Re: Sikhism in its current state..........
Originally Posted by
darshansingh
I am not sure, how you would label me. I am a sikh without the labels. My guru is Guru Granth Sahib.
1. I, and most most sikhs, don't believe your first statement. Guru Granth Sahib has bani of 14 bhagats and many poets, out of which 11 were born hindus. Some of these bhagats were at sometime vaishnav like Ramanandji.----
2. Gurbani says "There is one God, formless....".
3. To consider one's scriptures great doesn't mean we put others' scriptures down. e.g. When we sing "Sare Jahaan se Achha ...", it doesn't mean that rest of the world is not "Achha"
Namaste Singh Sahib
Thank you for a well reasoned nice informative post, and especially the part highlighted with blue. I think the tendency to put down others' scriptures/dharma/acts as inferior stems from ignorance/unbelief of one's own scripture.
How many act with full faith on scripture as below, which is the essence of all scripture.
Page 475. What sort of service is this, by which the fear of the Lord Master does not depart? O Nanak, he alone is called a servant, who merges with the Lord Master. || 2 || PAUREE: O Nanak, the Lord's limits cannot be known; He has no end or limitation. He Himself creates, and then He Himself destroys. Some have chains around their necks, while some ride on many horses. He Himself acts, and He Himself causes us to act. Unto whom should I complain? O Nanak, the One who created the creation - He Himself takes care of it. || 23 ||
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Vedanta also teaches that Lord Master Himself is also the divine Man called the World. Then why the fear of the Lord master?
Regards
Om Namah Shivaya
That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.
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