Sikh Thinking & Philosophy by Late Balwinder Singh

Pious persons, the devout sikhs, instinctively honour their words at all costs, they do not trample over it, rather they fulfill it. 

When someone goes back upon his word, it must be assumed, he made the commitment on account of ego or to deceive somebody.

Such a person makes false promises to another, to make some unfair gains, on account of being avaricious, but dishonours it, afterwards, on weighing the pros and cons related to it. Selfishness, glamour and lustre of wealth are always found to be the dominant factors, behind the commitments, which are nor honoured.  

There is an uninterrupted flow of income, it is being spent  consumed, if as soon as one gets it, one tenth of it is kept separate, no pain or inconvenience will be felt at the time of giving it away. The pleasure in -doing so will be equal to that as gentleman gets on repayment of debts to a lender. If giving of one tenth of income comes to be regarded as a contribution  to the  service of the Panth, such giving will be pleasurable and blissful, inequalities will gradually come to an end, leading to an economically uniform society.

If Daswandh in the name of the Guru is separately laid in advance, one will not have to make excuses or tell false stories , such as  “Come tomorrow it will be considered, the father and the elder brother are not at home" etc. one will not have to look sideways. ‘Gift is not adorable in the face of the giver but the giver manifests itself in the gift.' Supposing no needful person has be sent  to you by the Guru, one can get divine pleasure by delivering the Daswandh to where it belongs.

More often than not, talks on meditation are delivered and heard unmindfully. Explaining their method, Hath Yogis, the dogmatists say that to begin with meditate on a certain image. Once skill is acquired or proficiency is gained, replace that image with the one you worship. No such method has been commanded to be practiced in Sikhism, and under the same view, it has been candidly established in the utterances of the Sikh Gurus to meditate on true Guru as the truth-incarnate.

Satguru, the true Guru, according to Sikhism is not any person comprising of five elements (Panj bhootak sarir) a deity an icon or a stone  at all. Satguru is truth-incarnate. He cannot be allocated in any form. The fact is that all forms have been created by Him, the Primal-truth, but He himself is formless :

  Nam ke dhare sagle jant.

Nam ke dhare khand  brahmand.

Nam ke dhare Simrit Bed Purin.

Nam ke dhare sunan gian dhian. ...

Kar(i) kirpa jis(u)  apnai nem(i) lae.

Nanak chauthe pad maih so jan(u) gat(i) pae.

-Gauri Sukhmani Mahala  5th , p. 284