Guru Nanak

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Guru Nanak (15 April 1469 – September 22, 1539), also known as Baba Nanak ('father Nanak), was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

Guru Nanak Gurpurab's birth is celebrated worldwide on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full moon in the month of Katak, October-November.Nanak traveled far and wide, delivering the message of one God who dwells in every one of His creations and denotes the eternal Truth.

In the sacred text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib's, the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var, and virtue, he established a unique spiritual, socioeconomic, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, compassion, and virtue.

It is a Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Nanak's sanctity, divinity, and religious power descended on each of the nine successive Gurus as the Guruship continued to them.

Family and early life

Nanak's parents, including father Kalyan Chand Das Bedi (commonly shortened to Mehta Kalu) and mother Mata Tripta, were both Hindu Khatris and merchants. In Talwandi's village, his father, in particular, was the local patriot (accountant) for crop sales.

Nanak's life's early years were marked by several events that demonstrated that Nanak had been blessed with divine grace, according to Sikh traditions. From a young age, commentaries on his life reveal evidence of his blossoming interest. Nanak, for example, is reported to have expressed an interest in divine subjects at the age of five. His father enrolled him in the village school at age seven, as per tradition. Nanak astonished his teacher by implying the one-ness of God as an infant, according to the logical version of one. Other accounts of his childhood refer to strange and miraculous activities about Nanak, such as the one witnessed by Rai Bular in which the sleeping child's head was shaded from the harsh sunlight by a tree's permanent shadow or, in another case, by a venomous cobra.

Nanaki, Nanak's only sister, was five years older than him. She married and moved to Sultanpur in 1475. Jai Ram, Nanaki's husband, was employed at a modikhana (a cash storehouse for revenues collected in non-cash form), in the Delhi Sultanate's Lahore province, where Ram will assist Nanak in finding a job. Nanak moved to Sultanpur and began working at the modikhana at the age of 16.

Nanak married Sulakhani, the daughter of Ml Chand (aka Mula) and Chando Rai, as a young man. They were married on September 24th, 1487, in Batala, and they would have two sons, Sri Chand and Lakhmi Chand (or Lakhmi Das). Nanak lived in Sultanpur until about 1500, marking a pivotal period for him, according to the puratan janamsakhi's descriptions of a political system in his hymns, many likely gained at this time.

Nanak, who died in September 1539 at the age of 55, settled in Kartarpur and continued there until his death in September 1539. During this period, he went on short trips to Achal's Nath yogi center and the Sufi centers of Pakpattan and Multan. Nanak had many followers in the Punjab area by the time of his death, but it is difficult to estimate their number based on current historical data.

Guru Nanak ordained Bhai Lehna as the successor Guru, renaming him Guru Angad, which means "one's very own" or "part of you." Guru Nanak died in Kartarpur on September 22nd, at the age of 70, just months after announcing his replacement. Guru Nanak's body was never discovered, according to Sikh hagiography. When the quarreling Hindus and Muslims tugged at Nanak's sheet covering his body, they discovered instead a heap of flowers, indicating that Nanak's simple faith would flourish into a faith that would be limited by its own contradictions and customary practices.

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