1 THE RELIOION OF THE SIKHS* 121
2 Mussulmans. Har Govind's successors, down
3 to the time of Guru Govind, were continually
4 involved in contests with the rulers of the Pun-
5 jaub, and at length quarrelled among themselves,
6 for secular purposes had now mingled with holy-
7 objects, and the thirst for territorial power ulti-
8 mately took precedence of the protection and
9 dissemination of the religion taught by Nanac
10 as the motive for a resort to hostilities. From,
11 the time of Guru Govind, the struggles of the
12 Sikhs to re-establish themselves as a separate
13 nation engaged their attention, and as these
14 matters have been treated of in the second
15 chapter of this little work they need not be
16 referred to here. Guru Govind, however, did
17 not suffer his duties as a leader of armed hosts to
18 prevert his course of teaching. He continually
19 made additions to the Adi-Granth^ or first Grant hy
20 upon the precepts of which the Sikh religion is
21 now founded. These precepts may be thus
22 stated: —
23 There is no God but one God. " A hundred
24 thousand of Mahomets, a million of Brahmas,
25 Vishnus, and a hundred thousand Bamas stand
26 at the gate of the Most High. These all perish.
27 God alone is immortal."
28 God made all men alike. He created no dis-
29 tinctions of caste ; therefore are all such divisions
30 offensive to the Most High. . /
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