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Sightings of the Northern goshawk (called 'Baaj' / ਬਾਜ਼ in Punjabi) are considered auspicious.. While Sikh theology and code of conduct is not supposed to approve of superstitions, [1] in practice some Sikhs are observed to persist in some superstitious practices, including some of those followed due to the influence of other communities.
Belief in ghosts has been deeply ingrained in the minds of the people of the subcontinent for generations. There are many allegedly haunted places in the subcontinent , such as cremation grounds, dilapidated buildings, palaces, havelis , forts, forest bungalows , burning ghats , etc. Ghosts also occupy a significant place in the Bengali culture .
Sikhism is a monotheistic and panentheistic religion. Sikhs believe that there exists only one God and that God is simultaneously within everything and is all-encompassing. The oneness of God is reflected by the phrase Ik Onkar. [19] [20] In Sikhism, the word for God is Waheguru (lit. ' wondrous teacher ').
The Sikh gurus have described God in numerous ways in their hymns included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhism, but the oneness of formless God is consistently emphasized throughout. God is described in the Mul Mantar (lit. the Prime Utterance), [4] [5] the first passage in the Guru Granth Sahib:
The Sikh Confederacy was the catalyst for a uniquely Sikh form of expression, with Ranjit Singh commissioning forts, palaces, bungas (residential places) and colleges in a Sikh style. Sikh architecture is characterised by gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks, stone lanterns, ornate balusters and square roofs.
The Sikhs are adherents to Sikhism, the fifth largest organized religion in the world, with around 25 million adherents. [1] Sikh History is around 500 years and in that time the Sikhs have developed unique expressions of art and culture which are influenced by their faith and synthesize traditions from many other cultures depending on the locality of the adherents of the religion.
Why do people believe in ghosts? Are ghosts real? A professor of folklore and anthropology explains our human fascination with ghost stories and haunted houses.
Fenech states, "Indic mythology permeates the Sikh sacred canon, the Guru Granth Sahib and the secondary canon, the Dasam Granth and adds delicate nuance and substance to the sacred symbolic universe of the Sikhs of today and of their past ancestors". [8] Some historians do not see evidence of Sikhism as simply an extension of the Bhakti movement.