The Sr¿ Jap J¿ S¿hib is a prayer written by the first Sikh
Gur¿, Sr¿ Gur¿ N¿nak Dev J¿ and is the initial prayer
from the Sr¿ Gur¿ Granth S¿hib J¿. This prayer is uttered
as the initial prayer within the Sikh Nitnem which are
the daily prayers to be read. The Sr¿ Jap J¿ S¿hib within
is a prayer that takes around twenty minutes to recite
but its definitions seem to be endless. A lot of the
commentaries on this text vary in depth and can
sometimes be overbearing for the seeker.
This commentary is very different. It is a commentary
by the great Nirmal¿ scholar, Mahant Ganesh¿ Singh.
Unlike other Nirmal¿s his commentaries are pretty basic
but the essence of the definitions is not lost within the
simplicity. I wanted to provide both the original
commentary in Gurmukh¿ along with a translation of
the commentary. This is due to the fact that this
commentary has been out of print for a significant
amount of time and to those seekers of the original
commentary it is available again.
