All nations strive for individual empowerment. The form of governance is immaterial as long as citizens can be free to prosper.
Empowerment was an all-powerful driver of the freedom movement in 20th century India. It started with a move to drive out foreign rulers. Empowerment focused on the poor and neglected sections of society when India became independent again, and efforts continue ceaselessly in to the new Millennium.
Empowerment has been a major driver of the spiritual evolution of India throughout the ages. The Japji Sahib of the Sikh faith is concerned with the empowerment of the soul. Sikhism is anthropomorphic. It sees equal applications for the Word of God in every life, regardless of artificial hierarchy. The democratic nature of Sikhism probably springs from the feudal oppression in which it arose more than 500 years ago.
Social scientists may reflect endlessly on the origins of personal empowerment in Sikhism, but our greater purpose is to live by the sacred doctrine of the Japji Sahib.
Please return tomorrow for an interpretation of how the Japji Sahib prescribes empowerment of the soul.
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