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Lesson 18: Our Eternal Guru, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji

Guru Granth Sahib Ji is our Guru now. Guru

Granth Sahib Ji will be our Guru forever. It
is in the form of a Book, but we believe it to

be our Living Guru. Guru Granth Sahib Ji has

1430 Pages or Ang. Ang means a body part.

The words inside the Guru Granth Sahib are

called Gurbani. Gurbani means- the words and
the message of the Gurus. All of the Gurbani

on 1430 pages is written in poetry and can be

sung.

Guru Granth Sahib Ji includes the Gurbani or the words of the Sikh Gurus.

Guru Arjan Dev Ji, our fifth Guru, collected and saved Gurbani of all the
four Gurus before him. He also added the Bani from some holy people who

were not Sikhs, but they believed and thought like Sikhs. He called this

book ‘Pothi Sahib’.

When Guru Arjan Dev Ji got the Harimandar Sahib built in Amritsar, Pothi

Sahib was installed in Harimandar Sahib. It was in Sixteen hundred four

(1604). That was the “First Parkash Divas” of the Adi Granth.

Before Guru Gobind Singh

Ji left this world, he

added the bani of Guru
Tegh Bahadur Ji in Pothi

Sahib or Adi Granth and

decided that this was Guru

Granth. He bowed his head

to Granth Sahib and said

that Guru Granth was the
Gurgaddi Diwas at Yuba City

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