The Guru Granth Sahib promotes the message of equality of all beings and at the same time states that Sikh believers "obtain the supreme status" (SGGS, page 446).
Sri Guru Granth Sahib promotes the concept of equality by highlighting the fact that we are made of the same flesh, blood and bone and we have the same light of God within us – the soul .
Furthermore, one of the tenet of the religion is the belief that the world is only a "vision" or illusion (Maya) and that God is the sole "Continuing Reality" so that selfishness, egoism and hate are meaningless.
All virtues are obtained, all fruits and rewards, and the desires of the mind; my hopes have been totally fulfilled.The Medicine, the Mantra, the Magic Charm, will cure all illnesses and totally take away all pain.Lust, anger, egotism, jealousy and desire are eliminated by chanting the Name of the Lord.A Sikh believes they should live and accept the command of God easily and without too much emotional distress.
Pleasure and pain, liberation and reincarnation, O Nanak, come according to one's pre-ordained destiny.The Sikh religion emphasizes several other virtues: truth (sat), contentment (santokh), love (ishq), compassion/mercy (daya), service (seva), charity (dana), forgiveness (ksama), humility (nimrata), patience (dheerjh), non-attachment (vairagya) and renunciation (taiga).
These believers attempt to avoid anger (krodh), egoism (ahankara), avarice (lobh), lust (kama), infatuation (moha), sinful acts (papa), pride (man), doubt (duvidha), ownership (mamata), hatred (vair) and hostility (virodh).
In the Sikh religion, freedom from these vices, or sahaj, is attained through tension-free, ethical living, grounded in spirituality avoiding self-mortification and other religious rites of cleansing.