RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bhakti Movement, Case Blue, Guru Granth Sahib

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: Aditi Sen- Chowdhury

Document Summary

Nowruz (new year): marked with the coming of wine a lot of iranian things are influenced by zoroastrianism. What do you understand of yin and yang-there is no dark or no white. Founded in 16th c punjab district in india. Guru nank was the founder, he was a musical poet. Main stream temples have left out low caste people. He wasn"t a prophet but a man who served. It arises as a reaction to the caste system. Strong rejection of caste system and stress on equality, including gender equality. One god and he is in all of us. Service to humanity is the only way you serve god. That is the underlying philosophy: service to god. You take care of god when you take care of others. In hindu low class cannot eat with high class. Guru will lead you and give you ideas. In our heads god is in the sky-that idea is changed in sikhism.