{{Short description|Sanskrit term}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{SikhBeliefs}} '''Pyaar''' (Hindi: {{lang|hi|प्यार}} {{transliteration|hi|pjɑːɾ}}; Punjabi: {{lang|pa|ਪਿਆਰ}} {{transliteration|pa|pi'āra}}) is the Hindustani and Punjabi word for love. It is derived from Sanskrit {{transliteration|sa|priya}} (love) and {{transliteration|sa|kāra}} (act).{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} It is one of the five virtues of Sikhism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Makan |first=Pritpal Singh |title=Five Virtues and Five Evils |url=http://sikhguru.org.uk/sikhsim/sikh-beliefs/five-virtues-and-five-evils/ |website=Sikhguru Organization U.K. |language=en-UK |access-date=18 August 2022}}</ref>
== Description == Pyaar is prescribed by the Sikh gurus as the treatment for {{transliteration|pa|Kaam}} (extreme sexual desire, one of the five thieves). Regarding the usage of {{transliteration|pa|pyaar}} for sublimating {{transliteration|pa|kaam}}, Guru Gobind Singh makes the following remark:<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Harbans |title=The Encyclopaedia of Sikhism |date=1992–1998 |publisher=Punjabi University |isbn=9788173803499 |location=Patiala |page=419}}</ref> {{Blockquote|text=Hear ye all, I proclaim here the truth: only they who love God find Him.|author=Guru Gobind Singh}} The ideal relationship between the divine and devotee in Sikhism is envisioned as a soul-bride, in which the devotee is a wife longing for her husband ({{transliteration|pa|kant}}), which is God.<ref name=":1" /> This is a recurring theme through the Sikh canon.<ref name=":1" /> The devotee is pained by the state of being separate from God and craves reunion with God.<ref name=":1" /> This procedure of complete devotion stifles the negative potentials of {{transliteration|pa|kaam}} and redirects its energy to spiritual progress for the individual.<ref name=":1" />
Guru Arjan states on page 534 of the ''Guru Granth Sahib'' that a person who has truly fallen in love with God humbly seeks neither positions of power, authority, nor even spiritual liberation ({{transliteration|pa|mukti}}), but a glimpse of Waheguru and the "Sanctuary of the Sants."<ref name=":1" />
== See also == * Five virtues
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