Bøger af Puran Singh

The Book of the Ten Masters is the record of the teachers of the Sikhs. The history of human civilization took a new turn when the Sikh Gurus appeared on the scene of Medieval India. The Sikh movement served as a light-house for the people groping in the dark. They were then changed men and elevated to the stage of the ideal man i.e. Gurmukh.

At His Feet by Puran Singh first published in 1922.They ask me to say something about Guru Gobind Singh; they ask me what is He to me? I tremble when they ask me, what is He to me ?Unable to say anything in reply, I burst forth into child like cries of both joy and pain, and I faint away, knowing not what is He to me !Only I say Guru Glorious, Guru Glorious, Guru Glorious, and I am consoled. I slumber in His Lap soothed by the lullabies of my own sound, knowing not what is He to me !

Nargas: Songs of a Sikh (Translations of Bhai Vir Singh's poems) first published in 1924.Nargas is a book of Sikh poems, which in its original garb has won the hearts of its Indian readers by its imagination, spiritual beauty and natural charm. Its writer, we are told, is "the representative poet of the old order of the Sikh poets, who gathered round the throne of their beloved Master, Guru Nanak, in wonder and worship." One is almost afraid to repeat in plain English the glowing words which his own people use in speaking of him.

An Afternoon with Self by Puran Singh first published in 1922.This little pamphlet contains the snatches of an open air, extempore address by Mr. Puran Singh on the occasion of the Old Boys' Annual Social Gathering of the Victoria College, Gwalior, held on 12th November, 1922.The notes were put together from memory by the speaker, at our special request. Forming as they do, a song of joy in themselves, we desire that they may be heard even at distances.

Seven Baskets of Prose Poems by Puran Singh first published in 1928. Puran Singh's heart leaps forth towards a mighty realization, not so much a revolutionary one as an almost fierce grasp of evolutionary truths having their pregnancy in Nature. His child of beauty is not yet born, but it is very near delivery. "The grain of pang for beauty rises out of me, spreads its hands to clutch at the myriad beauty for a cure, it wishes to elope with buxom wind; to mount to the stars to follow a man; and to be the self-intoxicated lover of everything." These seven Baskets of poems covers most spiritual contents in prose poem format.

On Paths of Life (An Autobiography) by Puran Singh first published in 1927. Thus this book is an attempt to relive back in the infancy, in dreams of youth and forget the calculations and plans of an experienced and tired intellect. The joys of life are the only realities. And the opening of a bud, in the garden, the blossoming of youth are soul absorbing topics for ever and for all-both for the dead and the living. Remembrance is life and the gathering of roses and men and stars in the basket of the mind its most glorious task.

Unstrung Beads by Puran Singh first published in 1923. This is the second book in which Puran Singh has distilled his Indian essences for the English reader. It is natural to use something of his own figurative mode in considering his apothegms and poems, and to use that reference in parti¬cular, because of his other work as an analytical chemist. For his writings often suggest the imagination of one who has carried over into the spiritual region his investigation of the physical properties of the kindred elements, - earth, air, fire and water. Yet his purpose in his poetry, however trained upon concrete instances, is far from analytical. He takes a flower, a flame, a water-drop; but not to break its atoms. Rather he seeks to recreate it by the subtle alchemy of the imagination.

These are the lecture notes for addresses I proposed to deliver to the Sikh youth of the Punjab. But as I am placed in the desert away from the towns where they gather, I let these go undelivered. And also because the Sikh youth are running in haste after shadows, turning their backs on the Sun of Suns, the Guru. This world of the Guru, the Beautiful, is different and their world how different; so to them the values of fiction and fact have been hopelessly interchanged. Still, I hope these addresses will reach them by and by. And the Sikh youth is everywhere, the youth that has the disciple-consciousness, aspiring to love, the Beautiful, which alone is truly good, truly noble, and truly divine. The form Beautiful appearing once rarely in ages, and fascinating the disciple-consciousness and vanishing in the eternal background of the spiritual inner Infinite, is the Guru Beautiful, the Bridegroom; the disciple-consciousness thenceforward restless without that presence or the sense of that presence is The Spirit Born People, -or The Brides

The Bride of the Sky, a poetic play written in 1924, has remained unpublished to this day. It is a remarkable piece of literature of its kind, that is, idealistic-romantic. A nymph of the sky falling in love with a man of the earth affords a theme which has captivated the minds of men in all ages and climes. Venus and Adonis, in the West, and Urvashi and Pururvasa, in India, have given to world literature poetry and drama of the noblest stature. In this poetic play the characters have not been given any names (except the nymph in the second half), on which technical point Puran Singh may be said to have anticipated a modernist tendency. But, as he claims, the characters have persistent individualities which serve for names equally well. The story is simple but has vast dimensions, like a geometric or cubist drawing. A nymph is flying about in the earthly air when a young man sees her. He instantly falls in love with her. The nymph responds to his love, comes down to the earth and stays with him for a day and a moonlit night, and then flies back to heaven.