They carry information of human cultures and environment that engender countless layers of intellectual smog on the nature of consciousness associated with mann. Further, mann’s overwhelming allegiance is to animal genes and to human sensory inputs. In this role, it was considered a vital, though unreliable instrument to influence the human insights and intellectual processes both at the time on hand as well as during their earlier development. However, here a statement that Guru Tegh Bahadur regarded the undisciplined mann to comprise the human mind may sum up the Guru’s concern. Some examples of the verses and hymns written by Guru Tegh Bahadur will be explicated in appropriate sections of this paper. Further, almost all of the couplets or sloks of Guru Tegh Bahadur that were written to conclude the Sikh scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, are addressed to mann (the human mind). A search in the comes up with one hundred and twenty two citations of Guru Tegh Bahadur to contain directly the term mann, the term, which he interchangeably used for mind. These verses and hymns constitute more than 20% of all of his writings included in 16 of 32 raags of the Granth. Among the authors of the Sikh scripture, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the ninth Sikh prophet Guru Tegh Bahadur is credited with writing over a hundred verses, and a dozen hymns directly addressing the problems of the human mind, and the mind’s impact on human destiny.
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