Japji API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Japji (Max Arthur Macauliffe, 1909) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. The opening hymn of the Sikh scripture, by Guru Nanak. It has 40 passages in 1 composition. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# Japji 1
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/japji/1

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "japji",
      "title": "The Japji",
      "translator": "Max Arthur Macauliffe",
      "year": 1909
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "Japji 1",
        "division": 1,
        "text": "By thinking I cannot obtain a conception of Him, even though I think hundreds of thousands of times. Even though I be silent and keep my attention firmly fixed on Him, I cannot preserve silence. The hunger of the hungry..."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug japji, the id japji-macauliffe-1909, and the prefix japji all name this text.

References

Japji 0 is the opening (the Mul Mantar), Japji 1 to Japji 38 are the pauris, and Japji 39 is the closing slok. GET /scriptures/japji lists every composition with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"japji","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=japji'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/japji/1/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Japji, translated by Max Arthur Macauliffe (1909)
Source: en.wikisource.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: From The Sikh Religion, volume 1. Japji 0 is the opening (the Mul Mantar), Japji 1 to 38 are the pauris, and Japji 39 is the closing slok.