Avil Alh nUru aupwieAw kudriq ky sB bMdy ]

eyk nUr qy sBu jgu aupijAw kaun Bly ko mMdy ]1]

First God created light and then the universe to which humanity belongs.

Since all originated from this One Light, all are equals.

Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Scriptures), page 1349

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"I have studied the scriptures of the great religions, but I do not find elsewhere the same power of appeal to the heart and mind as I find here in these volumes ... There is something strangely modern about these scriptures and this puzzled me until I learned that they are in fact comparatively modern, compiled as late as the 16th century ...They speak to a person of any religion or of none. They speak for the human heart and the searching mind."