page_title: Sikhism
section_title: Teachings
hierarchical_section_title: Sikhism / Scripture / Guru Granth Sahib / Teachings
caption_attribution_description: English: A group of Sikh musicians at the Golden Temple complex.
context_page_description: Sikhi, is a panentheist religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century.
  It is one of the youngest of the major religions and world's fifth largest organized religion, with about 25 million Sikhs as of the early 21st century.
  Sikhism is based on the spiritual teachings of Guru Nanak, the first Guru, and the nine Sikh Gurus that succeeded him. The tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, named the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib as his successor, terminating the line of human Gurus and establishing the scripture as the eternal, religious spiritual guide for Sikhs. Guru Nanak taught that living an "active, creative, and practical life" of "truthfulness, fidelity, self-control and purity" is above the metaphysical truth, and that the ideal man is one who "establishes union with God, knows His Will, and carries out that Will." Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh Guru, established the miri and piri realms to be mutually coexistent.
  The Sikh scripture opens with the Mul Mantar, fundamental prayer about ik onkar.
context_section_description: The vision in the Guru Granth Sahib, states Torkel Brekke, is a society based on divine justice without oppression of any kind.
  The Granth begins with the Mūl Mantra, an iconic verse which received Guru Nanak directly from Akal Purakh (God).
  The traditional Mul Mantar goes from Ik Oankar until Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach.
  One God exists, truth by name, creative power, without fear, without enmity, timeless form, unborn, self-existent, by the Guru's grace.
  (Punjabi: ੴ ਸਤਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਕਰਤਾ ਪੁਰਖੁ ਨਿਰਭਉ ਨਿਰਵੈਰੁ ਅਕਾਲ ਮੂਰਤਿ ਅਜੂਨੀ ਸੈਭੰ ਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥, romanized: Ika ōaṅkāra sati nāmu karatā purakhu nirabha'u niravairu akāla mūrati ajūnī saibhaṅ gura prasādi)
caption: A group of Sikh musicians at the Golden Temple complex
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