Guru Maneyo Granth renderings of the Hymns (Bani) of seventh Gurus of the Sikh faith (in addition one sloak of Guru Gobind Singh) and some Bhagats and Saints. It was composed in this form in the year 1604 with the later addition of Guru Tegh Bahadur's Bani (sacred compositions). Its blessings are sought by the true seeker with a devout heart. The Sikh religion sincerely believes that in each of the succeeding Gurus the spirit, the light of God which manifested in Guru Nanak Dev was operating and passed onto the next Sikh Guru. Guru Ram Das says in the Siri Guru Granth
Adi Dharm Samaj by Hemendranath Tagore – which religion was henceforth known as the "Adi Brahmo Samaj". From 1867 after the First Schism, the Adi Dharam movement became stridently nationalistic. A Hindu Mela was regularly organised which became the precursor to the Swadeshi movement and then the Indian National Congress. In the meanwhile the expelled Christian factions from Adi Samaj launched a sustained and bitter campaign to wean away the Adi Dharma missions outside Bengal. A great deal of propaganda was hurled from both sides. In 1871 the expelled group petitioned the Government to recognise them and their inter-faith marriages claiming that