Tuesday, 23 December 2014





THE FOUNDER OF SIKHISM WAS #GURU NANAK DEV JI

Guru Nanak Dev Ji was born in 1469 at Rai Bhoi di Talwandi now known as Nankana Sahib and It is situated in Shekhupura district of Pakistan near Lahore. Guru Nanak Dev Ji father’s name is Shri Kalyan Chand Mehta a Bedi Kshatriya by caste who was working as a revenue official with Rai Bular the local land lord of Talwandi. Guru Nanak Dev Ji mother’s name is Mata Tripta ji.

There is some confusion about the date of birth of Shri Guru Nanak Dev. According to Puratan Janam Sakhi he was born on the third bright day of the moon of Baisakh month of Indian calendar. Most historians agree with this date. Yet the actual celebration is done on Kartik Poornima day.

As a small child, Guru Nanak Dev Ji would not weep like other children but was always smiling in his cradle as if he had come to distribute happiness. As he grew up and started walking, he would give away whatever he could lay his hands upon to the children, beggars or saints.

He was born a Hindu. Stories of Nanak’s early life show him to be a generous and pious man, unhappy about the religious practices around him. Guru Nanak Dev Ji received his call from God when he was aged 30, when he received the knowledge that it was neither the Hindu nor the Muslim practices which were right, but knowing and serving God and living honestly. He began to teach the equality of everyone man/woman, black/white, rich/poor in the eyes of God.






 People should be respected for the light
      which illumines them, not caste or birth.
                                  
                                      #Guru Granth Sahib 349
 

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