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dear sir; thank you for your comments. please do not get mad, i am blunt and straight forward.

baba Nanak wrote japujee sahib. sikhs asked guru Hargobind jee to explain japujee sahib. he did and at the end he said this is to the best of my ability. actual meaning only baba jee knows.

now we are the translators. sahib singh did it first. great thing and i admire him. he was a sanskrit scholar, so his explanation went towards sanskrit, remember he was a social scholar. you also have become a scholar by reading his explanation. that means you also follow  the sanskrit meanings. Baba nanak did not go to sanskrit school. his philosophy was spirituality. spirituality and sanskrit or any other language are different schools of thought and learning.  so he wrote with spirituality in mind. I tried the same route, though i am not a scholar either social or spiritual. i just jumped in ignorantly and it taught me a lot.  though i do not know saanskrit like sahib singh or all other patiala university professors who translated sggs. in my opinion, the entire sggs is spiritual not social. i will tell u to read sahib singh's explanation of waaraan te wadheek page 1410 by baba jee and then think in your own mind. i think a person who wants to understand and explain sggs should follow his own instinct not what someone else said. so my explanation goes towards spirituality. one cannot become divine by thinking, he may think for ever. this is spiritual side not social or sanskrit side. there will always be conflict between understanding my explanation with that of Bhai sahib singh. those who think sahib singh was Babak Nanak reincarnate will always differ with my explanation. I will recommend not to read my explanation if you are the follower of Bhai sahib singh. It is internet age. everything one needs is available on the internet and mahan kosh.  But i will also recommend that you should run your own horses wild and try to explain to yourself first and then, get into the field of discussions.

i have a question for u and which i put before to someone also. first find out how many writers wrote in sggs from sahib singhs  explanation and then we will discuss further. search the net and find out what sahib singh says about the number of writers. that is the test of one's own understanding.


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