Mul Mantra

[gurmzz]

So in the mul mantra, the lines "Sochai Soch Na Hovayee"..wud soch mean think or pure..? I am just confused..some people say think some say pure?

Thanks,

WJKK WJKF!

[MokhamSingh]

Khalsa Ji

Soch can also mean ishnaan (washing the body).

[gurmzz]

Khalsa Ji

Soch can also mean ishnaan (washing the body).

hmm..yeahh my gurbani teacher was telling me...soch is purity by ishnaan..

he said it meant: the soul cannot turn pure even by the ishnaan of the body "lakh vaar"

I just wanted to know that can it be BOTH or is it a set meaning of ishaan..?

Thanks!

[sikha]

it can be both.

[dalsingh101]

'Soch' is used to represent thinking and bathing by Guru Nanak in Gurbani.

From what I can gather, traditionally soch was considered to mean 'think' in that tuk, but it was Prof. Sahib Singh who introduced the idea that it actually referred to a ritual bath i.e. ritual baths cannot make us internally pure, even if we have a hundred thousand of them.

If some one can find an earlier [than Prof. Sahib Singh] reference to soch as ritual bathing, please do share.

[SarabjeetS]

WOW , so many people answered , but no one took care to explain to the asker that "sochai soch na hovai" is not part of mool mantar but part of JapJi sahib !

[gurmzz]

Thank you!

[PAL 07]

your question is not in mool mantra its in the first pauri after the I1I which clearly hints as to where the mool mantra ends and where the first pauri begins.