Re:the "irreligious" nature of the Sikh religion

February 27, 2008

Thank you Amar Atma for this posting.

I am a Bertrand Russell fan, and a former atheist.

While I have not taken any vows to be Sikh, I have

felt an ever deepening commitment in my yoga practice,

which has inspired me to wear turbans and chant. But

I must admit that, on some level, I have looked for

ways in which the Sikh faith " messes up. "

Even though Yogi Bhajan made very clear that religion

is a " science of happiness " (and if it is not making

you happy, it is not working), and that there has

never yet been an adequate one, I was still resistant.

That said, I have been chanting Japji and Dhan Dhan

Ram Das Gur for some time, and the vibration the

paurees and shabds have are, in a word, effective. I

cannot turn them away.

So it is comforting to hear that the Sikh texts have

been pored over by skeptics and that they, like me,

have found no fault in this religion that is not an

" -ism. "

It is amazing to me that Guru Gobind Singh had the

foresight to install the Siri Guru Granth Sahib as the

11th Guru. I was raised Methodist, and in my studies,

I have come to understand that the message of all holy

men, Jesus, the Buddha, and the Sikh Gurus, has been

one and the same: we, as souls, are ultimately

responsible for our selves, including our bodies and

minds. And attention to any part, without the soul's

participation and guidance, amounts to ignorance, if

not hypocrisy.

Thank you again Amar Atma.

Sat Nam

Dev Atma Singh

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