BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF

546th

In Kal Yug (The Dark

Age) with the emergence of the True Guru

Nanak, the mist cleared

and light scattered all

around.

INTRODUCTIONGuru Nanak (Saturday 15 April 1469 -

Monday 22 September, 1539), the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Gurus of

the Sikhs, was born in the village of Talwandi. His birth is celebrated world-wide

as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Poornima, the full-moon day which falls on different dates each year in the month of Katak, October–November.He was married

in 1487 and was blessed with two sons, one in 1491 and the second in 1496.

BACKGROUND….His father was Kalayan Das Mehta, also known as Mehta Kalu, and his mother was Mata Tripta. They belonged to the Vedic Kshatriya caste. His father was the local patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi. Guru ji had an older sister called Bebey Nanki, who was the first to recognize Nanak as an enlightened Soul. Guru Nanak from an early age evidenced a questioning and inquiring mind.

SPIRITUAL JOURNEYSGuru Nanak made four great Spiritual journeys, traveling to all parts of India, Sri Lanka, Arabia and Persia. He visited head centers of all religions and had discourses with head priests of various sects of Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Parsees, and Muslims. He spoke in the temples and mosques, and at various pilgrimage sites. Wherever he went, Guru Nanak spoke out against empty religious rituals, pilgrimages, the caste system, the sacrifice of widows, of depending on books to learn the true religion, and of all the other tenets that were to define his teachings. Never did he ask his listeners to follow him. He asked the Muslims to be true Muslims and the Hindus to be true Hindus.

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