Puran Singh: 7 books

Bride of the Sky by Puran Singh The Bride of the Sky, a poetic play written in 1924, has remained unpublished to this day. It is a remarkable piece of literature of its kind, that is, idealistic-romantic. A nymph of the sky falling in love with a man of the earth affords a theme which has captivated...

THE SISTERS OF THE SPINNING WHEEL AND OTHER SIKH POEMS Original and Translated by PURAN SINGH This book of Puran Singh's poems is the latest offspring from a famous old root. It is founded on the Granth Sahib, and most of the songs that follow are in one way or another...

The Spirit Born People by Puran Singh These are the lecture notes for addresses I proposed to deliver to the Sikh youth of the Punjab. But as I am placed in the desert away from the towns where they gather, I let these go undelivered. And also because the Sikh youth are running in haste after shadows,...

The Book of Ten Masters by Puran Singh Fellow-Traveller on the Path of life, stay awhile. Let me tell you a few things that we heard as Sikh children from our ancestors, and let me share with you the Song of Nanak, which is our only provision for the pilgrimage from this earth to that Heavenly Region where the Masters dwell in peace.

The Spirit of Oriental Poetry by Puran Singh THIS little book is a slender account of my journeys in search of His Footprints. For hours have I stood spell-bound, gazing at the humble dust upon which He once trod, yet I have passed the magnificence of jewelled diadems with indifference, for they...

Swami Rama was essentially an apostle of the life of the spirit, whose daily food was the Simiran of the name of God Om. All who knew him saw that he was one who had lost himself in the Lord His repetition of this spiritual Mantram sounded like a river of song flowing out of him. It is written that...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.