Fariduddin Ganjshakar the shrine jam packed. Baba Farid, as he is commonly known, has his poetry included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the most sacred scripture of Sikhism, which includes 123 (or 134) hymns composed by Farid. Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the 5th guru of Sikhism, included these hymns himself in the Adi Granth, the predecessor of the Guru Granth Sahib. The town of Faridkot in Punjab, India is named after him. In 1989, on the 800th Birth Anniversary of Baba Farid, Pakistan Post Office issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor. Fariduddin Ganjshakar Farīd al-Dīn Masʿūd Ganj-i-Shakar (c. 4 April
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