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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
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By reflection it cannot be understood, if times innumerable it be considered.
By meditation it cannot be attained, how much soever the attention be fixed.
A hundred wisdoms, even a hundred thousand, not one accompanies the dead. be told, how can falsehood be un-
How can Truth ravelled ?
O Nanak
!
by following the will
of
God, as by Him
ordained.
Nanak, Adi Granth, Japji (commencement of-. One, Self-existent, Himself the Creator. one continueth, another never was and never will be. Nanak, Adi Granth, Gauri Rag.
O Nanak
!
Thou art in each thing, and in all places. O God thou art the one Existent Being. Ram Das, Adi Granth, Asa Rag. !
My mind jiwells upon One, He who gave the Soul and the body. Arjun, Adi Granth, Sri Rag.
Time is the only God; the First and the Last, the Endless Being; the Creator, the Destroyer; He who can make and unmake. God who created Angels and Demons, who created the East and the West, the North and the South, how can He be expressed by words? Gobind, Hazar t Shahd.
God is one image (or Being) how can He be conceived ,
in another form?
2.
Gobind, Vichitr Natak.
Incarnations, Saints, and Prophets; the Hindu Avatars, Muhammad, and Sidhs, and Pirs
Numerous Muhammads have there been, and multitudes of Brahrnas, Vishnus, and Sivas, Thousands nf pirs and Prophets, and tens of thousands of Saints and Holy men But the Chief of Lords is the One Lord, the true Name :
of God. of God, His qualities, without end,
O Nanak
!
reckoning,
beyond
who can understand ?
Nanak, Ratan Mala (extra to the Granth)