Nanak : founder of the Sikh religion was born in 1469 in a Khatri family of Talwandi near Lahore. He considered all men as equal before God & preached universal toleration free from all dogmatic religious practices that set humans against each other to the extent of willingness to kill “the others”. He spent his whole life in preaching a religion based on all that was beneficial to man in Hinduism & Islam, & succeeded to a large extent. His sayings & songs make up the Sacred Book of the Sikhs, known as the Grantha Sahib.
... God-realisation". 17 And one particular feature of Indian religion has been the periodic occurrence of "messengers of the Spirit" - Nammalvar, Andal, Manikkavasagar, Tukaram, Kabir, Mira, Sankara Deva and Nanak - who were minstrels of God and ambassadors of the Absolute. But although many were these witnesses, these Seers, Rishis, Alvars, Acharyas, Prahladas, although many notes make the marvellous symphony... statesmen, conquerors, administrators. Asoka, Chanakya, Chandragupta, Akbar, Shivaji, Guru Govind Singh, these are in the golden roll-call as much as Gautama Buddha, Mahavira, Sankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak: All this mass of action was not accomplished by men without mind and will and vital force, by pale shadows of humanity in whom the vigorous manhood had been crushed out under the burden of... Sanskrit age, and there is brief mention of Tiruvalluvar, Avvai, the Vaishnava and Saiva saint-singers, the great epics of Kamban and Tulsidas, and the proliferation of the Bhakti poetry including that of Nanak and the other Sikh Gurus. Of the poetry of the Radha-Krishna cult, Sri Aurobindo writes: The desire of the soul for God is there thrown into symbolic figure in the lyrical love cycle of Radha ...
... The Leverage of Faith 25-April-1907 It is said of Guru Nanak that on the eve of his departure from the body he was asked to name a successor to his gadi . A great storm was raging at the time—the disturbance of nature synchronising with the passing away of a great spirit. Nanak was then sitting under a tree surrounded by his disciples. It was evening and the Page... doors for the wild rain and storm without. Nanak then turned to a devoted disciple who simply enquired where he should go for food and was told that he had only to ask of the tree under which they were then sitting and it would give them all they required. The disciple did Nanak's bidding and, as the story goes, was rewarded with sufficiency of sweetmeats. Nanak went afterwards with his disciples to the... took the command as conclusive proof of their father's lunacy, but the disciple was prepared to obey unquestioningly and only paused to ask from where to begin, whether from the head or from the foot. Nanak, entirely satisfied with the steadfast faith of his disciple, named him the successor to his gadi in preference to his own sons. It is not given to all to possess this heroic spiritual faith which ...
... synthesis. The yogic system of Sri Chaitanya adds a most precious contribution to the path of the Divine Love. The yogic system of Guru Nanak, too, manifests a synthesis, and it is a remarkable development that aimed at the assimilation of Hinduism and Islam. Guru Nanak also aimed at purifying the yogic life of his own time. Page 25 Later Systems of the Synthesis of Yoga The Tantric ...
... from the side of the Hindus. The former was exemplified in the attempt of Akbar to create a new religion called Din-I-Ilahi, and the latter was exemplified by the life and work of Guru Nanak. The work of Guru Nanak later gave rise to the astonishingly original and novel Sikh Khalsa movement. During this period, there was a tremendous churning of the spirit of India, and a great attempt was made to ...
... the Hindus. The former was exemplified in the attempt of Akbar (1542-1605) to create a new religion called Din-i-Ilahi, and the latter was exemplified by the life and work of Guru Nanak (1469-1538). The work of Guru Nanak gave rise to the subsequent Sikh Khalsa movement which was astonishingly original and novel. During this period, there was a tremendous churning of the spirit of India, and a ...
... other from the side of the Hindus. The former was exemplified in the attempt of Akbar to create a new religion called Din-eIllahi, and the latter was exemplified by the life and work of Guru Nanak. The work of Gum Nanak gave rise to the subsequent Sikh Khalsa movement which was astonishingly original and novel. During this period, there was a tremendous churning of the spirit of India, and a great attempt ...
... Greece, Rome, Egypt and Assyria; but the Aryan race... was saved by the rejuvenating flow of heavenly nectar which gushed from time to time from the ancient source. Shankara, Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak, Ramdas and Tukaram brought back to life a moribund India by sprinkling her with that divine nectar. However, the current of rajas and tamas was so strong that by its pull, even the best were altered... Hinduism, and the movement of Sufism in Islam, had also lost their great spiritual drive, and only a memory of god-intoxicated singers like Eknath and Kabir and Tulsi Das and Chaitanya and Farid and Nanak lay behind Page 9 to keep the obscured embers of Indian spirituality yet alive. Palsied in its outer forms, miserably racked within, breathing but an atmosphere of violence or sloth ...
... which describes the identification parades of the Bomb Case, gives some glimpses Page 566 of the approver Noren Gossain and deals with the personal character of some of the jail officials. Nanak Charit by Sj. Krishna Kumar Mitra, the first instalment of which is given in this issue, commands interest both by its subject and the name of its writer. The two chapters given are full of interesting ...
... in ancient India was the outstanding figure with the hero just behind, while in later times the most striking feature is the long uninterrupted chain from Buddha and Mahavira to Ramanuja, Chaitanya, Nanak, Ramdas and Tukaram and beyond them to Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and Dayananda. But there have been also the remarkable achievements of statesmen and rulers, from the first dawn of ascertainable history ...
... but his religion Page 442 was an intellectual and political rather than a spiritual creation and had never any chance of assent from the strongly religious mind of the two communities. Nanak attempted it from the Hindu side, but his religion, universal in principle, became a sect in practice. Akbar attempted also to create a common political patriotism, but this endeavour too was foredoomed ...
... freedom of the nation; spiritual freedom, social freedom, political freedom. Spiritual freedom the ancient Rishis had already declared to us; social freedom was part of the message of Buddha, Chaitanya, Nanak and Kabir and the saints of Maharashtra; political freedom is the last word of the triune gospel. Without political freedom the soul of man is crippled. Only a few mighty spirits can rise above their ...
... and our mission. This is the first and most important work which the Karmayogin sets for itself, to popularise this knowledge. The Vedanta or Sufism, the temple Page 20 or the mosque, Nanak and Kabir and Ramdas, Chaitanya or Guru Govind, Brahmin and Kayastha and Namasudra, whatever national asset we have, indigenous or acclimatised, it will seek to make known, to put in its right place ...
... of Hinduism which have given us so much national vitality. I think rather it was its spirit. I am inclined to give more credit for the secular miracle of our national survival to Shankara, Ramanuja, Nanak & Kabir, Guru Govind, Chaitanya, Ramdas & Tukaram than to Raghunandan and the Pandits of Nadiya & Bhatpara. The result of this well-meaning bondage has been an increasing impoverishment of the Indian ...
... 16th centuries belong to this stage. There was also during this period a remarkable attempt to combine Vedanta and Islam or of establishing lasting communal harmony. In particular, the work of Guru Nanak (1469-1538) and of the subsequent Sikh Khalsa movement was astonishingly original and novel. The speciality of this third stage was an intense outburst and fresh creativity, not a revivalism, but based ...
... entered into India. Two great efforts were made to arrive at a harmony between the old and powerful Indian culture and the religion and power of Islam. These two great efforts, the one started by Guru Nanak and the other started by Akbar, Page 53 reaffirmed the Indian tendency of synthesis and harmony. Once again, while this period was marked by political instability for several centuries ...
... Vasishtha; iv.Vishvamitra; v.Valmiki; vi.Vyasa; vii.Buddha; viii.Mahavira; ix.Moses; x.Jesus Christ; xi.Thiruvalluvar; xii.Prophet Mohammed; xiii.Guru Nanak; xiv.Sri Chaitanya; xv.Mira; xvi.Ramakrishna; xvii.Swami Vivekananda; xviii.Sri Aurobindo. IV.Exercises for the Development of Sense of Wonder: i.Examples form ...
... Am I lazy? To resolve to remove idleness. How to organize my life and my activities? Study of selections from Valmiki and Vyasa A detailed study of the life and work of Guru Nanak. Class XI Science and Values The role of intuition in discoveries and inventions of science. Yoga as a conscious method of the development of intuition. Ancient Indian sciences ...
... Am I lazy? To resolve to remove idleness. 9. How to organize my life and my activities? V. Study of selections from Valmiki and Vyasa VI. A detailed study of the life and work of Guru Nanak. Page 100 Class XI I. Science and Values 1. The role of intuition in discoveries and inventions of science. Yoga as a conscious method of the development of intuition. ...
... Nolini Kanta, 14, 193, 285, 288-89, 298, 306, 309, 329, 335, 370, 376, 380ff, 405, 536, 541, 655, 690, 709, 725, 740, 742,763 Gupta, Rameshwar, 690 Gurdjieff, G. I., 442 Guru Nanak, 8, 9,497,498, 564 Haldar, Haridas, 218 Halliday, F. L., 308-09 Hamsa Sandesa, 97 Hansraj, Lala, 234 Hardinge, Lord, 369 Hartmann, Nicolai, 441 ...
... strength, valour and endurance, intellectual subtlety and moral grandeur. The avatars and prophets of old - Rama, Sita. Krishna, Moses, Mahavira, Siddhartha, Christ, Muhammad, Sankara, Ramanuja, Nanak - punctuated the march of the human consciousness by precept and example. There were also heroic figures like Arjuna and Achilles and Alexander and Napoleon, and there were the great poets and artists ...
... the Mother has said, "knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, i I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters." Siddhartha, Jesus, Mahomed, Nanak, Ramakrishna; Andal, Teresa, Juliana, Rabia, Mira these were men and women no doubt, and yet a divinity hedged them round, they surpassed our familiar categories of thought and feeling, and ceasing ...
... from "what one could call a Divine Being ... bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth". 47 Mahavira, the Buddha, the Christ, the Prophet Mahomet, Guru Nanak were all historical personalities, and were also divine-human persons who originated the several religions that still claim millions of followers today. But aside from the initial inspiration (which ...
... Mirra asks: "When will ignorance dissolve? When will pain cease?" Isn't it because of the divorce from the Divine that pain and ignorance have thrived? "Without Thee all is false!" declared Guru Nanak. Every atom of the universe should thus grow conscious of its Divine origins and Divine substance, and by this means redeem and transform itself. Page 123 II Nearly two weeks ...
... Sikhs 1 and other Hindu kings continued to offer stiff resistance to the "Muslim invaders — the greedy barbarians who were attracted by the proverbial 1. In fact, Sikhism, founded by Guru Nanak in the fifteenth century, was at first a peaceful sect derived from among the Hindus. But the cruel policies of the Muslim rulers after Akbar alienated them. The fifth Guru, Arjan, was executed on Emperor ...
... thought & character than any other Indian race. Similarly the West also preserves its tradition; the Punjab is typified by its wide acceptance of such crude, but practical & active religions as those of Nanak Page 153 & Dayanunda Saraswati, religions which have been unable to take healthy root beyond the frontier of the five rivers; Gujarat & Sindh show the same practical temper by their success ...
... and, as in the early Sanskrit poetry, vivified by a great power of living phrase and image, and farther north the high Vedantic spirituality renews itself in the Hindi poetry of Surdas and inspires Nanak and the Sikh gurus. The spiritual culture prepared and perfected by two millenniums of the ancient civilisation has flooded the mind of all these peoples and given birth to great new literatures and ...
... Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and Ramprasad, Ramdas and Tukaram, Tiruvalluvar and Kamban and the songs of Nanak and Kabir and Mirabai and the southern Shaiva saints and the Alwars,—to name only the best-known writers and most characteristic productions, though there is a very large body of other work in the different ...
... or Mohammedanism, has respectfully given rightful place to all of them is concretely proved if one visits a Sri Ramakrishna Temple. The main prayer hall always displays pictures of Christ, Buddha, Nanak, Zarathushtra, etc. Christmas eve celebration, introduced by Swami Vivekananda in the late 1880's, still continues at the Mission's headquarters and several other branch centres. Some of the monks of ...
... consciousness of the masses, a traditional continuity of the practical process of self-realisation runs throughout the period of Indian history including the period of her decline. The names of Kabir, Nanak, Ramanand, Tulsi, Dadu, Chaitanya and others easily come to the mind while tracing the continuity to the very dawn of the Indian renaissance, which can be said to begin with the appearance of the ...
... generation its methods & experiences. But the Indian mental atmosphere tends always, by a return upon that which is most vital in it, to bring out great souls who, like Buddha, like Chaitanya, like Nanak, like Ramdas, like Ramakrishna, belong to no school, owe their knowledge to no spiritual preceptor, but go back to the Source of all within themselves and emerge from it with some perfectly realised ...
... Koral 15.KING SOLOMON 16.THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW 17.YUDHISHTHIRA 18.I'M GOING TO DANCE AGAIN 19.A DAYS WAIT 20.AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MAN-EATER—Jim Corbett 21.GURU NANAK Page 502 22.PLANTS ALSO BREATHE AND FEEL 23.NEHRU'S WILL AND TESTAMENT 24.ANIMALS IN PRISON—Jawaharlal Nehru 25.SRI AUROBINDO GHOSH 26.KAZAKI- Prem Chand 27.NALA ...
... became acute, we find in Sri Chaitanya a profound and subtle synthesis. At the same time, the coming of Islam in India provided a ground for the emergence of new trends of synthesis, represented by Guru Nanak, Akbar, and a number of Sufi saints and philosophers. Even today, as we stand at the head of a new age, we have in India an imperative drive towards an unprecedented synthesis, in which both East and ...
... world. It is well known that Sufi ideas and even literary texts were borrowed by or lay behind teachings as diverse as those of St. John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, Roger Bacon and Guru Nanak, as well as the Vedas. Many Sufis claim that their knowledge has existed/or thousands of years and has links with the Hermetic, Pythagorean and Platonic streams. This view reiterates the idea that Sufism ...
... To resolve to remove idleness. 9. How to organise my life and my activities? V. Study of selections from Valmiki and Vyasa VI. A detailed study of the life and work of Guru Nanak. Class XI I. Science and Values: 1. The role of intuition in discoveries and inventions of science. Yoga as a conscious methods of the development of intuition. 2. Ancient ...
... India V (i) The coming of Islam, Tenets of Islam (ii) Succession of Sultans, Razia Begum VI (i) Babar's account of India (ii) Beginnings of Sikhism: Guru Nanak (iii) Akbar (iv) Abul Fazal, Faizi and Tansen (v) Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb (vi) Great Saints: Narsi Mehta, Tulsidas, Meerabai, Surdas, Chaitanya, Tukaram (vii) ...
... freedom of the nation, spiritual freedom, social freedom, political freedom. Spiritual freedom the ancient Rishis had already declared to us; social freedom was part of the message of Buddha, Chaitanya, Nanak and Kabir and the saints of Maharashtra; political freedom is the last work of the triune gospel.... God has set apart India as the eternal fountainhead of holy spirituality, and He will never suffer ...
... study of the lives of great personalities associated with these religions, or various systems of yoga such as Rama, Krishna, Buddha Mahavira, Zoroaster, Moses, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed, Guru Nanak, Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo. What is called psychology of religion and spirituality could also be studied at least at the elementary level, and here the emphasis could ...
... entered into India. Two great efforts were made to arrive at a harmony between the old and powerful Indian culture and the religion and power of Islam. These two great efforts, the one started by Guru Nanak and the other started by Akbar, reaffirmed the Indian tendency of synthesis and harmony. Once again, while this period was marked by political instability for several centuries until Akbar and some ...
... the world-activities. Page 59 was also during this period a remarkable attempt to combine Vedanta and Islam or of establishing lasting communal harmony. In particular, the work of Guru Nanak (1469-1538) and of the subsequent Sikh Khalsa movement was astonishingly original and novel. The speciality of this third stage was an intense outburst and fresh creativity, not a revivalism, but ...
... in the temperament of the Bengalis. They cannot accept from the bottom of their hearts the stoic ideal of Mahatma Gandhi. Rabindranath is the model of a Bengali. The Deccan has produced Shankara; Nanak and Surdas appeared in the North; but in the fertile soil of Bengal were born Sri Chaitanya, Chandidas and Ramprasad. The cult of devotion exists, no doubt, in other parts of India; but the cult of ...
... of the nation, spiritual freedom, social freedom, political freedom. Spiritual freedom the ancient Rishis had already declared to us; social freedom was part of the message of Buddha, Chaitanya, Nanak and Kabir and the saints of Maharashtra; political freedom is the last word of the triune gospel. Without political freedom the soul of man is crippled. Only a few mighty spirits can rise above ...
... consciousness of the masses, a traditional continuity of the practical process of self-realisation runs through- out the period of Indian history including the period of her decline. The names of Kabir, Nanak, Ramanand, Tuisi, Dadu, Chaitanya and others easily come to the mind while tracing the continuity to the very dawn of the Indian renaissance, which can be said to begin with the appearance of the colossal ...
... nothing like an altogether "new" Yoga and although some integrality could be claimed for the Gita's Yoga, for some of the Tantra siddhis and for the way of life taught by men of God like Ramanuja and Nanak, it wouldn't be right to minimise the revolutionary newness and integrality of Sri Aurobindo's Page 564 Yoga. It professedly aims at taking up all sides of the Truth - for example ...
... Ganapatram Gupta 278 Gandhi, Mahatma 118, 186, 215, 261, 277, 404, 426, 446, 451, 457-8, 485, 810 Gin, V.V. and Mrs Saraswati 778, 821 Gokak,V.K. 173ff Gould, F.G. 480 Guru Nanak 123, 180, 317 Heilbroner, R.L. 732 Himanshu Niyogi 662 Hitler, Adolf 181, 208, 395ff, 409ff, 422ff, 441ff, 593 Hofman, Dr Albert 742 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 41, 71, 80, 354 Huta ...
... for even the most ignorant know that the image is a symbol and support and can throw it away when its use is over. The later religious forms which most felt the impress of the Islamic idea, like Nanak's worship of the timeless One, Akala, and the reforming creeds of today, born under the influence of the West, yet draw away from the limitations of western or Semitic monotheism. Irresistibly they turn ...
... mind; for even the most ignorant know that the image is a symbol and support and can throw it away when its use is over. The later religious forms which most felt the impress of the Islamic idea, like Nanak's worship of the timeless One, Akala, and the reforming creeds of today, born under the influence of the West, yet draw away from the limitations of Western or Semitic monotheism. Irresistibly they turn ...
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