! Thanks!

Pandit Kirpa Ram stayed in the Darbar of Guru Gobind Rai after the shaheedi of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Here he was a court poet where he translated different works from Farsi to Braj for the Guru (most of the kashmiri pandits were fluent in farsi).. One of the books that Pandit Kirpa Ram translated that is still extant is the 12th century Kimiye-ye-sadat by Muhammad Al Ghazali which is an extremiely beautiful treatise on spirituality and ethics.

Later on the Sewa panthis copied this manuscript in dozens and used it for parchaar in muslim areas of West Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunwa.amongst the pashtuns.

Probably refers to the Charitro Pakhyan in the Dasam Granth

Also read the article on Zindaginama on the new bhai nand lal website:

The Zindagînamâ is written in classical Persian and consists of 510
verses. It is a long, and consistent poem that heralds key aspects of
the Sikh tradition using Islamicate vocabulary. According to tradition,
it was written upon the poet’s arrival to Anandpur and presented as a
gift to the Tenth Guru who was so fond of its content, that he renamed
the composition from Bandagînâma (guidance of spirituality) to
Zindagînamâ (Guidance of life).

Sarup Das Bhalla in 1775 comments on the Zindagînamâ in the following way:

The Zindagînamâ is roughly centred on four themes: Meditation (Zikr-e-Haqq), the devotees of God situated in the Sat Sangat (Mardân-e-khudâsat) The Perfect Spiritual Guide and Guru (Murshid-e-Kâmil) and proper conduct in this world (Adab).
The first theme excels the others by far and there is a constant
reiteration of virtues of living a spiritual life based on meditation on
the Name of God throughout the whole composition.

Read the rest of the article here:

http://bhainandlal.com/zindaginama.html

The world's first website on a court poet of Guru Gobind Singh has now been launched!!!!

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See the website on http://www.bhainandlal.com/

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An old edition of Chaupa Singh rehitnama was burned and destroyed, however luckily Mcleod did a translation and transliteration of the manuscript.. I have not heard that he did an entire cataloging of the library but what would be great to view if such exist

http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_060703a.html

U can't use the above tuk to argue that Sikhs can't dance. The tuk is not didactic. We have similiar shabads saying "make Truth your capital" etc, does that mean SIkhs can't work as business partners?? Others say "make X your pen, Y your ink and W your paper". Does that mean SIkhs should'n learn to read???

It looks weird and i was shocked myself but who are you to use punjabi cultural norms to judge their western behaviour? Obviosly they dont consider it disrespectful, otherwise they would not do it... They are western sikhs, they have other norms of what is disrespectful. Dont turn sikhi into panjabism.... U have no objective source to state what they are doing is wrong, only your own subjective background as a panjabi

There might have been one made in 1733 (Piara Singh Padam's seems to trace it back to the court of Guru Gobind Singh) but the one we have today is not from 1733. It gives references to Nadir Shah, Shah Abdali, Maharaja Ranjit Singh etc which means it was corrupted at a later stage

SIkhoooooooooo

Sounds great Singhs and Kaurs.

We already have a team of about 5 people doing different things. Can u either here or in a private PM tell me a little about about what you might be able to help in with? At the moment we especially need people who are good at making slide show videos and grapichs (art work with Gurmukhi texts etc, either hand made or computer made).

With slideshow video i mean something like this (audio,video and text all combined in a beautiful setting telling a story):

Thank you for your reply Singh. We are thinking of launching the website around March 2012 so there should be plenty of time

Do you think this project is something you would be interested in contributing with? The level of material we are going to put on the website is gonna be historical,- material never released for the sangat in the past 50 years or more

Thanks i've been looking for pictures of this. However I believe it does not date from the period of Guru Nanak but rather from the missionary tours of the udasi sikhs who travelled as far as russia

There is a english translation and commentary on it by Tirath Singh Nirmala from UK which can be bought at http://nectpublications.com/

I bought it from this site and it's a good book however one needs basic background knowledge in Vedanta and its litterature (Upanishads, Gita etc.) to get a full understanding of its dephts (which I lack but im reading up on Vedanta through my studies in order to gain full comprehension of the book)

You can see 3 pages from the book on the site to see what things you're dealing with...

Beautiful pictures. They are doing lots of parchaar world wide, I saw a video of them doing parchaar in Africa as well

Reading Bhai Nand Lal's persian hymns you'll see he makes many references to sufi and hindu mystics same with Gurbani making references to dhroo, prahlad and other devotees of the past, yet today if a Sikh makes reference to a non-sikh spiritual being all hell breaks loose..

Dalsingh: In the other article on panjabi language there is a reference to gurmukhi grammar being taught at gurmukhi schools... i think this was written in 1872

Looks like the site has been hacked lol

Its a bit embarassing that the europeans were the first to do these kinds of things before the sikhs took it upon themselves to do so

Sanjog meang union of souls.. Its the Gurmat equvelant of "viah" or "Shaadi"....

it can be both.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh managed to create unity within the panth, which led to our succes. As the british generals in the 1775 said about Sikhs, our political succes depends on our unity alone, and we would be able to conquer the borders all the way to europe (can be found in sicques tigers and thieves)

There are translations of this also online. Saw them on tapoban forum once i think.

beautiful