大象传媒

Good morning. During these long December nights, I often find myself turning my head up to the sky and gazing at the stars. Those shining and twinkling celestial bodies put me firmly into a festive mood, reminding me of fairy lights on the tree or the Christmas lights and illuminations on the streets of Central London. It also makes me wonder exactly what exists beyond our own solar system. A new exoplanet, one which has the potential to be habitable, seems to be discovered every few weeks, and we appear to be getting ever closer to discovering life beyond Earth. However, as many of us will have seen on Blue Planet 2 over the last few Sunday evenings, there is still much to discover about our own world, with diverse forms of life surviving in extreme conditions that have the capacity to both fascinate and excite us. The Sikh scriptures teach us that there is much in the Universe that we don't know and may never know, and Sikhs believe the universe and life itself to be far broader than could ever be imagined. Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh faith, considered the existence of other worlds over 500 years ago and believed their reach to be effectively limitless, and to be so complex as to be almost impossible to define. In his prayer, Guru Nanak says 鈥淭here are planets, solar systems and galaxies. If one speaks of them, there is no limit, no end. There are worlds upon worlds of His Creation. As is commanded, so they exist. The Almighty watches over all, and contemplating the creation, the Almighty rejoices. O Nanak, to describe this is as hard as steel!鈥� Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

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