Sikhism include: Sikhism Sikhism (; ), or Sikhi "", , from "Sikh", meaning a "disciple", "seeker," or "learner") is an Indian religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century, and has variously been defined as monotheistic, monistic and panentheistic. It is one of the youngest of the major world religions, and the world's fifth-largest organized religion, as well as being the world's ninth-largest overall religion. The fundamental beliefs of Sikhism, articulated in the sacred scripture Guru Granth Sahib, include faith and meditation on the name of the one creator, divine unity
Adi Da manner. The culminating awareness of this seventh stage is a permanent, natural state of "open-eyed ecstasy", for which Adi Da employed the Sanskrit term "Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi". Adi Da insisted that since he solely embodied seventh stage realization, devotional worship of him would henceforth be the exclusive means for others to free themselves from "self-contraction", thereby allowing them to "participate in his enlightened state" (i.e. attain awareness themselves of the seventh stage, or "realize" it.) "Adidam" refers to both the organization of Adi Da's devotees and the religion he taught. The organization, or church, founded initially in 1972, went by