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SIKHISM
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Then all the embodied merge in Thee.
[Guru x. Chanpai.]
There are hundreds of thousands of Āküshas and Pātālas.
[Gurn i. Japa.]
The limits of His creation camot be known.
[Guru i. Japa.] This world is the house of the True (one), the True (one) dwells therein.
[Guru ii. Ásavar.]
This world is the temple of Hari, but awful
darkness without the Guru. Those who are led by the mind (lit. mind
facing), these blind rusties worship Him as being distinct (lit. another).
[Guru iii. Prabhati.]
Here is Siddhā's question : How is the world produced 0 man, (and) how
can pain be destroyed ? Answer of Guru Nanak: In Egoison the world has its birth, by forgetting the name (we) suffer.
(Guru i. Sadgosht.]
As to the Jiva he teaches that the Jiva is the same in essence with the Supreme, and that by reincarnation and by karma, the Jiva can realise Himself and know