Sukhmani Sahib - Sikh Prayer

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Zitat:

Sukhmani Sahib is a prayer in the form of a song to bring everlasting peace and comfort to the mind.

• Its sound is tranquilising and removes stress.

Sukhmani Sahib opens your heart to live in gratitude, steadies your spiritual discipline, and connects you with your

• strength,

• endurance,

• courage

• Infinite consciousness

to overcome every obstacle. Listening to or reciting Sukhmani Sahib once a day can change your destiny from misery to prosperity and give you

• inner balance,

• grace,

• radiance,

• energy

• the power to sacrifice.

The Sukhmani is probably the greatest composition of Guru Arjan Dev Ji.

• It is said that he wrote it in response to request from a devotee who was suffering form physical pain and mental anguish; it restored him to calm and health.

• The word 'Sukhmani' means the psalm of equipoise or jewel of bliss.

It is reported that Wazir Khaq, the Governor of Lahore, whose real name was Hakim Alleem-ud-din Ansari, was suffering from a chronic stomach disease.

• He came to Amritsar for treatment and also visited the Harmandar Sahib.

• As Baba Buddha pressed his stomach, his condition became normal.

• When he met Guru Arjan, the latter told him to listen to a recitation of the "Sukhmani Sahib" daily, to gain inner peace.

Wazir Khan then engaged a Sikh to recite this to him every day.

• By and by, he memorised the text and became a healthy and happy man.

The Sukhmani Sahib has structural unity.

• It has 24 staves (Salokas), one of which begins each canto.

• There are 24 cantos, each containing 8 stanzas.

• Each stanza has ten lines, that is five couplets.

There is also the unity of theme:

• the perfection of man mentally.

• morally

• spiritually.

The stave of each canto gives the gist of the stanzas that follow.

Notizen:

• Frage: was ist im Rezitat mit "duality is removed" (1:38) gemeint ?

• bemerkenswert: "He shows love to his enimies" (14:07) !

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