Sacred Text · The Guru Granth Sahib
By hearing the Name
Japji Sahib · Guru Nanak
Translation: Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume I (Oxford University Press, 1909), public domain (author died 1913), via the Internet Archive. We use Macauliffe rather than the modern Sant Singh Khalsa translation, whose redistribution licensing is not clearly established. Ang (page) numbers cite the fixed standard pagination of the printed Sri Guru Granth Sahib; a few well-known lines from Guru Nanak’s hymns are cited to Macauliffe’s volume rather than to a specific Ang. Obvious scanning artefacts were corrected against Macauliffe’s printed wording; passages are reproduced in context.
How this connects to Jesus
The Japji sings of the Naam, the Name of God: to hear it is to receive truth, contentment, and the end of sorrow and sin. Christianity treasures the Name and the Word too. The Gospel of John calls Jesus the Word who was with God and was God (John 1:1), and Scripture says there is salvation in no other name under heaven (Acts 4:12). Where the Japji bids us hear the Name, the Gospel says the Word took on a face in Jesus.
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