Sikhism
Beliefs
The bare essentials
- There is only one God
- God is without form, or gender
- Everyone has direct access to God
- Everyone is equal before God
- A good life is lived as part of a community, by living
honestly and caring for others
- Empty religious rituals and superstitions have no valuue.
Sikh
Philosophy
Sikh
philosophy is a young, indigenous, monotheistic one. Guru Nanak
(1469-1539) who was trying to unite Hinduism and Islam, founded the
Sikh religious order. The word `Sikh' derives from the Sanskrit word
shishya or disciple. Sikh philosophy is a set of ideas developed by ten
gurus or teachers and passed on to their shishyas or disciples. It
conceives of God as nirakara or formless and also as one. It admits of
no idols or superstitions, whether Hindu or Islamic. It recognizes all
human beings to be equal. However it retains certain Hindu ideas, such
as those of the immortality of the soul, of transmigration and
karma. The sacred book of the Sikhs is the Adi Granth or Granth Sahib
(completed in 1604), of which the Japji section was written by Guru
Nanak himself.
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