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Summary of Question:	Why Did Guru Gobind Singh Send Abook Instead Of Another Guru
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Saturday, 12/22/2007 5:47 PM MST

Why did guru gobind singh send a book instead of a another guru?

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Guru Gobind Singh understood that the lineage must end. That's why all his sons were martyred. The destiny was written.

Siri Guru Granth Sahib is not a book. It just looks like a book.

Our Guru understood that if you love someone very, very, very much... if you love someone so much that your breath is their breath, and your blood is their blood, and their blood flows in your veins, and your heart beats as one with them... then sometimes you feel moved to give them a gift. And that gift has to be something really wonderful. Especially if you're going to leave your body, you want to give a unique gift that profoundly penetrates to the very essence of the one you love.

And that's how the Guru loves his Sikhs. And that the gift he gave us looks like a book - but it's not.

Not at all. It's a portal; it's a Stargate. It's an opening into another dimension. And when we open that portal, that blue light is formed through the vortex of the sound current of the recitation of the Gurbani and something very profound takes place. That connection between heaven and earth is formed and energy pours onto the earth from the heavens through that funnel of blue light.

It is an experience that takes place deep in the heart.

.....G