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
Sacred but of complementarity, as the profane is viewed as a hierophany. French sociologist Émile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to "sacred things", that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represented the interests of the group, especially unity, which were embodied in sacred group symbols, or totems. The profane, on the other hand, involved mundane individual concerns. Durkheim explicitly stated that the dichotomy sacred/profane was not equivalent to good/evil. The sacred could