What Is Religion?

[H Smethwickwalla]

The word religion is a western term. Dharam simply means duty.

In Sukhmani Sahib Guru Arjan Sahib Ji Says:

srb Drm mih sRyst Drmu ]

hir ko nwmu jip inrml krmu ]

Of all religions, the best religion

is to chant the Name of the Lord and maintain pure conduct

Religion abides in every soul, it is the innermost nature of everything that exists. It is the yearning of man to be perfect. Even without knowing it, we are all moving towards that perfection.

There is only one religion: of the droplet of water merging to become the ocean, of an incomplete man to become complete, of a flame to merge with the fire.

All existence is His Name, there is nothing without His Name. So naturally, Naam is imbibed within all matter and in all spirit.

Religion is: to realize that we are nothing but His Naam.

Religion is: to realize that we are nothing but HE. The many different religions teach us the same thing, the same message.

But to most of us religion has become more of a social symbol, an egotistical issue, wherewith we have a name to identify ourselves.

Is it right to hang a picture on the wall, call it our religion and leave it at that?

Religion is with us always within and without. To identify it and realize it is our duty and the only duty.

BeI prwpiq mwnuK dyhurIAw ]

goibMd imlx kI ieh qyrI brIAw ]

Avir kwj qyrY ikqY n kwm ]

imlu swDsMgiq Bju kyvl nwm ]1]

This human body has been given to you

This is your chance to meet the Lord of the Universe.

Nothing else will work.

Join the Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy; vibrate and meditate on the Jewel of the Naam

Religion is not just a habit; it is never stale and is ever new, made afresh every moment. Religion is an ocean unbound, free and perfection complete.

What do we do to it? How do we pollute it?

It is akin to thinking of the ocean as it is for a moment, then creating our own version of the ocean instead of merging our true mind with the infinite. We allow our adverse thoughts and fears to guide us and to divide us. The result of this we become a small stagnating and dirty water pond harbouring disease and foul odour. Next we carry a sample of this polluted content of the pond everywhere and expound it as the truth from the ocean.

We first convince ourselves that we have found it, fool ourselves, waste at lot of energy and effort to convince ourselves and then find someone to preach it in order to convince ourselves further.

Religion is to remove our complexes: the good-bad, high-low, holy and unholy and right and wrong attitude of thoughts. These and many other social complexes are to be condemned and removed from social system in order that we may attain pure and perfect society.

[sikhness]

Sikhism is more than just a mere religion. It's discipline. It's a way of life.

[Bored]

Sikhism is more than just a mere religion. It's discipline. It's a way of life.

tru...most religions flow freely and do watever thewy please and dont take it as sin.

[SikherOfTheNaam]

I thought Sikhism said there are many other pathways to God not just Sikhism?

Khalsa123

[Bored]

I thought Sikhism said there are many other pathways to God not just Sikhism?

Khalsa123

thats tru....but sum ppl like changing the beliefs of their religion. and therefore start making wrong turns.

[wjkk wjkf]

plus the other religions believe that you can only meet god when u die with Sikhism there is the belief that you can meet God in this life!

[KFI]

khalsa how old r u , look what u asked and then look at urself i hope ur not real khalsa

[Guest Papi]

I thought Sikhism said there are many other pathways to God not just Sikhism?

Khalsa123

NO. this is a common misconception among sikhs today. There is only one path to god.

Bwau Bgiq kir nIcu sdwey ] qau nwnk moKMqru pwey ]2]

bhaao bhagath kar neech sadhaaeae || tho naanak mokha(n)thar paaeae ||2||

With loving devotional worship, abiding in humility, O Nanak, salvation is attained. ||2||

what is religion really? its a set of rules to help us along the path. thats it.

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

i read this on a sikh site once and it goes like this:

what separates us from animals? animals- communicate, reproduce, laugh, play, fight, etc etc as do we.

what separates people from animals is religion.

peace.

[Singh With Dunalli]

Religion is a must, but not everyone understand its' power.

Enough Said!