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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gjsingh" data-source="post: 225621" data-attributes="member: 19846">But Nanak did create a new, distinct community, neither Hindu nor Muslim, at Kartarpur. Furthermore, if Nanak had no intention of establishing a durable and unique community with a distinct identity, then he would not have transferred his light successively to each of his 9 human successors. And if all 10 masters had the same jyot, which is something that all Sikhs believe, then everything the succeeding masters have to say on the matter is evidence which should be brought to bear on the question. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if the community founded by Nanak has been clearly instructed to defend their distinct identity by any means necessary, up to and including the use of cold steel and hot lead against all oppressors, whether they be Hindu or Muslim, then Nanak cannot be called a Hindu, and neither can Sikhs.But it sounds like you may be one of those political types that are using an expansive, modernist definition of "Hindu" for nationalistic reasons, meant to encompass anything and everything from Kailash to Kanyakumari. Fine. Nevertheless, it simply is the case that authentic Sikhi transcends the categories and boundaries of Sanatan Dharma. It is a unique and revolutionary theology, despite its debt to the medieval Bhakti sociological phenomenon.As I said previously, nobody would call Christianity a form of Judaism. Then even more so, Sikhi is not Hinduism.</blockquote>

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