Anterjami Purakh Bidhate lyrics in Gurmukhi:
„Anṯarjami purakẖ bidhatee sardha man ki pure.
Nanak das ihai sukh magai mo ka-o kar santan ki dhure.”
Anterjami Purakh Bidhate mantra translation in English:
„Nanak, Your slave, begs for this happiness: let me be the dust of the feet of the Saints.
O Inner-knower, Searcher of Hearts, O Primal Being, Architect of Destiny: please fulfill this yearning of my mind.”
This mantra is from Kirtan Sohila. Kirtan Sohila is the night time hymn said by all Sikhs before they go to sleep. Three Sikh Gurus – Guru Ram Das, Guru Nanak and Guru Arjan – contributed with 5 shabads in total to this bani on the pain of separation and celebrating the bliss of union with Almighty.
Kirtan Sohila signifies „Song of Praise”. This chant is frequently chanted at the conclusion of evening ceremonies at the Gurdwara and it is also chanted as part of Sikh funeral services.
This chant is in Gurmukhi. The word „Gurmukhi” literally translates as „from the mouth of the Guru”. Gurmukhi has some correlations to older Indian scripts of the times, but it’s 35 characters and vowel modifiers were standardized by Guru Angad.
Stylistically, this language obtains its letter shapes from Landa, but considerable influence from Nagari is evident from the top horizontal bar present in most letters.
Kundalini Yoga frequentlly uses mantra taken from the language of Gurmukhi. As far as languages go, it is relatively new. It’s less than 500 years old.
The language was developed to be a very explicit phonetic language. By learning to pronounce Gurmukhi, individuals could not only learn to pronounce and read the chants written by Guru Nanak (the beginner of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus of the Sikhs).
They could also learn how to pronounce the mantras that Guru Nanak had preserved during his life from other sages and masters, even if those songs were in a completely different language.
The invention of this language was key to opening the doors of the Shabad Guru to all people. By learning this very simple, precise method of pronunciation, and by chanting the words of the sages, you start to induce in yourself the same state of higher consciousness that they were in when they sang the mantras.
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