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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spnadmin" data-source="post: 189062" data-attributes="member: 35">Luckysingh jiUnless I am misreading what chazSingh ji has posted, your idea is very different from his. McLeod is casting Guru Nanak's philosophy as a rehash of the Vedic understanding of "khands." In any ascension or ladder model one an be only on one step at a time. The spiritual journey takes one on a trek from one level to the next, in this lifetime ... but more probably over thousands.Only those who are at the top have the luxury of sehaj. The rest must follow an effective spiritual blueprint that keeps generations exhausted with a perpetual climbing experience .... whilst the spiritual climb, the world burns... for want of attention to the suffering of real people in real time. Of course that should bother no one because, as the blueprint also provides, suffering and the world are illusions anyway. Do you think that is what Guru Nanak was thinking? And if you do, then do you also think Guru Nanak's ideas were a rehash of earlier Hindu thought? McLeod presents the "rehash thesis"  as correct. Guru Nanak, according to McLeod, was just one more guru in the long and ancient sant tradition of India. Others dispute the thesis. This presents a practical question. Why even bother to compile the Aad Granth if the Vedas have it wrapped?Why even bother to go to a hot plate if the Vedas have it sewn up tight?</blockquote>