The messages of ‘Kirat Karo’ and ‘Vand Chhako’ inspire us to live with honesty and share the available resources with others.Guru Nanak travelled across South Asia and the Middle East to spread his teachings.One should adopt eternal values like truth, sacrifice and moral conduct from the teachings of ‘Japji Sahib’.He inspired us to practise love, unity and brotherhood.His verses also preach selfless service to humanity, prosperity and social justice for all, irrespective of differences.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji also gave the message of humility and service to mankind.He set up rules for congregational worship (Sangat) involving collective recitation.Guru Nanak Dev Ji spread the message of ‘Ek Omkar’ which means that God is one and is present everywhere.He advocated the 'Nirguna' (devotion to and worship of formless divine) form of bhakti.He started writing the Guru Granth Sahib and completed 974 hymns.He was the first of the 10 Sikh Guru s and the founder of Sikhism in the 15th century.He was born into a middle-class Hindu family and raised by his parents, Mehta Kalu and Mata Tripta.He was born on Ap, at Rai Bhoi Ki Talwandi, near Lahore, which is in the Sheikhpura district of modern-day Pakistan.The festival is celebrated on the day of Kartik Poornima, which is the fifteenth lunar day in the month of Kartik according to the Hindu calendar, and usually falls in the month of November by the Gregorian calendar.It is also known as Gurpurab and is the most important festival for the followers of the religion of Sikhism as the birth anniversary of the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev.The President of India has greeted fellow-citizens on the eve of Guru Nanak Dev Jayanti.
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