The word sukhmani is rendered into English as “consoler of the mind. This sloka was thereupon repeated by Guru Arjan at the head of the seventeenth astpadi.
To eternity shall He the Reality abide (GG, 2H5). The Guru who had by that time completed sixteen astpadis, or cantos, requested him to continue the composition.īaba Sri Chand, out of humility, only recited the sloka of Guru Nanak following the Mul Mantra in the Japn”adi sa.chujuga.di sachu hai bhi sachu Nanak liosi bhi sachu” In the beginning, in the primal time was He the Eternal Reality in the present is He the Eternal Reality. It is said that Baba Sri Chand, elder son of Guru Nanak and founder of the Udasi order, came to Amritsar to meet Guru Arjan, then engaged in composing the poem. The site, once enclosed by a dense wood, where it was composed around AD 160203, is still marked on the bank of the Ramsar pool in the city of Amritsar. SUKHMANI, titled Gauri Sukhmani in the Guru Granth Sahib after the musical measure Gauri to which it belongs, is a lengthy composition by Guru Arjan which many include in their daily regimen of prayers.
