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Guru Nanak

First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism

  • Fame71.6
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Lived 1469–1539, aged 70
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  • Era
    1469–1539
    Aged 70
Summary
Updated 2026-06-08

He taught one God in everyone, walked across Asia to say it, and left 974 hymns that became the foundation of Sikhism — a faith built on equality, not caste or creed.

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Born in 1469 in India, Nanak was a mystic and poet who broke with the hierarchies around him. He traveled widely across Asia, preaching Ik Onkar — the idea that one God dwells in all creation and is the only eternal truth. That concept became the spine of a new spiritual and social order: equality, fraternal love, virtue over ritual. His teachings, recorded as 974 hymns in the Guru Granth Sahib, include the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var, and the Sidh Gosht. Sikhs believe his sanctity passed intact through the nine Gurus who followed. He died in 1539, and his birthday is still honored across Indi…

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Guru Nanak
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Nanak observed: “Justice hath taken wings and fled.” “This age is like a drawn sword, the Kings are butchers; goodness has taken wings and flown.’?
— in RC Majumdar, Volume 7: The Mughul Empire [1526-1707]
Guru Nanak
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Guru Nanak was also an eye-witness to the treatment meted out te the people by Babur when he invaded India in 1521.
— in RC Majumdar, Volume 7: The Mughul Empire [1526-1707]
Guru Nanak
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If Ganges water will reach your ancestors in heaven, why should the water I throw up not reach my fields in the Punjab, which are far less distant ?
— Guru Nanak Dev ji (1469 - 1539)
Guru Nanak
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O Lallo, as the words of the Lord come to me, so do I express them.
— Guru Nanak Dev ji (1469 - 1539)
Guru Nanak
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The sun and moon, O Lord, are Thy lamps; the firmament Thy salver; the orbs of the stars the pearls encased in it.
— Guru Nanak Dev ji (1469 - 1539)
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