Word: granth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religious customs and institutions. A newcomer is initiated by being anointed with sweet water that has been stirred in an iron bowl with a double-edged dagger. Sikhs pray together on equal footing in gurdwaras, or temples, through which reverberate chanted verses from the sacred book known as the Granth Sahib. The holiest of holies is the Golden Temple at Amritsar, some 250 miles northwest of Delhi, the shrine that was stormed by government troops five months ago. Rejecting all idols as false, the Sikh (the name means disciple) draws his inspiration from ten religious teachers, or gurus...
...imploring people to bow only before God and to link themselves to the guru. Today, although the faith's chief guru, Siri Singh Sahib, resides at the Sikhs' headquaters in Los Angeles, the Sikhs devote themselves to the scripture of the last living master, the book Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The writings of the ten masters are an account of the faith's traditions and a collection of the chants and songs the first gurus intoned to propel themselves into "a state of ecstasy for God consciousness." Yogi Bhajan, a shortened form of Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh...
...evening, above the ice cream shop, the Sikhs practice the rituals of their predecessors, stretching, contorting, ventilating, and "oaming" to gain the higher consciousness, the ultimate. Below they walk on Mass. Ave. in clean, placidity amidst the chaos. As Siri Guru Granth Sahib says, "As a swan glides upon the water but does not wet its feathers, so a Sikh lives in the world but keeps his mind fixed...