Heaven Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Sikh religion === [[Sikh]]s believe that heaven and hell are also both in this world where everyone reaps the fruit of karma.<ref name=kathleen>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxP5Ww_JO64C&pg=PA188 | title=Death and Religion in a Changing World | publisher=M.E. Sharpe | last=Garces-Foley | first=Kathleen | year=2006 | pages=188 | isbn=9780765612212}}</ref> They refer to good and evil stages of life respectively and can be lived now and here during our life on Earth.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFm9_Jc1ykcC&pg=PA271 | title=A Complete Guide to Sikhism | publisher=Unistar Books | last=Singh | first=Jagraj | year=2009 | pages=271 | isbn=978-8-1714-2754-3}}</ref> [[Bhagat Kabir]] in the ''[[Guru Granth Sahib]]'' rejects the otherworldly heaven and says that one can experience heaven on this Earth through the company of holy people. {{Blockquote|He claims to know the Lord, who is beyond measure and beyond thought; By mere words, he plans to enter heaven. I do not know where heaven is. Everyone claims that he plans to go there. By mere talk, the mind is not appeased. The mind is only appeased, when egotism is conquered. As long as the mind is filled with the desire for heaven, He does not dwell at the Lord's Feet. Says Kabeer, unto whom should I tell this? The Company of the Holy is heaven.|Bhagat Kabir|Guru Granth Sahib 325 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Page&Param=325|title=Sri Granth: Sri Guru Granth Sahib|website=www.srigranth.org}}</ref>}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page