Authenticity of Kartarpuri Bir - Global Sikh Studies

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the logic of God is Love leads them towards an entirely different
or the opposite direction of life-affirmation and acceptance
of total social resnsibility. The fifth conclusion is that the eleven
corollaries of this basic experience of love follow as one step
from the other and are interlinked and integrated as a complete
whole. For, if God is love, the world is real, the way to God is
through virtuous deeds. And the goal is to establish the
brotherhood of man, through the acceptance of all kinds of
social responsibilities in all spheres of life, including that of
work and production, and through the sharing of one’s earnings
and God’s wealth.
Here it might be objected that in drawing a demarcation
between the religious experience of God as communicated by
the Sikh Gurus and that of the saints and mystics of other
religions we have unnecessarily made a distinction without a
difference. For further clarification we shall record the views
of two outstanding persons, one in the field of intellect and
the other in the field of religion.
Aldous Huxley in his letter to Humphry Osmond writes,
“The Indians say, the thought and the thinker and the thing
thought about are one and then of the way in which this
unowned experience becomes something belonging to me; then
no me any more and a kind of sat chit ananda, at one moment
without karuna or charity (how odd that the Yedantists say
nothing about Love,)... I had an inkling of both kinds of
nirvana-the loveless being, consciousness, bliss, and the one
with love and, above all, sense that one can never love
enough.” 48
Again, during his visionary experience of the ‘Pure
light’ he speaks to his wife Laura.
“LAURA: If you can immobilize it ? What do you
mean? ALDOUS: You can immobilize it, but it isn’t
the real thing, you can remain for eternity in this thing
at the exclusion of love and work.
LAURA: But that thing should be love and work.