SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB-A MESSAGE of TRUTH FOR HUMANITY

                     SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB-A MESSAGE of TRUTH FOR HUMANITY

SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB is the word( SHABAD ) revealed by the God direct to the Sikh Gurus and a priceless gift of The Gurus for the humanity and is the only religious scripture in the world, which had been compiled by the Sikh Gurus themselves and gives the true and original message of The God. The religious scriptures of all major religions have been written by the disciples of their Prophets, after 600 years to 700 years of their Prophets having left this world, and as such do not deliver their true and original message. Thus all other religious scriptures contain partial truth but SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB CONTAINS THE COMPLETE TRUTH. 

Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji compiled the 'BAANI’ of four Sikh Gurus, to which He added His own 'BAANI' and that of 15 spiritually enlightened Hindu and Muslim saints of different castes, 11 bhats and 4 Gursikhs. It is a treasure of the common man's languages such as Punjabi, Hindi, Brij Bhasha, Marathi and other Indian languages, although official language of rulers of India was Persian. His aim was that the BAANI should spread the message of truth, love, righteousness, equality and give contentment and peace to the individual and the humanity. After completing the task, He installed the SCRIPTURE called 'POTHEE'(ADI GRANTH) in Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar on 16 August, 1604,AD and appointed Baba Budha ji as its first custodian( Granthi). It was brought from Gurudwara Ramsar in a procession and was carried by Baba Budha ji on his head and Guru Arjan Dev ji was Himself doing 'chaur' over it. At night, He asked the Sikhs to keep ADI GRANTH in His room on His bed and He himself slept on the floor under that bed. SGGS says that 'POTHEE' communicates with God and whose so ever sings the praises of GOD, gets the perfect knowledge of The God. Guru says that :- 

POTHI PARMESHAR KA THAAN | |       

Saadhhasa(n)g gaavehi gun gobi(n)dh pooran breham giaan ||1|| rehaao ||--SGGS--1226.                             i.e. the ‘Gurbaani’ in The POTHEE communicates one with The God.  Whose Soever sings the Glorious Praises of the Lord/God in the Saadh Sangat(the Company of the Holy), will obtain the perfect knowledge of The God. ||1||Pause|| 

Guru Gobind Singh left Anandpur Sahib along with His family and the sikhs to avoid bloodshed, after swearing on Quran by Aurangzeb and the promises of Hindu Rajas for a safe passage. But they fraudulently attacked Him with a large army of Mughal and Hindu hill Raja's from behind but the Sikhs fought very bravely and repulsed the attack. But While crossing the River Sirsa, all of The Guru’s belongings, including very precious manuscripts, were lost in this River. After reaching TALWANDI SABO in Malwa, He sent five Gursikhs to get a copy of ADI GRANTH from ‘Dhir malias' from KARTARPUR( Distt JALANDHAR), who had the copy of ADI GRANTH compiled by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, but they refused to give it telling them that their GURU should write it himself. Therefore Guru Gobind Singh Ji orated the complete ADI GRANTH here and added to it the 'BAANI' of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji and completed the compilation of ADI GRANTH in nine months and nine days in 1706 AD. The work of writing of ADI GRANTH was done by Baba Deep Singh Ji and Bhai Mani Singh Ji. 

Having crystallized the practices and beliefs of the Sikh Gurus and knowing well that His end was near, Guru Gobind Singh Ji called the Sikhs present at Nander sahib and gave the status of ETERNAL LIVING GURU to SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB (SGGS) and took its 'Parikrama' and bowed before it in the presence of the sikhs on Oct 7, 1708 A.D. He thus transmigrated The light to SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB and abolished the need of human Gurus in future. He declared that from now onwards the Sikh community was to seek guidance by contemplating on the SHABAD(the word) in SGGS. Guru Gobind Singh Ji said that :- 

AGYA BHAI AKAL KI TABHI CHALAYO PANTH ||

SABH SIKHAN KO HUKAM HAI GURU MANIO GRANTH ||  

GURU GRANTH JI MANYO PARGAT GURAAN KI DEH | | 

JO PRABH KO MILBO CHAHE KHOJ SHABAD MEIN LE ||(Rehatnama Parlad Singh).                        i. e. The Khalsa 'PANTH' has been born as per wishes of The Almighty God, all the Sikhs should believe and follow SGGS as The living Guru and those who want to seek The God, should seek guidance by contemplating on the SHABAD in SGGS.

SGGS--A REVELATION FROM GOD :-

The Sikh Gurus have emphatically made it clear that they are speaking what was revealed to them by The God and know it to be absolutely true. Guru says He does not know what to speak, He is speaking what God commands Him to speak and it will eradicate all anxiety. SGGS says that :- 

Dhur ki baani aayi ||                 Tin Sagli Chint mitai ||--SGGS---628.             

i.e. The ‘baani’ of His word emanated from the God and it eradicates all anxiety.  

Hou aapahu bol n jaanadhaa mai keha sabh hukamaao jeeo ||--SGGS---763 

i.e. By Myself, I do not even know how to speak; I speak all that the Lord commands.

Sathigur kee banee sat sat kar jaanahu gursikhu har karataa aap muhahu kadhaaeae ||--SGGS---308 

i.e. O, Gursikhs, know that the ‘baani’, the Word of the Satguru is true, absolutely True. The Creator Lord Himself causes the Guru to chant it.  

SGGS tells the path leading to the highest goal of spirituality and answers all the questions of human beings and holds true to the test of modern science. As such, it has more importance, as the western spirituality believes that the faith will lead to knowledge but SGGS believes that knowledge will lead to faith. It says that where will a faith lead, if the faith itself is blind, as a blind person cannot lead his disciples anywhere. SGGS says that human beings are losing their life without practising NAAM/remembering God. Of all the religions, the best religion is to contemplate on THE GOD and to maintain good conduct and do virtuous deeds, as one recieves as one acts, as SGGS says that:-

Guroo sadhaaeae agiaanee a(n)dhhaa kis ouhu maarag paaeae ||3|-SGGS--491               i.e. The ignorant, blind man without any knowledge calls himself the guru, but to whom can he show the way? ||3|| 

Guroo jinaa kaa a(n)dhhulaa chaelae naahee t(h)aao ||--SGGS---58

 i.e. the disciples, whose religious guide is blind i.e. have no knowledge, find no peace.  

Sarab dharam meih sraesatt dharam ||

Har ko naam jap niramal karam ||--SGGS--266.  

i.e. Of all religions, the best religion, is to remember/recite the name of the God and maintain pure conduct and do virtuous deeds. 

JAISA KARE SO TAISA PAVE ||  AAP BEEJ AAP HEE KHAAVE ||--SGGS----662

i.e. as one acts, so does he receive. As he plants, so does he eat. 

SGGS condemns those who do not contemplate on The GOD in the strongest words and says that do not call such people as human beings; they are just animals and stupid beasts.The Guru says that :-

Jinaa sathigur purakh n saeviou sabadh n keetho veechaar ||

Oue maanas joon n aakheean pasoo dtor gaavaar ||--SGGS---1418 

i.e. those who do not serve i.e. remember the True Guru- the Primal Lord and do not reflect on the word of the ‘Shabad’,do not call them human beings; they are just animals and stupid beasts. 

The modern physicists and scientists now agree that the mind and personality are the central point of the universe and not any physical matter or force. Physical matter is only an expression of the mind.  

Mr. Kirtler F. Mather, a modern physicist has said that:-  

“The nearest approach we have made thus far to the ultimate in our analysis of matter and energy indicates that universal reality is mind. Matter simply becomes the expression of mind. This represents my belief about God. It leads naturally to a statement about personality. For me God is everything in the universe which tends to produce a fine personality in a human being.” 

Thus in the modern world having problems of enyvironmental pollution, global warming, conflicts for controlling resources of other countries, decline of moral and ethical values, increasing crime and violence etc, SGGS has the potential to bring about unity of mankind as it believes that the whole world is a creation of one God and such we should love His creation to recieve His blessings. SGGS says that:-

 GHAT GHAT ANTAR TUNHAI VUTHA ||--SGGS---9 

 i.e. you (the God) dwell deep within each and every heart.

 Aaee pa(n)thhee sagal jamaathee man jeethai jag jeeth ||--SGGS---6

 i.e. the person who loves all humans as fellow beings is a holy person and controls his mind and does not let it hate anyone wins the world.
  

Aval aleh noor oupaaeiaa kudharath kae sabh ba(n)dhae ||

Eaek noor thae sabh jag oupajiaa koun bhalae ko ma(n)dhae ||1||--SGGS--1369.                                          i.e. all humans are the sons of the same father God, no one is good or bad. 

KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE :-

Till now, 20th century Scientists gave Big Bang theory for the creation of the universe, where as 21st century scientist Ms Mersini Houghton, university of N.C, USA has given different view that the stars shed their mass while giving radiation and as such no longer have the density to become a black hole. She even says that physicists have to rethink of their ideas of big bang theory. The modern scientists have now observed more Suns.   

But SGGS gives vast knowledge about the creation and destruction of the Universe. It says that The God Himself created Himself. Then air came from The God, from air came the water, from water He created the universe and in every heart He infused His light. It says that there are infinite number of worlds, nether regions, constellations, sons, moons, etc and all forms and creatures came into existence by His order(HUKAM). It says that the creation and destruction of THE UNIVERSE has happened many times and the Universe is so vast that it's vastness can not be known as the created cannot know the extent of The CREATOR(GOD). SGGS says that :- 

AAPAE AAP OUPAE OUPANAA ||  

SABH MEHI VARATAI EAEK PARASHHANAA ||--SGGS---1051.       

i.e he himself created himself,and came into being.One lord is pervading in all, remaining hidden. 

Saachae tae 3 pavanaa bhaeiaa pavanai tae jal hoe || 

Jal tae tribhavan saajiaa ghatt ghatt jot samoe ||--SGGS---19 

i.e. From the True Lord came the air, and from the air came water. 

From water, He created the universe; in each and every heart He has infused His Light.

Kɦaṇd ḍeep sabɦi loȧ || Æk kavaavai ṭe sabɦi hoȧ ||1||--SGGS---1003

i.e. The countries, the continents and all the worlds, Have all come from the One Word of the Lord. ||1|| 

KAYEE BAR PASRIO PASAAR || SADAA SADAA EK EKONKAAR ||--SGGS--27 

i.e. so many times, He has created the universe. Forever and ever, He is the One, the One Universal Creator. 

KETE IND CHAND SOOR KETE KETE MANDAL DES ||--SGGS---7 

i.e. So many indras so many moons and suns, so many lands and world.

KARTE KEE MIT NA JAANAI KIA ||---SGGS---- 28 

i.e. the created cannot know the extent of The Creator.

Rev. H.L. Bradshow, of USA, after thoroughly studying the Philosphy of Sikhism, observed that :-    Sikhism is a Universal world Faith, a message for all men. This is amply illustrated in the writing of the Gurus. Sikhs must cease to think of their faith as just another good religion and must begin to think in terms of Sikhism being the revolution for this New Age…The religion preached by Guru Nanak is the faith of the New Age. It completely supplants and fulfils all the former dispensations of older religions. Books must be written proving this. The other religions contain the truth, but Sikhism contains the fullness of the truth…. 

Sri Guru Garanth Sahib of all the world religious scriptures, alone states that there are unnumerable worlds and universes other than our own. The previous scriptures were all concerned only with this world and its spiritual counterpart. To imply that they spoke of other worlds as does Sri Guru Granth Sahib is to stretch their obvious meanings out of context. The Sikh religion is truly the answer to the problems of the modern man. 

SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB says that there is ONE ALMIGHTY GOD, whose name is true, is the creator of the Universe, fearless, without enemity, immortal and formless, does not take birth and is selfillumined and is achieved with The Guru's Grace. It says that The God pervades, cherishes, watches The UNIVERSE, but how can the created one know THE CREATOR(GOD). It does not believe in worshipping 33 crore Devtas(Demi-Gods), stone/metal Gods and Plants, animal worshipping etc. It preaches spreading truth by bringing on the same platform of spirituality all those who meditated on The God, without any discrimination of caste, creed, rich, poor and race etc. and condemns religious hypocrisy. It believes in embracing all humanity into ONE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD.  

SGGS gives a pious and a disciplined way of life by worshipping ONE ALMIGHTY GOD, accepting the will of The God, wellfare of the humanity, giving equal status to women, leading a good moral life prohibiting cohabition with any other than one's spouse and prohibits use of intoxicants. It condemns undesirable rituals such as any auspicious times/days/months, Hom, Yug, Havan, Sharad, Navratras/fasts,Tikka, Pind, Patal, Deeva, Sikha-soot etc and does not believe in doing last rites of human beings in any particular way. It enlightens humanity about husband-wife relationship and helps in solving the most serious problem of broken marriages in the society by educating that husband and wife are those, who have one light in two bodies, as SGGS says that :- 

Ḍɦan piru æhi na ȧakɦeeȧni bahani ïkatɦe hoï ||                                              
Æk joṭi ḍuï mooraṭee ḍɦan piru kaheeȧi soï ||3||--SGGS---788.                            
 i.e.  they are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together.  They alone are called husband and wife, who have one light in two bodies. ||3|| 

SGGS gives the following FIVE  FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES for the transformation of the human being, giving contentment, peace to the individual and spreading truth and establishing peace in THE WORLD. 

1. KIRAT KARNI  i.e. Earning Honest Living. 

2. NAAM JAPNA / SIMRAN  i.e. Contemplating on The God., 

3. VAND SHAKNA  i.e.  Share your earnings. 

4. SELFLESS SERVICE TO THE HUMANITY by any possible means. 

5. SPREAD TRUTH, LOVE, RIGHTEOUNESS, END INJUSTICE AND FIGHT EVIL. 

The spiritual and moral message of SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB and material science of the west need to be combined for enlightening the humanity to make us good human beings. In view of the developments in the western world, Middle East and Asia etc, due to capturing of natural resources of the world and threat of terror to humanity, SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB HAS A GLOBAL ROLE TO PLAY and BECOME THE SAVIOR OF THE MANKIND. IT BELIEVES THAT ALL HUMANITY IS ONE AND IS THE CREATION OF THE GOD AND HE PERVADES IN ALL. It preaches love for all humanity, having peaceful existence, resolving problems through dialogue, sharing world's resources in a equitable manner, to receive THE GRACE of THE GOD. It gives the message of spreading of truth, love, righteousness, fighting injustice, repression and ending EVIL IN THE WORLD, irrespective of cast, colour, creed, rich, poor and religion etc. THUS SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB IS A MESSAGE OF COMPLETE TRUTH FOR THE WELFARE OF THE HUMANITY AT LARGE.