Review of Jup Banee by Dr KSD – Part 3

• Page 1 of SGGS
  • ॥ ਜਪੁ ॥ (title/name of the Bani)
  • ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ
 ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥ (Preamble))
  • ॥ ੧॥ (coding of Gurbani)
  • ਆਦਿ ਸਚੁ ਜੁਗਾਦਿ ਸਚੁ ॥ ਹੈ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ਨਾਨਕ ਹੋਸੀ ਭੀ ਸਚੁ ॥ ੧॥ (SLOK 1)
  • Raags are used as Gurbani is meant to be sung as per Indian poetry
  • only one raag per bani so the raag for Jup is Raag Asa (refer to Sodar pauri 27 that is in Asa)
  • measure of the raag is in beats (Dadra, Kewrawan etc)
• Preamble

ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ
 ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥

Oangkar Sat Naam Karta Purakh Nirbhau Nirvair Akaal Moorat Ajooni Saibhang Gur Parsad.

• • various forms of Preamble in SGGS
  • complete form at beginning of each Raag – 33 times
  • ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ – 9 times
  • ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ – 2 times
  • ੴ ਸਤਿ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ – 524 times
  • ੴ (first word) and ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ (last word) are same so the various versions of the salok appear in a total of 568 instances
• Mool Mantar as a label
  • nowhere is the word ‘mool’ found
  • nowhere is the word ‘mantar’ found
  • nowhere are the words ‘mool mantar’ found
  • Mool Mantar a man-made custom/label but not Guru-given or Guru- sanctioned
• Alternative meanings of Manglacharan
  • as an opening prayer of text
  • as an obeisence/respect of writer to his ‘devta’ in Vedic /Sanatantexts is usually to the Goddess of knowledge/

education Saraswati Devi

• Problem with Manglacharan as a label
  • the opening salok is NOT an opening prayer but a description of God
  • it is NOT an obeisence to God as there are TWO different writers –

Guru Nanak’s oral tradition is texted by Guru Arjun in book

form

• Labels are important as they define
  • Concepts
  • Usage
  • Thought Processes
• Example of a label are words like Woman/She/Her/Hers that connote
  • woman has no substance
  • woman is subject to man
  • woman is non-independent
  • woman is inferior

(even in Punjabi words like pati/patni)

• Some other discriminatory labels that may need to be changed from prescriptive to descriptive
  • Chairman
  • Housewife
  • Manhole
• Use of some Problematic Labels (labels to replace fear /negativity)
• Passes away to denote death
• Correctional facility for jail
• Fell off the truck for stolen
• Negative Patient Outcome for dead
• Letting people go for sacking
• Big-boned for fat
• Negative growth for economic loss
• ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ
 ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥
  • Opening salok – Composed by Guru Nanak /Placed by Guru Arjun
  • Preamble of SGGS and not a Mool Mantar or Manglacharan
• The Problem with “Mool Mantar” as a Label as per Gurbani
• Wrong Usage as Chanting (continuum of Jantar, Mantar, Tantar that are external acts to make changes)
• Wrong Concepts as Jup, Simran, Naam are defined as mantar” (a means to an end)
• Wrong Thought Processes as Chanting is Sikhi practice (Sikhi is Vedic/Yogic?)
• Misleading Outcomes – Corruption of Gurmat Concepts and

Thought Processes

• Jup is Chanting (ruttan)
• Simran is calculated chanting
• Naam (reduced to a proper name) is object of chanting
• Conclusions :

Questions that need answers from definitions/corraborations in

Gurbani Framework

• What is ਜਪੁ Jup
• What do we call

ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ
 ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥

Ek Oangkar Sat Nam Karta Purakh Nirbhau Nirvai Akaal Moorat Ajooni Saibhang Gur Parsad

• What is the meaning of Jup, Simran, Naam, Mool, Mantar