Is Gurbani Equal To Other Religious Texts

[Singhni MiriPiri]

What do you mean Guru Sahib is the same, same to what?

Vaheguru :\

[Singhni MiriPiri]

Gurbani is TOP, it is the highest of the high. Anyone who says something else does not have sharda for our dharm.

Then you should listen to Gurbani and not hindu beliefs.

[Balkaar]

I would not be so chauvinistic as to suggest that a Christian, Muslim, Jew or Hindu could never attain Mukhta. Of course they could. But not if they adhere to the dictates of their holy scriptures.

If a Christian or a Jew actually paid any attention at all to the utterances of the Hebrew Bible and the Pentateuch, he would stone his own children to death if they dared to disrespect him.

If a Muslim lived his life as per the instruction of the Koran, he would make it the object of his existence to wage war against unbelievers.

If a Hindu carried out the duties enjoined upon her by her own religious tomes, she would immolate herself atop the pyre of her dead husband.

Do any of these sound like the recipe for salvation? We know virtually nothing of Muhammad, Jesus or Moses, we can never know what they actually said and did for a certainty. However, the books which their followers purport to be their words are barbaric and backward. Against all the scriptures of all the major religions of the world, the Bani of Satguru Sri Guru Granth Sahib is conspicuous for being the only one completely without incitement to violence and superstition.

To answer the OP's question, No. Gurbani is not equal to other religious texts, it is better.

[JSinghnz]

What an illogical question which shows the OP doesnot understand the meaning of Gurbani.

Gurbani is unique and cannot be compared with any other religious text in the world.

[MisterrSingh]

What an illogical question which shows the OP doesnot understand the meaning of Gurbani.

Gurbani is unique and cannot be compared with any other religious text in the world.

Brother, I think he meant it more as a rhetorical question to which he already knew the answer to. The question was for the rest of us.

[JSinghnz]

Brother, I think he meant it more as a rhetorical question to which he already knew the answer to. The question was for the rest of us.

The betterr question would have been

Why and how is Gurbani unique so the rest of us can all learn about how lucky we are to have Gurbani.

[harsharan000]

To answer this question, let us first see what is Truth.

As the Bani says: Ik Oankar, Satnam, Satgur parsad jap.

Moreover, it also says: Jug chaarey Nam ootam, Shabad beechaar.

From this we come to understand, that though Gurmat as we know, started with First Patshahee Guru Nanak Dev Maharaj some 700/800 hundred years back; but the very Gurbani tells us, this Truth of Naam or Shabad, is the way to Wahiguru in all ages, for all jeevas, the path of Naam bhakti as we know through the Bani, can not be for a limited number of souls, in a particular community, caste, creed or country.

The Bani says: sabna jeea ka Iko Daata.

So if He is the only sole Creator of everything, and He is the only unvariably One, He can not act and discriminate as we limited moorakhs usually do, as all belong to Him as souls.

We bilnd people see bodies, skin colours, castes, religions, genders ... and a big etc.

While He only sees His Jot in all of us. He knows all our bodies are due to our own karmas, but inspite of that, He is present in all in equal manner, whether it is a saint, a dacoit, a goon, a mahatma, a beast or an ordinary person ... He is present in all. Other thing is, how much we have Him present in us, or make us receptive to His grace, by staying in His bhaana and loving Him from the very core of our hearts.

That is what makes the difference. No cocroach or rat, by remaining in a temple, church, mosque or gurdwara becomes holy by just being there. This means, we do not become saintly, just by following rituals, be them any. But, only by His Simran, yes, we become holy, and thus accepted in His Darbar.

That is why Guru Sahiban said: Prabh ka Simran sabh te oochaa, or , Nanak Naam jahaz hae, jin chareeya se utareeya paar.

So if ever we find any such scripture, which tells us that in order to become one with Him, we should get hold of that one changeless reality, which is none other than Wahiguru, Satnaam, Naam or Shabad, then yes, it is equal to Gurbani, not otherwise.

Because no Gurmukh ever comes to start or create any new religion, for them, Wahiguru is the only realty, thus Naam or Shabad is the only path leading to Him.

Sat Sree Aakal.

[simran345]

To answer this question, let us first see what is Truth.

As the Bani says: Ik Oankar, Satnam, Satgur parsad jap.

Moreover, it also says: Jug chaarey Nam ootam, Shabad beechaar.

From this we come to understand, that though Gurmat as we know, started with First Patshahee Guru Nanak Dev Maharaj some 700/800 hundred years back; but the very Gurbani tells us, this Truth of Naam or Shabad, is the way to Wahiguru in all ages, for all jeevas, the path of am bhakti as we know through the Bani, can not be for a limited number of souls, in a particulat community, caste, creed or country.

Wow nice

The Bani says: sabna jeea ka Iko Daata.

So if He is the only sole Creator of everything, and He is the only unvariably One, He can not act and discriminate as we limited moorakhs usually do, as all belong to Him as souls.

We bilnd people see bodies, skin colours, castes, religions, genders ... and a big etc.

While He only sees His Jot in all of us. He knows all our bodies are due to our own karmas, but inspite of that, He is present in all in equal manner, whether it is a saint, a dacoit, a goon, a mahatma, a beast or an ordinary person ... He is present in all. Other thing is, how much we have Him present in us, or make us receptive to His grace, by staying in His bhaana and loving Him from the very core of our hearts.

That is what makes the difference. No cocroach or rat, by remaining in a temple, church, mosque or gurdwara becomes holy by just being there. This means, we do not become saintly, just by following rituals, be them any. But, only by His Simran, yes, we become holy, and thus accepted in His Darbar.

That is why Guru Sahiban said: Prabh ka Simran sabh te oochaa, or , Nanak Naam jahaz hae, jin chareeya se utareeya paar.

So if ever we find any such scripture, which tells us that in order to become one with Him, we should get hold of that one changeless reality, which is none other than Wahiguru, Satnaam, Naam or Shabad, then yes, it is equal to Gurbani, not otherwise.

Sat Sree Aakal.

Wow nice ji ???

[Guest Jacfsing2]

To answer this question, let us first see what is Truth.

As the Bani says: Ik Oankar, Satnam, Satgur parsad jap.

Moreover, it also says: Jug chaarey Nam ootam, Shabad beechaar.

From this we come to understand, that though Gurmat as we know, started with First Patshahee Guru Nanak Dev Maharaj some 700/800 hundred years back; but the very Gurbani tells us, this Truth of Naam or Shabad, is the way to Wahiguru in all ages, for all jeevas, the path of Naam bhakti as we know through the Bani, can not be for a limited number of souls, in a particular community, caste, creed or country.

The Bani says: sabna jeea ka Iko Daata.

So if He is the only sole Creator of everything, and He is the only unvariably One, He can not act and discriminate as we limited moorakhs usually do, as all belong to Him as souls.

We bilnd people see bodies, skin colours, castes, religions, genders ... and a big etc.

While He only sees His Jot in all of us. He knows all our bodies are due to our own karmas, but inspite of that, He is present in all in equal manner, whether it is a saint, a dacoit, a goon, a mahatma, a beast or an ordinary person ... He is present in all. Other thing is, how much we have Him present in us, or make us receptive to His grace, by staying in His bhaana and loving Him from the very core of our hearts.

That is what makes the difference. No cocroach or rat, by remaining in a temple, church, mosque or gurdwara becomes holy by just being there. This means, we do not become saintly, just by following rituals, be them any. But, only by His Simran, yes, we become holy, and thus accepted in His Darbar.

That is why Guru Sahiban said: Prabh ka Simran sabh te oochaa, or , Nanak Naam jahaz hae, jin chareeya se utareeya paar.

So if ever we find any such scripture, which tells us that in order to become one with Him, we should get hold of that one changeless reality, which is none other than Wahiguru, Satnaam, Naam or Shabad, then yes, it is equal to Gurbani, not otherwise.

Because no Gurmukh ever comes to start or create any new religion, for them, Wahiguru is the only realty, thus Naam or Shabad is the only path leading to Him.

Sat Sree Aakal.

You explained your views well, but your forgetting that Guru Sahib did free the lives of animals and the more important message of Gurbani: GurPrassad. One meets him only through Guru Prasad.

[Guest Jacfsing2]

To answer this question, let us first see what is Truth.

As the Bani says: Ik Oankar, Satnam, Satgur parsad jap.

Moreover, it also says: Jug chaarey Nam ootam, Shabad beechaar.

From this we come to understand, that though Gurmat as we know, started with First Patshahee Guru Nanak Dev Maharaj some 700/800 hundred years back; but the very Gurbani tells us, this Truth of Naam or Shabad, is the way to Wahiguru in all ages, for all jeevas, the path of Naam bhakti as we know through the Bani, can not be for a limited number of souls, in a particular community, caste, creed or country.

The Bani says: sabna jeea ka Iko Daata.

So if He is the only sole Creator of everything, and He is the only unvariably One, He can not act and discriminate as we limited moorakhs usually do, as all belong to Him as souls.

We bilnd people see bodies, skin colours, castes, religions, genders ... and a big etc.

While He only sees His Jot in all of us. He knows all our bodies are due to our own karmas, but inspite of that, He is present in all in equal manner, whether it is a saint, a dacoit, a goon, a mahatma, a beast or an ordinary person ... He is present in all. Other thing is, how much we have Him present in us, or make us receptive to His grace, by staying in His bhaana and loving Him from the very core of our hearts.

That is what makes the difference. No cocroach or rat, by remaining in a temple, church, mosque or gurdwara becomes holy by just being there. This means, we do not become saintly, just by following rituals, be them any. But, only by His Simran, yes, we become holy, and thus accepted in His Darbar.

That is why Guru Sahiban said: Prabh ka Simran sabh te oochaa, or , Nanak Naam jahaz hae, jin chareeya se utareeya paar.

So if ever we find any such scripture, which tells us that in order to become one with Him, we should get hold of that one changeless reality, which is none other than Wahiguru, Satnaam, Naam or Shabad, then yes, it is equal to Gurbani, not otherwise.

Because no Gurmukh ever comes to start or create any new religion, for them, Wahiguru is the only realty, thus Naam or Shabad is the only path leading to Him.

Sat Sree Aakal.

You explained your views well, but your forgetting that Guru Sahib did free the lives of animals and the more important message of Gurbani: GurPrassad. One meets him only through Guru Prasad.