Illustration of Guru Nanak from a 18th Century Manuscript in the British Library
“Guru Nanak Dev has been the greatest man ever born on earth. His vision of society was a rare vision as He wanted to build a man with all values and virtues without any caste, creed and religion.”
These views were expressed by Prof G.S. Randhawa, former vice-chancellor of Guru Nanak Dev University, while presiding over the 38th foundation day celebrations of the GNDU.
He also released a book on Guru Nanak, written by Dr Kharak Singh.
Prof Randhawa said Guru Nanak’s philosophy enunciates that every individual should be dedicated to individuals and to the society as well and also contribute for the welfare of the humanity. His views on cosmology are the best of astronautics of today.
He said today’s problems are the man’s own creation. He said his universal message be preached at the global level. Guru Nanak wanted that an individual must feel himself to be part of the society and the society must take care of every individual.
Dr Pal Ahluwalia, a scholar of ethical studies of the University of California, San Diego, USA, while speaking on post-colonial, Sikh and global ethics said the political use of religion by leaders had resulted in corruption and violence in the society.
He said the colonisation of religion had done great disservice to Guru Nanak Dev’s message of peach and brotherhood.
A bio-scientist, Dr Karmjit Singh Rai, focused his lecture on interrelationship of science and society and said science and technology are complementary to each other. He highlighted several problems facing the society such as food scarcity, rampant growth of human population, massive changes in climate, global warming, agriculture productivity and environmental degradation.
Dr Rai opined that the citizens of the world should help in finding and enforcing the solutions to environmental sustainability and maintaining a balance with nature. He said over exploitation of resources like, fossil fuel, water, rapid growth of urban conglomerates and a loss of biological diversity, needs to be stemmed.
Earlier, welcoming the guests Dr Jai Rup Singh, vice-chancellor, announced that ASSM College, Mukandpur, recently taken over by the university, would be developed as a rural campus, besides introducing need-based courses in Shaheed Ram Singh Pathania Memorial College, Niari, Gurdaspur.
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