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Belief overview
Ik Onkar and oneness of God
There is one God, eternal, without limited form, worthy of exclusive devotion.
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What it is: Ik Onkar expresses the affirmation that divine reality is one, unique, and fundamental.
How the tradition understands it: God is creator, true, without fear, without enmity, beyond birth and death, and accessible by grace and remembrance. Sikh monotheism rejects multiplication of gods and image worship as necessary mediation.
Textual basis and context: The Mool Mantar is the most classical formulation of this belief. It organizes all Sikh spirituality and ethics.
Debates and variations: There may be differences of devotional or philosophical language, but divine oneness is absolutely central.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Mool Mantar
A central formula about the nature of God.
Reference: Mool Mantar, opening of the Guru Granth Sahib.
Content: The formula affirms one God, true, creator, without fear, without enmity, beyond birth and death.
Use in debate: It is the most important basis for Sikh theology of divine oneness.