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Foreword 2 : Walk Back on Timeline

A Quickstep on Centuries from 2020 AD to 6000 BC Bunty, though not yet six years of age had an ever-curious mind. He was quick to ask, ‘Daarji, What is BC ’? “BC stands for ‘Before Christ”, replied Daarji with a smile. Still perplexed, Bunty questioned again. “But what does it mean Daarji”. That would mean, dear Bunty, that all that happened before AD 1, that is the year Christ was born was known as ‘BC’. Now, the term is “ A.D. ” can be a little baffling. It is a Latin phrase : Anno Domini , which means in ‘ The Year of the Lord ”— that simply means the year Jesus Christ was born. Today if we are at 2020 AD….that makes it over 2020 years after the Birth of Christ”. “Do you know what that means”? He looks at them all questioningly. ”No”. He asked shaking his head and in unison, they shook their heads quite perplexed. Daarji sat back, took off his glasses and gazed far into the distant skyline, trying to figure out a way to explai

Janamsaakhis

Literally taken a ‘Janam-Sakhis’ means… life story made up of parables on the Guru's life, each consisting of a series of separate incidents or chapters normally in chronological order, entitled 'saakhis' or 'gosts'. The script for the Janam-Sakhis is Gurmukhi, but the language was a composite dialect called ‘Sant Bhasa’ akin to Punjabi. Janamsakhi’s are a symbol of a spiritual way of life in Sikhism and forms the matrix of the foundation of our faith. They are quite akin to the parables of Jesus found in all canonical Gospels describing his life, death and resurrection. Janamsakhi’s are an age-old trove of Kathas….stories, or we could say a series of anecdotes compiled to preserve the teachings and travels in the life of our Gurus.

Lineage of the Sikh Gurus Part 2

The Eternal Eleventh Guru. The Guru Granth Sahib. IT was the brilliance of Guru Gobind Singh Ji's decision to make Guru Granth the Everlasting Guru, and to make his Khalsa Sangat the caretaker on earth. Simplistically put the divine power came to be in in the ‘Granth & the Panth’. The life and times of Guru Gobind Singh were turbulent times in history. Think of the political turmoil and unrest that surrounded him from childhood. Any individual human being so designated a Guru would be a target for assassination by Moghuls, or treachery by even his own associates. That would have thrown the Panth into fatal confusion. Guru Gobind Singh ji the tenth guru of Sikhs ended the line of living Sikh Gurus by raising the Adi Granth to the status of an ‘Eternal Guru’. Guru Gobind Singh ji transmitted Guru Nanak's divin

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