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JAp Ji
Punjabi Text With Transliteration and English Translation
540
Preface
Throughout History , great teachers, saints and mystics have shared with us their vision of life and its purpose. Many never wrote down what they taught nor did they intend their teachings to become e dogma . when they taught , they spoke to all who were ready to listen irrespective of background and status . saints use language and stories to provoke their audience and create a yearning in them to experience a higher truth to which they themselves stand witness.
Scripture s guide us. Scriptures provide us starting points and road maps. Scriptures remind us of the presence of the divine within. They inspire us and provoke s to act on what we have understood. true spiritual knowledge and firm faith come from experience when we transform ourselves through inner contact with truth in accordance with the teaching s of the saints . The scriptures have come to us as word on paper , but they originated in words that were imbued with the spiritual experience of the speaker. They were addressed to living congregations, to awaken them from a deep slumber to the spiritual truth.
Words, at best, have different meanings for each listener due to their own perspective and understanding . As we ourselves grow in understanding, so too the depth and grandeur of the scriptures understanding lies not in reading but in our personal transformation through and increasing awareness.
The Adi Granth, One of the most profound scriptures in the world, is unique I its wide-ranging representation of spiritual understanding and experience . Complied by Guru Arjun dev, the Adi Granth is the embodiment of e teachings of six Gurus of Guru Nanak and thirty other mystics from different cultural and religious background . It is shows the Commonality
540
Preface
Throughout History , great teachers, saints and mystics have shared with us their vision of life and its purpose. Many never wrote down what they taught nor did they intend their teachings to become e dogma . when they taught , they spoke to all who were ready to listen irrespective of background and status . saints use language and stories to provoke their audience and create a yearning in them to experience a higher truth to which they themselves stand witness.
Scripture s guide us. Scriptures provide us starting points and road maps. Scriptures remind us of the presence of the divine within. They inspire us and provoke s to act on what we have understood. true spiritual knowledge and firm faith come from experience when we transform ourselves through inner contact with truth in accordance with the teaching s of the saints . The scriptures have come to us as word on paper , but they originated in words that were imbued with the spiritual experience of the speaker. They were addressed to living congregations, to awaken them from a deep slumber to the spiritual truth.
Words, at best, have different meanings for each listener due to their own perspective and understanding . As we ourselves grow in understanding, so too the depth and grandeur of the scriptures understanding lies not in reading but in our personal transformation through and increasing awareness.
The Adi Granth, One of the most profound scriptures in the world, is unique I its wide-ranging representation of spiritual understanding and experience . Complied by Guru Arjun dev, the Adi Granth is the embodiment of e teachings of six Gurus of Guru Nanak and thirty other mystics from different cultural and religious background . It is shows the Commonality
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Published January 1, 2010
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