Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Guru Nanak
- Founder of Sikh religion
- Born April 15 1469
- Simple Hindu family
- Punjab area of Talwandi
- Aged 11
- time to invest sacred
thread according to
traditional Hindu custom
- Refused
- Accompanied by a family friend
Mardana to river Bain for a bath
- Reported drowned
- God revealed himself to Guru Nanak
- "There is but One God. His name is Truth..."
- Reappeared 3 days later
- "There is no Hindu, nor Muslim."
- Taken to God's court and given a
cup of nectar to drink, with the
instruction to rejoice in God's name
- Long journeys to convey message
- After journey, he returned and created the Sikh village Kartharpur
- Hostile to Mughal administration
- Referred Babur as "Messenger of Death"
- Teachings in Adi Granth
- Equality
- Rejection of caste system
- 3 Fundamental Doctrines
- Nam
- "The Name"
- a direct experience achieved by meditating
- Sabad
- "The Word"
- God revealed through spoken word
- Guru
- Revealed through knowledge of Guru