Japji Quotes

“The prose-poems of the Japji envelop us by opening our third eye to the experience of concrete manifestations of nature, the overall circle of light, which shone in the nimbus, which people saw around Nanak’s face, lit up by the shimmering glow of the flame which burnt inside him. It”
― Khushwant Singh, Japji: Immortal Prayer Chant

“As I had studied the poetry of Rumi, Jami, Nizami, Hafiz and Amir Khusrau, with some difficulty in the original Persian, and with some ease in various English translations, I realised that Nanak had absorbed the ethos of Islamic poetical mysticism, inherited the belief in ecstasy of union of Baba Farid, Nizam-ud-Din Aulia and Kabir. Of”
― Khushwant Singh, Japji: Immortal Prayer Chant

“If thou must make a gold coin true Let thy mint these rules pursue. In the forge of continence Let the goldsmith be a man of patience, His tools be made of knowledge, His anvil made of reason;”
― Khushwant Singh, Japji: Immortal Prayer Chant

“In your hearts His name be graven, Sorrows from your soul erase And make your hearts a joyous haven. The Guru’s word has the sage’s wisdom, The Guru’s word is full of learning, For though it be the Guru’s word God Himself speaks therein.”
― Khushwant Singh, Japji: Immortal Prayer Chant