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Bole So Nihal Sat Sri Aakal is the SikhJaikara it was given by the 10th guruGobind Singh. Bole so nihal is Sikh Anthem.
Bole So Nihal - meaning Whoever utters
shall be fulfilled. is part of the traditionalgreeting used by the followers of the Sikh
religion and a call to action or duty.
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Bole So Nihal...Sat Sri Akal is the Sikh
slogan or jaikara - literally shout of victory,triumph or exultation. It is divided in two
parts or phrases. The first, bole so nihal,is a statement meaning whoever utters -
the phrase following shall be happy,fulfilled, contended and blissful, and the
second part Sat Sri akal Eternal is the
Holy Timeless Lord beyond death thedeathless unborn, unmanifest thatpervades the entire cosmos.
Only the timeless is true everything else
is false. Timeless is deathless too. Andunless you have attained to the timeless or
deathless, you have been just collectingpebbles and seashells on the seashore. You
have been playing with toys and you havebeen childish.
Meditation is the door to timelessness.When thinking stops, and there is nothought moving on the screen of your
mind, suddenly the timelessness akaal is there. Because, with the disappearance
of thoughts time too disappears and thenthere is timelessness. Time cannot exist
without thoughts it needs thoughts to bethere. Once the screen is empty and your
mind projector is not working, even for a
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single moment you have entered into the
interval. In the pause between the twonotes, silence - the absolute silence, and
then you have the first taste of your being.
This slogan was first popularized by GuruGobind Singh, who said this when the
Mughals were ruling India. Their atrocities
were increasing. When the Mughalsresponded this became the jaikara.
Beside from being a popular mode ofexpressing ebullient religious fervor or the
expression of joy and celebration, anintegral part of Sikh worship and ritual and
is shouted at the end of ardas or prayerand said in sangat or holy congregation.
One of the Sikhs in the sangat, particularlythe one leading ardas, shouts the first
phrase, jo bole so nihal, in response towhich the entire congregation, including inmost cases the leading Sikh himself, utterin unison Sati Sri akal in a long-drawn
full-throated shout. The jaikara expressesthe Sikh belief that all victory belongs to
God, Waheguru, a belief that is alsoexpressed in the Sikh salutation Waheguru
ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh -Khalsa is of God and to God belongs the
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victory, or Hail the Gurus Khalsa! Hail the
Gurus victory!
Sat Sri Akal has been so used through the300 -year history of the Sikh people, since
the creation of the Khalsa. In a normalsituation, when two Sikhs meet they
exchange greetings by saying Sat Sri
Akal. Although it is now the customarySikh greeting, it does not have the sanctionof history or orthodoxy.
Wahiguru ji ka Khalsa Wahiguru ji ki
Fateh, the other salutation, is generallyused only by people meticulous in the
observance of proper form. Thoseaddressing a Sikh religious congregation
will, as a rule, greet the audience with thesalutation, Wahiguru ji ka Khalsa
Wahiguru ji ki Fateh.
Sat Sri Akal shouted in unison respondingto the call jo bole so nihal is a call to
action, or expression of ecstatic joy or aninvocation for Divine aid or support. While
sat or sati means true, good, abiding,real and eternal, Sri is an honorific
symbol of respect denoting beauty, glory,grace or majesty.
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Sati has the sanction of Guru Nanaks Mool
Mantra in the Japu where it appears, afterEk Onkar, as a constituent of Satinamu
(Reality Eternal). Akal also occurs in MulMantra in the phrase Akal Murath (Form
Eternal), descriptive of the Absolute.