The First Enemy of India

Great Indian thinkers are united in the quest for peace.

Many armies have crossed its mountainous North-Western border with aims of conquest, but this has always been a one-way movement.

Buddhists and sea-faring communities from our Eastern sea-board have ventured all the way from Myanmar and Thailand to Vietnam and Indonesia, but such dispersion has never been bloody or even forced.

The modern Diasporas of India continue the peaceful ways of our ancestors.

Yet India is relentless in its aggression against an insidious enemy. The latter has five heads. It is remarkable that all indigenous streams of religious thought of India, see the five-faced enemy the same way.

Lust, anger, envy, delusion, and pride are five tendencies of the human mind against which every Indian must guard. Mortality nurses these five faces of personal enmity. They can surface with even momentary lapses on our parts.

Spirituality is an Indian weapon to fight the five faces of the common enemy that lurks inside human minds. The Word of God has more power for a believer than all the aircraft, warships, tanks, and guns of other countries.

Indians should wage incessant war with their mortality, rather than against others.

Victory over lust, anger, envy, delusion, and pride is a prime life aim of a Sikh. It is a cardinal instruction of the Japji Sahib, which in turn is a part of the Living God in every Gurudwara.

Our Chief Trustee, Group Captain (Retired) Premjit Singh has translated the Japji Sahib. Please use the following link if you would like an English or a Hindi translation of the Japji Sahib:

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