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Posted by paramdeep singh | Saturday, December 26, 2009 | 0 comments

Question 7: Was Guru Nanak God?

All religious leaders were men sent by God to do His work of saving the world from sin and imparting knowledge about God and the best way of leading the life. According to Sikhism God is never born and He never dies. Men of God like Guru Nanak are so near to the Lord that there is not much difference between the Lord and His messengers. To say that any religious messenger was God is heresy. No Guru claimed to be God and yet all those who met or heard the Gurus in person said that the Gurus were "God in human form." The Bhatt's for instance wrote:

"God Himself assumed the form of Nanak
And existed on this Earth.
The invisible became visible to the world."

This is because the Bhatts found the Gurus perfect human beings worthy of the highest regard and out of respect differentiated them from the rest of mankind. Just as a personal secretary knows the officer so do the Gurus claim to know God, and whatever they have said and left for us is nothing short of the Lord's commands conveyed to us through them:-

"I know not how to speak Lord,
I have only conveyed your orders."
(Guru Arjan)

Today the Gurus are not amongst us in human form but their word is making them re-live as such. The Guru's mind is open to us through the word and that is why the last of the Gurus declared that after him the faithful will call the Holy Book their Guru. Those who want to see the Guru are asked to read, understand and act upon the Guru's word contained in the Holy Granth.

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