Preface

There is One Reality, the Unmanifest-Manifested; Ever-Existent, He is Naam (Conscious Spirit), the Creator; pervading all; without fear; without enmity; the Timeless; the Unborn and the Self-existent; complete within Itself. Through the favour of His True Servant, the Guru, He may be realised. He was when there was nothing. He was before all ages began; He existeth now, oh Nanak, and shall exist forevermore.

Guru Nanak, by means of a prologue, attempts a definition of the nature of the Almighty, indefinable as He is; referring to His timelessness, His primacy, His being the Uncaused First Cause of everything; and goes on to hint about the means by which He may be reached. The prologue is concerned with the nature of God and hints at the means to salvation. 

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Source: ‘The Jap Ji – Prologue’, edited by Kirpal Singh (1894–1974).