Arjan Dev Ji conceived the idea of enshrining song as the Deity of the new Sikh Temple commenced by Guru Ramdas Ji and completed by Arjan Dev Ji. Accordingly, the Guru collected the hymns composed by his four inspired forerunners, and composed many more of his own. He called the collection, "Word of the Master" -later Guru Granth -and placed it in the Hari Mandir as the book of the people. He used to chant the life Mantrans everyday, morn and eve, with his heavenly voice, and the disciples gathering and listening to his divine songs, in wonder and enchantment. Lovely music flowed from under the dome of harimandir and was absorbed by its walls and the waters of the surrounding lake. To our own time, it echoes and re echoes in that sacred place.

THE FIFTH MASTER GURU ARJAN DEV JI

TARAN TAARAN

Arjan Dev Ji built another great temple some twelve miles away from amritsar, and called it taran taaran. The soil and climate of this place also are so blessed that it has a healing effect on bodily sufferers. Taran Taaran is a name which meansthe temple "whence people swim across the Sea of Ignorance to save many a drowning soul".
The colony at Amritsar grew everyday, and became the Sikh centre of spiritual humanity. Akbar had already ordered a large plot around the colony to be made revenue-free. The temple attracted the thinkers of that day; there, mystics like Mian Mir, the unknown spiritual ancestors of Inayat Shah and many others met with the greatest of all, Guru Arjan Dev Ji. A close study of that literature created by the Muslim saints was that they began to sing in Punjabi, a practice due to Guru's influence alone. With him began a general renascence, in which the greatest share was taken by Muslim thinkers- so much so that we find Shah Hussain singing his own version of Guru Granth Sahib Ji, and the temptestuous song of Bulleh Shah ringing with the music of joy of Harimandir. But, behind trhis literary awakening there was a still deeper awakening of the divine idea in the life of the punjab, as distinguished from the mere academic intellectual assent to Truth.

THE SIKH EPOCH

The Sikh was the creation of the mind of the sacred ,Masters; he was wholly new consequently he was bound to leaven the Muslims and Hindu civilisation that lay in ruins before him. He stamped the mind of the age with his image.

Guru Arjan Dev Ji, prophet, poet, composer of music, passionate lover of the people, architect, saviour, was intensely human. He was a loving husband and an affectionate father. Mata Ganga once in his presence expressed a wish that her son should hasten to her from heaven, he having already been so long a time upon the way.

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