If the Gurus wanted to write "EK OANKAR" like that, they'd have done it. But they didn't.
"OAN" – which, today, we call "OM" – is actually comprised of three syllables: "O", "A" and "N", which represent Creation, Sustainance and Destruction, which are represented in Hinduism by the "trimūrti" (three deities) of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer.
Guru Nanak defaced the most sacred symbol in all of Indic spiritual tradition by adding the Indo-Arabic number for 1 ("EK"), modifying the "OAN", and then adding the present tense of the verb "to do" ("KAR"), thus saying that "The One Does Everything".
Thus Sikhism rejects the notion of the "trimūrti", and instead posits that there is only a single and eternal "akāl mūrat" who is the Doer of All ("kartā purakh").
I'm not going to tell you to remove your work, but I will suggest that you think long and hard about the meaning of the work you are putting out into the world, and whether your "version" of the symbol that supposedly represents the Ultimate Truth isn't, in fact, antithetical to everything you think you're trying to say.
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Please remove last two images of ek onkar..... ik seems similer to Om of hinduism.....
I love these pictures which explains a very truth of oneness, arrogants are the one that hates
If the Gurus wanted to write "EK OANKAR" like that, they'd have done it. But they didn't.
"OAN" – which, today, we call "OM" – is actually comprised of three syllables: "O", "A" and "N", which represent Creation, Sustainance and Destruction, which are represented in Hinduism by the "trimūrti" (three deities) of Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Sustainer, and Shiva the Destroyer.
Guru Nanak defaced the most sacred symbol in all of Indic spiritual tradition by adding the Indo-Arabic number for 1 ("EK"), modifying the "OAN", and then adding the present tense of the verb "to do" ("KAR"), thus saying that "The One Does Everything".
Thus Sikhism rejects the notion of the "trimūrti", and instead posits that there is only a single and eternal "akāl mūrat" who is the Doer of All ("kartā purakh").
I'm not going to tell you to remove your work, but I will suggest that you think long and hard about the meaning of the work you are putting out into the world, and whether your "version" of the symbol that supposedly represents the Ultimate Truth isn't, in fact, antithetical to everything you think you're trying to say.
God bless.
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