‘There is something touching in the longing--the yearning--after God,--the intense love of His Name! The Sikh idea of God is not that of the Hindus, with their fiend-like deities. The Creator is light, and goodness, and happiness. There is indeed the ridiculous idea of people having to pass through 840,000 states of existence,--unless the probation be shortened by meditation, purity, and the repetition of God’s name,--but this fearful number of births is regarded as very tiresome indeed.