Guru Nanak, the Apostle of Humanity
1469--1539
A turmoil was enveloping the Indian scene in the fifteenth century
A.D. The political domain was in the grip of a pandemonium; the Pathan
and the Mughal rulers were at daggers drawn and the poor populace was
constantly trampled over. The impersonators and imposters were
plundering the realm of religion. The caste discrimination was tearing
off the social set up and brotherhood. The womanhood was brutally
subjugated. Health, wealth and honour, all had become defenseless.
Such was the predicament at the advent of Guru Nanak, the first
Supreme preceptor of the Sikh Religion. He was born in the house of a
revenue official, Mehta Kalu, in the year 1469 at Talwandi, in
District Sheikhupura (now in Pakistan).
Nearly first thirty years of his life Guru Nanak minutely studied and
experienced himself with all the temporal aspects of the human life.
On full moon day in the month of Kartrik in the year 1469, he emerged
from his contemplative trance, and declared the real purpose of his
manifestation into the mundane world. His first message to mankind
echoed the Universal Brotherhood, "Na koi Hindu, na koi Musalman."
To reform a society and to re-instill in it the human values, a
reformist needs courage to expose the exploiters. Guru Nanak was not
only endowed with Godly vision but also with the fortitude to speak
against the societal atrocities committed by the ruling elite, and the
corrupt implementations conducted under the garb of religion. He
narrated such inhuman offenses fearlessly:
* Modesty and righteousness both have vanished, and falsehood moves
about as the leader, O, Lal...
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...eeps on going.
When one's wife dies, another lady is sought for. It is through a
woman that man restrains his passion.
Why call her bad, from whom are born Kings?
From a woman, a woman is born.
Without a woman, there can be none.
Guru Nanak was the voice of the oppressed and meek, and by hearing his
Word (Bani) people were endowed with solace and expectation. The Bani
equally discharged the strong warning shots to the mammons, tyrants
and persecutors. Wherever the celestial mission of Guru Nanak
prevailed the people proclaimed without any discrimination:
"With the manifestation of Guru Nanak,
The Earthly wilderness and Temporal mist were lifted,
And the celestial rays enlightened through the mankind."
(Bhai Gurdas.)
*Gurbani Quotations from the author's book,
"Thus Sayeth Gurbani."
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