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“Guru Maneyo Granth (English: Consider the Granth to be the Guru), refers to the historic statement of the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji (1666–1708), shortly before his death affirming the sacred text, Adi Granth, as his successor, thus terminating the line of human Gurus. The second command was - tell the Sikhs that, in the morning, before getting out of bed to repeat five times - Dhan Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji. The Holy Scriptures of the Sikhs are known as Guru Granth Sahib Ji. There will not be any human as the guru of the Sikhs. On his (Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s) departure from earth, the Sikhs have to accept Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji as their Guru. The first was Guru Maneyo Granth ( Consider the Granth to be the Guru.) God also gave Dusth Damen two commands which were to be fulfilled when he was on earth. Saint Scholar Giani Naranjan Singh Ji, Shiromani Kathakar, said that God instructed Dusth Daman to be born on earth. In his previous incarnation, whom the world knows today as the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh Ji was known as Dusth Daman, the slayer of evil. But the compositions of Sikh Gurus are preserved and we know at first hand what they taught.” END OF QUOTES. They were written or compiled by his adherents and followers. The Arabian Prophet did not himself reduce to writing the chapters of the Quran. The founder of Christianity did not reduce his doctrines to writing and for them we are obliged to trust to the gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Kungfu-tze, known to Europeans as Confucius, left no documents in which he detailed the principles of his moral and social system. Buddha has left no written memorial of his teaching. We know the teachings of Socrates only through the writing of Plato and Xenophanes. If Pythagoras wrote of his tenets, his writings have not descended to us. Many of the great teachers the world has known have not left a line of their own composition and we only know what they taught through tradition or second-hand information. “The Sikh religion differs in regards to the authenticity of its dogmas from most other theological systems. Max Arthur McAuliffe on the authenticity of Guru Granth Sahib They speak for the human heart and the searching mind.” They speak to a person of any religion or of none. Perhaps this sense of unity is the source of power I find in these volumes. There is something strangely modern about these scriptures and this puzzled me until I learned that they are in fact comparatively modern, compiled as late as the 16th century when explorers were beginning to discover the globe upon which we live is a single entity divided only by arbitrary lines of our making. They are compact in spite of their length and are a revelation of the concept of God to the recognition and indeed insistence upon the practical needs of the human body. “I have studied the scriptures of the great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find here in these volumes. The Sikh religion is truly the answer to the problems of the modern man.” To imply that they spoke of other worlds as does the Guru Granth Sahib, is to stretch their obvious meanings out of context. The previous scriptures were all concerned only with this world and its spiritual counterpart. “The Guru Granth Sahib of all the world’s religious scriptures, alone states that there are innumerable worlds and universes other than our own. Bradshaw of the U.S.A., Sikh Review, Calcutta. In this coming debate, the Sikh religion and its scriptures, the Guru Granth, will have something special of value to say to the rest of the world.” The living higher religions are going to influence each other more than before, in the days of increasing communication between all parts of the world and branches of the human race. “Mankind’s religious future may be obscure yet one thing can be foreseen. Since this article is being written mainly for the non-Sikh audience, I will start by quoting world renowned personalities on their views of the Sikh Holy Scriptures.