Sukhmani Sahib
Also called the Psalm of Peace.
A long Sikh composition read for comfort in illness and grief, often in a completed reading.
Sukhmani Sahib is a long composition by Guru Arjan, made of twenty-four sections. Its name is usually rendered as the consoler of the mind, and it is the text Sikh families most often turn to when someone is ill or has died.
It is frequently read as a completed reading, sometimes by a group taking sections in turn, in a home or a gurdwara. Doing so is understood as an act done for the person it is read for.
Why the words are not here
As with the rest of the Sikh material, no translation exists that is both out of copyright and acceptable to the community.
Every text on this site names the edition it came from and was checked against it twice. A prayer nobody can cite an edition for does not get printed here, however well known it is. The verification record lists what was held back and why, and how rights are established explains the test.
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The moments this prayer is associated with. Each page carries cited guidance on how different traditions meet that moment.
Where it belongs
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