What the Guru Granth Sahib Actually Says

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - There Is Only One
3. Chapter Two - The Naam
4. Chapter Three - The Poison of Ego
5. Chapter Four - The False World
6. Chapter Five - The Company of Saints
7. Chapter Six - The Shabad Is the Sword
8. Chapter Seven - Everyone Can Be Saved
9. Chapter Eight - The Cycle Breaks Here
10. Chapter Nine - Death Is Not the End
11. Chapter Ten - Live Truthfully
12. Chapter Eleven - The Guru Lives in the Word

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THIS ISN’T A commentary. I’m not about to give you some long-winded religious breakdown or sprinkle Sanskrit dust on your forehead. I’m just gonna tell you what this book actually says. That’s it. This is the Guru Granth Sahib, and to Sikhs, it’s not “inspired by” the Guru or “a reflection of” the Guru. It is the Guru. Not a symbol. Not a metaphor. The actual Guru. Alive. Present. Speaking. Wild, right? This whole book, all 1,400-some pages of it, is just one long river of hymns. No chapters, plot, or narrator explaining things. It’s music. Literal songs. Laid out in raags, which are like musical vibes. The idea is that you don’t just read this. You listen. You sing. You sit in the...