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SIKHISM
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RECAPITULATION
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and Christianity of Europe, and the result can only be known to a distant posterity.^ tion
1 There are also elements of change within Sikhism itself, and dissent is everywhere a source of weakness and decay, although sometimes it denotes a temporary increase of strength and energy. Sikh sects, at least of quietists, are already numerous, although the great development of the tenets of Guru Gobind has thrown other denominations into the shade. Thus the prominent division into 'Khulasa', meaning 'of Nanak', and 'Khalsa', meaning 'of- Gobind', which is noticed by Forster (Travels, i. 309), is no longer in force. The former term,
Khulasa, is almost indeed unknown in the present day, while all claim membership with the Khalsa. Nevertheless the peaceful Sikhs of the first teacher are still to be everywhere met with in the cities of India, although the warlike Singhs of the tenth king have become predominant in the Punjab, and have scattered themselves as soldiers from Kabul to the south of India.
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Note. The reader is referred to Appendices I, II, III, and rv for some account of the Granths of the Sikhs, for some illustrations of principles and practices taken from the writings of the Gurus, and for abstracts of certain letters attributed to Nanak and Gobind, and which, are descriptive of some views and modes of the Sikh people. Appendix V may also be referred to for a list of some Sikh sects or denominations.
CHAP, in
:
RECAPITULATION
81
and Christianity of Europe, and the result can only be known to a distant posterity.^ tion
1 There are also elements of change within Sikhism itself, and dissent is everywhere a source of weakness and decay, although sometimes it denotes a temporary increase of strength and energy. Sikh sects, at least of quietists, are already numerous, although the great development of the tenets of Guru Gobind has thrown other denominations into the shade. Thus the prominent division into 'Khulasa', meaning 'of Nanak', and 'Khalsa', meaning 'of- Gobind', which is noticed by Forster (Travels, i. 309), is no longer in force. The former term,
Khulasa, is almost indeed unknown in the present day, while all claim membership with the Khalsa. Nevertheless the peaceful Sikhs of the first teacher are still to be everywhere met with in the cities of India, although the warlike Singhs of the tenth king have become predominant in the Punjab, and have scattered themselves as soldiers from Kabul to the south of India.
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Note. The reader is referred to Appendices I, II, III, and rv for some account of the Granths of the Sikhs, for some illustrations of principles and practices taken from the writings of the Gurus, and for abstracts of certain letters attributed to Nanak and Gobind, and which, are descriptive of some views and modes of the Sikh people. Appendix V may also be referred to for a list of some Sikh sects or denominations.
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