How are Hinduism and Sikhism related, considering they both originated in Punjab, India?

There is my Lord self-revealed, and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.

ਘਸਿ ਚੰਦਨ ਚੋਆ ਬਹੁ ਸੁਗੰਧ ॥

Wherever I go, I find water and stones.

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Bhakti movement began in South (Tamil Nadu to be precise) and slowly spread to Northern parts of India. This movement was extremely popular because of its simple fundamentals which could be understood by even commonfolk. Vaishnavism, Shaivism etc… were already connecting with commonfolk from a long time and this Bhakti movement reinforced it by making the devotee feel a personal connection with the deity.

If Ram be within the image which you find upon your pilgrimage,

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ਪੂਜਾ ਕਰਉ ਨ ਨਿਵਾਜ ਗੁਜਾਰਉ ॥

We can see that great saints like Kabir and Ravidas etc… descended from the Ramananda sampradaya which is still the largest ascetic order in India.

One day, a desire welled up in my mind.

Have you had any paranormal activity situations happen personally to you or someone you know?

ਗੁਰ ਕਾ ਸਬਦੁ ਕਾਟੈ ਕੋਟਿ ਕਰਮ ॥੩॥੧॥

ਨਾ ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨ ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ ॥

Let's look at the views of Sant Kabir

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I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਬੈਕੁੰਠੈ ਆਹਿ ॥੪॥੧੦॥

ਮੁਆ ਕਬੀਰੁ ਰਮਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਰਾਮੈ ॥੫॥੧੫॥

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ਏਕ ਦਿਵਸ ਮਨ ਭਈ ਉਮੰਗ ॥

Bhagat Kabir ji / Raag Gauri / / Guru Granth Sahib ji - Ang 326

There the streams of light flow in all directions, few are the men who can cross to that shore!

How do introverts celebrate their birthday?

ਕੈਸੇ ਬੂਝੈ ਜਬ ਮੋਹਿਆ ਹੈ ਮਾਇਆ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

The Word of the Guru's Shabad eradicates the karma of millions of past actions. ||3||1||

Actually, this part of the Ang 326 is widely used by McSikhs to show that Sikhism considers Hindu pilgrimages as useless and thus drives home the point again that the “religion” has got NOTHING to do with Hinduism.

Why does Africa have all mineral resources but she is suffering economically?

My consciousness does not go out wandering. My mind has become crippled. ||1|| Pause ||

I have taken the One Formless Lord into my heart; I humbly worship Him there. ||3||

All the men and women of the world are His living forms.

Isn't it a turn on to have sex with a girl in a skirt or in a tight spandex?

If God be within the mosque, then to whom does this world belong?

ਜਹਾ ਜਾਈਐ ਤਹ ਜਲ ਪਖਾਨ ॥

Sikhism is fundamentally rooted in BHAKTI tradition and thus ultimately in Sanatana Dharma. There is no doubt about it despite what modern McSikh acrobatics try to claim otherwise

How long would you let a homeless friend stay at your house?

But we have actually seen how much Kabir is also rooted in the Vedantic concept of “supreme realization” but in a non-mainstream path.

Sant Kabir was staunchly against cow slaughter.

I am a sacrifice to You, O my True Guru.

How is it not psychopathic to use someone for sex, even if they agree?

How can people understand You, when they are entranced by Maya? ||1|| Pause ||

Kabir is the child of Allah and of Ram: He is my Guru, He is my Pir.

Again we see that the originator of this Sant Sampraday himself talks about Brahman even in Gurbani.

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That God showed me the Guru, within my own mind. ||1||

ਕਬੀਰ ਨਿਰਗੁਣ ਨਾਮ ਨ ਰੋਸੁ ॥

ਕਾਸੀ ਮਗਹਰ ਸਮ ਬੀਚਾਰੀ ॥

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Now that my time to die has come, I have come to dwell at Magahar! ||3||

These morons know nothing, they wander about in ignorance,

Bhagat Kabir ji / Raag Sriraag / / Guru Granth Sahib ji - Ang 92

What is world history that not many people know about?

There is a reason why I mention ROOTED and thus NOT implying that it belongs to one of the numerous sects in Sanatana Dharma like Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, Smartism etc…

ਸੋ ਬ੍ਰਹਮੁ ਬਤਾਇਓ ਗੁਰ ਮਨ ਹੀ ਮਾਹਿ ॥੧॥

ਬੇਦ ਪੁਰਾਨ ਸਭ ਦੇਖੇ ਜੋਇ ॥

ਮਰਤੀ ਬਾਰ ਮਗਹਰਿ ਉਠਿ ਆਇਆ ॥੨॥

The Saadh Sangat, the Company of the Holy, is heaven. ||4||10||

ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਮੈ ਬਲਿਹਾਰੀ ਤੋਰ ॥

— Kabir, Ramaini 1, Translated by David Lorenzen

Without looking into one's heart, how can one reach paradise?

ਜਿਨਿ ਸਕਲ ਬਿਕਲ ਭ੍ਰਮ ਕਾਟੇ ਮੋਰ ॥

Says Kabeer, unto whom should I tell this?

I ground up sandalwood, along with several fragrant oils.

I went to God's place, and worshipped Him there.

Sain (a barber)

So in the same spirit Kabir finds pilgrimages to holy cities futile as his mind is fixated on Rama!

CONCLUSION:

To him who is high-minded, these teachings will be illuminating.

ਹਜ ਕਾਬੈ ਜਾਉ ਨ ਤੀਰਥ ਪੂਜਾ ॥

That Kabeer died chanting the Lord's Name. ||5||15||

I am not a Hindu, nor am I a Muslim.

Bhagat Kabir ji / Raag Gauri / / Guru Granth Sahib ji - Ang 325

Sikhism is a NIRGUN path descending from the Sant Sampraday of Ramanandacharya and traces its ideas to VEDANTA!

Sadhna (a Muslim butcher) and

ਸਗਲ ਜਨਮੁ ਸਿਵ ਪੁਰੀ ਗਵਾਇਆ ॥

ਪੂਰਬ ਜਨਮ ਹਉ ਤਪ ਕਾ ਹੀਨਾ ॥੧॥

There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,

At the time of my death, I moved to Magahar. ||2||

Raamaanand Jee, First House:

Ramanandacharya’s teachings were centered on pure and personal connection with the God Rama and didn’t believe in any kind of formal ritualism. He used the common vernacular language instead of Sanskrit so that everyone could understand.

Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,

Ramanandacharya was a 14th-century Hindu Vaishnava devotional poet saint who amalgamated Advaita with Vaishnava Bhakti. He was the pioneer in validating NIRGUN and SAGUN Bhakti as parallel paths.

For many years, I practiced penance and intense meditation at Kaashi;

I am like a fish out of water,

I left Benares - I had little common sense. ||1|| Pause ||

— Kabir, III.2, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

Here ਨਿਰਗੁਣ is Nirgun and not just lord. This is just another example to show that Kabir himself continued in the NIRGUN BHAKTI path.

— Kabir, II.57, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

Says Kabeer, this is what I say:

You have cut through all my confusion and doubt.

Kabeer: O worthless mortal, do not lose the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

ਮੇਰਾ ਚਿਤੁ ਨ ਚਲੈ ਮਨੁ ਭਇਓ ਪੰਗੁ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

Ramananda accepted disciples without discriminating against anyone by gender, class or caste and they included even people from humble origins like

I do not perform Hindu worship services, nor do I offer the Muslim prayers.

Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, where millions of Brahmas are reading the Vedas,

ਗਉੜੀ ਕਬੀਰ ਜੀ ਪੰਚਪਦੇ ॥

ਤਬ ਲਗੁ ਹੋਇ ਨਹੀ ਚਰਨ ਨਿਵਾਸੁ ॥੩॥

Kabir (a weaver)

The views of Kabir are very much in parallel to the Advaita philosophy and it is obvious that as the disciple of Ramanandacharya he will carry forward with his chosen NIRGUN BHAKTI.

I have searched through all the Vedas and the Puraanas.

How can they kill the mother, whose milk they drink like that of a wet nurse?

Shvetashvatara Upanishad (6.23)

With inadequate devotion, how can anyone swim across? ||4||

ਬ੍ਰਹਮ is Brahm i.e the Brahman of vedanta but it gets interpreted as an all-pervading lord god.

Gauree, Kabeer Jee, Panch-Padas:

Meeting with the Guru, my Spiritual Teacher, I realize God, my Lord and Master. ||5||3||

Here ਰਾਮੈ is Rama and not just lord. Kabir died chanting the name of Rama DESPITE him not finding any result of penances done in holy cities in his previous birth. Another example to show how much Kabir valued personal devotion to Rama in his own NIRGUN style.

You are totally pervading and permeating in all.

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ਏਕੋ ਸੇਵੀ ਅਵਰੁ ਨ ਦੂਜਾ ॥੨॥

ਊਹਾਂ ਤਉ ਜਾਈਐ ਜਉ ਈਹਾਂ ਨ ਹੋਇ ॥੨॥

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ਕਹੁ ਕਬੀਰ ਇਹੁ ਕੀਆ ਵਖਾਨਾ ॥

We have searched the turaki Dharam (Turk's religion, Islam), these teachers throw many thunderbolts,

Kabir, Ravidas and ultimately the NINE SIKH GURUS are a product of this very Sant Sampraday founded by Ramanandacharya!

Raamaanand's Lord and Master is the All-pervading Lord God.

Where spring, the lord of seasons reigneth, there the unstruck music sounds of itself,

The divergence of Kabir’s views from Vedanta is seen in the fact that he fully opposed religious symbolism of ALL KINDS and not just IDOLS.

He does not dwell at the Lord's Feet. ||3||

ਤਜੀ ਲੇ ਬਨਾਰਸ ਮਤਿ ਭਈ ਥੋਰੀ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

ਤੂ ਪੂਰਿ ਰਹਿਓ ਹੈ ਸਭ ਸਮਾਨ ॥

From where did the word Maya come? Isn’t it a typical Vedantic concept discussed profoundly in Advaita? It definitely isn’t a concept pioneered by Kabir or even his teacher Ramanandacharya! It is ultimately from Sanatana Dharma!

He accepted even women (Sursuri and Padywati) as disciples. Bhagat Pipa and Dhanna were Rajput and Jat who were also his disciples.

यस्य देवे परा भक्तिः यथा देवे तथा गुरौ । तस्यैते कथिता ह्यर्थाः प्रकाशन्ते महात्मनः प्रकाशन्ते महात्मन इति ।

One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

From Guru Granth Sahib ji - Ang 1195

Hari is in the East, Allah is in the West.

For him Dharma was beyond everything physical including the desire for heaven because was fully into the NIRGUN . The last verse shows that according to him the company of the enlightened Sadhus is heaven which is again a typical teaching of Sanatana Dharma.

Let’s see what Gurbani has about Ramanandacharya’s views.

I would go there, only if the Lord were not here. ||2||

ੴ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਪ੍ਰਸਾਦਿ ॥

ਓਛੀ ਭਗਤਿ ਕੈਸੇ ਉਤਰਸਿ ਪਾਰੀ ॥੪॥

ਜਬ ਲਗੁ ਮਨਿ ਬੈਕੁੰਠ ਕੀ ਆਸ ॥

Kaashi and Magahar - I consider them the same.

Guru Nanak (right) and Bhai Mardana (foreground) with Bhagat Kabir (left). This painting is found in the B-40 Janamsakhi, written and painted in 1733. The painting was made by Alam Chand Raj

As mentioned above Guru Arjan Dev was talking from the perspective Sant Kabir whose views we have discussed much earlier here. We know that Sant Kabir continuing in the Ramanandi Sampradaya went further away from the mainstream ritualistic Hinduism and was journeying more towards a SEAMLESS Dharma.

NOW…

Raamaanand's Lord and Master is the All-pervading Lord God.

Now tell me, Lord, what will my condition be?

Ramarchan Paddati gives more info about his teachings.

ਪੂਜਨ ਚਾਲੀ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ ਠਾਇ ॥

I serve the One Lord, and not any other. ||2||

Where should I go? My home is filled with bliss.

Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, where millions of Saraswatis, goddess of music play the vina,

then who is there to know what happens without?

ਰਾਮਾਨੰਦ ਸੁਆਮੀ ਰਮਤ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ ॥

ਮੁਆ ਕਬੀਰੁ ਰਮਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਰਾਮੈ

ਜਿਉ ਜਲ ਛੋਡਿ ਬਾਹਰਿ ਭਇਓ ਮੀਨਾ ॥

Look within your heart, for there you will find both Karim and Ram;

For a superficial McSikh who is interested only in separation and not enlightenment the views of Kabir can be easily shown as a denouncement of Hindu practices.

ਰਾਮਾਨੰਦ ਜੀ ਘਰੁ ੧

Because in my previous life, I did not practice penance and intense meditation. ||1||

We can understand that Kabir despite being in favor of formless worship was very much embedded in the Dharmik fold but always preached in the spirit of the transcendental nature of Brahman to the point that HE LOST THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN HINDU AND MUSLIM.

ਗੁਰ ਪੀਰ ਮਿਲਿ ਖੁਦਿ ਖਸਮੁ ਪਛਾਨਾ ॥੫॥੩॥

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Let’s look at the most used verse by McSikhs to show that Sikhs are neither Hindus nor Muslims.

I wasted my whole life in the city of Shiva;

ਕਹੁ ਗੁਰ ਗਜ ਸਿਵ ਸਭੁ ਕੋ ਜਾਨੈ ॥

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ਬਹੁਤੁ ਬਰਸ ਤਪੁ ਕੀਆ ਕਾਸੀ ॥

Ravidas (a chamar shoemaker)

Now here in this verse

ਨਾ ਹਮ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਨ ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ ॥

Bhagat Kabir ji / Raag Gauri / / Guru Granth Sahib ji - Ang 325

ਕਹੁ ਕਬੀਰ ਇਹ ਕਹੀਐ ਕਾਹਿ ॥

Says Kabeer, the Guru and Ganaysha and Shiva all know

He who has highest Bhakti of Deva (God), just like his Deva, so for his Guru (teacher),

The young and the old drink milk pudding, but these fools eat the cow's body.

The influence of Kabir is significant on Sikhism. The following Bani from Ang 1136 is attributed to GURU ARJAN DEV but if you observe at the end you can see that he was talking in the spirit of Sant Kabir.

ਕਤ ਜਾਈਐ ਰੇ ਘਰ ਲਾਗੋ ਰੰਗੁ ॥

My body and breath of life belong to Allah - to Raam - the God of both. ||4||

As long as the mind is filled with the desire for heaven,

ਏਕ ਨਿਰੰਕਾਰ ਲੇ ਰਿਦੈ ਨਮਸਕਾਰਉ ॥੩॥

Recklessly they display boundless pride while explaining their own aims, they kill cows.

ਰਾਮਾਨੰਦ ਸੁਆਮੀ ਰਮਤ ਬ੍ਰਹਮ ॥

ਮਰਨੁ ਭਇਆ ਮਗਹਰ ਕੀ ਬਾਸੀ ॥੩॥

ਅਬ ਕਹੁ ਰਾਮ ਕਵਨ ਗਤਿ ਮੋਰੀ ॥

ਅਲਹ ਰਾਮ ਕੇ ਪਿੰਡੁ ਪਰਾਨ ॥੪॥

The Sant Sampraday of Sikh panth integrates the warrior spirit of the Nihangs and Khalsa, the service of Seva panth and the renunciation of Udasi/Nirmala saints.

I do not make pilgrimages to Mecca, nor do I worship at Hindu sacred shrines.