The study of the relationship between God and universe in Sikh with the emphasis on Guru Granth Sahib
- Author:
- Zahra Moradi vaghar
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Non-Abrahamic religions
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2016
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Mohammad Mahdi Alimardi
- Advisor(s):
- Seyyed Mohammad Rouhani
Sikhism is a God-centered religion, a religion that believes God distinguished and beyond. God having an active role in the creation and management of existence, so this is the doctrine of the faith in a very strong relationship between the universe and God exists; in a way that existence in every moment is dependent on God, and that God’s will create a significant role in the creation and destiny of humanity. Nevertheless the poems of Guru Granth Sahib and the teachings of the gurus have expressed two kinds of relationship between God and the universe. Some of the poems are referring to the relationship between Creator and creation, which are written in this category refers to the separation of God’s the universe and the God’s magnification in the universe and the unity of existence are expressed in other category, in a way that there is no duality between the universe and God. Finally through studying these approaches in the Sikhian Bible it seems this religion, recognizes the universe as the creation of God and its approach about the unity of existence is more based on Panentheism not Pantheism. It means the relation between God and universe is Oneness of them but it means the manifestation of God in the universe while supremacy of its essence from the universe.