Category: Guru Nanak

Let Us Stop Paying Lip Service to, and obey, Guru Nanak   We are a couple of weeks away from the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak’s advent. The great Guru freed humankind from shackles of dogmas, rituals and superstitions. Conformance to this continued until physical presence of the tenth Guru and a little afterwards. However, […]

Guru Nanak’s concept of Practical Spirituality   Spirituality is a broad term covering living by higher values. It covers ethics, peace, and tranquillity. Some people link it with religion, some people do not, thinking religion is only dogmas, superstitions and rituals. However, dogmas do not form basics of any religion, and are later additions. It […]

Guru Nanak Unites A tribute on the Gurpurab Sometime ago during a discussion with a Hindu Brahmin and a Muslim Maulvi I gave a synopsis of Guru Nanak’s Japji Sahib, the first composition in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. As soon as I finished, the Maulvi exclaimed “But this is Islam”. Such is the universal appeal […]

A Tribute on the Gurpurab Sometime ago during a discussion with a Hindu Brahmin and a Muslim Maulvi I gave a synopsis of Guru Nanak’s Japji Sahib, the first composition in Sri Guru Granth Sahib. As soon as I finished, the Maulvi exclaimed “But this is Islam”. Such is the universal appeal of Guru Nanak’s […]

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