Sukhmani Sahib

Sukhmani, titled Gauri Sukhmani in the Guru Granth Sahib after the musical measure Gauri to which it belongs, is a lengthy composition by Guru Arjan Dev Ji composed around AD 1602-03 on the bank of Ramsar pool in the city of Amritsar.Sukhmani Sahib is a theological statement of the major tenets of Sikhism expressed in devotional poetic form. Recited by the Sikhs as a part of morning prayer, it is one of the easier texts in the Guru Granth Sahib. It is simple in syntax and structure, through its essential meaning will elude one not attuned to the spiritual experience and the idiom and phraseology of gurbani.