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Guru Nanak taught us the importance of caring and loving communities and promoted and encouraged their birth and establishment; the concept of fellowship; of closeness and affection; of non-discrimination and fairness; of openness and transparency; of caring for others; of protecting and guardianship; of loving all are paramount to Sikhi and necessary for a rewarding and fruitful spiritual life.
The Guru helped to established many communities where the principles of caring, of community cohesion, of kindness and forgiveness, of sharing and respect for all were strongly emphasised. The fact that we all belong to the one same God, the Creator, Sustainer and the Destroyer is the root and the primary message of the Guru Granth, the Sikh holy scripture.
The code of behaviour and self-discipline of the individual was the first step - to have control over ones own vices and to establish ones virtues; then comes the duties to live and play an important and useful role in the family unit; and subsequently one was to play a coherent and systematic part in their local community and society at large. The person's role in each situation has been outlined in Gurbani; the pages of Guru Granth Sahib which provide guidance to help us all live an elevated and spiritually healthy life, with contentment and satisfaction; the message of how to derive maximum benefits from this "jewel of a human life" can be found in pages of the holy Granth. .....More
