Under the Guru Alone

Powers pass; the Guru remains.

A generation of young Sikhs is being formed by every teacher except the Guru - the phone, the street, the song, the wound, and the silence where the Shabad should have been.

That formation did not come from nowhere. For nearly two hundred years, the Panth has faced pressure to stand under some authority other than its own Guru: sovereignty taken, shrines administered, Sikh meaning read into another faith, public Sikh assertion treated as threat, and institutions captured from within.

In 1898, Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha answered the claim that Sikhs are Hindus with a title that was itself the reply: Ham Hindu Nahin - We Are Not Hindus. Under the Guru Alone brings that refusal into the present. It asks not only who claims to honour Sikhi, but who is allowed to govern Sikh meaning.

This book sets the record down plainly - without fear, without favour, and without hatred - and then turns to the cure. Because the Guru is the Shabad, and because Sikhi is learned, renewal begins where transmission begins: in the home, in the gurdwara made a house of learning again, and with no priest and no price between the Sikh and Shabad Guru Granth Sahib Ji.

This is a book about closing the distance - in ourselves, and in our children - and standing where the Sikh has always belonged.

Under the Guru. Answerable to the Guru alone.