Some writings of the Gurus were collected from other sources as well, and the whole was put to writing, after a good deal of judicious pruning to separate the apocryphal writings, by Bhai Gurdas, a disciple of the Gurus, under the direct supervision of Guru Arjun himself. From him, Guru Arjun procured these after some hard persuasion, as the holy Granth itself testifies. The latter had even added some of the popular sayings of the Hindu Bhaktas and Muslim Sufis as well.Īssembled in two volumes, the manuscripts lay with Baba Mohan, son of Guru Amar Das, the third Sikh Guru. He already had before him the hymns of his four predecessors collected and put to writing by the second and the third Sikh Gurus. The Guru Granth Sahib was compiled by the fifth Sikh Guru, Arjun, in 1604 A.D. When the Sikhs asked him who their Guru would be in the future, he said, “The Word is the spiritual Guru as contained in the Adi Granth: the secular Guru is the Panth or the whole Khalsa-in-faith,” Thus was democracy forever established in the spiritual as well as the social domains by the tenth Master. ![]() 10th Sikh Guru Gobind Singh breathed his last on October 7, 1708. ![]() Guru Granth Sahib is not only a Holy Book of Sikhs but a ‘Living Embodiment of the Gurus’ for them. Guru Granth Sahib Ji – Holy Book of Sikhs
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