ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>V&#256HIGUR&#362 SHABD&#256RTH &#7788&#298K&#256 </TITLE> <style type="text/css"> .BODY { background-color: #EAF1F7; background-image: url('images/gtbh.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; background-position: center; color: #0066CC;} .C1{text-align: justify;color: #0066CC;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .BIB{text-align: center;color: #000099;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} .CONT{text-align: right;color: #FF0000;FONT-size: SMALL;FONT-family: Tahoma;} </style><META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD> <BODY class="BODY" oncontextmenu="return false" ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"> <FONT ALIGN="JUSTIFY" FACE="Tahoma"> <p class="C1">&#65279<i>V&#256HIGUR&#362 SHABD&#256RTH &#7788&#298K&#256</i> (V&#257higur&#363= Sikh term for God ; <i>&#346abd&#257rth=&#347abda</i> or word+<i>arth</i> or meaning), by Pa&#7751&#7693it T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh Narotam, is a small tract which traces the origin of the word <i>V&#257higur&#363</i>, its meanings and its usage in Sikh scriptures. The tract has been published as part of the author's <i>Gurmat Nir&#7751aya S&#257gar</i>: Its opening part deals with the importance of the term <i>v&#257higur&#363</i> in the Sikh tradition and then proceeds on to trace its origin giving seventeen different forms of the word. First of all, he quotes the views of Bh&#257&#299 Gurd&#257s according to whom <i>v&#257higur&#363</i> is a combination of the initials of V&#257sudev&#257, Har&#299, Gobind and R&#257m ---all four being different names of the Supreme Lord. Then T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh discusses all those forms and meanings of the term, which had come into use by his time. To interpret the term, he follows two methods : one is to break the word into maximum possible parts and then to interpret each part, and the second is to expound its meaning and usage in the context of grammar. The tract concludes with T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh's view that God is, in all the traditions followed by theists, One; only the names differ. He argues that Durg&#257 in Gur&#363 Gobind Si&#7749gh's verses is not the goddess, but the Supreme Being who is the creator of Durg&#257 the goddess and the gods such as &#346iva and Vi&#7779&#7751u.</p> </font> <p class="BIB"> BIBLIOGRAPHY<p class="C1"><ol class="C1">T&#257r&#257 Si&#7749gh, Narotam, <i>Gurmat Nir&#7751aya S&#257gar</i>. Rawalpi&#7751&#7693i, n.d<BR> </ol><p class="CONT">Dharam Si&#7749gh<br></p><BR> </font> <img src="counter.aspx" width="1px" height="1px" alt=""> </HTML></BODY>