Jan-March 2006 - Institute of Sikh Studies

30ABSTRACTS OF SIKH STUDIES : JAN-MARCH 2006 / 537-38 NSschool for my Ist class at the age of five, and learnt Takras/Landas without formaleducation.5. Rag Asa, Guru Granth Sahib, pp.432-34.6. Guru Granth Sahib, pp 340-43.7. Kabir too was forced to use Gurmukhi alphabets, picked up by him during variousvisits to Punjab for Haj purposes, as Brahmins of Benaras violently objected tohis use of Devnagari script, the language of devas or gods, which a julaha, weaver,could not be permitted to use.8. Cf. Pritam Singh, Ahyapur Wali Pothi, Amritsar, Guru Nanak Dev university, 19989. Aad Bir Bare, Amritsar, 1970/ 199010. Guru Granth Sahib. p. 1136.11. Cr. Prof Pritam Singh’s account on Ahyapur Wali Pothis, n.8 above.12. It is another matter that Guru Nanak throughout his life never quoted Vedas,Shastras, Smritis, etc., as an authority for what he was saying. He relied on hisrevelation as the source of his philosophy. His successors strictly followed him.13. G.B. Singh. Prachin Biran., pp. 108 onwards14. It is reprehensible that despite alignment of Parkash Singh Badal with the BJPGovernment at the Centre, and otherwise extending its support like a mundu, thevarious literature it got in 1984 onslaught on Darbar Sahib complex, and verifiedat the time by Giani Kirpal Singh, then Akal Takht Jathedar, has not been returned.The Courts, at whatever level, so far have failed to act, as if Sikhs don’t count foranything in the Indian Union.15. Cf. G B Singh, Prachin Biran, pp215-33, 301-03.16. Principal, Harbhajan Singh, Gurbani Sampardan Nirnai (Mohali, 1989)17. Prof. Sahib Singh’s Aad Bir Bare (Amritsar, 1970 /1990)18. W .H. McLeod, The Evolution of the Sikh Community, OUP 1976, p.7819. The Sikhs in History, Amritsar, 2002, p.560.20 Ibid, pp. 559-60.¤In this wondrous world forest, there is tumult,And confusion and shrieks resound in the high-ways.What Thee, O my Spouse, am I attached in love,So I traverse the jungle with joy.– Guru Granth Sahib, p 520bwir ivfwnVY huMms DuMms kUkw peIAw rwhI ]qau sh syqI lgVI forI nwnk And syqI bnu gwhI ]