Changed the BLOG NAME to BABIHA!!!!

Just edited my blog's name from EpitomicKhalsa to Babiha, one of my favorite words from Guru Granth Sahib...

The change of blog's name was not a sudden thought, rather it was a slower understanding of my own self, whether the word Epitome of Creator suits me? My inner self knew it did not...

Well, I always wanted to write something about this amazing creature, Babiha or the Brain-fever Bird, as they call in Bird Dictionary. It is also called a Hawk-cuckoo bird, due to its looks similar to that of a Shikra Hawk...

However, the traits of both birds are not similar... the Babiha is known for its shrieking calls starting from Spring till the rainfall... The calls frequency keeps on increasing as the day for the monsoon approaches... the calls during the final stages are so filled in cries, that one may feel that the bird is dying if it does not get the sprinkles of rain!

No wonder, why this amazingb bird has been referred so many times in Guru Granth Sahib, so that one can imagine the pain of love with being away from God that Guru describes in the stanzas, is just as the Babiha is without the rain-water!

The Babiha is crying day and night when its thirst grows, and is in deep hope that the rain-water will quench its thirst! The similar scenario is being drawn for a lover of Truth, who is crying to get the glimpse of the Eternal Truth, the GOD...

ਸਲੋਕ ਮ 3 ॥
ਬਾਬੀਹੈ ਹੁਕਮੁ ਪਛਾਣਿਆ ਗੁਰ ਕੈ ਸਹਜਿ ਸੁਭਾਇ ॥
ਮੇਘੁ ਵਰਸੈ ਦਇਆ ਕਰਿ ਗੂੜੀ ਛਹਬਰ ਲਾਇ ॥
ਬਾਬੀਹੇ ਕੂਕ ਪੁਕਾਰ ਰਹਿ ਗਈ ਸੁਖੁ ਵਸਿਆ ਮਨਿ ਆਇ ॥
ਨਾਨਕ ਸੋ ਸਾਲਾਹੀਐ ਜਿ ਦੇਂਦਾ ਸਭਨਾਂ ਜੀਆ ਰਿਜਕੁ ਸਮਾਇ ॥1॥