Thursday, 27 December 2007

What is sikh Dharam (religion)?

The mool mantar tells us that Waheguru or God is One. Being One, he is all prevading. Being all prevasive, he is the embodiment of truth. The truth is the Creator. He is perfect. The seed of Sikh dharma is Mool mantar and the word Gurparsad is the last word in Mool mantar. Waheguru literally means wondeful-spritual-light, i.e God.

In order to live life in this world, both in the external form (worldly life)and the internal I.e (inner life or soul), it is necessary to be without enmity, without fear, beyond death, self existent, to receive the Guru's grace and to continue to remain its deserving recipient.

The true aim of Sikh dharam is to be transformed from sikh (a learner or seeker) to the form of a Singh-khalsa. The true sikh is the one who seeks to receive knowledge. Whereas a Singh is the one who has gained knowledge and the power to execute it.
A khalsa is one who is all-knowing or a Brahmgiani (one who is perfect). In short the endeavour of the Sikh dharam is to transform a seeker into an all powerful, all-knowing human being.

All the religions of the world agree upon the two fundamental aspects:

1: The goal
2: The method of attaining that goal.

The Goal is to be one with God or God realization or to see the actual form of God in this life itself and to free ourselves from the vicious cycle of repeated births and deaths.

The Method which according to Guru Ji's philosophy, will enable us to reach that truth, or in other words, rendering the veil of falsehood to go beyond the silence of the mind and gi beyond ones's own wisdom ie to surrender to the Divine order. The inverted form of Divine order is ego.

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