Sri harimandar sahib is both the lamp and the light what is not only 'created' but also endowed with the power 'to create'.in this humble attempt at unveiling the sublimity of an otherwise simple puritan brick-structure this work seeks to discover in sri harimandar sahib the cosmic as well as the spiritual vision of its founder.it is not a mere thesis of the mind but something far beyond derived from its spiritual and technical perception that sri harimandar sahib did not or rather could not deviate from its original concept vision and design despite its recurrent renovation and reconstruction.it essentially remains as sri guru arjan dev had conceived it synthesising into its very being the best of all prevalent architectural forms and traditions though at the same time ably distancing itself from them all - the mosque hindu or jain temple buddhist vhara or a church.even the wide expanse of sikh architecture does not have in form or in spiritual magnificence a second harimandar the sec