Precept of Sikhism
The three pillars.
Naam japo, kirat karo, vand chhako — remember the Name, earn honestly, share what you earn. The whole ethic in three imperatives a farmer can keep.
What it asksRemember the Name, earn by honest work, share the earnings
Who it bindsEvery Sikh — householder life is the norm, not a lesser path
Where it bitesRenunciation is rejected outright: Nanak sent the ascetics back to work, which was itself the controversial move
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Nanak's three imperatives are compressed and deliberately ordinary: naam japo (remember the Name), kirat karo (earn by honest labor), vand chhako (share what you earn). What made them radical in their setting was the second — the insistence that the working householder, not the renunciate, holds the ideal life. Sikh tradition tells of Nanak rejecting an offering from a wealthy man in favor of a carpenter's bread, and the whole ethic sits in that preference.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The alms round.
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Repairing the world is human work.
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The tithe.
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The neighbour.
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Charity is doing your job well.
The New Church (Swedenborgianism)
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Soup, soap and salvation — in that order, and the order is the doctrine.
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