What is the relation between the Sikh and the Guru?
The word Sikh means a learner, a student. He is therefore to get his instruction from a teacher who is called a Guru. The personality of the Sikh Guru, is so influential that it completely transforms the disciple and shapes his life to diviner issues. This is achieved not by personal and physical instruction but by the belief that the Sikh incorporates the Guru. The Sikh “fills himself with ‘The Guru’ and then feels himself linked up to an inexhaustible source of power.” e.g. by accepting the aid of Guru Gobind Singh, he feels terribly strong, equal to “one lakh and a quarter” in physical and mental powers. He will fight all odds and lay down his life for a cause. He is the Guru’s standard-bearer and will not lower or desert it. It is this kinship with the Guru which sustains him in a crisis. Bhai Joga Singh, when about to fail, was saved from such a moral disaster by Guru Gobind Singh. The Sikhs filling themselves with Guru’s own personality collectively becomes “The Guru” in the form
