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A person must become a devotee of the divine, leaving all illusions behind.
Guru Nanak says:
That preceptor is worthy who unites the aspirant with the Divine.
Guru Nanak taught the people of this present Dark Age (the Kali Yuga) that the Divine has abhorrence for none. God sees the ill behaved actions of humans, and even then, he does not despise people. Therefore, humans should offer worship to the Divine in
their hearts.
It is said in the Granth Sahib:
The guru is sat guru (the enlightened teacher). By meeting with him, the heart is filled with joy and bliss. The knot of ignorance is destroyed and the ultimate abode of God is obtained.
Those who find the true guru and the true path, who perform benevolent actions, who perform righteous (dharma) deeds, who live a moral life, will naturally have a good name in this world, and when they leave this body they will experience happiness and bliss in the other world. The glory of the guru is sung in the following verse:
Let there be luminosity of hundreds of moons, let there be brilliance of thousands of suns; in spite of such light but without the guru (the divine light of knowledge), there is nothing but darkness (in the heart of humans).
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