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Guru Nanak Jayanti (Guru-Nanak-Gurpurab)

Guru Nanak was the founder of The Sikh religion. His birth is celebrated with full enthusiasm as Guru Nanak Jayanti (Guru-Nanak-Gurpurab), which generally falls on the full moon day of lunar kartik. Nanak was a religious teacher who founded the Sikh religion (festivals in Sikhism) during the 15th century.

Who was Guru of Guru Nanak Ji?

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Nanak Ji was a disciple of Kabir Ji. There are numerous proofs in Bala Janam Sakhi that Nanak Ji received initiation from a Jinda Mahatma, whom Nanak Ji constantly praised. In holy Kabir Sagar, dialogue between Nanak Ji and Kabir Ji is recorded, Nanak accepts Kabir Ji as his guru wherein. Even many European scholars assertively subscribe to the view that Nanak Ji was one of the chief disciples of Kabir Ji.

Who is the True Guru at the present time?

Attainment of salvation is possible only after receiving a true name from the True Guru (Sikh Guru). At the present time, no one is true Guru except Saint Rampal Ji. Saint Rampal Ji is the only guru who proved that guru Nanak dev jihad made Guru, and he was none other than Kabir Ji. He has also proved the true name which Nanak Ji used to recite. It can be conspicuously deduced that liberation is possible only after receiving initiation from him.

Teachings of Guru Nanak

Rejection of meaningless religious rituals and practices- He strictly rejected the practices of hatha yoga, sacrificing of the body, fasting, pilgrimages to the so-called holy places, routine rituals and ceremonies and modified the meaning and practice of other to give poise (sehja) to life. He advocated renunciation of desires while living in the world itself. He denounces the hypocritical reading of scriptures but advocates their reading in order to live in accordance with theirs. teachings. He prescribed the loving and devoted Japa (repetition) of the Name. He recommended bhakti or Nam-bhakti only-meditation on the Name with a concentration on the Supreme Reality. He advocated the path of Surat-sabad- concentrating on the Name of Supreme consciousness, who is One transcendent and immanent, truth, name, creator, all-pervading, fearless, without enmity, timeless, existence, unborn, self- existent, consciousness, and grace. Any other practice according to Guru Nanak generates and activities the ego while the practice of the Name banishes egoism and thus Leads to the merger of the self with the cosmic-self, the Supreme Being. The practice of the Name, emphasized he, perfects the human personality psychologically and intellectually and makes it the instrument of noble karmas of Dharma. He denounced worship of Trinity,i.e., The Gods, Brahman, Vishnu, Shiva, for, they are subject to the control of Time which marks their beginning, decline, and end. God alone is Timeless (Akal).

Declaration of True Yogi

He declared, a true yogi is not one who wanders in waste places or lives in cremation yards. Long matted hair, unpared nails on the hands, the staff and the begging bowl do not make a yogi. The true yogi is one who lives amidst the impurities of the world like the lotus in water, without getting wet; or the duck without letting waterfall on its wings. 'To live pure amidst the impurity of Maya is true yoga practice. Denunciation of ego- According to him 'ego' constitutes the wall of separation between God and man. So, this has to be completely removed; it is to be burnt, destroyed and eliminated altogether.

The Guru Granth calls the egoist as manmukh or sakat. He is mind-oriented and follows the irrational carnal urges of lust, anger, avarice, attachment, and pride. He is thoroughly a materialist and is bound to the material joys. He is always double minded, vacillating between God and Mammon. When a man shakes offego, he merges his self with the cosmic self. Such a man considers himselfas a drop in the ocean of life and understands that his good or interest is common with the good of the other members of the human society or family. Such a man identifies himself with the society. He has no individual interests. An egoist does everything with desire for reward or fruit for himself while a non-egoist is niskam (desireless) in all his actions.

Guru Nanak

says that an egoist creates a world ofhis own like the spider who weaves a web out of his ownself and is entangled in it and is thus killed ultimately by his own false creation. An egoist lives in an imaginary world of his own wherein he himself matters the most and remains the centre ofthe entire universe or a small circle ofhis relatives is all that matters. In selfishness, he thinks of his own salvation only and resorts to the so-called religious acts of supposed merit such as dips at the so-called holy places, alms-deeds, austeritier, meditation.