It is not our purpose to criticize, but to arrive at the reality of Five Khands. Similar explanation follows for the remaining Khands. He is flooded with knowledge that wipes away all doubts and illusion. With the force of education and contemplation, he proceeds to envision the map of limitless creation. This spiritual stage is Dharam Khand…and he thinks of his life objective…At this stage, the person perceives that a mortal is born on earth to perform duty…As the person gets engrossed with these thoughts…comprehending the duty, he tries to increase his knowledge. “The mortal-being divinely graced, first he comes to understand…In the light of aforesaid thought, the first stage for the person is the perception of self-duty. Here are presented some examples of the interpretations by a prominent scholar for Jap ji Sahib: It would be helpful if it is explained how and when, what stage is reached during Naam-practice (Naam Abhiyaas Kamayee), but the scholars have emphasized more on their mind’s thinking rather than Naam-practice. Some scholars feel that the Five Khands are the five milestones en route the progressive journey of the Gurmukh Naam practitioner. Thus we loose sight even of the basic Gurbani principles. The right approach would have been to give credence to Gurbani, whereas we make Gurbani follow our own whim in our interpretation. Self imagined reasoning is substantiated by our interpretation of Gurbani as authentic. So, also in the case of named five regions, we employ the flight of imagination to argue that Gurbani being a spiritual field, the Khands under reference can only be the five stages of spiritual journey. We are prone to interpret Gurbani in the light of our own inadequate intellect for self-satisfaction when we do not find the right meaning. The final word can come only from Guru Nanak Dev ji or a graced and perfect sage otherwise it is only an individual guess work. Yet the question remains about how and where these are constituted. There is a detailed explication of the different Khands. Japji Sahib Gurbani refers to the five regions, namely: Dharam Khand, Gian Khand, Saram Khand, Karam Khand and Sach Khand.