Charitar

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Charitar ਚਰਿਤ੝ਰ s  is a Punjabi words which means "miracle", "wonder", "trick", "charm", "play", "fun" or "show".

Charitar also means Function or Characterstics or Significance. This word is used in the Dasam Granth for the bani called Charitropakhyan which is a collection of over 400 tales of trickery, deception and play of mainly women but also a few men for wrongful purposes.

This Bani is based on the conversation between a wise adviser (minister or "manteree" ਮੰਤ੝ਰੀ s ) to Raja (king) Chitar Singh; the conversation is told by the minister in order to save his handsome son Hanuvant from the false accusations of one of the younger ranis (queens).

The minister tries to explain to the Raja that there is trickery in human behaviour and that one needs to analyse the situation carefully before drawing any conclusion.

Guru Gobind Singh gave these opakhyan (already told) stories to Sikhs as a guide to upholding morality; each tale has a moral principle behind it.

Gurmukhs claim their are two types of people Gurmukh(i)(Sabudhi) and Manmukh(i)(Kubudhi). Gurmukhi are one who have Gurmatt(The Mind of Wisdom) but Manmukh(i) are those which have mind of ignorance and that ignorance does not contain fear of god. We can categorize charitar are of Two Types:
1) Shudh Charitar
2) Ashudh Charitar

1) Shudh Charitar: Shudh Charitar contains the light of Gurmat. These types of charitars are also called Gurmat Charitar or Charitar of Gurmat. There are few Charitars in Charitropakhyan which can be categorize at Shudh Charitar, which are played to finish the evils or bring wrong people on way, in limit of Gurmat. In Shudh charitar, everyone is benefited, including one's own spirit, who played that but if we go opposite to Gurmat then such charitar will become our second category.

2) Ashudh Charitar: Ashudh Charitars are those which are played for their own benifit. These are Anti Gurmat Charitar or simply we can say Charitar of Manmatt. The shudh Charitar spoils one's body and mind and one who does not have light of Gurmat get spoiled by these worldly issues. Charitropakhyan have many Ashudh Charitars, which only Gurmukh can understand.

Charitropakhyan means

1) Opakhyan means already told, Charitar means Functions or characters, which means Charitars which are already told

2) Pakhyan also means to get understand and realize, Charitars are characters which means Characters which are realized before written i.e GUru Gobind SIngh have understand the gurmat aspect then give these to sikhs to read.