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The Guru, knowing that his end was approaching, appointed Angad his successor. The Guru's sons had not obeyed him. Th…
Guru Nanak went and sat under a withered acacia tree, when lo! it became green, and produced leaves and blossoms. Ang…
Hail to the Creator, the True King, who allotted to the world its various duties! When the measure is full, the durat…
After this the assembled crowd began to sing songs of mourning, and the Guru fell into a trance. When he awoke theref…
The Musalmans who had received God's name from the Guru, said they would bury him after his death. His Hindu follower…
Guru Nanak then ordered the crowd to sing the Sohila:
In the house in which God's praise is sung and He is meditated on, Sing the Sohila and remember the Creator. Sing the…
The concluding slok of the Japji was then sung. The Guru drew a sheet over him, uttered 'Wahguru', made obeisance to …
When the sheet was removed next morning, there was nothing found beneath it. The flowers on both sides were in bloom.…
The Sikhs erected a shrine and the Muhammadans a tomb in his honour on the margin of the Ravi. Both have since been w…
Bhai Gur Das, a brief account of whom we have given in the Introduction, draws a gloomy picture of the wickedness of …
Everybody thought he possessed knowledge, but none knew in what knowledge or ignorance consisted. Men did what please…
Men despised one another and hence caste received religious sanction. The Brahmans set the Veds, the Purans, and the …
Not only were the Hindus divided into four castes, but the Muhammadans were divided into four sects, 1 and while the …
There was no guru or religious guide, and without one the people were pushing one another to their destruction. Sin p…
He pointed out to men the straight way that there was but one God, the primal and omnipreaent. He restored the three …
1 Hanifi, Shafai, Maliki, and Hanbali. He preached to all a religion of the heart as distinguished from a religion of…
He found that the acts and austerities practised by professedly religious men of his age and country were without div…
The Guru examined all religious sects, contemplated the gods, goddesses, and spirits of earth and heaven, and found t…
Religious men who ought to be guiding their flocks, had retreated to the solitude of mountains. There was no one left…
When Guru Nanak appeared, the fog of spiritual ignorance dispersed, and light shone in the world, as when the sun ris…
The four castes of the Hindus he reduced to one. Whether a Sikh had a caste or not, he was distinguished in the socie…