His Teachings:
"Birth and caste are of no avail before God. It is ones deeds
which make or unmake a man. To exploit ignorant people with superstitions and
to call it religion is a sacrilege against God and man. To worship the
infinite, formless and absolute God in the form of a totem, an image or an
insignificant time-bound object of nature; to lead people to beleive that they
can wash away their sins, not through compassion and self-surrender, but
through ablutions; to insist upon special diets-what to eat and what not to
eat; to say that a certain language and dress allows accesss to God and to
condemn masses of human beings, men, women and children, to the status of
sub-humans, who are not even allowed to learn to read the scriptures that they
are told rule their lives; never allowed to enter a house of worship; who are
allowed to do only the lowest degrading work, is to tear man apart from man.
This is not religion nor is it religion to deny the world by becoming an
ascetic, for it is in the world alone that man can find his spiritual
possibilities.
Guru Ram Das Sahib Ji - from 1574 to 1581
Born in 1534, he founded the city of Amritsar and
started the construction of the famous Golden Temple at Amritsar, the
holy city of the Sikhs. He requested the, Muslim Sufi, Mian
Mir to lay the cornerstone of the Harmandir Sahib.
The temple remains open on all sides and at all times to everyone.
This indicates that the Sikhs believe in One God who has no partiality for any
particular place, direction or time.The standard Sikh marriage ceremony known as the Anand
Karaj is centredon the Lawan, a four stanza hymn also composed by
Guru Ram Das.
Highlights of Guru Ram Das Ji :
- Author of Lavan, the hymns of the Marriage Rites.
- Planned and created the township of Ramdaspur (later Amritsar).
- Organization Structure of Sikh Society.
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