THE SIKH RELIGION

Gurbani - THE SIKH RELIGION :

The aim of life, according the Sikh Gurus, is not to get salvation or a heavenly abode called paradise, but to develop the best in man which is God.

'If a man loves to see God, what care he for salvation or paradise.' (Guru Nanak's Asa)

'Everybody hankers after salvation, paradise or Elysium setting their hopes on them every day of their lives. But those who love to see God do not ask for salvation. The sight itself satisfies their minds completely.' (Guru Ram Das in Kalyan)

How to see God and to love him? The question is taken up by Guru Nanak in his Japji.

'What shall we offer to him that we may behold His council chamber?

What shall we utter with our lips, which may move Him to give us His love?

In the ambrosial hours of morn meditate on the Grace of the True Name:

For your good actions may procure for you a better birth, but emancipation is from Grace alone.'

'We should worship the Name believe in the Name, which is ever and ever the same and true.' (Sri Rag of Guru Nanak)

The practice of the name is emphasized again and again in the Sikh Scriptures, and requires a little explanation.

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