Explore Puranmashi, the full moon day with cultural rituals in Indian tradition and its unique metaphorical significance in Sikh beliefs and compositions.
SALOP SAHASKRITI, title of a composition comprising seventy-one verses incorporated in the Guru Granth Sahib. The term `Sahaskriti` denotes the language form, a mixture of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit, in which these slokas have been written. `Gatha` is another word used for `Sahaskriti`. Of the seventy-one verses collected under the title Salok Sahaskriti, sixty-seven are of the composition of Guru Arjan and the remaining four of Guru Nanak. Terse and cryptic in style and the favorites of classical scholars such as the Nirmalas, these verses denounce ritualism and hypocritical religious behavior and present loving devotion and absorption in the Divine Nam as the true ideal.
