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Maghi
Sikh festival held annualy on January 14 to celebrate the memory of the marytordom of the Forty Immortals in battle at Muktsar.

Mahala
Used in the Guru Granth Sahib to indicate the author of a composition by the Gurus. Each Guru used the name Nanak, for example Mahala 5 is Guru Arjun, Mahala 3 is Guru Amardas.

Mahant
Corrupt officials who had control of the gurdwaras prior to the Shromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee gaining control in 1925.

Manji
The stool or string bed upon which the Guru Granth Sahib is placed on as a symbol of its sovregnity.

Mala
A wool cord with knots used as an aid to prayer or meditation.

Manmukh
A person who is self-centered and has forgotten God, the opposite of a Gurmukh.

Matta tekna
Bowing down and touching the floor with your forehead in front of the Guru Granth Sahib as a sign of respect to the Living Guru.

Maya
The dillusion of being wrapped up in the material world and attached to it.

Mela
Any Sikh religious festival other than the birth or death of a Guru.

Miri & Piri
The concept of spiritual and worldly matters. Sikhs are expected to maintain the balance between the two, this idea was introduced by Guru Hargobind and represented by two swords.

Misl
A f ighting unit of the Sikh armies of the eighteenth century.

Mukti
Spiritual liberation from the cycles of birth and death.

Mul Mantra
It is the opening lines of the Japji by Guru Nanak and the beginning of the Guru Granth Sahib. It is considered the cornerstone of Sikhism. "God is one. His name is True. He is the Creator. His is without fear. He is inimical to none. His existance is unlimited by time. He is beyond the cycles of birth and death, self existent and can be realized through the grace of the Guru."

Mundavani
The word means seal and refers to the concluding poem by Guru Arjun in the Guru Granth Sahib which describes the spiritual qualites of reading and following the Guru Granth Sahib.