Question

Describe sikh movement?​

Answer 1

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The Khalsa Panth, a community of Sikhs, became a political entity. Guru Nanak's teachings: He emphasized the importance of worshipping one God and also that for attaining liberation; caste, creed or gender was irrelevant.

Answer 2

In the northern India, Nanak was another religious teacher who was as important as Kabir. Nanak had founded the Sikh religion and became popular as Guru Nanak.

Guru Nanak

Probably, Nanak was the son of a village accountant and born and lived in Punjab region.

Nanak left his job and travelled across the country. Finally, he returned and settled down at Kartarpur now called Dera Baba Nanak.

Guru Nanak’s teachings (which available in the form of verses) are included in a scripture, named as the Adi Granth. Adi Granth was compiled by his fourth successor in the early 17th century.

Guru Nanak insisted that his followers must be willing to eat in a common kitchen i.e. langar. Likewise, he promoted unity irrespective of the caste.

Guru Nanak grouped his followers together and before his death, he appointed a guru to be their leader.

The followers of the tenth guru came to be known as the ‘Khalsa,’ which means "the pure".