“Ek Onkar Satnam Karta Purakh Nirbhau Nirvair, Akalmurat Ajuni Saibhang Gur Parsad aadi sach, jugadi sach, nanak hosi bhi sach”

(Translated into English, this means: The One Supreme Being; Eternal Holy Reality; The Creator; Without Fear; Without Rancour; Timeless Form; Unborn; Self-Existent; Realized through Divine Grace).

The Sikh prayer if interpreted scientifically describes all about Vedic Principles.

As per Veda there are three philosophies to describe the GOD and they are Dwait, Adwait and Modified Dualism. Dwait philosophy considers spirit and soul as separate entities; adwait as one and modified dualism says that soul is a component of spirit.

In the Sikh prayer Nanak takes the path of adwait and starts the prayer with the word “ek onkar” meaning that God is one.

Next two words talks about two paths of how to acquire God and they are “satnam” and “karta purakh”. This describes the qualities of God as truthfulness and selfless service. It teaches us that to acquire godhood or to be in touch with GOD one need to choose the path of truthfulness and selfless service without expectations of the results. While the first path is emphasized in all Vedic texts in phrases like satya chitta ananda; Satyameva Jayate; satyam shivam sundaram; the second path of selfless service is dealt in great detail in Bhagwad Gita as the main path towards acquiring spiritual health.

The next three prayer words describe the benefits of being in touch with divine consciousness as Nirbhau, Nirvair. After acquiring spiritual health one becomes fearless, without enemies, loved by everybody, starts treating everyone with equality, gets tranquility of mind, starts seeing God in everybody and treats everybody equally irrespective of caste, creed, religion and status.

Nirbhau means without fear, nirvair means one who has no enemy.

The next two words talks about the nature and qualities of the soul and they are Akalmurat and Ajuni Saibhang.

Akalmurat means timeless form. It talks that it’s the same soul which dwells in everybody. The soul has no shape, size, weight, height and is timeless. This description of soul is also there in Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita where Lord Krishna says that soul is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Fire cannot burn it, air cannot dry it, weapons cannot cut it or water cannot wet it. It is ever present and immortal. The next word describes about Ajuni Saibhang which again talks about immortality of the soul. It means that the soul is never born nor it can ever die and is self existent (saibhang). 

Timeless also means that once one acquires spiritual health he starts living in the present and forgets about the time.  Self existent means that he acquires the powers of effortless thoughts and creativity. One becomes self sufficient.

All Veda were written by sages with spiritual powers by way of acquiring original knowledge called Shruti during meditation of present moment awareness.

It emphasizes that once one acquire Godhood through truthfulness and selfless service, it gives one a personality of sainthood with all the characteristics of the soul.

The next two words are Gur Parsad japa; means that the above teachings should be adopted as the Prasadam of a Guru and should be adopted in life on an ongoing basis and repeatedly like a japa. Truthfulness and selfless services has to be adopted as a part and parcel of life.

Adi sach jugadi sach teaches us that this sutra teaching or law of God was applicable before, is applicable now and will be applicable even tomorrow. Because Nanak hosi bhe sach i.e. Nanak cannot speak a lie. As Nanak is none other but a pure Vedic Shruti or original knowledge. This is the rule of the thumb and works like pather ki lakeer.

Others describe the prayer, that the GOD is one, it is eternal, creator; without fear; without rancour; timeless form; unborn; self-existent and can be realized through divine grace. This interpretation does not talk about the paths of acquiring divine hood.