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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.

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