The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has the sole rights to publish the Birs of the Guru Granth Sahib, and this is done at Amritsar.Guru Granth Sahib is a compendium of hymns written by six Sikh gurus, 15 saints, including Bhagat Kabir, Bhagat Ravidas, Sheikh Farid and Bhagat Namdev, 11 Bhatts (balladeers) and four Sikhs.It was in 1708 that Guru Gobind Singh declared Guru Granth Sahib the living Guru of the Sikhs.Later, Guru Gobind Singh (tenth Sikh master), added verses penned by his father Guru Tegh Bahadur (ninth master), and compiled the Bir for the second and last time.Guru Arjan Dev (fifth Sikh master) compiled the first Bir of the Guru Granth Sahib in 1604, and installed it at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.They believe that all the 10 Gurus were the same spirit in different bodies, and the Guru Granth Sahib is their eternal physical and spiritual form.The Sikhs consider the saroop of Guru Granth Sahib a living guru and treat it with utmost respect.The verses on every page remain the same. Every Bir has 1,430 pages, which are referred to as Ang.
Saroop is a physical copy of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, also called Bir in Punjabi.There were 13 saroops in Afghanistan, of which seven were already shifted to India earlier.Recently, India has brought three saroops of Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Holy Book) from Afghanistan, now just three more remain in Afghanistan.
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