RELG 101 Lecture 4: Religion 100-March 6.docx
Document Summary
Sikhism: a separate faith and path, but deeply connected to others, for example, baba farid in the sikh scripture, core idea: the sikh tradition demonstrates in a new way the ongoing tension between social life and individual practice between this worldly and other worldly goals, features, centrality of the guru (10 gurus)/sikhs = students, nirgun understanding of god (but a rejection of duality, individual practice/ nam simran, embedded in social life, guru nanak 1469 1539, guru=teacher, sikh=student, vision of guru nanak. Without enmity, whose form is infinite, unborn, self existent, through the grave of the guru: human effort and practice, nirgun vision of the divine, remembrance (simran) of the nam (name), of god: meditation, embracing all aspects of life, devotion to the formless god, critical of external practices: what matters is internal life, one must transform one"s life and one"s psyche.
