Puran Singh was introduced to Walt Whitman during his studentship in Japan in 1901 through an American Professor teaching at Tokyo University. He was so much infatuated with Whitman's...
In mystic literature of Guru Granth the appeal of the numinous becomes ineffable, if not inexplicable. And yet the great Sikh scripture is not a knot of metaphysical riddles and abstract theorizing. For the most part it employs the idiom of the common people, and draws its imagery and metaphors from the home, the street and the work place.
I was wonder struck with the pristine glory of Lohgarh site. It seems nothing has changed during the last 300 years and time has been fossilized in Lohgarh. The Shivalik hills, river bed and the surroundings of Lohgarh have also been fossilized since the times of Banda Singh Bahadur.
Slavery is permitted in Islam but it is not condoned in any form in Sikh religion. Islam does not approve of music and dancing and considers both as haram (forbidden). The Sikh scripture is written in poetry and ragas and its congregational singing (Keertan) is considered the best form of worship in Sikh religion.