short note on baba guru nanak
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Guru Nanak Dev Ji was the first Sikh Guru. He founded the Sikh Religion.
Guru Nanak was another exponent of Bhakti Cult. He was born in the village named Talwandi near Lahore on 15th day of April, 1469.
The religion of Guru Nanak was based on three principles. They are one God, Guru and muttering of prayers. In his opinion God is deathless, viewer of truth, fearless, enemy-less, unborn, express-in-himself.
Nanak called upon people to have devotion in this God. In his opinion Guru was ocean and disciple was a river. The disciple should end in the Guru. His direction was a middle path between sanyas and earthly life. He did not believe in discrimination of caste and dogma of untouchability. He preached the moral of tolerant religion and tried to unite Hindus and Muslims. His disciples are known as Sikhs.
He died on September 22, 1539.
Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes the eternal Truth.[3] He set up a unique spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and virtue.[4][5][6]
Nanak's words are registered in the form of 974 poetic hymns in the holy text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, with some of the major prayers being the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var and the Sidh-Gosht. It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Nanak's sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.[7]