The Gift of Spirituality

Sikhism
Sikhism considers spiritual life and
secular life to be intertwined: "In the
Sikh Weltanschauung...the temporal
world is part of the Infinite Reality and
partakes of its characteristics." Guru
Nanak described living an "active,
creative, and practical life" of
"truthfulness, fidelity, self-control and
developed into the concept of the Saint
Soldier by the 10th Sikh Guru, Gobind
Singh.
According to Guru Nanak, the goal is to
attain the "attendant balance of
separation-fusion, self-other, actioninaction,
attachment-detachment, in the
course of daily life", the polar opposite to
a self-centered existence.
purity" as being higher than a purely
contemplative life.
The 6th Sikh Guru Guru Hargobind reaffirmed
that the political/temporal (Miri)
and spiritual (Piri) realms are mutually
coexistent.
According to the 9th Sikh Guru, Tegh
Bahadhur, the ideal Sikh should have
both Shakti (power that resides in the
temporal), and Bhakti (spiritual
meditative qualities). This was
Nanak talks further about the one God
or Akal (timelessness) that permeates
all life). and which must be seen with
'the inward eye', or the 'heart', of a
human being.
In Sikhism there is no dogma, priests,
monastics or yogis.
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