Gurbani is of the nature of Truth. A complete guide to practical Pure life, it provides all that's needed to raise one's consciousness to the highest dimension: the plane of Truth. But Truth cannot be understood with material nature. Likewise, Gurbani cannot be understood or acted upon with material tendencies either. Being in the framework of time and space, the human body, mind and intellect are also limited; further limiting human understanding. SGGS reflects on this aspect of limited understanding of the human mind on a grand scale. Furthermore, majority of us read or listen to recitaions of SGGS, or listen to Wise ones through mind's colorings: quagmire of various concepts of our Haume (ego) regime. For the mind identified with the menacing body-consciousness, spiritual knowledge has no meaning.

Gurbani has a simple message: there is One, All-pervading Reality, which is our Pure Being within the body. The purpose of human life is to understand this Truth through self-purification and self-observation while alive here and now, not after death. Only then we can take off from levels of negativity (Bikaars) into heights of spontaneity (Sahaj), Perfection (Pooran Pada) or our True Nature (Joti-Svaroopa: godly status, full Awareness, the state untainted by Haume or relativism).

To this end, SGGS urges us to: become a Gurmukh (Enlightened Being) and live a Divine Life; make truthfulness the core of daily life; make living a dedicated life of selfless service (Nishakaam Sevaa) to the world prayer; make the unsullied Knowledge, humility and contentment the temple within; practice selfless love, compassion and mercy for all beings the greatest devotion and the noblest conduct; enshrine the rosary of meditation in the heart; realize that the real Self in me is the Self in all — recognize Oneness with Universal Spirit; experience Joy and Bliss (Anand) while alive (living liberated: Jeevanmukta); etc.