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AGAMPUR
Tags: guru, ultimate, agampur, word, unapproachable, city, mortification, bodily, hath, reached, forced, nigrahi
AGAMPUR or AGAMPURA, lit. city unapproachable or inaccessible (Skt. agamya plus pur or pura). The word appears in one of the hymns of Guru Nanak in Asa measure where it is used to signify God`s abode or the ultimate state or stage of spiritual...
AMAR PAD
Tags: highest, stage, state, enlightenment, term, spiritual, selfrealization, godrealization, mukti, jivanmukt, release, ultimate
AMAR PAD or amarapad, also called parampada (highest step), tunapada or turiavastha, is the stage of deathlessness or immortality. In the Guru Granth Sahib the term has been used for the highest stage of spiritual enlightenment which is also the...
AMAVAS (AMAVASYA),
Tags: moon, days, lunar, amavas, compositions, auspicious, sikh, spent, special, single, good, match
AMAVAS (AMAVASYA), massia in Punjabi, lit. a combination of ama, i.e. together, and vasya, i.e. stationing, signifying coming of the sun and the moon together in one line, is the last day of the dark half of the lunar month when the moon remains...
ARATI
Tags: guru, arati, sikh, ritual, lord, lamps, granth, sahib, worship, priests, nanak, hymns
ARATI, from Sanskrit aratrik, meaning the light or the vessel containing it which is waved before an idol, generally in the clockwise direction, accompanied by the chanting of mantras. This is also the name given the ceremony which for the Hindus is...
ASAVARI
Tags: ascetic, asceticism, life, indian, religious, guru, body, practices, culture, sikhism, nanak, avadhuta
ASAVARI See ASA ASCETICISM, derived from the Greek word askesis, connotes the `training` or `exercise` of the body and the mind. Asceticism or ascetic practices belong to the domain of religious culture, and fasts, pilgrimages, ablutions,...
AMRIT
Tags: amrit, singh, guru, sweet, sikh, nectar, sense, immortality, night, true, amritsar, gods
AMRIT, derived from Sanskrit amrta, defined variously as not dead, immortal, imperishable; beautiful, beloved; world of immortality, heaven; immortality, eternity; final emancipation; nectar, ambrosia; nectarlike food; antidote against poison; or...
ABHICH
Tags: guru, abhich, bath, hindus, festival, sahib, wrote, sight, granth, hymn, 1116, blessed
ABHICH,According to Indian astrology 'Abhich' is the name of a certain conjunction of planets which is regarded as auspicious by the Hindus. On this day, Hindus take a bath in one of the holy rivers. On this festive day. which fell on January 14....
ABDHUT/AUDHUT/AVADHUT
Tags: person, religion, enables, attain, linked, front, chain, transmigration, granth, mansukhani, 1995, dogra
ABDHUT/AUDHUT/AVADHUT A kind of Hindu devotee who worships Shiva. neglects the ceremonies of religion, and goes naked, with the body besmeared with ashes. Guru Nanak defines the Abdhut as a person who renounces vice and is imbued with the Holy Name....
ANJALI
Tags: anjali, form, means, hollow, cupshaped, joining, formed, human, transitory, nature, life, detachment
ANJALI:Literally,Anjali means an offering of a palmful of water or a few grams of rice to a deity as a mark of respect or devotion. Anjali is also a form of poetry. Guru Arjan wrote four 'chhands' in Raga Maru (GGS, p. 1019) in the form of 'Anjali'....
ANT KAL
Tags: death, person, moments, meditation, holy, rememberance, short, associates, advised, utilised, sikh, mansukhani
ANT KAL,means the few moments before a person's death. A person feeling the approach (if death thinks of many things, his wife, children, wealth and home which he will leave shortly and then begins to worry about them and after a while he is no...

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