THE INSTITUTION OF SANGAT: A SIKH MODEL OF CIVIL SOCIETY

Guru Nanak and his successor Sikh Gurus established the institution of Sangat with view to provide a platform to society for collective salvation and cooperative endeavor to restructure the obsolete socio-religious traditions and institutions. The Sangat sow the seeds of civil society in an age when mankind was sharply fragmented on the basis of caste, creed, race, color etc. Sangat educate, motivate and train an individual to live truthfully and to seek the merger with Infinite Reality (God). Sangat transforms the vision and way of life of human beings and enable them to be saintsoldier and seeker of Ultimate Truth in the companionship of realized and divinely inspired souls.