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Guru Nanak Dev and Kant
philosophers were generally idealistic. Guru Nanak preached
spirituality. He blessed people with the sensation of the Lord in the
mind, heart and body. We might say it is philosophy and reasoning but along
with it he preached the Lord's Name, love and devotion.
One might ask why Guru Nanak, a spiritual prophet, is being mentioned
among philosophers?
Reason is that one cannot separate philosophy or philosophical ideas
from relihTion. Either a relihTion follows a philosophy or philosophy springs up
from a relihTion.
In any way, both philosophy and relihTion cannot be separated from each
other.
Truly speaking, philosophy is the intellectual knowledge of relihTion.
RelihTion is 'Faith and practice' and its philosophical aspect is philosophy
Le. intellectual knowledge of that faith.
Buddha preached 'Truth' but it became a new philosophy.
Atthis time we wish to see in totality whatever has been gained in philosophy
in the past five or six thousand years.
Kant, a renowned philosopher, has described it in a wonderful manner.
We might like to compare how near to that Guru Nanak's doctrine takes us?
Kant has concluded that really speaking our intellectual mind has
jurisdiction up to whatever is bound by time and space. It cannot think of
anything that is not bound by time and space or where the 'influence of this
factor responsible for' is not present.
The old philosophers had said that the world is bound by time and space.
But now Kant and more philosophers have agreed that time and space is
the knowledge as perceived by our intellectual mind. This is the mind's initial
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