Guru Nanak Dev Ji met Jinda Mahatma Kabir Ji Evidence in Bhai Bale Wali – JANAM SAKHI – Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Topic: Swaal Kaji Rukndin Soora – ਸੁਆਲ. Bhai Bala (Punjabi: ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ –), born in Talvandi Rai Bhoi was a supposed childhood friend and lifelong companion of Bhai Mardana and Guru Nanak. According to the Bhai Bala Janam Sakhi’s, he travelled with Guru Nanak and the Sikh salutation ‘Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh’ is used in the Bala Janamsakhi, . BALA JANAM SAKHI. The Janam Sakhis of the Bala tradition owe both their name and their reputation to Bhai Bala, a SandhuJa^ from Guru Nanak`s village.
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His father-in-law curses his fate to have a son-in-law like Guru Nanak. Bhai Gurdas and the early Sikh literature.
The second theory takes account of Janam Sakhi as a typical seventeenth century product, a composite work incorporating the results of a lengthy period of oral growth and transmission. An edition lithographed by Hafiz Qutab Din of Lahore in generally follows the earlier of the manuscript versions.
It may be safely affirmed that no person of this name could have been the constant companion of Guru Nanak as none of the other early traditions refer to him. Retrieved from ” https: Such an interpretation is rendered insupportable by the inconsistencies and fantasies which it provides in abundance.
Bala Sandhu may well have been a real person. The reasons for this are:. Bhai Gurdaswho has listed all Guru Nanak’s prominent disciples in his 11th Vardoes not mention the name of Bhai Bala this may be an oversight, for he does not mention Rai Bular either.
The Puratan uses the older forms of the adverbs of time and place, whereas the Bala employs the modern forms of the same adverbs. In general idiom, too, the language of the Puratan Janam Sakhi is certainly older than the language of Bala Janam Sakhi.
There are a number of other anomalies, which Dr. He supposedly died in Khadur Sahib, in his late 70s, in All About Sikhs AllAboutSikhs is a comprehensive web site on sikhism, sikh history and philosophy, customs and rituals,sikh way of life, social and religious movements, art and architecture, sikh scriptures,sikh gurudwaras. Amongst the numerous extant manuscripts of this tradition, two principal recensions are to be found.
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Four editions have appeared since the printing press was first used for Janam Sakhis in For more than a hundred years, from the late eighteenth until the early twentieth century, this claim was scarcely challenged.
World Gurudwaras will strive to be most comprehensive directory of Historical Gurudwaras and Non Historical Gurudwaras around the world. The first theory does, however, affirm a modified version of the Bala claim. Search Gurbani SearchGurbani brings to you a unique and comprehensive approach to explore and experience the word of God. Also in the Bhai Bala Janamsakhi uanam several language inconsistencies.
World Gurudwaras World Gurudwaras will strive to be most comprehensive directory of Historical Gurudwaras and Non Historical Gurudwaras around the world. More in this category: Thereafter, all Sikh places of worship came to be known as gurdwaras. The oldest of the extant Ba7a manuscripts is the earliest of all Janam Sakhi manuscripts of whatever tradition. The recording of his narrative took two months and seventeen days to complete. Retrieved 8 September Hindal interest of some kind is plainly evident in all early manuscripts of the Bala tradition.
His father, Kalu, for instance, is a cruel man; he is greedy and ill spoken; he blames Mardana for spoiling his son; and Guru Nanak is rather chary of meeting him. Its actual composition may have been the work of the Hindalis; or a seventeenth century text may have been interpolated by them in the manner suggested by Santokh Singh.
Professor Surjit Hans also notes that the only role of Bhai Bala was to denigrate the name of Nanak and that Guru Nanak prophesizes about a greater bhagat Hundal to come:.
Although the second of the theories outlined above reduces the Bala tradition to the level of other early Janam Sakhis it does nothing to minimize the importance of the tradition in later Sikh history.
There has been considerable discussion as regards to Bhai Bala’s existence, particularly within the Sikh academic field. Auxiliary verb which is conspicuous by its absence in the Guru Granth Sahib and has very low frequency in Puratan, appears in Bala on the pattern of modern Punjabi.
Bhai Bale Wali Janam Sakhi
This page was last edited on 3 December jabam, at The Bala tradition differs in its wealth of fantasy and in its attempt to establish authenticity by the contrived introduction of an eyewitness narrator. Guru Angad commanded that it be written. Within the earliest text there are to be found references which are plainly traceable to the seventeenth century Hindali sect.
A version of this theory is still current.
The first clue to grasping the true character of the Bala Janamsakhi is the fact that the persons related most closely to Guru Nanak are presented in uncomplimentary light. His mother-in-law is quarrelsome and hardhearted. It would, however, be going too far to deny his sskhi entirely. He had come in search of Guru Angad.
The earliest extant version opens as follows: Based on the belief in One God, the Sikh religion recognizes the equality of all human beings, and is marked by rejection of idolatry, ritualism, caste and asceticism. Caseinflexions were a characteristic of the old language, which have been gradually giving way to the postpositions. The profuse legendary material is, it affirms, the zakhi of interpolation. Views Read Edit View history.
To this day popular portraits of the Guru, flanked by Ghai the minstrel and Bala the attendant, testify to a continuing acceptance of its claims.