Quellentexte

The creed that opens the Guru Granth Sahib: God is one, true, formless and eternal, and is approached by grace.

The intellect cannot reach God; the way is acceptance of his order. Deliverance is by grace, and remembrance of the Name at dawn is the core practice.

Hearing the Name dignifies all and surpasses ritual. Obedient surrender brings wisdom, and salvation is communal — one is saved with one's family.

God is limitless and unknowable. The mind is purified by love of the Name rather than by ritual, and righteousness born of mercy upholds the world.

True religion is inner virtue, not outward garb — the householder's path. The earth is a temple, and we are judged by our acts.

God creates, names and pervades all as truth. A scathing critique of hypocrisy: honour is weighed by virtue, and truthful living defeats the age's falsehood.

The sunset and bedtime prayers: God watches over all, the cosmos itself is the true worship, and mortality is met with remembrance rather than dread.

All people are equal — caste, gender and religious tribe abolished before the one God. Honest livelihood is sacred, and exploitation defiles.

Bliss is finding the True Guru. The Name sustains the soul, the five passions yield to attunement rather than effort, and holiness is communal.

Remembrance of God is the central practice and flowers into service. Grace reverses every human ranking, and one is saved in the company of saints.

The divine Guru is the totality of human relation. Divine knowledge lies not in words, debate or religious garb, but in the heart that obeys God's order.

Wealth, family and world itself depart; only God remains. Equipoise under weal and woe, and a fearlessness that neither cows others nor is cowed.

One God beyond every human distinction, contained in ant and elephant alike. A litany of names, none final and all true, grounding righteous courage.