Sikhism

XVth century was a hard age for India, a lot of reforms and changes were made at its political and cultural life, those changes occurred also at religious life of India. The main religion of Indians monarchs of that time was Islam and as a lot of people were expulsed form Iran for its out-of-favour religion they settled at India as that religion was Sikhism the out-of-favour branch of Islam. Sikhists believed that the final destination of every person in solidarity with god, which may be reached by means of rejecting any world's material values and welfares so poverty at Sikhism considered to be one of the ways of leading saintly life.

According to history of Sikhism this religion was founded by Guru Nanak, who was born at Hindu family and from the very childhood was rather smart child. Guru Nanak wandered around the India teaching and found a lot of followers who wanted to follow him and teaching he propagated. Guru Nanak created Sikhism on the base of Hinduism and Islam. Like Islam Sikhism teaches that god is the one, that there are no variety of gods like at Hinduism, but just like Hinduism Sikhism rejects that god has a face or name and that he is implemented in one person. According to Sikhism god is one but he is in everything that surrounds us: trees, birds, animals, sky etc. Sikhists pray god by calling him with different names borrowed from both Islam and Hinduism. According to Sikhism the main state of god is 'nirgun' this is the state with no features or outlines, but god knows that humans want to talk to him and for this purpose he comes to state called 'saguna'. This state is characterised by displaying of god's presence through his dids, but in no case through his visible image, god is always invisible. Saguna is god's only state that gives people an opportunity to communicate him.

Guru in Sikhism is a conductor of supreme Truth; he bears for people god's word. There are also cases when Guru acts not only like a conductor of Truth but even identified to god. Guru Nanak as a conductor of supreme Truth taught that in order to perceive god one have to reject from proud, greed, passion, angry and adoration of material welfare. The anthem of Sikhism sounds like 'Where the God is there's no I, where the I is there's no God'. Still, all written above doesn't mean that Sikhism followers must reject any mundane activity, more over Guru Nanak and his followers had been worked fields for the last ten years of Nanak's life. The greatest distinction between Sikhism and Hinduism is rejection of any casts. Guru Nanak proclaimed that all humans are equal before gods face and that was a great strike for Hinduism.