Gurmukhi and English together
The Gurmukhi and the English sit side by side, so you can read along in whichever you are more comfortable with — or move between the two as you go.
/ Seva · Translation
Bani that is
less often heard.
Read-along recordings with English translation, published on our YouTube channel as seva.
/ What we do
Some Bani waits a long time to be read.
A great deal of Gurbani is recited daily and known by heart. Other compositions are rarely heard, and rarely available in a form you can follow line by line in English.
Our recordings exist to close that gap a little. The Gurmukhi is on screen, the English runs alongside it, and the pace is set so that someone still learning to read can keep up rather than fall behind.
It is a read-along project rather than a work of scholarship — the aim is simply to make it easier to sit with Bani that is less often heard. It is made with the same care as our commercial work, with Sikhi at the centre of it rather than a client brief.
/ The format
Made to be followed.
Slow enough to keep up
Timed for reading rather than performance. If you are still learning Gurmukhi, the line stays on screen long enough to find your place again.
The same standard as client work
Produced with the craft the studio brings to its commercial projects — the standard does not drop because the work is seva.
/ Where to watch
All of it is on YouTube.
/ The channel
Watch on YouTube ↗
@ShiromaniDesigns
The read-along recordings live on our channel alongside the rest of the Sikhi work. It is the best place to see what is there now, and what is added next.
/ How we hold this work
Beside the Bani, not above it.
The English is offered as a reading aid to follow along with, not as a definitive translation. The Bani itself is the authority, and this is only an attempt to walk beside it.
Where a text's authorship or standing is understood differently across Sikh traditions, it is described as it is traditionally held, rather than settling the question. We are a studio doing seva, not a body qualified to rule on it.
Any shortcoming in these translations is ours and not of the Bani. If anything here or in a recording can be improved, please write to us and it will be corrected.
ਬਾਣੀ
Read slowly.
Understood a little better.