Basic
Beliefs
- There is only ONE Akaal Purkh
(God).
- There is NO other power.
Akaal
Purkh creates and controls
everything.
- Akaal Purkh's power, love,
essence is called NAAM. The NAAM
is in everything.
- Everything happens in the
WILL
(HUKM) of Akaal Purkh. There
is nothing outside the HUKM.
- Human being is the most
intelligent and highest form of creation.
Akaal Purkh has given the human a will of its own. Thus the human can
decide
how to live.
- The human can exercise this
will
to make decisions that can
be harmful. To help him live harmoniously with the WILL of Akaal Purkh,
he is given the Shabad Guru to guide him spiritually.
- To live an active life of
service, Akaal Purkh has created
his own Order of Saint-Soldiers called the Guru Khalsa Panth. The human
is advised to join this Order through the Pahul (Amrit) ceremony.
- The ten Patshahian are One in
spirit. That spirit or jyot
now resides in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji. The Guru Khalsa Panth is
the
physical body of the Guru.
- The Sikh has four ceremonies:
naam karan, amrit sanchaar,
anand kaaraj and antim ardas.
- A Sikh is to attain union
with
Akaal Purkh while he is still
living (jeewan mukt). This is attained ONLY through Grace of Akaal
Purkh
and not through any religious rites or rituals.
- The bestowing of Grace on an
individual is the prerogative
of AKAAL PURKH. The ONLY thing a Sikh can do is Ardas. While doing
Ardas
for Grace, he tries to live as Akaal Purkh would want him to live.
- To live as Akaal Purkh
wishes, a
Sikh reads Gurbani, discusses
it, understands it, and then follows what it says in his daily life.
Mechanical
reading and repetition has no value
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