www.aykaa-mayee.org/ site for Sikhs is now available

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Dear All,

 

i have just finished uploading the http://www.aykaa-mayee.org/ site.

i am sure Sikhs will _slowly_ begin understanding the deep

metaphysical and esoteric gems of the Guru Granth Sahib.

 

The Indweller (Antharayamin) is the only Being worth considering and

realizing. Without question She is the Aykaa Mayee within all humans.

For more than five centuries Sikhs have made themselves blind, deaf

and mute to the Divine Feminine firmly entrenched in the Jap Ji

Sahib, the opening chapter of the voluminious Guru Granth Sahib. This

centuries-old collective amnesia celebrates the bankruptcy, as well

as success of the priestly caste i.e., bankruptcy of spiritual

guidance and success of avidya that pervades all religious

organizations.

 

Even university professor Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, in her book " The

feminine principle in the Sikh vision of the Transcendent " ,

completely missed the Aykaa Mayee of the Japji Sahib! Need i say more?

 

regards,

 

jagbir

 

 

 

 

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh was born in India, and went to Stuart Hall,

a Girls' Preparatory School in the USA. She received her BA in

Philosophy and Religion from Wellesley College, her MA from the

University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from Temple University. This

photograph with the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, and her

father (on her right) celebrates the launching of her first book on

Sikh aesthetics. The image was taken at the Rashtrapati Bhavan

(President's House), New Delhi, India.

 

She is the Crawford Family Professor at Colby College in Maine, USA.

Her interests focus on poetics and feminist issues. Nikky Singh has

published extensively in the field of Sikhism, including The Feminine

Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Name of My Beloved: Verses of

the Sikh Gurus (HarperCollins and Penguin), Metaphysics and Physics

of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sterling). Her book on Sikhism was

translated into Japanese. She has lectured widely in North America,

England, France, India, and Singapore, and her views have been aired

on television and radio in America, Canada, and India.

 

The feminine principle in the Sikh vision of the Transcendent. This

study explores the presence of the feminine in the Sikh conception

and perception of Transcendent Reality. Sikh scriptures, transitional

writing of the Sikhs, and their modern secular literature constitute

the sources for the investigation. Within these extensive parameters,

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh closely analyzes feminine imagery, tone,

and symbolism, and in so doing recovers a holistic pattern of

imagining and experiencing the sacred which can serve as a mode of

empowerment for women. The book is divided into eight chapters which

approach the Sikh vision of the Transcendent from historical,

scriptural, symbolic, mythological, romantic, existential, ethical,

and mystical perspectives. Each of these discloses the centrality of

the woman, and enables the author to reverse what she regards as the

one-sided androcentric hermeneutics which has prevailed in Sikh

scholarship. The author maintains that the Sikh Gurus and poets did

not want the feminine principle to serve just as a figure of speech

or literary device; it was rather intended to pervade the whole life

of the Sikhs. Her work bolsters the claim that literary symbols

should be translated into social and political realities, and gives

expression, too, to a powerful new voice in religious studies, whose

fresh treatment of a religious tradition that has been relatively

neglected in scholarly literature will give new direction and

authenticity to feminists worldwide.

 

http://www.colby.edu/directory_cs/nksingh/