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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Guru Nanak''', the founder of the [[Sikh faith]], was the son of an official with a small holding of land in a village north-west of [[Lahore]] (in present day [[Pakistan]]). Guru ji had his elementary education in [[Sanskrit]] and [[Persian]]. His father intended to train him as an accountant so that he could get a job in the court of the Muslim governor of the district. But Guru Nanak turned out to be indifferent to his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">school text books and instead engaged </del>in long discourses with holy men both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]], who frequented <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his village and </del>the surrounding <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jangal (forest)</del>. Mixing with his friends of other castes and religions he was the despair of his parents as he would not attend to family business and spent what ever money they gave him on feeding the poor. When he grew up to be a young man, they arranged a marriage for him. For a time he devoted himself to the care of his wife, and two sons.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Guru Nanak''', the founder of the [[Sikh faith]], was the son of an official with a small holding of land in a village north-west of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>[[Lahore]] (in present day [[Pakistan]]). Guru ji had his elementary education in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the local language of the village and as a member of the Khatri caste his father made sure that he was tutored in the village Gurukul in the ancient </ins>[[Sanskrit]] and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">knowing well the value to be gained by learning </ins>[[Persian]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his father enrolled him with a scholar of that language as well</ins>. His father intended to train him as an accountant so that he could get a job in the court of the Muslim governor of the district. But Guru Nanak turned out to be indifferent to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any attempt to teach him the standard subjects of bussiness. He soon outdistanced </ins>his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">teachers as each found themselves unable to teach him as he had rapidly mastered the languages they had taught him. He roamed the forests around his village engaging </ins>in long discourses with holy men both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]], who frequented <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>the surrounding <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jangals, traveling through on their various pilgramages</ins>. Mixing with his friends of other castes and religions he was the despair of his parents as he would not attend to family business and spent what ever money they gave him on feeding the poor. When he grew up to be a young man, they arranged a marriage for him. For a time he devoted himself to the care of his wife, and two sons.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>search for truth became too over powering<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; taking </del>his usual bath in a local river <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> one morning Nanak disappeared</del>. For three days his friends and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">followers thought </del>that he had drowned. Some jealous of his popularity <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staeted </del>the rumor that he had looted his employer's stores and run away. On the third day Nanak reappeared and would only repeat, 'There is no Hindu, there is no Mussulman'. By this statement he was stating that there was no difference between what the the worshippers of the two differing religions - Hinduism and Islam were worshiping, he had realized that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their </del>was only one God who was the root of each religion and that service to ones fellow men was the way of realizing their mutual goal of being reunited with God the Father , creator of them all. After arranging for the care of his wife and sons, settling his affairs and quitting his job<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He </del>and his Muslim friend, a musician <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bhai </del> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mardana Ji </del>set out on his first 'Udasi' (travel) preaching as they walked from village to village. Guru ji composed his sermons in ragas (musical modes) which were sung to the accompaniment of Bhai Mardana's Rabab (a simple lute style instrument) with a curved peg tuning board which could hang over Mardana's shoulder as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </del>walked.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his </ins>search for truth became too over powering<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, having gone to work for his sister's brother in the stores of a Muslim official he went out one morning to take </ins>his usual bath in a local river <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only to disappear</ins>. For three days his friends and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his growing cadre of admirers (Sikhs they were called) feared </ins>that he had drowned. Some<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>jealous of his popularity<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, started </ins>the rumor that he had looted his employer's stores and run away. On the third day Nanak reappeared and would only repeat, 'There is no Hindu, there is no Mussulman'. By this statement he was stating that there was no difference between what the the worshippers of the two differing religions - Hinduism and Islam were worshiping, he had realized that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there </ins>was only one God who was the root of each religion and that service to ones fellow men was the way of realizing their mutual goal of being reunited with God the Father , creator of them all. After arranging for the care of his wife and sons, settling his affairs and quitting his job <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </ins>and his Muslim friend, a musician <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named Mardana </ins> set out on his first <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>'Udasi' (travel) preaching as they walked from village to village. Guru ji composed his sermons in ragas (musical modes) which were sung to the accompaniment of Bhai Mardana's Rabab (a simple lute style instrument) with a curved peg tuning board which could hang over Mardana's shoulder as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </ins>walked.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wherever they stopped, Guru Ji's teachings would inspire the people and leave them singing the simple Bani in the fields as they worked. Within a few years these disciples became a homogeneous group whose faith was exclusively the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. In several trips that covered years the young Guru traveled all over India. With a second companion a Hindu named Bhai Balla they went as far east as Assam, as far south as Sri Lanka and as far to the north as Tibet. Later Guru Ji traveled westward beyond India to Mecca and Medina in Arabia, from where they returned by foot through Al Sham (Greater Syria), Bagdad, Persia and the land we call Afganistan <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">today</del>. Wherever he went, they sang Guru Nanak hymns which told the people that if they wanted to love God they should learn first to love each other and always keep the Name of God on their lips. In a time of brutal oppression, his simple message of one loving God, the equality of men and even women (a radical thought <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </del>those days) and a life dedicated to returning to God's Kingdom, not by practising religious austerities, but by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lifing </del>the life of a simple house holder building a family and a loving relationship with ones wife and children<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>to the One God by ones hard and honest work and even sharing ones blessings with the sick and homeless.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Wherever they stopped, Guru Ji's teachings would inspire the people and leave them singing the simple Bani in the fields as they worked. Within a few years these disciples became a homogeneous group whose faith was exclusively the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. In several trips that covered <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many </ins>years the young Guru traveled all over India. With a second companion a Hindu named Bhai Balla they went as far east as Assam, as far south as Sri Lanka and as far to the north as Tibet. Later Guru Ji traveled westward beyond India to Mecca and Medina in Arabia, from where they returned by foot through Al Sham (Greater Syria), Bagdad, Persia and the land we <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">now </ins>call Afganistan. Wherever he went, they sang Guru Nanak<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s </ins>hymns<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>which told the people that if they wanted to love God they should learn first to love each other and always keep the Name of God on their lips. In a time of brutal oppression, his simple message of one loving God, the equality of men and even women (a radical thought <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </ins>those days) and a life dedicated to returning to God's Kingdom, not by practising religious austerities, but by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">living </ins>the life of a simple house holder <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Gristi Jeevan) </ins>building a family and a loving relationship with ones wife and children <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>to the One God<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>by ones hard and honest work and even sharing ones blessings with the sick and homeless.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are countless stories of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's travels. Once Guru Ji came to a river for his morning bath only to find the water full of many Hindus who were, doing the age old Hindu morning ritual of saluting the Sun. Guru Nanak having grown up in a Hindu family <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new </del>just what they were up to. They were taking water in their clasped hands and throwing it at the rising Sun. Already well aware of what they were doing and why, the Guru knew that they had never even questioned the age old ritual. He was the sort of teacher that we all have grown up loving and admiring. The ones we all remember from our childhood, the ones that taught by example actually leading us to discover the answers for ourselves, to feel the answer in our soul, rather than using the age old pedantic method of 'do and repeat what I say'. So giving them enough 'rope with which to hang their <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">belief</del>' in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ritual </del>they had never dared to question<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>he asked them what they were doing. They must have thought him mad, or at the least a stranger from some strange land, who had no idea of the important work they were doing. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are countless stories of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's travels. Once Guru Ji came to a river for his morning bath only to find the water full of many Hindus who were, doing the age old Hindu morning ritual of saluting the Sun. Guru Nanak having grown up in a Hindu family <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">knew </ins>just what they were up to. They were taking water in their clasped hands and throwing it at the rising Sun. Already well aware of what they were doing and why, the Guru knew that they had never even questioned the age old ritual. He was the sort of teacher that we all have grown up loving and admiring. The ones we all remember from our childhood, the ones that taught by example actually leading us to discover the answers for ourselves, to feel the answer in our soul, rather than using the age old pedantic method of 'do and repeat what I say'. So giving them enough 'rope with which to hang their <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beliefs</ins>' in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">such rituals (that </ins>they had never <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even </ins>dared to question<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins>he asked them what they were doing. They must have thought him mad, or at the least a stranger from some strange land, who had no idea of the important work they were doing. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One person raising the tone of his voice with each word, replied almost in disgust, "we are offering water to our ancestors who have gone to live in the stars near the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sun</del>--their throats are parched and dry from the Sun's great heat! <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. </del>Guru Ji replied, "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </del>sounds like a great idea, let me try". With this Guru Nanak Dev Ji turned in the opposite direction and started tossing handfulls of water <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">water </del>towards the west, the crowd was dumbstruck. "What are you doing Fakir Ji?" you are wasting your time , why are you throwing water in the wrong direction. "Why, I am sending water to my parched fields in the Punjab", he said, "if your water can reach the Sun surely mine can reach the Punjab which is a few hundred miles away". With this the people realised their folly, perhaps for the first time <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">questioning </del>what they had been doing their whole lives.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>One person raising the tone of his voice with each word, replied almost in disgust, "we are offering water to our ancestors who have gone to live in the stars near the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun</ins>--their throats are parched and dry from the Sun's great heat! <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>Guru Ji replied, "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">That </ins>sounds like a great idea, let me try". With this Guru Nanak Dev Ji turned in the opposite direction and started tossing handfulls of water <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>towards the west, the crowd was dumbstruck. "What are you doing Fakir Ji?" you are wasting your time, why are you throwing water in the wrong direction. "Why, I am sending water to my parched fields in the Punjab", he said, "if your water can reach the Sun surely mine can reach the Punjab which is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only </ins>a few hundred miles away". <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>With this the people realised their folly, perhaps for the first time <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they questioned </ins>what they had been doing their whole lives.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another story tells us of the time that Guru Ji met a very rich and successful man. The man invited Guru Sahib to his large and luxurious home. He had accumulated a vast fortune, no doubt by deceit and foul means and he even boasted of his wealth. He asked Guru ji if there was anything he could do for such an obvious man of God. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">GuruNanak </del>saw a needle on the floor, picked it up and handed it to him, "Please give me this needle in the next world", he said. With a puzzled look on his face the man replied, "How can I do <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this</del>; One comes into this world with nothing and leaves it with nothing". It was so quiet that you could hear that needle drop to the floor as the man realised that he had wasted his whole life and that none of the wealth he had amassed could be taken to the 'next life.' He fell at Guru Sahib's feet. "Forgive me " he cried.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Another story tells us of the time that Guru Ji met a very rich and successful man. The man invited Guru Sahib to his large and luxurious home. He had accumulated a vast fortune, no doubt by deceit and foul means and he even boasted of his wealth. He asked Guru ji if there was anything he could do for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his guest, </ins>such an obvious man of God. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru Nanak </ins>saw a needle on the floor, picked it up and handed it to him, "Please give me this needle in the next world", he said. With a puzzled look on his face the man replied, "How can I do <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that</ins>; One comes into this world with nothing and leaves it with nothing". It was so quiet that you could hear that needle drop to the floor as the man realised that he had wasted his whole life and that none of the wealth he had amassed could be taken to the 'next life.' He fell at Guru Sahib's feet. "Forgive me " he cried.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Nanak Dev Ji's crusade was against intolerance which had become, on one hand the practice of their Muslim overlords bent on converting their Hindu subjects, to earn credits (as their 'good angel' which they all believed was sitting on their right shoulder) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">toting </del>up their good deeds so they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven and on the other the meaningless rituals and gross discriminations of caste (and gender) which had become an integral part of Hindu life, where in order for some men (the Brahmins) who had written the laws in the first place to have someone to be superior to they had doomed others to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life </del> as pariahs whose shadows, they told others, would pollute those of the higher privileged casts. Innocent men and women were denied any chance at an education and forced to do the foulest of tasks with death being their only chance to enter a higher caste. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Nanak Dev Ji's crusade was against intolerance which had become, on one hand the practice of their Muslim overlords bent on converting their Hindu subjects, to earn credits (as their 'good angel' which they all believed was sitting on their right shoulder) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">toted </ins>up their good deeds so they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven and on the other the meaningless rituals and gross discriminations of caste (and gender) which had become an integral part of Hindu life, where in order for some men (the Brahmins) who had written the laws in the first place to have someone to be superior to they had doomed others to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lives </ins> as pariahs whose shadows, they told others, would pollute those of the higher privileged casts. Innocent men and women <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and children who </ins>were denied any chance at an education <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(would actually be killed if they were caught trying to read) </ins>and forced to do the foulest of tasks with death being their only chance to enter a higher caste. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru ji spent the last years of his life with his family in the village he and his followers cleared on some land donated by another of his admirers. The village named Kartarpur (the village of the Creator, God's Village) as people heard of this new way of living, where all men and women shared in the work and ate their meals in a communal kitchen with no distinction being made to their former caste. People flocked to the village to hear him sing his hymns. Even today Guru ji is regarded as the symbol of harmony between the Muslims and the Hindus . A popular couplet describes him as:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru ji spent the last years of his life with his family in the village he and his followers cleared on some land donated by another of his admirers. The village named Kartarpur (the village of the Creator, God's Village) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">grew </ins>as people heard of this new way of living, where all men and women shared in the work and ate their meals in a communal kitchen <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(called the Guru ka Langar) </ins>with no distinction being made to their former caste. People flocked to the village to hear him sing his hymns. Even today Guru ji is regarded as the symbol of harmony between the Muslims and the Hindus . A popular couplet describes him as:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then the search for truth became too over powering; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bathing </del>in a river one morning <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru Ji had a divine revelation in which he entered the court of Akal Purkh (God) who sent him on a mission to spread his word</del>. For three days <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru Nanak Dev Ji was missing, presumed </del>drowned. On the third day <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru ji appeared </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">started his mission with a simple message </del>'There is no Hindu, there is no Mussulman'. By this statement he was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not decrying </del>Hinduism <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or </del>Islam, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but stating </del>that to God all <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are equal</del>. He <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took with him as </del>his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">companions</del>, a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Muslim </del>musician Mardana Ji <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and a Hindu peasant Bhai Bala and the three went </del>preaching from village to village. Guru ji composed his sermons in ragas (musical modes) which were sung to the accompaniment of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>Rabab (lute style <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intrument of </del>Mardana <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ji)</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Then the search for truth became too over powering; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">taking his usual bath </ins>in a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local </ins>river <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>one morning <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nanak disappeared</ins>. For three days <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his friends and followers thought that he had </ins>drowned<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Some jealous of his popularity staeted the rumor that he had looted his employer's stores and run away</ins>. On the third day <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nanak reappeared </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would only repeat, </ins>'There is no Hindu, there is no Mussulman'. By this statement he was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stating that there was no difference between what the the worshippers of the two differing religions - </ins>Hinduism <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Islam <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were worshiping</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he had realized that their was only one God who was the root of each religion and </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">service </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ones fellow men was the way of realizing their mutual goal of being reunited with </ins>God <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Father , creator of them </ins>all<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. After arranging for the care of his wife and sons, settling his affairs and quitting his job</ins>. He <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Muslim friend</ins>, a musician <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bhai </ins>Mardana Ji <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">set out on his first 'Udasi' (travel) </ins>preaching <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> as they walked </ins>from village to village. Guru ji composed his sermons in ragas (musical modes) which were sung to the accompaniment of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bhai Mardana's </ins>Rabab (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a simple </ins>lute style <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">instrument) with a curved peg tuning board which could hang over </ins>Mardana<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s shoulder as they walked</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Ji's teachings <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">inspired </del>the people and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">within </del>a few years these disciples became a homogeneous group whose faith was exclusively the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Guru <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ji </del>traveled all over India. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </del>went as far east as Assam, as far south as Sri Lanka and far to the north <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>Tibet. Guru Ji <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then went westwards </del>beyond India to Mecca and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Madina </del>in Arabia. Wherever he went, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he </del>sang <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his </del>hymns which told the people that if they wanted to love God they should learn first to love each other.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wherever they stopped, </ins>Guru Ji's teachings <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would inspire </ins>the people and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leave them singing the simple Bani in the fields as they worked. Within </ins>a few years these disciples became a homogeneous group whose faith was exclusively the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In several trips that covered years the young </ins>Guru <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>traveled all over India. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">With a second companion a Hindu named Bhai Balla they </ins>went as far east as Assam, as far south as Sri Lanka and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>far to the north <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>Tibet. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Later </ins>Guru Ji <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">traveled westward </ins>beyond India to Mecca and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Medina </ins>in Arabia<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, from where they returned by foot through Al Sham (Greater Syria), Bagdad, Persia and the land we call Afganistan today</ins>. Wherever he went, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </ins>sang <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guru Nanak </ins>hymns which told the people that if they wanted to love God they should learn first to love each other <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and always keep the Name of God on their lips. In a time of brutal oppression, his simple message of one loving God, the equality of men and even women (a radical thought on those days) and a life dedicated to returning to God's Kingdom, not by practising religious austerities, but by lifing the life of a simple house holder building a family and a loving relationship with ones wife and children, to the One God by ones hard and honest work and even sharing ones blessings with the sick and homeless</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are countless stories of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's travels. Once Guru Ji came to a river <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and in it he saw </del>many Hindus who were taking water in their clasped hands and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offering </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">towards </del>the Sun. Guru <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ji enquired about what </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">going on</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One person replied</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"we are offering water </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our ancestors who are in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next world". Guru Ji replied</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"This sounds like a good idea, let me try". With this Guru Nanak Dev Ji turned and started offering water towards </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">west</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opposite direction </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the crowd. The throng looked on </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were very puzzled</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"What are you doing Fakir Ji?" </del>they asked. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Why</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am offering water to my fields in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Punjab" he said "if your water can reach the next world surely mine can reach the Punjab which is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few hundred miles away". With this </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people realised their folly</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There are countless stories of Guru Nanak Dev Ji's travels. Once Guru Ji came to a river <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for his morning bath only to find the water full of </ins>many Hindus who <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were, doing the age old Hindu morning ritual of saluting the Sun. Guru Nanak having grown up in a Hindu family new just what they were up to. They </ins>were taking water in their clasped hands and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">throwing </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rising </ins>Sun. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Already well aware of what they were doing and why, the </ins>Guru <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">knew that they had never even questioned the age old ritual. He </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the sort of teacher that we all have grown up loving and admiring</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The ones we all remember from our childhood</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ones that taught by example actually leading us </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">discover </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">answers for ourselves</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to feel </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">answer in our soul</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rather than using </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">age old pedantic method </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> 'do </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">repeat what I say'</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">So giving them enough 'rope with which to hang their belief' in the ritual </ins>they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had never dared to question, he </ins>asked <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them what they were doing</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They must have thought him mad</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">least </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stranger from some strange land, who had no idea of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">important work they were doing</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Nanak Dev Ji's crusade was against intolerance which had become the practice of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Muslims, </del>and the meaningless rituals and discriminations of caste and gender which had become an integral part of Hindu life.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Nanak Dev Ji's crusade was against intolerance which had become<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, on one hand </ins>the practice of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their Muslim overlords bent on converting their Hindu subjects, to earn credits (as their 'good angel' which they all believed was sitting on their right shoulder) toting up their good deeds so they could enter </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kingdom of Heaven </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on the other </ins>the meaningless rituals and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gross </ins>discriminations of caste <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(</ins>and gender<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">) </ins>which had become an integral part of Hindu life<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, where in order for some men (the Brahmins) who had written the laws in the first place to have someone to be superior to they had doomed others to life as pariahs whose shadows, they told others, would pollute those of the higher privileged casts. Innocent men and women were denied any chance at an education and forced to do the foulest of tasks with death being their only chance to enter a higher caste</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru ji spent the last years of his life with his family in the village of Kartarpur. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Here people </del>flocked to him <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and heard him </del>sing his hymns. Even today Guru ji is regarded as the symbol of harmony between the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">two communities</del>. A popular couplet describes him as:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru ji spent the last years of his life with his family in the village <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he and his followers cleared on some land donated by another </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his admirers. The village named </ins>Kartarpur <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(the village of the Creator, God's Village) as people heard of this new way of living, where all men and women shared in the work and ate their meals in a communal kitchen with no distinction being made to their former caste</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">People </ins>flocked to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the village to hear </ins>him <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </ins>sing his hymns. Even today Guru ji is regarded as the symbol of harmony between the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Muslims and the Hindus </ins>. A popular couplet describes him as:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Guru Nanak''', the founder of the [[Sikh faith]], was the son of an official with a small holding of land in a village north-west of [[Lahore]] (in present day [[Pakistan]]). Guru ji had his elementary education in [[Sanskrit]] and [[Persian]]. His father intended to train him as an accountant so that he could get a job in the court of the Muslim governor of the district. But Guru Nanak turned out to be indifferent to his school text books and instead engaged in long discourses with holy men both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]], who frequented his village and the surrounding jangal (forest). Mixing with his friends of other castes and religions he was the despair of his parents as he would not attend to family business and spent what ever money they gave him on feeding the poor. When he grew up to be a young man, they arranged a marriage for him. For a time he devoted himself to the care of his wife, and two sons.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Guru Nanak''', the founder of the [[Sikh faith]], was the son of an official with a small holding of land in a village north-west of [[Lahore]] (in present day [[Pakistan]]). Guru ji had his elementary education in [[Sanskrit]] and [[Persian]]. His father intended to train him as an accountant so that he could get a job in the court of the Muslim governor of the district. But Guru Nanak turned out to be indifferent to his school text books and instead engaged in long discourses with holy men both [[Hindu]] and [[Muslim]], who frequented his village and the surrounding jangal (forest). Mixing with his friends of other castes and religions he was the despair of his parents as he would not attend to family business and spent what ever money they gave him on feeding the poor. When he grew up to be a young man, they arranged a marriage for him. For a time he devoted himself to the care of his wife, and two sons.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Poohneathttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=History_of_Sikhism&diff=63960&oldid=prevPoohneat at 16:58, 7 September 20082008-09-07T16:58:29Z<p></p>
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</table>Poohneathttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=History_of_Sikhism&diff=63959&oldid=prevPoohneat at 16:57, 7 September 20082008-09-07T16:57:46Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The word "[[Sikh]]" is derived from the [[Sanskrit]] 'shishya' meaning disciple. Sikhs are the disciples of their [[ten Gurus]] beginning with [[Guru Nanak]] (1469 - 1539) and ending with [[Guru Gobind Singh]] (1666 -1708) and their perpetual "living" Guru, the [[Guru Granth Sahib]]. There are over 23 million Sikhs in the world today, the vast majority live in the [[Punjab|north Indian state of Punjab]]. [[Sikhism]] or [[Sikhi]] is the fifth largest organised religion in the world and the youngest. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The word "[[Sikh]]" is derived from the [[Sanskrit]] 'shishya' meaning disciple. Sikhs are the disciples of their [[ten Gurus]] beginning with [[Guru Nanak]] (1469 - 1539) and ending with [[Guru Gobind Singh]] (1666 -1708) and their perpetual "living" Guru, the [[Guru Granth Sahib]]. There are over 23 million Sikhs in the world today, the vast majority live in the [[Punjab|north Indian state of Punjab]]. [[Sikhism]] or [[Sikhi]] is the fifth largest organised religion in the world and the youngest. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Sahib Ji set about looking after the community and commenced the construction of a large tank. This was to be built on land that had been purchased from Emperor Akbar for the sum of 700 Rs. The town that grew up around it was destined to become the capital of the Sikhs and was known as Chak Ram Das. Like his predecessors Guru Ji composed hymns which were later incorporated in the sacred writings. Guru Ji had three sons, of whom he considered the youngest, Arjun Mal the most suited to succeed him. This caused great resentment in the eldest son Prithi Chand. Nevertheless Guru Ji had Baba Buddha Ji invest Arjun Mal as the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. As Guru Ram Das Ji saw his end on this earth coming near he remarked, “As one lamp is lit from another, so the Guru’s spirit will pass into him and will dispel the darkness from this world.”</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Sahib Ji set about looking after the community and commenced the construction of a large tank. This was to be built on land that had been purchased from Emperor Akbar for the sum of 700 Rs. The town that grew up around it was destined to become the capital of the Sikhs and was known as Chak Ram Das. Like his predecessors Guru Ji composed hymns which were later incorporated in the sacred writings. Guru Ji had three sons, of whom he considered the youngest, Arjun Mal the most suited to succeed him. This caused great resentment in the eldest son Prithi Chand. Nevertheless Guru Ji had Baba Buddha Ji invest Arjun Mal as the fifth Guru of the Sikhs. As Guru Ram Das Ji saw his end on this earth coming near he remarked, “As one lamp is lit from another, so the Guru’s spirit will pass into him and will dispel the darkness from this world.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As soon as his investment was proclaimed his elder brother Prithi Chand turned hostile. Guru Sahib Ji was fortunate in having the support Baba Buddha Ji and Bhai Gurdas Ji in rebutting Prithi Chand's accusations and preventing a split in the community. Guru Sahib Ji’s first task was to complete the building of the temple started by his father as Chak Ram Das. Guru Ji invited a Muslim saint, Said Mian Mir Ji of Lahore, to lay the foundation stone of the Harmindar Sahib, the temple of the Almighty. Instead of building the temple on a high plinth as was the Hindu custom, Guru Ji had it built on a lower level than the surrounding land , so that the worshippers would have to go down the steps to enter. Unlike Hindu temples which have only one door, the Harmindar Sahib was open on all four sides. These features were meant to be symbolic of the new faith, which required the lowest to go even lower, and unlike the Muslim mosques, its doors were open to all who wished to enter.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As soon as his investment was proclaimed his elder brother Prithi Chand turned hostile. Guru Sahib Ji was fortunate in having the support Baba Buddha Ji and Bhai Gurdas Ji in rebutting Prithi Chand's accusations and preventing a split in the community. Guru Sahib Ji’s first task was to complete the building of the temple started by his father as Chak Ram Das. Guru Ji invited a Muslim saint, Said Mian Mir Ji of Lahore, to lay the foundation stone of the Harmindar Sahib, the temple of the Almighty. Instead of building the temple on a high plinth as was the Hindu custom, Guru Ji had it built on a lower level than the surrounding land , so that the worshippers would have to go down the steps to enter. Unlike Hindu temples which have only one door, the Harmindar Sahib was open on all four sides. These features were meant to be symbolic of the new faith, which required the lowest to go even lower, and unlike the Muslim mosques, its doors were open to all who wished to enter.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Hari singhhttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=History_of_Sikhism&diff=43200&oldid=prevHari singh: /* Guru Nanak (1469-1538) */ hyper-linking2007-11-01T23:52:16Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment"><a href="/index.php/Guru_Nanak" title="Guru Nanak">Guru Nanak</a> (1469-1538): </span> hyper-linking</span></p>
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</table>Hari singhhttps://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=History_of_Sikhism&diff=43199&oldid=prevHari singh: /* Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708) */2007-11-01T23:49:52Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment"><a href="/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh" title="Guru Gobind Singh">Guru Gobind Singh</a> (1666-1708)</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Ji prepares the [[Amrit]]. Mata Sahib Devan added the patasey (suger candy).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Guru Ji prepares the [[Amrit]]. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Mata Sahib Devan<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>added the patasey (suger candy).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They were enjoined to observe the five K's. These five emblems of Sikhism being Kesh, uncut hair, a natural gift from God that gave them a distinct identity, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kungha </del>, a comb to keep the hair tidy, Kasha, undergarment shorts,worn by soldiers of the time but also to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dipict </del>chastity and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">personel hygene</del>, Kara, steel bracelet, symbolic connection with God, and they were always to carry a [[Kirpan]] or a sabre ready to uphold righteousness and defend the weak.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>They were enjoined to observe the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Five ks|</ins>five K's<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>. These <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Five ks|</ins>five emblems of Sikhism<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>being<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</ins></div></td></tr>
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