Guru Granth Sahib : The Sikh Scripture
Contents: Foreword. 1. Guru Granth Sahib : A Scripture with a difference/Prithipal Singh Kapur. 2. The Adi Guru Granth : A Vision for Universal Religion/Kirpal Singh. 3. Global Consciousness and Sri Guru Granth Sahib/Sutinder Singh Noor. 4. Interfasith Dialogue and Guru Granth Sahib/Jodh Singh. 5. The Concept of Sahaj : A Transpoetic View/Gurbhagat Singh. 6. Ethical Concepts in Guru Granth Sahib/Darshan Singh. 7. Guru Granth Sahib and Religious Pluralism/Dharam Singh. 8. Guru Granth Sahib : Repository of Universal Values/Riyaz Punjabi. 9. Guru Granth Sahib : A Common Treasure of Mankind/Jaspal Singh. 10. Compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib/Rattan Singh Jaggi. 11. Guru Granth Sahib and its Formation/Gurnek Singh. 12. The Poetics of Guru Granth Sahib/Indra Nath Chaudhuri. 13. Saint Poets in Guru Granth Sahib/Maheep Singh. 14. Bhatt Bani in Sri Guru Granth Sahib/Wazir Singh. 15. Editing Techniques in Guru Granth Sahib/Mohinder Kaur Gill. 16. Conserving Guru Granth Sahib Manuscripts/Mohinder Singh. 17. The Concept of Faith in Guru Granth Sahib/Satnam Kaur. 18. Sri Guru Granth Sahib : A Source of Sikh Values/Harbans Kaur. 19. Perennial Oriental Wisdom of Sri Guru Granth Sahib/Anurag Singh. 20. Communion : A Cardinal Message of Guru Granth Sahib/Gurmeet Singh Maan.
Guru Granth Sahib is an unparalleled anthology of sacred and spiritual humans, aimed at elevating the human soul to the highest pinnacles of superconsciousness. Its global nature and scope is marked by an inbuilt blueprint for giving an affirmative direction to the contemporary world, facing a grave confrontational situation.
Guru Granth Sahib – The Sikh Scripture offers a comprehensive and across-the-board perspective of Guru Granth Sahib, reflecting its exclusivity as a supreme and paramount holy scripture. The illustrious authors of various articles, contained in this volume, have used their experiential and intellectual knowledge to provide variegated details of the spiritual as well as of the material world. The scholarly articles reflect the underpinnings of the celestial reality, divulging in the process a good amount of its divine manifestations.
The book highlights the exceptional feature of Gurubani as a repository of universal values, portraying the indivisibility of diverse spiritual experiences. It underlines the idea that though the main thrust of Guru Granth Sahib is upon the spiritual quest and adherence to the Divine will, yet it mirrors a definite stance towards the contemporary social and political realities too. It also unfolds the reality that while the Granth recognizes the value and validity of cultural and religious plurality in social existence, its main concern is well-being of every individual and of all the peoples of the world without discrimination and inequity. The various expositions, constituting this volume, help endow Sikhism with a unique place amongst the world religions.(jacket)
