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Persona #192

Guru Gobind Singh

1666–1708
Tenth and final human Guru of the Sikh tradition; founder of the Khalsa (1699)

Saint-soldier — the Khalsa as the embodied community of disciplined sovereignty under divine command

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Attribute Guru Gobind Singh
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Revelation
Observer · Theological Method Confessional
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Guru Gobind Singh

Linear devotional time within cyclic yugas; the Khalsa is the present dispensation's task.

Space

Guru Gobind Singh

Substantival created space; the gurdwara, the battlefield, the panj pyare encounter.

Matter

Guru Gobind Singh

Substantival created matter; the Khalsa body is the disciplined material instrument.

Observer

Guru Gobind Singh

Plural creaturely observers; multiple time-instances through reincarnation. Personal metaphysical agency: Waheguru.

Energy

Guru Gobind Singh

Standard physics within a sovereign-creator cosmology.

Information

Guru Gobind Singh

Personal soul conserved across rebirths; eventual liberation in union with Waheguru.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Guru Gobind Singh

The status of the Dasam Granth (some passages of which are clearly by Gobind Singh, others contested) has been a continuing intra-Sikh debate. The militarization of the tradition through the Khalsa institution has been read by some as the defining Sikh achievement and by others as a regrettable response to Mughal persecution that displaced the more meditative-devotional register of Guru Nanak; most Sikhs see the two as complementary.