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virendergrewal ji

 

I was actually going through your essay to understand the meaning of "shabd guru". You havent explained it much. Or may be i could not understand your post properly.

Could you please explain it in a more clear way.

 


How did you came to that conclusion?

 


So you mean to say that the message of the guru is not clear, and it requires quite an effort to understand it? As according to you the sikh traditions have misunderstood the guru's message.

So who will decide what is the correct understanding and what is the wrong understanding of the guru's message?

Who will decide the true meanings of the shabads in sggs?

Because everyone comes up with his own meanings according to his own small understanding. It seems that people conclude what they want to conclude instead of understanding the message of the guru from the gurugranth sahib. Because everyone is walking around with his own meaning.

 

I feel only the gurus knew what they were trying to say.

People may feel that they are getting what the gurus were trying to say, but in reality they are just assuming it according to their own minds. Their understanding of sggs is based on their own assumptions, which are further based on their own prejudices.

 

Because if the meaning was clear, then we would have never had so many tikas of various banis. Every explanation gives a different picture of gurus message. Every explanation contradicts the other. There is no single stand about the best explanation of the granth.


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