Chapter 1

Manglacharan

Before beginning the magnificent compilation of Nanak Prakash, Kavi Santokh Singh Ji evokes the divine energies which become manifest within the mind of a poet to bolster writing and creative potency - a remembrance adhered to by all scholars and poets of traditional Indian literature.

Kavi Ji calls attention to the Creator who is realized through the Eternal Guru: the being that illuminates knowledge within the darkness of ego and ignorance. And that all victory and success attained by this text be in their name. In continuing with customs, Kavi Ji then looks to call upon the powers which reside in knowledge and grammar to ask for assistance for what would inevitably be a 22 volume text.

Each Guru from Guru Nanak Dev Ji to Guru Gobindh Singh Ji are then beautifully remembered in all their glory in verses that would be remembered by Sikhs and scholars alike for centuries to come when evoking the same poetic love. Kavi Ji then humbly pays reverence to their own Vidhiya Guru, Giani Sant Singh Ji, who they studied under the tutelage of for many years at Amritsar Sahib. In ending, Kavi Ji reminds the reader of the utmost significance of this text and the focal point of a Sikhs life: Vaheguru - the mantra meant to carry those who hold it dear across the treacherous ocean-like world which drowns and torments humans through its waves of lust, desire, anger, greed, attachment, and ego.

Kavi Ji reminds the reader that every breath gone without this mantra should be seen as wasted and further explains the origins of this mantra and the powers that lie beyond it.