Nitnem by Dr. Kulwant Singh, with Punjabi ... - Gurbanifiles.org

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ABOUT THE BOOK
The Sikh faith worships only God, and believes that He is Never Born and is Self-Created; Not
Bound by the Birth, Death, and Time; Present All Over, in everything living or nonliving; All
Powerful, Doer - Creator and Destroyer as well; Benevolent and Provider – God is everything.
With this philosophy, only God remains for worship and nothing else.
The ancient, religious Hindu Holy Books are rich with the heritage of historical events,
mythical stories, and other episodes. The Sikh Gurus have liberally drawn on them to make
their own views easily understandable by the masses oriented to these. They tried to offer these
as the popular examples for an easy understanding. Animal or any other sacrifices is not the
Sikh-Way, and the word “sacrifice” in the Scriptures, mostly means a deep loving appreciation.
The script of the Sikh Scripture is Gurmukhi, which is commonly used in the state of
the Punjab, India - the home of Sikhs. Tremendous amount of literature is being produced in
this popular language, and this includes the books on the Sikh faith, which is the fifth largest
faith among the religions of the world.
The language of the Scriptures is mixed, uses the words from different languages e.g.
Punjabi, Hindi, Bihari, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic etc. It appears like Hindi, and this keeps it
easy to understand at least to some extent, by the masses in India. It is called “Sant Bolee” - the
language of saints. The Gurus were very well educated, the masters of more than one language,
and were distinguished poets.
In this book, the attributes of God have been given with capital letters. This is my
choice. Most of the bridging-elements, meanings, explanations etc. have been put up within
parentheses (round brackets) to distinguish the self-added material, and as an effort to keep it
running smooth in the script.
This work is more of an easy transliteration. Special care has been taken to use the
simple words. The spellings of a few non English words both in roman and English, may have
some variation in their spellings. These should be ignored. Mainly, the roman is by Dr. K.S.
Thind. Another version is by the author, and in this the punctuation marks have been attached
to the characters to modify their phonation.
Dr. Kulwant Singh Khokhar,
12502 Nightingale Drive,
Chester, Virginia 23836, USA.