Sikh Concept of the Divine

Sikh Concept of the Divine

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Author: Pritam Singh
Publisher: Guru Nanak Dev University
Year: 2002
Language: multilingual
Pages: 253
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8177700103

Description

All religions are unanimous that Ultimate Reality is unfathomable. Sikh religion is no exception. After all, runs the Sikh Scripture's argument how can a creature encompass, wholly, its own Creator? Notwithstanding even more categorical statements than this, occurring repeatedly in all the scriptures of the world, about the utter indescribability of the Only Omniscient, Omni-resent, Essential Reality, we still find all of them referring again and again to the qualities that characterize it.

These qualities or attributes, which vary from religion to religion in their order of priority, provide some of the basic material to interpreters working on the philosophy, sociology and cosmology of religions. In the Sacred Book of the Sikhs also, one may come across any number of divine attributes, but those which must have struck the founder, Guru Nanak, as the most prominent and essential, were woven by him in short rhythmic composition, called the Mul Mantra, the seminal formula, consisting of 14 basic structural units.

The compiler is grateful to all scholars whose timely and unstinted co-operation to him and the department made the Mul Mantra Seminar a success.

Contents

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

The Interpretations of Mul Mantra

The Classical Concept of Mantra

Ek-Oamkar

Sat(i)nam(u)

Karata Purakh (u)

Nirbhau, Nirvair (u)

Akal Murat (i)

Ajuni

Saibham

Gurprasad (i)

The Influence of Mul Mantra on Gurbani

Mul Mantra: Some Philosophical Reflections

Philosophy of Mul Mantra

A Linguistic Analysis of the Mul Mantra

God of Mul Mantra and the Veda: A Comparative Study

Comparative Study of Monotheism in Mul Mantra and the Bible

Mul Mantra: An Untenable Koranic Parallel Examined

Tao and Ek Oamkar: a comparison between Two Powers

Bibliography

Index