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'''Sat Siri Akal''': Great True Undying
=='''Sat Siri Akal''': Great True Undying==


This is one title for God. This was used as a greeting as well as a war-cry. It was recognised that ones killed in battle (friend or foe) would meet the undying God.
This is one title for God. This was used as a greeting as well as a war-cry. It was recognised that ones killed in battle (friend or foe) would meet the undying God.
When two sikhs meets they says sat shri akaal by folding there hands
For, Sikhs, of course, the greeting of choice is "Sat Shri Akaal," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Sat shri akaal". Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.


[[category:Glossary of Sikh Terms]]
[[category:Glossary of Sikh Terms]]

Revision as of 12:10, 7 April 2007

Sat Siri Akal: Great True Undying

This is one title for God. This was used as a greeting as well as a war-cry. It was recognised that ones killed in battle (friend or foe) would meet the undying God.

When two sikhs meets they says sat shri akaal by folding there hands For, Sikhs, of course, the greeting of choice is "Sat Shri Akaal," the two hands pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed as one says, "Sat shri akaal". Thus it is both a spoken greeting and a gesture, a Mantr(a) and a Mudr(a). The prayerful hand position is a Mudr(a) called Anjali, from the root Anj, "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint." The hands held in union signify the oneness of an apparently dual cosmos, the bringing together of spirit and matter, or the self meeting the Self. It has been said that the right hand represents the higher nature or that which is divine in us, while the left hand represents the lower, worldly nature.