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BEGINNER’S NAM-JAP
RECITATIONAL MEDITATION
BeginersNJap.doc, MS Window 95, MS Word 97, Font size 10 points.‘Contents’ as per 65 Pages on GSK Computer. Tuesday 15
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Septembr 1998.
BEGINNER’S NAM-JAP
This book is an abbreviation of “Remembering God, which is an Englishversion of “Way of the Saffron Cloud” and is the
practical help-book
(Guide)
for recitation (Recitational Meditation: fixing the mind on Recitation) of theName of God, particularly in the Sikh-Way. Main purpose of this book is totrain the aspirant to apply his-her mind independently, to focus it on the Lord.
INFORMATIONRights of this Book.
All rights are reserved by the author
Dr. Kulwant SinghKhokhar, 12502 Nightingale Drive, Chester, Virginia 23836, USA.
Published
in 1998,
Printed by –
Repetitions.
Repetitions are there and these are meant to provide clarificationat the spot. These save time and help to fix things in the mind.
Conventions -Foreign Words,
not belonging to the English language have been given with acapital letter and not as a lower box letter in Italics which is a standardconvention.
Spellings,
of any non-English words may vary without changing theirmeanings, expression or sense.
Translation of the Hymns.
It is by the author and is given in bold Italics Whentyping, if the translation of a single line of the original verse has extended, itssecond line has been started with a lower box character. If it is a couplet, boththe lines of the translation commence with the upper box characters.
He or she.
He or she, has mostly been given as he-she.
Gender.
The book is gender-neutral, but for both He and She, a single word Hemight have been used.
Ji.
In the Indian culture, Ji is used to show respect and this word hasoccasionally been retained.
CONTENTS.
Some topics have expressly been included to reply everydayquestions and to provide clarifications especially to the youth in the West.
SUGGESTED READING. ‘
Beginner’s Nam-Jap’ is the starting book forRecitation of the Name of God (Naam-Jaap). After this read an advanced book ‘Way of the Saffron Cloud,” that has original quotations in Gurmukhi scriptalso, but if you know only English, then read ‘Remembering God.’
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