Writers of Guru Granth Sahib Writers of Guru Granth Sahib Guru Granth Sahib Ji ( ਜੀ;;), is the central religious text of Sikhism, considered by Sikhs to be the final sovereign Guru of the religion. It contains 1430 "Angs" (pages), containing hymns of 36 saint mystics which includes Sikh guru sahiban (6 gurus), "Bhagats" (15 "bhagats"), "Bhatts" (11 "bhatts") and "gursikhs" (4 "gursikhs"). It is the only religious script in the world that contains views and ideology of people of other religions, castes and creeds. It also contains teachings of Sikh gurus themselves and was written by Bhai Gurdas Ji (first version) and by Bhai
Adi Da manner. The culminating awareness of this seventh stage is a permanent, natural state of "open-eyed ecstasy", for which Adi Da employed the Sanskrit term "Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi". Adi Da insisted that since he solely embodied seventh stage realization, devotional worship of him would henceforth be the exclusive means for others to free themselves from "self-contraction", thereby allowing them to "participate in his enlightened state" (i.e. attain awareness themselves of the seventh stage, or "realize" it.) "Adidam" refers to both the organization of Adi Da's devotees and the religion he taught. The organization, or church, founded initially in 1972, went by