Keywords:
Human Rights, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, civil rights, political rights, social rights, economic rights
Vol. 4 (2) Dec. 2022
Article ID. JHSSR-1143-2022
Human Rights in Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Keywords: Human Rights, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, civil rights, political rights, social rights, economic rights |
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Abstract:
Human rights, a cornerstone of democratic states, enable and protect individual freedom, dignity and choice, making it one of the most powerful concepts of the present times. Improving individual conduct and social character facilitates human rights and, in this vein, reading and comprehending religious texts of diverse religions can assist one to glean through such universal principles that improve individual and social conduct, thereby establishing the universality of morals on which human rights are based. The presence of universality in the Bani of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and theistic philosophy of Sikhism vouches for an equal and fair society where human rights flourish. Studying Bani contained in Guru Granth in context of discourse on human rights is the objective of the paper for the values like individual and political rights, social dignity, justice, equality etc. permeates the entire Granth. The Bani profusely quoted exemplifies entire gamut of rights like civil, political, social, economic etc. and engaging in Bani is a way how individual and social character can be more right-oriented creating a just societal order in which happiness prevails.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37534/bp.jhssr.2022.v4.n2.id1143.p185