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<p>added <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Reading_of_religious_texts&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Reading of religious texts (page does not exist)">Category:Reading of religious texts</a> using <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:HC" class="extiw" title="wp:HC">HotCat</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Sikh practices}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Paath&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;Path&#039;&#039;&#039;, from the [[Sanskrit]] patha which means reading or recitation, is, in the religious context, reading or recitation of the holy texts. In [[Sikhism]], it implies daily repetition of scriptural texts from the [[Guru Granth Sahib]].<br /> <br /> ==Background==<br /> Paath is the recitation of [[Gurbani]]. It can also be called prayers of some instances. It may be done individually or in a group; it can be the recitation of one’s [[Banis]] or any part of the [[Guru Granth Sahib|Siri Guru Granth Sahib]], alone or with others listening or reciting along. The person reciting Gurbani should pronounce every syllable correctly so that the Naad, the sound current may be produced and affect the consciousness of the one reciting and the one listening.<br /> <br /> Gurbani may be recited in the Sadh Sangat at any time, whether or not one is in the presence of Siri Guru Granth Sahib. A beautiful form of recitation in a group is to divide into groups of men and women with each reciting an alternate sutra. (A sutra is a complete line of poetry.) In the Gurmukhi each sutra is separated by two vertical lines (//). Gurbani should be recited rhythmically and meditatively.<br /> <br /> ==Sikh’s daily religious regimen==<br /> <br /> Reading of certain banis is part of a [[Sikh]]’s [[nitnem]] or daily religious regimen. Paath of these prescribed texts is performed from a handy collection, called gutka (missal or breviary) or from memory. Three of the banis, [[Guru Nanak]]’s [[Japji]] and [[Guru Gobind Singh]]’s [[Jaap Sahib]] and [[Amrit Savaiye]] — constitute the [[Sikh]]s mandatory morning paath or devotions, and two — [[Rehras]] and [[Kirtan Sohila]] — evening paath. Individuals add certain other texts as well such as [[Sabad patshahi 10]], [[Anand Sahib]] and [[Sukhmani]]. <br /> <br /> The paath is also performed individually and more particularly in [[Sangat (term)|sangat]] from the [[Guru Granth Sahib]] itself. The Holy Volume is ceremonially installed under coverlets on a decorated seat resting on a raised platform, with a canopy above, and is opened by the paathi or reader who sits reverentially behind. Usually, another person stands in attendance, waving the [[fly-whisk]] over the Holy Book. The paathi should have bathed and be dressed in clean clothes. Besides the reading of one single hymn to obtain vak or [[hukamnama]] (lesson or command for the day) or of some passages, three forms of complete paath of the [[Guru Granth Sahib]] are current: [[Akhand Path|Akhand Paath]] (unbroken recitation completed in forty-eight hours), Saptahik (completed in a week) and Sadharan or Sahij (taken in slow parts with no time-limit for completion). Ati Akhand Paath, hardly ever practised, is when a single participant reads within the prescribed 48 hours the entire text.<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> *{{cite book|last1=Cole|first1=William Owen|last2=Sambhi|first2=Piara Singh|title=The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices|date=1978|publisher=Routledge &amp; Kegan Paul|isbn=9780710088420|url=https://archive.org/details/sikhs00cole|url-access=registration|language=en}}<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> {{commons|Amritsar}}<br /> *[http://www.amritsar.org/ Amritsar Paath]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Sikh terminology]]<br /> [[Category:Sikh scripture]]<br /> [[Category:Reading of religious texts]]</div>

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