How Can You Call Someone Else Guru Ji?!

[orono]

I was reading one of the other threads and on it SmartSingh has posted, and after his post is a link which says Me. Anyway I was bored so I clicked it and got

My objection is the "About This Video" section -

Tabla Solo in Teen Taal. From the Taalim school... (more)

Added: December 15, 2007

Tabla Solo in Teen Taal. From the Taalim school of music, headed by Pandit Divyang Vakil (Guru Ji)

Obviously Smart Singh isn't so smart as he has called someone else Guru Ji, you can argue its a tradition that's gone on etc etc, but if Smart Singh was posting the video should he not have thought, I'm not writing Guru Ji, as I only have one.

[OhTwadi]

Chill kar oye. Just a tabla guru nothing more

[sskhalsa]

He uses a mac too, which is more evidence against his character. Can we ban him?

[smartsingh24]

This is probably an unsmart move, but I have asked for this topic to be reopened. If I was wrong, than convince me.

I contacted S1ngh and let him know that closing this topic before I had a chance at explaining myself is tantamount to protection, and forum member should enjoy that. I've been in situations before where I get into lengthy arguments and people that happen to be moderators close topics so that I wasn't able to respond. That made me angry, and at the same time validated my opinion, hence my current positon. I don't want to let orono to walk away from this thinking he was right for what he did.

First off, it was a personal attack. I don't know what brought it about, but fine, w.e.

Secondly, the school that i've been learning from for the past three or four years asked me to put in something mentioning them and pandit ji, so I decided to go for it as a matter of respect.

Thirdly, and the bulk of the reason as to why I wanted this reopened, is because this situation arises because there has been 

no distinction between the role of Guru and Satguru. So i'll start simple with definition I think are fair. I looked at wikipedia, and found this-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru

As you can see, the term Guru is used fairly liberally and appears in more than just Sikhism. Moreover, the definition given could apply to a heck of alot more than just our gurus. Colloquialy, the term Guru, "is used to refer to a person who has authority because of his or her perceived secular knowledge or skills." Thusly, anyone that is fairly skilled could become a Guru of pretty much anything. You could have a Tabla Guru, a Basketball Guru, or even a Video Game Guru. So i'd like to think i've established that the term Guru has lost the value it might once have had because people have applied it to other less savory things (if you really need to know, Mike Myers has been working on a character known as the Guru that specializes in more intimate affairs).

And this is where everything comes to a head. Sat means truth, and when put in front of Guru gives us The True Guru. Singular, as in, there is only one. A person can search for many Gurus, but there will always only be one Satguru. So, I have my Satguru, and I have my Tabla Guru.

Let me know if I still prove false.