Tempo:
PRINCIPLES OF BELIEF, ETC.
XIX
APP.
33-7
The high and the low became equal; the salutation of the feet (among disciples) he established in the world
^ :
Contrary to the nature of man, the feet were exalted above the head. In the Kalyug he gave salvation using the only true Name, he taught men to worship the Lord. To give salvation in the Kalyug Guru Nanak came. :
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Note. The above extracts, and several others from the book of Bhai Gurdas, may be seen in Malcolm's Sketch of the Sikhs, p. 152, &c.; rendered, however, in a less literal manner than has here been attempted.
The book -contains forty chapters, written in different kinds of verse, and it is the repository of many stories about Nanak which the Sikhs delight to repeat. One of these is as follows :
Nanak again went to Mecca; blue clothing he wore. like Krishna;
A staff in his hand, a book by his side; the pot, the cup, and the mat, he also took
:
He sat where the Pilgrims completed the final act of their pilgrimage,
And when he slept at night he lay with his feet towards the front.
Jiwan struck him with
his
foot,
saying, 'Ho
!
what
infidel sleeps here,
With his feet towards the Lord, like an evil doer?' Seizing him by the leg, he drew him aside; then Mecca also turned, and a miracle was declared. All were astonished, &c., &c.
—
Guru Gohind's raode of representing his Mission. (From the Vichitr Natak, with an extract from the Twenty-four Incarnations, regarding the last Avatar and the succeeding Mihdi Mir.)
—
Note. The first four chapters are occupied with a mythological account of the Sodhi and Bedi subdivisions of the Kshattriya race, the rulers of the Punjab at Lahore and Kasur, and the descendants of Lau and Kusu, the sons of Ram, who traced his descent through Dasrath, Raghu, Suraj, and others, to Kalsain, a primaeval monarch. So far as regards the present object, the contents may be summed up in the promise or pro1
22
The Akalis still follow this custom.
XIX
APP.
33-7
The high and the low became equal; the salutation of the feet (among disciples) he established in the world
^ :
Contrary to the nature of man, the feet were exalted above the head. In the Kalyug he gave salvation using the only true Name, he taught men to worship the Lord. To give salvation in the Kalyug Guru Nanak came. :
—
Note. The above extracts, and several others from the book of Bhai Gurdas, may be seen in Malcolm's Sketch of the Sikhs, p. 152, &c.; rendered, however, in a less literal manner than has here been attempted.
The book -contains forty chapters, written in different kinds of verse, and it is the repository of many stories about Nanak which the Sikhs delight to repeat. One of these is as follows :
Nanak again went to Mecca; blue clothing he wore. like Krishna;
A staff in his hand, a book by his side; the pot, the cup, and the mat, he also took
:
He sat where the Pilgrims completed the final act of their pilgrimage,
And when he slept at night he lay with his feet towards the front.
Jiwan struck him with
his
foot,
saying, 'Ho
!
what
infidel sleeps here,
With his feet towards the Lord, like an evil doer?' Seizing him by the leg, he drew him aside; then Mecca also turned, and a miracle was declared. All were astonished, &c., &c.
—
Guru Gohind's raode of representing his Mission. (From the Vichitr Natak, with an extract from the Twenty-four Incarnations, regarding the last Avatar and the succeeding Mihdi Mir.)
—
Note. The first four chapters are occupied with a mythological account of the Sodhi and Bedi subdivisions of the Kshattriya race, the rulers of the Punjab at Lahore and Kasur, and the descendants of Lau and Kusu, the sons of Ram, who traced his descent through Dasrath, Raghu, Suraj, and others, to Kalsain, a primaeval monarch. So far as regards the present object, the contents may be summed up in the promise or pro1
22
The Akalis still follow this custom.
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