GURU NANAK DEV JEEBy Bhupinder and Jaspreet

INTRODUCTION Guru Nanak Dev Ji was the first Guru Born in year 1469 in the Village

Talwandi now known to be Nankana Sahib

Who was the first to recognise Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s Enlightened Soul?

Which Bania did Guru Nanak Dev Ji write?

What was Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s three basic teachings?

He taught to have equality for humans and women

ANSWERS Who was the first to recognise Guru Nanak

Dev Ji’s Enlightened Soul? Answer: Sister, Bibi Nanaki

What Bania did Guru Nanak Dev Ji write? Answer: Japji Sahib, Sidh Gost, Baavan Akri and

Dhakanee Oankar

What was Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s three basic teachings? Answer: Naam Japna, Kirat Karni and Vand Chakna

THREE TEACHINGS Naam Japna:

Meditation on Vaheguru mantarSikhi is all Naam, it makes everything

we do in life AcceptedExample- Clap your hands

Kirat Karni:Gristee JeevanEarning a honest living

Vand Chakna:To Share with Others – Give Examples?

BHAI LALO'S HONESTY -> KIRAT KARNIAfter teaching people in Lahore to live honestly, Guru ji returned to Talwandi to

see his parents. Then after a short stay, he went with Mardana his friend on a long

journey to visit the sacred places of pilgrimage of

the Hindus. On the way they reached Bhai

Lalo’s workshop at Saidpur.

Bhai Lalo earned his living by honest work.

Bhai Lalo was nearly seventeen years older

than Guru Nanak. When Lalo saw two holy men

coming towards him, he put aside his work and

spread a bed for them and went to get some

lunch for them.

Bhai Lalo asked Guru Nanak to come there and have his meal. So the meal was brought out and Mardana then divided it into three parts and they all ate it together. “This meal tastes like nectar. What has been put in it?” asked Bhai Mardana. Guru Nanak replied “That was the sweet flavour of truthfulness and honesty that you tasted. This taste is above the worldly tastes.”

One day Malik Bhago, a high government official of the city, gave a general feast.

He invited Guru Nanak too. Guru ji refused

the invitation saying, "We are fakirs(poor),

what have we to do with your feast?" On being

asked a second time, Guru Nanak took Bhai Lalo

with him and went to Malik Bhago’s house.

With great anger Malik Bhago said to Guru ji,

“You are dishonoring Kshatriyas by eating dry chapaties in the house of a low caste carpenter. My feast will offer you delicious food. Why do you refuse to eat it?”

Guru Nanak took Bhai Lalo’s dry chapati in his right hand and

Malik Bhago’s fried sweet pancake in

his left hand. When he squeezed

the right hand the people present

there saw drops of milk dripping from

it. And when he pressed the left

hand with the Malik Bhago's fried pancakes, everyone saw blood trickling from it.

“Look Malik Bhago, wealth gathered by cruelty

and corruption towards the poor is like sucking

their blood which you have done. You had

invited me to partake of blood, leaving food

pure as milk. How could I accept it?” said Guru

ji. Malik Bhago was silent then. Bhai Lalo on

the other hand was the symbol of honesty and

hard work. So according to Guru ji it’s better

to earn little money with honesty than to

amass a huge wealth by tricky and unkind

means.

Bhai Lalo was blessed by Guru Ji to spread the message of

Naam. He became a spiritual Sikh and preached

the Guru's teachings to the people of Saidpur.

GURUSHIPpihlW bwby pwXw bKsu dir ipCo dy iPir Gwl kmweI]First of all Baba Nanak obtained the gate of the grace

(of Lord) and then He underwent and earned the rigorous discipline (of heart and mind).

ryqu Aku Awhwru kir roVW kI gur krI ivCweI]He fed himself with sand and swallow-wort and made

stones his bedding i.e. he enjoyed poverty too.

BwrI krI qpisAw vfy Bwgu hir isau bix AweI]He offered full Devotion and then he was fortunate to

have union with God.

bwbw pYDw sc KMif nau iniD nwmu grIbI pweI]Baba reached the region of Truth wherefrom he

received Naam, the storehouse of nine treasures and humility.

bwbw dyKy iDAwn Dir jlqI siB ipRQvI idis AweI]

In his meditation, Baba found the whole earth burning (with the fire of lust and anger).

bwJhu gurU gubwr hY hY hY krdI suxI lukweI]Without Guru there is utter darkness and he

heard the cries of the common men.

bwby ByK bxwieAw audwsI kI rIiq clweI]To further understand the people, Guru

Nanak donned robes in their manner and preached them to be detached (from the pleasure and pain).

ciVAw soDix Driq lukweI ]24]Thus he went out to purify humanity on

earth.(24)

HANG-MAN What two things did Guru Nanak Dev Ji

receive from Saachkhand?

1 2

What two other requirements were necessary in his discipline in order to please God?

HANG-MAN

1 2

HANG-MAN What did Guru Nanak Dev Ji see and do when

in meditation?

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