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| more then 90% of sikhs live in punjab |
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| namdharis, ravidasis, and udasis |
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| history of bad relations with mainstream sikhism, considered pariahs |
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| little difference in belief or practice, considered proper sikhs |
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| sikhs follow this, a personal transcendent deity beyond form, unrevealed |
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| revealed or in its manifest nature, with attributes |
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| one all-persuasive supreme being who is both immanent and transcendent |
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| 3 main characteristics of brahman |
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| sikh god, formless, eternal, and omnipresent, signified by the term ek oankar |
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| gods will, the only thing that existed before creation |
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| the human perception of reality |
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| a single, personal and transcendental creator |
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| composed by bijak, a collection of poems in hindi, |
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| Nanak designated the word guru (meaning teacher) as the voice of God and the source and guide for knowledge and salvation. Salvation can be reached only through rigorous and disciplined devotion to God. Nanak emphasized irrelevance of outwardly observations such as rites, pilgrimages or asceticism. Nanak described the result of the disciplined application of nām simraṇ as a "growing towards and into God" through a gradual process of five stages. The last of these is sac khaṇḍ (The Realm of Truth) —the final union of the spirit with God. |
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| final version complied by guru gobind singh, all sikhs are commanded to take the granth as guru, contains compositions from forst 5 gurus |
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| scripture is classified into 31 rags |
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| hymns which are poetically constructed and set to music, set to predetermined beats or tal |
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| main language of the book |
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| begins the book, an iconic verse created by Nanak |
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| book that serves as eternal guru |
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| poetic song that sikhs recite |
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| a sikh temple ("gurdwara") |
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