It highlights the extent to which the precepts and practices of the Sikh way of life have deviated. This book with 18 Essays outlines the key practices of Sikhism as dictated by the Gurbani and Sikh history, and its tradition and ethos. The author highlights the meaningful and correct approach of the Sikh practice and confronts them with what is actually happening! Be it mechanical rendition of prayers, Reading of Holy book or individuals buying salvation of payment, the wasteful spending of the institutions and treating historical places as sources of income by encouraging “Pilgrimages” so clearly decried in Sikh scriptures.

• Knowledge and Belief / 23
• Guru Nanak’s Panth / 32
• Gadi Rah – The Srraight Path / 38
• The Sikh Brands of Karmkand / 52
• Miracle and Miracle-Men / 59
• Precept and Practice / 65
• Valour in Sikhism / 74
• The Doctrine of Grace / 81
• Lord Sees All / 93
• Sehajdhari / 103
• Lest We Go Astray / 112
• Modernity and Sikhism / 120
• Telling Lies / 125
• Sikhism / 133
• Mystique of Transmigration / 139
• Diagnosis Par Excellence / 149
• God and Karma / 157
• The Ever-Ready Khalsa / 166