"I have studied the scriptures of the great religions, but I did not
find anywhere else the same power or appeal to the heart and mind, as I find
in these volumes. There is something strangely modern about these scriptures
and this puzzled me until I learned that they are in fact comparatively
modern, compiled as late as the 16th century... They speak to a person of
any religion, or of none. They speak to the human heart and the searching
mind." Miss Pearl S. Buck after reading the Guru Granth Sahib -- the Sikh
holy book.
Overview:
Sikhism was founded by Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, (1469-1538). At Sultanpur, he
received a vision to preach the way to enlightenment and God. He
taught a strict monotheism, the brotherhood of humanity. He rejected idol
worship, and the oppressive Hindu concept of caste.
The name of the religion means learner. It is often mispronounced 'seek' It
should be pronounced 'se-ikh', with the final 'kh' sound like the 'kh' in Mikhail
Gorbachev.
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