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Is Guru Granth Sahib Your Teacher / Guide Or Is It A Diety


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Its a deity if your relation is all about mehar and based on pure emotion wherein most of the time you are imploring guru to fulfil your wishes.

Its a guru (literally - dispeller of darkness) - if you study it , contemplate (sabsai upar gur shabad beechar) on it and try to incorporate the teachings in your day to day lives.

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You are right and it's shame that the vast majority of the population see the GGS as a deity and a wish fulfilling machine. GGS is not here for us to fulfill our wishes it is here for us to lose our egos and follow hukam.

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The guru is my everything.I worship and learn from my guru.I would die for my guru.My guru is my god.

I disagree with you on this point. The Guru is my guide, my teacher, to help me try to understand Waheguru. The light of Waheguru shines through our Guru,

but I do not worship Guru Ji, I worship Waheguru - Guru Nanak strictly condemned worship of anything other than the formless Almighty.

That's my view anyway. :)

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Gur Meri Pooja Gur Gobind
Gur Mera Parbrahm Gur Bhagwant
Gur Mera Deyo Alakh Abheyo
Sarb Pooj Charan Gur Seyo
Gur Bin Awar Nahi Main Thhaon
Andin Japo Guru Gur Naon (Rahao)
Gur Mera Gian Gur Ridey Dhian
Gur Gopal Purakh Bhagwan
Gur Ki Saran Raho Kar Jor
Guru Bina Main Nahin Hor
Gur Bohith Taray Bhav Paar
Gur sewa Jam Te Chhutkaar
Andhkaar Meh Gurmantar Ujaara
Gur kai Sang Sagal Nistaara
Gur Poora Payiaye Badhbhagi
Gur Ki Sewa Dookh Na Lagi
Gur Ka Sabad Na Metay Koiye
GUR NANAK NANAK HAR SOYE


Sri Guru Granth Sahib (864)

http://www.srigurugranthsahib.org/guru-nanak/tuhi-nirankar.htm

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I disagree with you on this point. The Guru is my guide, my teacher, to help me try to understand Waheguru. The light of Waheguru shines through our Guru,

but I do not worship Guru Ji, I worship Waheguru - Guru Nanak strictly condemned worship of anything other than the formless Almighty.

That's my view anyway. :)

I respect your veiw but there really is no difference between guru ji and waheguru ji.For example in Sri sarbloh granth guru gobind Singh ji sache patshah writes that guru Nanak dev ji jagat de malak were god himself.Wouldnt the 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 guru have the same jot so they would all be waheguru.So in my understanding there is no difference.
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I respect your veiw but there really is no difference between guru ji and waheguru ji.For example in Sri sarbloh granth guru gobind Singh ji sache patshah writes that guru Nanak dev ji jagat de malak were god himself.Wouldnt the 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 guru have the same jot so they would all be waheguru.So in my understanding there is no difference.

When I read passages about the Guru "being" God, I believe that means the Gurus have the light of God. Equally, so do we all, as God is everything and pervades all matter and the universe, but the Gurus were on such a high spiritual enlightenment and had such a deep connection with Waheguru that they could guide the rest of us.

It's a very deep, complex issue, but I personally don't like to say the Gurus "are" God, because then people take that to mean Gurus are incarnations of God, and that limits perception of the almighty to just one physical entity. That's a concept which Guru Nanak Dev Ji rejected - God does not come down to Earth as incarnations (Ram, Krishna etc), but we are all part of God.

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