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Aesthetic Praxis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2024
The Conclusion comprises the five-fold reception of Guru Nanak’s aesthetics: the praxis of Sangat (being together), Kirtan (divine praise), Langar (community meal), Seva (selfless service), and Vak (numinous message). Launched by Guru Nanak, his nine successors played an important role in developing these practices as central Sikh institutions. Quintessentially democratic, emancipatory, and empathy-generating practices, they uphold everyday aesthetics; the ethical aspirations of contemporary philosophers Yuriko Saito and Arnold Berleant. These are not, as this work argues, exclusive to the Sikh community; rather, these are aesthetic modalities that train audiences to live pluralistically in a diverse global society. Guru Nanak’s Sangat actually bears a striking affinity with Martin Luther King’s “beloved community” and Desmond Tutu’s “ubuntu” as their substratum is the equality, interconnectedness, and enhancement of humanity. Organically reproduced in Guru Nanak’s transcendent aesthetics, Sangat, Kirtan, Langar, Seva, and Vak are exercises to strengthen philial muscles and intensify a shared sense of possible reality.
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