Panth (meaning a path in Sanskrit) is the term used for several religious traditions in India.
A panth is founded by a guru or an acharya, and is often led by scholars or senior practitioners of the tradition. Guru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... An acharya is a prominent guru, teacher and scholar who teaches by his own example (from Sanskrit achara, behavior). ...
Kabir Panth is the religious tradition based on the teachings of Kabir who lived during 1440-1512, and who is said to have been a disciple of Ramananda. ... The Harimandir SÄhib, known popularly as the Golden Temple, is a sacred shrine for Sikhs Sikhism (IPA: or ; Punjabi: , , IPA: ) is a major religion that found its genesis in sixteenth century Northern India with the teachings of NÄnak and nine successive human Gurus. ...
References
Kabir and the Kabir Panth by G. H. Wescott, South Asia Books; (July 1, 1986)
The Bijak of Kabir by Linda Hess and Shukdev Singh, Oxford University Press, 2002
One Hundred Poems of Kabir: Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Assisted by Evelin Underhill, Adamant Media Corporation, 2005
It presents itself historically as an intellectual revolt against the difficulties involved in the presupposition of theistic and polytheistic systems, and in philosophy as an attempt to solve the dualism of the one and the many, unity and difference, thought and extension.
Unlike the Hindu, Xenophanes inclined to pantheism as a protest against the anthropomorphic polytheism of the time, which seemed to him improperly to exalt one of the many modes of finite existence into the place of the Infinite.
The great objection to pantheism is that, though ostensibly it magnifies the Creator and gets rid of the difficult dualism of Creator and Creation, it tends practically to deny his existence in any practical intelligible sense.
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