Wandering through the abyssal sea of confusion and uncertainty, a soul rips into whenever it finds a junk of bones and meat hoping to quest its fate by means of worldly virtues. A tiny and fragile token of humanity harbouring the excited parasite hasn't even opened its eyes that it is stamped hard!, stamped with a surname, with a passport and tons of other labels thrashed onto shoulders which can even hardly keep the little head straight.....birth of another adventurer, a truth seeker who would get so entangled in expectations and performance that eventually would seek everything but the truth!!
"The Truth"...isn't it if seen as a big picture, something that frames the humanity in one piece. Perhaps, explained with utmost simplicity in all holly scriptures, truth and fate are synonyms of the phrase 'unified humanity'. For centuries, people had been labeled with different religions and subclasses as soon as they were born and for the same centuries, powers have existed that have always tried to bring the humanity into a closely interwoven, non biased society. Our Gurus gathered these scattered lights of hope into a single path towards attainment of this truth...........the path called Sikhism.
Sikhism, certainly not the religion by birth is the "Religion of practice". Guru Gobind Singh Ji has quoted" Rehni rahe, soi sikh mera; O sahib mein uska chehra". "Rehni", not simply keeping the sikh swaroop is far more than that. Its not something acquired by sainthood or found in unreachable mountains, its just a set of guidelines perhaps scribbled down in all the Holy Scriptures but unfortunately seldom followed. On the contrary, the Devil has often quoted these scriptures not really to deceive, but simply that masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them. Sikhism is not merely 300 or 500 years old, it has existed ever since there has been somebody to preach the concept of oneness. Being born in a non-sikh family does not take away the right to be a sikh nor does being born in a sikh family awards that right. Sikh is the one who follows the path of "Rehni" no matter what caste, colour, creed or religion he is. The ideal Sikh is supposed to cultivate the qualities of contemplation, stillness and inwardness in the midst of labour, business and engagement. He too regards the world as ultimately Maya or illusion, and the life of man as a tableau of light and shade, but the Nirvana can not be achieved except through an acceptance of the reality of this unreality, and a proper disposition of the allotted role in the phantasmagoria of life!!
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