if you look at the guru granth sahib there is so much mention of the hindu gods and goddesses like
like hari etc will appear again and again so you can see that is strongly charged by hindu ideology
now what guru guru nanak devi look first of all the most important thing i tell all the
youngsters this watch out if a personality talks about religion or god or spirituality from first
an encounter first in experience reliable if he's just doing book learning and just kind of you know
representing what you study in the books in front of you and saying oh this is it doesn't
carry it doesn't carry weight first an encounter is essential part if you look at the story of guru
nanak he had a marvelous spiritual experience that transformed him so it's a very clear clear
signal that here is a spiritual giant so what did he do although in fact every you know major mystic
of the hindu tradition when they have a spiritual experience they will try and present the ideas of
the religion they belong to in a format suited to the to do to kind of address the needs of the time
now in the time of guru nanak there were serious issues already for example hinduism is a habit of
getting corrupted very easily there are all these gods and goddesses and these ideas of you know
worshiping all these various images and it had become very much artificial mechanical meaningless
ritualistic and he said this is becoming a clutter so he produces idea of god without
form so all these gods and goddesses have put them on the back burner so in a way kind of produce
them a an idea of monotheism which is without form only with name but no form so in a way he tried to
tidy up what hinduism is so is kind of struggling by removing lot of clutter that he thought
is blocking the spiritual heart of hinduism and of course that religion was became so
like this idea of sikhism sikhism means studying learning seek bfc means study learn spirituality
so it's a very marvelous you know again another great thing that you see in guru
nanak's life is this you see there there were two fighting forces in india hinduism and islam
and they were at logarithms you know there was tremendous bloodshed tremendous animosity here
is this particular great master of recent india who said let's try and reconcile
he went out of his way to see the goodness of the of the hindu tradition and the goodness of
the is muslim tradition and try and unify them they would criticize the muslims when they say
oh you can't you know uh you can only you know point in one direction he said no go
in every direction why one direction and he criticized hindu saying oh you are offering you
know this water to the sun you know because they were going in the river and off doing this ritual
offering water to the sun he said ah then he turned his back and said i'm offering water to my
farm it's how can this water reach the farm he said see this exactly what you're doing
so this kind of meaningless ritual that it observed you would criticize the hindu rituals
as well as the muslim rituals it was trying to reconcile two major a very difficult task he tried
and the rest of the gurus paid with their lives trying to do this they lost their lives trying
to somehow in a way a lot of these gurus gave up their lives to protect hinduism incredible story
and i must be very frank the hindus are not repaid the debt they owe to the sikhs
really they were paying with their life to try and protect the hindus and somehow the
hindus have not you know not realized that this debt has to be repaired to the sikhs
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