Some question Puratan Saroop's authenticity claims: Bhai Manvir Singh Khalsa

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Some question Puratan Saroop's authenticity
Claims Bhai Manvir Singh Khalsa
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• Recently, a gold-coated Saroop that was claimed
  by the SGPC as having been written by Shaheed
  Baba Deep Singh Ji was scanned and uploaded to
  the Internet. In the past, no one has publicly
  challenged the SGPC 's claim, however, after the
  Saroop was made available to the public, various
  questions arose that cast doubt on the SGPC's
  claim. Our investigation into the issues raised
  in relation to the allegation revealed serious
  conclusions.

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• The Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee
  (SGPC) was established in 1920, a Sikh
  organization to manage all Sikh shrines and
  Gurdwaras in Punjab, including Sri Harmandir
  Sahib, Amritsar. The SGPC is also responsible for
  keeping and preserving historical weapons,
  clothing, scriptures, literature, writings, and
  memorials, and preaching the Sikh faith.

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• We interviewed an SGPC Granthi employee who asked
  SinghStation to remain anonymous for fear of
  reprisals from the SGPC. According to Bhai Manvir
  Singh Khalsa said that he told us, " This Saroop
  is not written by Baba Deep Singh Ji, but it is
  what the SGPC is telling the public to make
  money."With a heavy heart, he said," This Saroop
  has so many mistakes and inconsistencies.

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• This does not even match the other Saroops or
  writings allegedly written by Baba Deep Singh Ji.
  To claim that this Saroop is written by Baba Deep
  Singh Ji is a serious insult to Baba Ji. The
  Saroop is not even written by a single writer.
  This is evident from the different handwriting
  styles of the Saroop.

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• All the Sikh gurus and all the Sikhs who
  followed, until the middle of the twentieth
  century, wrote Gurbani in "Larivaar",
  uninterrupted continuous writing. Even
  non-Gurbani texts and literature in Gurmukhi were
  written in Larivaar format.

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• Therefore, it was shocking to see that the Saroop
  claiming to be written by Baba Deep Singh Ji
  broke words, known as Pad Chhed " and in
  addition, a hyphen (-) was used, which is unknown
  in Gurbani's historical writing.

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• Regarding the fact that Sikhs around the world
  are now available online, he said I am glad and
  hopeful that awake Sikhs can highlight the
  shortcomings of the SGPC claim when researching
  this Saroop.

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• This Saroop is a handwritten copy of the modern
  SGPC printed Saroop. SGPC did not strive to print
  Saroops correctly and participate in the hard
  research of Gurmukhs. Instead, since I've been
  printing Saroop to date, there's a slight
  discrepancy between Saroop.

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• When asked who wrote this Saroop, we said, I
  don't know. But what is beyond the record can be
  said that the SGPC was infiltrated to the highest
  level by anti-Sikh institutions. Non-Sikhs were
  employed to produce handwritten copies of Sri
  Guru Granth Sahib Ji and make Saroop look
  historic and ancient.

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• They can't remove or add Shabads, so they're
  making careful changes to remove 'unkars'and
  'siharis'(grammatical symbols)that most people
  don't choose. This is to allow them to confuse
  Gursikhs reading Gurbani with regard to what they
  consider historical Saroop in the future.

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• When asked if there were any other activities of
  SGPC related to historical Sarup or claims of
  authenticity of writings, we said, Yes. I will
  share one thing with you. A few years ago, SGPC
  toured Punjab with a procession. They publicly
  exhibited Baba Deep Singh Ji's Shastras and Pothi
  Sahibs.

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• No one read it, took it in his hand and showed it
  to the public, and said that this Pothi Sahib or
  Gutka Sahib was written by Baba Deep Singh Ji."He
  said," As SGPC Granthi, I got the opportunity to
  access Pothi Sahibs and Gutka Sahibs. When I read
  them I was shocked that they seem ancient, not
  historical, but modern handwritten Gutka Sahibs.

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• "When asked why he thought SGPC did this, he
  replied, No wonder it makes Sangat stupid and
  makes money." We investigated the Saroop, which
  Shaheed Bhai Mani Singh claims to have authored.
  The site was uploaded to the same website as
  Saroop, which claimed to be written by Baba Deep
  Singh Ji.

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• The Saroop, which claims to have been written by
  Bhai Mani Singh Ji, is a combined Saroop of Sri
  Guru Granth Sahib Ji and Sri Dasam Granth. This
  is not common practice. Several mistakes were
  discovered at a glance in Saroop, raising serious
  questions about the claims made.

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• In Mool Mantar at the beginning of Siree Raag,
  'Satnam'is missing 'unkar'at the end and the
  author forgot to write 'Gur'in 'Gurprasaad'. And
  in Jaap Sahib, the author says that if the
  interval between 'Ik'and 'Ounkar'is 1.5
  centimeters, then 'Ik Ounkar' should be connected
  according to the Larivar (continuous gapless
  writing) tradition of Gurus.

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• The opening of Jaap Sahib is completely different
  from the reading of the historical Sri Dasam
  Granth Sahib, Pothi Sahib or Jaap Sahib accepted
  throughout the Panth. SGPC and modern scholars
  have profited by propagating false claims that
  Saroops are historical or erroneous claims of the
  author.

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• Such actions are harmful in causing confusion and
  undermining the value of truly true Saroop and
  manuscripts written by historical Sikh religious
  preserved by Sikh Gurus and Panth.

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