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What Is Faith And Dharama As Per Gurbani
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<blockquote data-quote="Sikh80" data-source="post: 61394" data-attributes="member: 5290"><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I am giving below an artile from sikhiwiki .These have helped me a lot in understanding Godhead in Sikhism. Hope you will enjoy it.If interested one may continue as per the link provided below:</span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">God</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">From SikhiWiki</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikhs</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> believe in </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ek_Onkar" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">one God</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> who has existed from the </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ad_Sach" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">beginning of time</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ajoonee" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">never dies</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Hosee_bhee_sach" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">will exist for ever</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">. He/She is genderless; without a body; fearless; without enemies; self sufficient; etc – God's qualities are too many for people to narrate. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Many names are used for God:- <strong><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Waheguru" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u>Waheguru</u></span></a></strong> - The Wonderful Lord; <strong><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Satnam" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u>Satnam</u></span></a></strong> – Truth is your Name . <strong>Malik</strong> - Master; </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Akal_Purakh" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Akal Purakh</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> – The primal being; <strong>Karta Purakh</strong> - The Creator being, etc </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Below are the qualities that </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikhism</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> attributes to God: </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: red">Compassionate & Kind:</span></strong></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Blessing us with His Glance of Grace, the Kind and Compassionate, All-powerful Lord comes to dwell within the mind and body. (</span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SGGS</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Page 49)</span></span></em></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Cherisher Lord is so very merciful and wise; He is compassionate to all. (</span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SGGS</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Page 249)</span></span></em></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The Lord is kind and compassionate to all beings and creatures; His Protecting Hand is over all. (</span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SGGS</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Page 300)</span></span></em></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">O Nanak, God has been kind and compassionate; He has blessed me. Removing pain and poverty, He has blended me with Himself. ||8||5|| (</span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SGGS</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Page 1311)</span></span></em></li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: red">God is everywhere</span></strong></span></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Nanak is attuned to the Love of the Lord, whose Light pervades the entire Universe. (</span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">SGGS</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Page 49)</span></span></em></li> </ul><p><span style="color: red"></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong>GOD IN SIKHISM</strong> , a term used to denote any object of worship or evocation, signifies the belief of most modern religions in the existence of a Supreme Being who is the source and support of the spatio-temporal material world. Theologians remember Him by the name of God. The fundamental belief of </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikhism</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, too, is that God exists, not merely as an idea or concept, but as a Real Being, indescribable yet not unknowable. The </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gurus</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, however, never theorized about proofs of the existence of God. For them He is too real and obvious to need any logical proof. </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Arjan</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, Nanak V, says, "God is beyond colour and form, yet His presence is clearly visible" (GG, 74), and again, "Nanak's Lord transcends the world as well as the scriptures of the east and the west, and yet he is clearly manifest" (GG, 397). In any case, knowledge of the ultimate Reality is not a matter for reason; it comes by revelation of Himself through nadar or grace and by anubhava or mystical experience. Says </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Nanak</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, <em>budhi pathi na paiai bahu chaturaiai bhai milai mani bhane (He is not accessible through intellect, or through mere scholarship or cleverness at argument; He is met, when He pleases, through devotion) " (GG, 436).</em> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikhism</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> as a religion is uncompromisingly monotheistic. The </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Gurus</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> have described God in numerous ways in their hymns included in the </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Granth_Sahib" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Granth Sahib</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">, but the unicity of the deity is consistently emphasized throughout. Briefly, God for the </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikhs</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> as described in the </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mool_Mantar" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Mool Mantar</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, basic formula of the faith, viz. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Ik oankar satinamu karta purakhu nirbhau nirvairu akal murati ajuni saibhan gurprasadi translates to </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">One Supreme Being, the Immutable and Eternal Name, the Creative Principle, Without fear and Without rancour, the Timeless Verity, Unincarnated and Self-Existent, known through His grace. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">(GG. Pg 0001) </span></span></strong></p> </p> </p><p><span style="color: red"></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Oankar is a variation of the mystic monosyllable Om (also known as anahata nada, the unstruck sound) first set forth in the Upanisads as the transcendent object of profound religious meditation. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Nanak</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> prefixed the numeral one (ik) to it making it Ik Oankar or Ekankar to stress GOD's oneness. GOD is named and known only through GOD's Own immanent nature. Almost all names are attributive. The only name which can be said to truly fit GOD's transcendent state is Sati or Satinam (Sanskrit 'satya' meaning TRUTH ), the changeless and timeless Reality. GOD is transcendent and all-pervasive at the same time. Transcendence and immanence are two aspects of the same single Supreme Reality. The Reality is immanent in the entire creation, but the creation as a whole fails to contain GOD fully. As says </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Guru Tegh Bahadur</span></span></u></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, Nanak IX, "He has himself spread out His Own maya which He Himself oversees; many different forms He assumes in many colours, yet he stays independent of all" (GG, 537). </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">God is Karta Purakh, the Creator-Person. He created the spatio-temporal universe not from some pre-existing physical element, but from His own Self. Universe is His own emanation. It is not maya or illusion but is real (sati) because, as say <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u>Guru Arjan</u></span></a>, “True is He and true is His creation [because] all has emanated from God Himself” (GG 294). But God is not identical with the universe. The latter exists and is contained in Him and not vice versa. God is immanent in the created world, but is not limited by it. “Many times He expands Himself into such worlds but He ever remains the same One Ekankar" (GG, 276). Even at one time "there are hundreds of thousands of skies and nether regions" (GG, 5). Included in <a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sach_Khand" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u>Sach Khand</u></span></a>, the figurative abode of God, there are countless regions and universes" (GG, 8). Creation is "His sport which He Himself witnesses, and when He rolls up the sport, He is His sole Self again" (GG, 292). He Himself is the Creator, Sustainer and the Destroyer. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080"><a href="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/God" target="_blank"><u>http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/God</u></a></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #800080"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">To be contd..</span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sikh80, post: 61394, member: 5290"] [B][COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=2]I am giving below an artile from sikhiwiki .These have helped me a lot in understanding Godhead in Sikhism. Hope you will enjoy it.If interested one may continue as per the link provided below:[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman]God[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman]From SikhiWiki[/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=red][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sikhs[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] believe in [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ek_Onkar"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]one God[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] who has existed from the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ad_Sach"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]beginning of time[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Ajoonee"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]never dies[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] and [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Hosee_bhee_sach"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]will exist for ever[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]. He/She is genderless; without a body; fearless; without enemies; self sufficient; etc – God's qualities are too many for people to narrate. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Many names are used for God:- [B][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Waheguru"][COLOR=red][U]Waheguru[/U][/COLOR][/URL][/B] - The Wonderful Lord; [B][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Satnam"][COLOR=red][U]Satnam[/U][/COLOR][/URL][/B] – Truth is your Name . [B]Malik[/B] - Master; [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Akal_Purakh"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Akal Purakh[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] – The primal being; [B]Karta Purakh[/B] - The Creator being, etc [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Below are the qualities that [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sikhism[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman] attributes to God: [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=red]Compassionate & Kind:[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Blessing us with His Glance of Grace, the Kind and Compassionate, All-powerful Lord comes to dwell within the mind and body. ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SGGS[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Page 49)[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/LIST][LIST] [*][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The Cherisher Lord is so very merciful and wise; He is compassionate to all. ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SGGS[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Page 249)[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/LIST][LIST] [*][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The Lord is kind and compassionate to all beings and creatures; His Protecting Hand is over all. ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SGGS[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Page 300)[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/LIST][LIST] [*][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]O Nanak, God has been kind and compassionate; He has blessed me. Removing pain and poverty, He has blended me with Himself. ||8||5|| ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SGGS[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Page 1311)[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/LIST][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=red]God is everywhere[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [LIST] [*][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Nanak is attuned to the Love of the Lord, whose Light pervades the entire Universe. ([/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/SGGS"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]SGGS[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Page 49)[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/LIST][COLOR=red] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B]GOD IN SIKHISM[/B] , a term used to denote any object of worship or evocation, signifies the belief of most modern religions in the existence of a Supreme Being who is the source and support of the spatio-temporal material world. Theologians remember Him by the name of God. The fundamental belief of [/FONT][/SIZE][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sikhism[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], too, is that God exists, not merely as an idea or concept, but as a Real Being, indescribable yet not unknowable. The [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gurus[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], however, never theorized about proofs of the existence of God. For them He is too real and obvious to need any logical proof. [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Arjan[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], Nanak V, says, "God is beyond colour and form, yet His presence is clearly visible" (GG, 74), and again, "Nanak's Lord transcends the world as well as the scriptures of the east and the west, and yet he is clearly manifest" (GG, 397). In any case, knowledge of the ultimate Reality is not a matter for reason; it comes by revelation of Himself through nadar or grace and by anubhava or mystical experience. Says [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Nanak[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], [I]budhi pathi na paiai bahu chaturaiai bhai milai mani bhane (He is not accessible through intellect, or through mere scholarship or cleverness at argument; He is met, when He pleases, through devotion) " (GG, 436).[/I] [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikhism"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sikhism[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] as a religion is uncompromisingly monotheistic. The [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurus"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Gurus[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] have described God in numerous ways in their hymns included in the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Granth_Sahib"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Granth Sahib[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], but the unicity of the deity is consistently emphasized throughout. Briefly, God for the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sikh"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Sikhs[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] as described in the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Mool_Mantar"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Mool Mantar[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], basic formula of the faith, viz. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [CENTER][CENTER][CENTER][COLOR=red][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Ik oankar satinamu karta purakhu nirbhau nirvairu akal murati ajuni saibhan gurprasadi translates to [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER] [CENTER][COLOR=red][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]One Supreme Being, the Immutable and Eternal Name, the Creative Principle, Without fear and Without rancour, the Timeless Verity, Unincarnated and Self-Existent, known through His grace. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/CENTER] [CENTER][B][COLOR=red][FONT=Times New Roman](GG. Pg 0001) [/FONT][/COLOR][/B][/CENTER][/CENTER] [/CENTER] [COLOR=red] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Oankar is a variation of the mystic monosyllable Om (also known as anahata nada, the unstruck sound) first set forth in the Upanisads as the transcendent object of profound religious meditation. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red] [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Nanak"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Nanak[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] prefixed the numeral one (ik) to it making it Ik Oankar or Ekankar to stress GOD's oneness. GOD is named and known only through GOD's Own immanent nature. Almost all names are attributive. The only name which can be said to truly fit GOD's transcendent state is Sati or Satinam (Sanskrit 'satya' meaning TRUTH ), the changeless and timeless Reality. GOD is transcendent and all-pervasive at the same time. Transcendence and immanence are two aspects of the same single Supreme Reality. The Reality is immanent in the entire creation, but the creation as a whole fails to contain GOD fully. As says [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Tegh_Bahadur"][COLOR=red][U][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Guru Tegh Bahadur[/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], Nanak IX, "He has himself spread out His Own maya which He Himself oversees; many different forms He assumes in many colours, yet he stays independent of all" (GG, 537). [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=red][FONT='Times New Roman'] God is Karta Purakh, the Creator-Person. He created the spatio-temporal universe not from some pre-existing physical element, but from His own Self. Universe is His own emanation. It is not maya or illusion but is real (sati) because, as say [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Arjan"][COLOR=red][U]Guru Arjan[/U][/COLOR][/URL], “True is He and true is His creation [because] all has emanated from God Himself” (GG 294). But God is not identical with the universe. The latter exists and is contained in Him and not vice versa. God is immanent in the created world, but is not limited by it. “Many times He expands Himself into such worlds but He ever remains the same One Ekankar" (GG, 276). Even at one time "there are hundreds of thousands of skies and nether regions" (GG, 5). Included in [URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Sach_Khand"][COLOR=red][U]Sach Khand[/U][/COLOR][/URL], the figurative abode of God, there are countless regions and universes" (GG, 8). Creation is "His sport which He Himself witnesses, and when He rolls up the sport, He is His sole Self again" (GG, 292). He Himself is the Creator, Sustainer and the Destroyer. [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#800080][URL="http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/God"][U]http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/God[/U][/URL] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]To be contd..[/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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