The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2269 page)

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(living appropriately; cf.
dharma
); gi
kha
(deeper knowledge); saram kha
(effort or joy); karam kha
(effort or joy);
sach kha
(bliss beyond words and beyond rebirth, merging with the divine as a drop in an ocean or as a spark in a flame). Sikhs remain
grihasth
(‘house-holders’), in contrast to the four
ramas
of the Hindus, for whom
g
hastha
is only one stage, to be followed by progressive renunciation.
Under the first four Gur

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