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    Bole So Nihal is the Sikh slogan or battle cry given by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. It means "whoever utters shall be fulfilled" and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting. The phrase is divided into two parts - "Bole So Nihal" meaning whoever says this will be happy, and "Sat Sri Akal" meaning eternal is the timeless holy lord. The slogan was popularized by Guru Gobind Singh during Mughal rule in India to express religious fervor or celebration. When called out, Sikhs respond in unison as an expression of faith that all victory belongs to God.

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    Bole So Nihal is the Sikh slogan or battle cry given by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. It means "whoever utters shall be fulfilled" and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting. The phrase is divided into two parts - "Bole So Nihal" meaning whoever says this will be happy, and "Sat Sri Akal" meaning eternal is the timeless holy lord. The slogan was popularized by Guru Gobind Singh during Mughal rule in India to express religious fervor or celebration. When called out, Sikhs respond in unison as an expression of faith that all victory belongs to God.

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    Bole So Nihal is the Sikh slogan or battle cry given by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. It means "whoever utters shall be fulfilled" and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting. The phrase is divided into two parts - "Bole So Nihal" meaning whoever says this will be happy, and "Sat Sri Akal" meaning eternal is the timeless holy lord. The slogan was popularized by Guru Gobind Singh during Mughal rule in India to express religious fervor or celebration. When called out, Sikhs respond in unison as an expression of faith that all victory belongs to God.

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    Bole So Nihal is the Sikh slogan or battle cry given by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh. It means "whoever utters shall be fulfilled" and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting. The phrase is divided into two parts - "Bole So Nihal" meaning whoever says this will be happy, and "Sat Sri Akal" meaning eternal is the timeless holy lord. The slogan was popularized by Guru Gobind Singh during Mughal rule in India to express religious fervor or celebration. When called out, Sikhs respond in unison as an expression of faith that all victory belongs to God.

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    The passage discusses the meaning and significance of the Sikh slogan Bole So Nihal and its components Sat Sri Akal. It explains that Bole So Nihal means 'whoever utters shall be fulfilled' and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting. Sat Sri Akal translates to 'Eternal is the Holy Timeless Lord' and refers to God or Waheguru. The slogan is shouted during prayers (ardas) in Sikh congregations.

    Bole So Nihal means 'whoever utters shall be fulfilled' and is a call to action or duty for Sikhs. It originated from the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, and is part of the traditional Sikh greeting.

    Sat Sri Akal refers to God or Waheguru and translates to 'Eternal is the Holy Timeless Lord'. It is one of the components of the Sikh slogan Bole So Nihal and occurs in the opening prayer (Mool Mantra) of Sikhism.

    Bole so Nihal

    Bole So Nihal Sat Sri Aakal is the Sikh Jaikara it was given by the 10th guru Gobind Singh. Bole so nihal is Sikh Anthem. Bole So Nihal - meaning Whoever utters shall be fulfilled. is part of the traditional greeting used by the followers of the Sikh religion and a call to action or duty.
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    Bole so Nihal Bole So Nihal...Sat Sri Akal is the Sikh slogan or jaikara - literally shout of victory, triumph or exultation. It is divided in two parts or phrases. The first, bole so nihal, is a statement meaning whoever utters the phrase following shall be happy, fulfilled, contended and blissful, and the second part Sat Sri akal Eternal is the Holy Timeless Lord beyond death the deathless unborn, unmanifest that pervades the entire cosmos. Only the timeless is true everything else is false. Timeless is deathless too. And unless you have attained to the timeless or deathless, you have been just collecting pebbles and seashells on the seashore. You have been playing with toys and you have been childish. Meditation is the door to timelessness. When thinking stops, and there is no thought moving on the screen of your mind, suddenly the timelessness akaal is there. Because, with the disappearance of thoughts time too disappears and then there is timelessness. Time cannot exist without thoughts it needs thoughts to be there. Once the screen is empty and your mind projector is not working, even for a
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    Bole so Nihal single moment you have entered into the interval. In the pause between the two notes, silence - the absolute silence, and then you have the first taste of your being. This slogan was first popularized by Guru Gobind Singh, who said this when the Mughals were ruling India. Their atrocities were increasing. When the Mughals responded this became the jaikara. Beside from being a popular mode of expressing ebullient religious fervor or the expression of joy and celebration, an integral part of Sikh worship and ritual and is shouted at the end of ardas or prayer and said in sangat or holy congregation. One of the Sikhs in the sangat, particularly the one leading ardas, shouts the first phrase, jo bole so nihal, in response to which the entire congregation, including in most cases the leading Sikh himself, utter in unison Sati Sri akal in a long-drawn full-throated shout. The jaikara expresses the Sikh belief that all victory belongs to God, Waheguru, a belief that is also expressed in the Sikh salutation Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh Khalsa is of God and to God belongs the
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    Bole so Nihal victory, or Hail the Gurus Khalsa! Hail the Gurus victory! Sat Sri Akal has been so used through the 300 -year history of the Sikh people, since the creation of the Khalsa. In a normal situation, when two Sikhs meet they exchange greetings by saying Sat Sri Akal. Although it is now the customary Sikh greeting, it does not have the sanction of history or orthodoxy. Wahiguru ji ka Khalsa Wahiguru ji ki Fateh, the other salutation, is generally used only by people meticulous in the observance of proper form. Those addressing a Sikh religious congregation will, as a rule, greet the audience with the salutation, Wahiguru ji ka Khalsa Wahiguru ji ki Fateh. Sat Sri Akal shouted in unison responding to the call jo bole so nihal is a call to action, or expression of ecstatic joy or an invocation for Divine aid or support. While sat or sati means true, good, abiding, real and eternal, Sri is an honorific symbol of respect denoting beauty, glory, grace or majesty.
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    Bole so Nihal Sati has the sanction of Guru Nanaks Mool Mantra in the Japu where it appears, after Ek Onkar, as a constituent of Satinamu (Reality Eternal). Akal also occurs in Mul Mantra in the phrase Akal Murath (Form Eternal), descriptive of the Absolute.

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