Compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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happenings in all cities and villages, and it is they who alone can appreciate the Guru’s description. During such calamities, people are not able to care about their children, they foresake them to their fate; the young men are not able to protect the honor of their sisters and their wives. In such a situation people totally forget all bondages of their love objects, and try to barter every thing they own for saving their lives. Do the people in such a perilous state, carry with them the pieces of paper and the writing material? If they do, for what? Then who wrote these Compositions of the Guru at that time of extreme calamity that had befallen on the people? Who was the devotee Sikh, who had preserved these manuscripts/and taken to Guru Arjan Dev to note down? It is reiterated that under such circumstances, when death stares hard in the faces of the people, they barter their life for every thing they possess. The calamity that had befallen on Saidpur was not an ordinary one. The extremely frightened, terrified people were not even prepared to go back to their houses, on their release from prisons! Who could have thought of his love for his culture and history writing propensity at that time? SO, IT WAS GURU NANAK DEV HIMSELF, WHO WROTE HIS DIVINE COMPOSITIONS AND PRESERVED THEM FOR POSTERITY. IT WAS HE, AT THAT TIME, WHO ADDRESSED TO THE CREATOR - “O LORD, SO MUCH BEATING HAVE THEY RECEIVED THAT THEY ARE CRYING! DID YOU NOT FEEL THE PAIN ?”

Read the life history of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji; there is not one, but many such events, by reading which intelligently, one reaches the conclusion, that the Guru himself was recording his Divine Compositions and preserving them.

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