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Summary of Question:	Meaning Of Dates In Raag Tilang P. 722-23
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Wednesday, 7/18/2001 3:23 PM MDT

WHAT DOES THESE LINES ACTUALLY MEAN. TAKEN FROM (Rag Tilang, pg. 722-723)

Coming in seventy-eight (1521 A.D.), they will depart in ninety-seven (1540 A.D.), and then another disciple of man will rise up. Nanak speaks the Word of Truth; he proclaims the Truth at this, the right time.

DOES IT HAVE DEEPER MEANING THEN MOGULS COMING AND GOING?

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Sat Siri Akaal Ji. Guruji often spoke in the idiom of his time. Here, the dates refer to something that is fixed, that is pre-ordained by God. Symbolically, Guru is reminding us that most of the time, we don't know what is to happen, though it is fixed and written on our forehead. Here he told us, but not to warn us specifically of the Moguls coming, but to indicate that whatever happens is the will or hukum of God. The rest of this shabd indicates that spirituality has to lead. That the coming of the new leader may have been embodied in a person, but WHAT that person embodied is True Spirituality of a Disciple (Chaylaa) who lives in the light of Shabd Guru; and that the true Gursikh follows the example of the Chaylaa.

Guru ang sang,
-DKK