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Volume : II, Issue : XI, December - 2012

GURU NANAK, THE HARBINGER OF THE SIKH ART OF LIVING

ARVINDER SINGH

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Five hundred and forty three years ago Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, laid the foundation of Sikh art of living. His educational philosophy aimed at the sociospiritual development and moral excellence of human beings. Virtues are essential to living well and, even more, to worth living. Sikhism accepts the temporal life as an opportunity given to human beings to practice virtuous life which paves the way for reunion of human beings with Supreme Being (God). The virtues like altruism, benevolence, contentment, courage, detachment, forgiveness, generosity, righteousness, self sacrifice, service, truthful living etc can be acquired and cultivated through education system. Social change, social development and collective salvation are inseparable goals of educational philosophy of Guru Nanak. His Divine compositions are teaching manuals on the art of virtuous living for mankind. He taught the mankind to vigorously strive for liberty, equality, fraternity and justice, and to get ready to lay supreme sacrifice for the defense of eternal truth. His conception of an ideal society and an ideal man is primarily based on fundamentals of Sikh art of living.

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ARVINDER SINGH, (2012). GURU NANAK, THE HARBINGER OF THE SIKH ART OF LIVING. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1769.pdf

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