Spirit of the Sikh
SPIRIT OF THE SIKH (MEDITATIONS ON RELIGION and therefore the SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE) PART I PURAN SINGH INTRODUCTORY Spirit of the Sikh, written between 1927 and 1930, is probably the last work of Professor Puran Singh, unless what consistent with the statement of his son, the late Raminder Singh, he scribbled on his bedside charts while laying sick, be taken under consideration . He caught the fatal disease of tuberculosis during the last years of the last decade of the twenties; and this assuming the ‘galloping’ character, he gave up the ghost in March 1931. Puran Singh’s whole life was passed in writing activity which will be called ‘feverish’ without the implication of a mere metaphor. A huge mass of labor poured out from his pen–on the science of biochemistry during which he held a professorship at the Imperial Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun; English belle...