Sikhism - Notes

1. Abridged and paraphrased from Gopal Singh, The Religion of the Sikhs (NY: Asia Publishing House, 1971), 1-29.

2. Nanak, quoted by W. H. McLeod in Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1968), 188.

3. J. R. Puri, Guru Nanak: His Mystic Teachings (Punjab, India: Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1982), 82. This title will be abbreviated as Mystic Teachings from this point onward.

4. The Adi Granth, in Selections from the Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, trans. Dr. Trilochan Singh, Bhai Jodh Singh, Kapur Singh, Bawa Harkishen Singh, and Khushwant Singh; revised by George S. Fraser (NY: Samuel Wiser, 1973), 71. All references to the Adi Granth will be taken from this collection.

5. Adi Granth 31, 267, 270.

6. Mystic Teachings, 12.

7. Adi Granth 98, 195, 180.

8. Mystic Teachings 158, 170, 369, 418, 84.

9. Adi Granth 246, 224, 238, 253, 186, 201.

10. Mystic Teachings 55, 75, 88, 128, 238, 242, 277, 281, 312, 399, 431.

11. Mystic Teachings 143, 254, 344, 364, 410.

12. Arjun, in Harbans Singh Doabia, Sacred Sukhmani (Amristar: Singh Bros., 1980), 291, 165, 163, 129, 276, 217, 160.

13. In Gopal Singh, The Religion of the Sikhs, 110, 160.

14. Mystic Teachings 126, 264, 299, 326, 336.

15. Adi Granth 31, 181, 244.

16. Sukhmani, 277.

17. The Religion of the Sikhs, 110.

18. Sukhmani, 99.

19. Mystic Teachings 306, 322.

20. Mystic Teachings 322, 410, 369, 431.

21. Adi Granth, 71.

22. Sukhmani 291, 290, 276, 277, 275.

23. Sukhmani 291, 290, 217.

24. Mystic Teachings, 306, 322.