Executive Briefing: The One Supreme Reality
Guru Nanak’s declaration of Ik Onkar (One Indivisible Creator) and his proclamation that “There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim” dismantled caste discrimination, gender inequality, and empty religious ritualism in 15th-century Punjab.
1. The Mool Mantar: The Foundational Creed
Guru Nanak’s opening composition in the Guru Granth Sahib outlines the divine: Truth by Name, the Creative Personality, Without Fear, Without Enmity, Timeless Form, Unborn, Self-Existent, Realized by Guru’s Grace.
2. References
- Grewal, J. S. (1998). The Sikhs of the Punjab. Cambridge University Press.