Guru Nanak, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus, was a sixteenth-century reformer and the founder of Sikhism. He challenged ritualism and shows of piety and attacked the citadels of the caste system. He taught that the core tenets of living a good life were helping those less fortunate, making an honest living and meditating on the name of the Lord so as to overcome human weaknesses. He travelled extensively—from Mecca to the Himalayas to central India—with his faithful disciple Mardana, teaching about love, one God and Truth and oneness with the Lord. He propagated the philosophy of salvation through meditation and rejected all forms of idolatry. His travels have been chronicled in the Janamsakhis, written decades after his death. His teachings have been immortalized in the form of 974 verses that form part of the holy text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib.

On the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, one of the world’s most iconic spiritual teachers, we are celebrating his some of his greatest teachings compiled in The Light in All is One, translated and edited by Navkirat Sodhi. Timeless and universal, the aphorisms in this book contain some of Guru Nanak’s best lessons about living a fulfilling life.

Happy Gurupurab to you.

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