These ten savaiyas were composed by Bhatt Kalya Ji, one of eleven poet-bards whose compositions are included in the Guru Granth Sahib.
Recorded in Cambridge, the dialogue features Harinder Singh in conversation with moderator Dr. Harpreet Singh, a scholar of Sikh textual traditions at Harvard University and a co-founder of the Sikh Coalition.
These ten savaiays were composed by Bhatt Kalya Ji, one of eleven poet-bards whose compositions are included in the Guru Granth Sahib. Recorded on pages 1389-1390, they begin with contemplation and praise of IkOankar (the Divine), the benevolent Giver...
In the second set of savaiays, Guru Arjan Sahib gently awakens us to a difficult truth: our own forgetfulness.
Savaiya is an ancient and significant poetic form in the Indic literary tradition. It can be composed in two styles: varnik (based on the number of letters) and matrik (based on the number of meters).
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