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File:The Entrance of Janam Asthan-2.jpg in Nankana Sahib, Pakistan, commemorates the site where Nanak is believed to have been born.]]{{See also|Guru Nanak Gurpurab}}

Nanak was born on 15 April 1469 at {{Transliteration|pa|Rāi Bhoi Dī Talvaṇḍī}} village (present-day Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan) in the Lahore province of the Delhi Sultanate,{{sfn|Singh|2006|pp=12–13}}{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=6}} although according to one tradition, he was born in the Indian month of Kartik (month) or November, known as Kattak in Punjabi.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=49}} He was born into the Khatri Punjabi clan like all of the Sikh gurus. Specifically, Guru Nanak was a Bedi Khatri.

Most janamsakhis ({{Langx|pa|ਜਨਮਸਾਖੀ|lit=birth stories|label=none}}), or traditional biographies of Nanak, mention that he was born on the third day of the bright lunar fortnight, in the Baisakh month (April) of Samvat 1526.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=49}} These include the Puratan{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Janamsakhis#Editions|reason= The anchor (Editions) has been deleted.}} ('traditional' or 'ancient') janamsakhi, Miharban janamsakhi, Gyan-ratanavali{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Janamsakhis#Bhai Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi|reason= The anchor (Bhai Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi) has been deleted.}} by Bhai Mani Singh, and the Vilayat Vali janamsakhi.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=50}} Gurbilas Patashahi 6, written 1718, also attributed to Bhai Mani Singh contradicts Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi as it instead says Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Dr. Trilochan |url=http://ignca.nic.in/Asi_data/48740.pdf |title=Guru Nanak: Founder of Sikhism: A Biography |pages=489–491}} The Sikh records state that Nanak died on the 10th day of the Asauj month of Samvat 1596 (22 September 1539 CE), at the age of 70 years, 5 months, and 7 days. This further suggests that he was born in the month of Vaisakh (April), not Kattak (November).{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=54}}

File:Birth of Guru Nanak, painting from an 1830's Janamsakhi (life stories) 13.jpg.]]

In as late as 1815, during the reign of Ranjit Singh, the festival commemorating Nanak's birthday was held in April at the place of his birth, known by then as Nankana Sahib.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=50}} However, the anniversary of Nanak's birth—the Gurpurab (gur + {{Langx|pa|purab|lit=celebration|label=none|italic=yes}})—subsequently came to be celebrated on the full moon day of the Kattak month in November. The earliest record of such a celebration in Nankana Sahib is from 1868 CE.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|p=52}}

There may be several reasons for the adoption of the Kattak birthdate by the Sikh community. For one, it may have been the date of Nanak's enlightenment or "spiritual birth" in 1496, as suggested by the Dabestan-e Mazaheb.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Some of the sources that support the Katak birthday incident:

The Bala Janamasakhi supports the Kattak birth tradition. It is the only Janamsakhi that does. Bhai Bala is said to have obtained Nanak's horoscope from Nanak's uncle Lalu, according to which, Nanak was born on a date corresponding to 20 October 1469 CE. However, this janamsakhi was written by Handalis—a sect of Sikhs who followed a Sikh-convert known as Handal—attempting to depict the founder as superior to Nanak.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|pp=50–51}} According to a superstition prevailing in contemporary northern India, a child born in the Kattak month was believed to be weak and unlucky, hence why the work states that Nanak was born in that month.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|pp=50–51}}

Bhai Gurdas, having written on a full-moon-day of the Kattak month several decades after Nanak's death, mentions that Nanak had "obtained omniscience" on the same day, and it was now the author's turn to "get divine light."{{sfn|Gupta|1984|pp=53–54}}

According to eyewitness Sikh chronicles, known as Bhatt Vahis, Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak.{{Cite book |last=Bindra |first=Pritpal Singh |title=Guru Kian Sakhian Tales of the Sikh Gurus |pages=78}}

Gurbilas Patashahi 6 written 1718{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Gurbilas Chhevian Patashahi |encyclopedia=The Sikh Encyclopedia |date=19 December 2000 |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/sikh-scriptures-and-literature/eighteenth-century-literature/gukbilas-chhevin-patshahi/}} attributed to Bhai Mani Singh says Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak.

Meham Parkash written in 1776 also says Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak.

Kesar Singh Chibber’s Bansavalinama Dasan Patashahia Ka meaning genealogy of the ten emperors, written in 1769,{{Cite encyclopedia |date=2000-12-19 |title=BANSAVALINAMA DASAN PATSHAHIAN KA - The Sikh Encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Sikh Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thesikhencyclopedia.com/sikh-scriptures-and-literature/eighteenth-century-literature/bansavalinama-dasan-patshahian-ka/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |language=en-US}} says Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak as well.

Gurpurnali written in 1727 and Guru Tegh Bahadur Malwe da Safar written in 1716 both mention Guru Nanank being born on the full moon of Katak.

Nanak Chandrodaya Sanskrit Janamsakhi from 1797 and Janam Sakhi Baba Nanak by Sant Das Chibber from the 18th century both mention Guru Nanak being born on the full moon of katak.

Gurpur Parkash Granth written by Sant Ren Singh based on a granth written by Binod Singh states Guru Nanak was born on the full moon of Katak.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Ren |url=https://sikhbookclub.com/Book/Sri-Gur-Pur-Prakash-Part-1 |title=Gurpur Parkash}}

According to Max Arthur Macauliffe (1909), a Hindu festival held in the 19th century on Kartik Purnima in Amritsar attracted a large number of Sikhs. The Sikh community leader Giani Sant Singh did not like this, thus starting a festival at the Sikh shrine of the Golden Temple on the same day, presenting it as the birth anniversary celebration of Guru Nanak.{{sfn|Macauliffe|1909|p=lxxiv}}

Macauliffe also notes that Vaisakh (March–April) already saw a number of important festivals—such as Holi, Rama Navami, and Vaisakhi—therefore people would be busy in agricultural activities after the harvest festival of Baisakhi. Therefore, holding Nanak's birth anniversary celebrations immediately after Vaisakhi would have resulted in thin attendance, and therefore, smaller donations for the Sikh shrines. On the other hand, by the Kattak full moon day, the major Hindu festival of Diwali was already over, and the peasants—who had surplus cash from crop sales—were able to donate generously.{{sfn|Gupta|1984|pp=51–52}}

Nanak's parents, father Kalyan Chand Das Bedi (commonly shortened to Mehta Kalu{{Efn|Various appellations are connected to Nanak's father, some of them are: 'Mehta Kalu', 'Kalu Rai', 'Kalu Chand', 'Kalian Rai', and 'Kalian Chand'.|group=note}}{{Cite journal |last=Singh |first=Bhupinder |date=October–December 2019 |title=Genealogy of Guru Nanak |url=https://sikhinstitute.org/oc_2019/colbhupindersingh.html |journal=Abstracts of Sikh Studies |publisher=Institute of Sikh Studies, Chandigarh |volume=21 |issue=4 |access-date=7 September 2023 |archive-date=2 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602073320/https://sikhinstitute.org/oc_2019/colbhupindersingh.html |url-status=dead }}) and mother Mata Tripta,{{sfn|SGPC: Guru Nanak Sahib}} were both Hindus of the Khatri caste who worked as merchants.{{sfn|Singha|2009a|p=125}}{{sfn|McLeod|2009|p=86}} His father, in particular, was the local patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi.{{sfn|Nankana: Rai Bular Bhatti}} Nanak's paternal grandfather was named Shiv Ram Bedi and his great-grandfather was Ram Narayan Bedi.{{Cite book |last=Jain |first=Harish C. |title=The Making of Punjab |publisher=Unistar Books |year=2003 |pages=268}}

According to Sikh traditions, the birth and early years of Nanak's life were marked with many events that demonstrated that Nanak had been blessed with divine grace.{{sfn|BBC: Religions|2011}} Commentaries on his life give details of his blossoming awareness from a young age. For instance, at the age of five, Nanak is said to have voiced interest in divine subjects. At age seven, his father enrolled him at the village school, as per custom.{{sfn|Macauliffe|2004}} Notable lore recounts that, as a child, Nanak astonished his teacher by describing the implicit symbolism of the first letter of the alphabet, resembling the mathematical version of one, as denoting the unity or oneness of God.{{sfn|Cunningham|1853|pp=37–38}} Other stories of his childhood refer to strange and miraculous events about Nanak, such as the one witnessed by Rai Bular, in which the sleeping child's head was shaded from the harsh sunlight by, in one account, by the stationary shadow of a tree{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} or, in another, by a venomous cobra.{{sfn|Singh|1984|p=18}} File:Kartarpur Guru Nanak.jpg in Narowal, Pakistan, marks the site where Guru Nanak is said to have died.{{sfn|Singh|2000}} ]]

Nanaki, Nanak's only sister, was five years older than him. In 1475, she married and moved to Sultanpur.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Jai Ram, Nanaki's husband, was employed at a modikhana (a storehouse for revenues collected in non-cash form), in the service of the Delhi Sultanate's Lahore governor Daulat Khan, at which Ram would help Nanak get a job.{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=7}} Nanak moved to Sultanpur, and started working at the modikhana around the age of 16.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

As a young man,{{efn-lr|name=Macauliffe-marriage|Macauliffe (1909) notes that, according to the janamsakhi of Mani Singh{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Janamsakhis#Bhai Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi|reason= The anchor (Bhai Mani Singh’s Janamsakhi) has been deleted.}}, Nanak was married at the age of 14, not 18. "It is related in the Janamsakhi which bears the name of Mani Singh, that Nanak was married at the age of fourteen" (p. 18) Subsequent janamsakhis, however, claim that Nanak was married later, after he moved to Sultanpur (p. 29).}} Nanak married Sulakhani, daughter of Mūl Chand (aka Mula){{efn-lr|name=Macauliffe-marriage2|"He was betrothed to Sulakhani, daughter of Mula, a resident of Batala in the present district of Gurdaspur." (Macauliffe 1909, p.19).}}{{efn-lr|name=Grewal-p6|"As a young man Nanak was married to Sulakhni, a daughter of Mula, a native of the newly founded town of Batala who had come there from his village, Pakho dī Randhawi, on the left bank of the river Ravi. Mula belonged to the subcaste Chona which was less important than even the subcaste Bedi.". {{harv|Grewal|1998|p=6}}}} and Chando Raṇi.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} They were married on 24 September 1487, in the town of Batala,{{sfn|Macauliffe|2004|p=19}} and would go on to have two sons, Sri Chand and Lakhmi Chand{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=7}} (or Lakhmi Das).{{efn-lr|Trumpp (1877) transliterates the names of Nanak's children from the Colebrooke janamsakhi{{Broken anchor|date=2024-07-18|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Janamsakhis#Editions|reason= The anchor (Editions) has been deleted.}} as "Sirī-čand" and "Lakhmī-dās", rather than "Lakhmī-čand" (pp. iii, viii). Macauliffe (1909, p. 29) also gives their names as Sri Chand and Lakhmi Das.}}{{sfn|Trumpp|1877}} Nanak lived in Sultanpur until c. 1500,{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=7}} which would be a formative time for him, as the puratan janamsakhi suggests, and in his numerous allusions to governmental structure in his hymns, most likely gained at this time.{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1978|p=[https://archive.org/details/sikhs00cole/age/9 9]}}

File:Gurdwara Baba Atal fresco 39.jpg, Amritsar.]]

Around the age of 55, Nanak settled in Kartarpur, living there until his death in September 1539. During this period, he went on short journeys to the Nath yogi centre of Achal, and the Sufi centres of Pakpattan and Multan. By the time of his death, Nanak had acquired several followers in the Punjab region, although it is hard to estimate their number based on the extant historical evidence.{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=8}} The followers of Nanak were called Kartārīs (meaning 'the people who belonged to the village of Kartarpur') by others.{{Cite journal |last=Singh |first=Pashaura |date=2021-04-03 |title=Ideological basis in the formation of the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee and the Shiromani Akali Dal: exploring the concept of Guru-Panth |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17448727.2021.1873656 |journal=Sikh Formations |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1–2 |pages=16–33 |doi=10.1080/17448727.2021.1873656 |s2cid=234146387 |issn=1744-8727 |quote=Unsurprisingly, Guru Nanak’s followers were frequently referred to as Kartārīs, the people who belonged to the village of Kartarpur (Singh 2006, 106 & 129, n. 4).|url-access=subscription }}

Nanak appointed Bhai Lehna as the successor Guru, renaming him as Guru Angad, meaning "one's very own" or "part of you". Shortly after proclaiming his successor, Nanak died on 22 September 1539 in Kartarpur, at the age of 70. According to Sikh hagiography, his body was never found. When the quarreling Hindus and Muslims tugged at the sheet covering his body, they found instead a heap of flowers—and so Nanak’s simple faith would, in course of time, flower into a religion, beset by its own contradictions and customary practices.{{Cite web|url=https://southasia.ucla.edu/religions/gurus-saints/guru-nanak/|title=Guru Nanak|website=MANAS}}File:SriGuruNanak'sTravels.jpg

File:A Sikh Monument in Rohtas by Usman Ghani.jpg, located near the Rohtas Fort in Pakistan, commemorates the site where Guru Nanak is popularly believed to have created a water-spring during one of his udasis.{{sfn|Singh|Kapur|2004|p=174}} ]]

File:PunjaSahib.jpg in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan.]]

File:Coin from Vikram Samvat 1804 = 1747 A.D depicting Guru Nanak.jpg and Bhai Bala waving a chaur (fly-whisk) as a mark of respect.]]

{{Distinguish|Udasi|text=Udasi, a religious sect of ascetics founded by Sri Chand, Guru Nanak's son}}

During first quarter of the 16th century, Nanak went on long {{Transliteration|pa|udasiya}} ('journeys') for spiritual pursuits. A verse authored by him states that he visited several places in "nau-khand" ('the nine regions of the earth'), presumably the major Hindu and Muslim pilgrimage centres.{{sfn|Grewal|1998|p=7}}

Some modern accounts state that he visited Tibet, most of South Asia, and Arabia, starting in 1496 at age 27, when he left his family for a thirty-year period.{{sfn|BBC: Religions|2011}}{{sfn|Dilgeer|2008}}{{sfn|Johal|2011|pp=125, note 1}} These claims include Nanak's visit to Mount Sumeru of Indian mythology, as well as Mecca, Baghdad, Achal Batala, and Multan, where he would debate religious ideas with opposing groups.{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}} These stories became widely popular in the 19th and 20th century, and exist in many versions.{{sfn|Lorenzen|1995}}{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}}

In 1508, Nanak visited the Sylhet region in Bengal.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} The janamsakhis suggest that Nanak visited the Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya in 1510–11 CE.{{sfn|Garg|2019}}

The Baghdad inscription remains the basis of writing by Indian scholars that Guru Nanak journeyed in the Middle East, with some claiming he visited Jerusalem, Mecca, Vatican, Azerbaijan and Sudan.{{sfn|Gulati|2008|pp=316–319}}

The hagiographic details are a subject of dispute, with modern scholarship questioning the details and authenticity of many claims. For example, Callewaert and Snell (1994) state that early Sikh texts do not contain such stories.{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}} From when the travel stories first appear in hagiographic accounts of Guru Nanak, centuries after his death, they continue to become more sophisticated as time goes on, with the late phase Puratan version describing four missionary journeys, which differ from the Miharban version.{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}}{{sfn|Lorenzen|1995|pp=41–2}}

Some of the stories about Guru Nanak's extensive travels first appear in the 19th-century Puratan janamsakhi, though even this version does not mention Nanak's travel to Baghdad.{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}} Such embellishments and insertion of new stories, according to Callewaert and Snell (1993), closely parallel claims of miracles by Islamic pirs found in Sufi tadhkirahs of the same era, giving reason to believe that these legends may have been written in a competition.{{sfn|McLeod|2007|pp=42–44}}{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=26–7}}

Another source of dispute has been the Baghdad stone, bearing an inscription{{clarify|date=January 2021}} in a Turkish script. Some interpret the inscription as saying Baba Nanak Fakir was there in 1511–1512; others read it as saying 1521–1522 (and that he lived in the Middle East for 11 years away from his family). Others, particularly Western scholars, argue that the stone inscription is from the 19th century and the stone is not a reliable evidence that Nanak visited Baghdad in early 16th century.{{sfn|Ménage|1979|pp=16–21}} Moreover, beyond the stone, no evidence or mention of his journey in the Middle East has been found in any other Middle Eastern textual or epigraphical records. Claims have been asserted of additional inscriptions, but no one has been able to locate and verify them.{{sfn|McLeod|2004|pp=127–31}}

Novel claims about his travels, as well as claims such as his body vanishing after his death, are also found in later versions and these are similar to the miracle stories in Sufi literature about their pirs. Other direct and indirect borrowings in the Sikh janamsakhis relating to legends around his journeys are from Hindu epics and puranas, and Buddhist Jataka stories.{{sfn|Lorenzen|1995}}{{sfn|Oberoi|1994|p=55}}{{sfn|Callewaert|Snell|1994|pp=27–30}} File:Bhai Mani Singh's Janamsakhi.jpg's Janamsakhi]]

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The earliest biographical sources on Nanak's life recognised today are the janamsakhis ('birth stories'), which recount the circumstances of his birth in extended detail.

Gyan-ratanavali is the janamsakhi attributed to Bhai Mani Singh, a disciple of Guru Gobind Singh{{Clarify|reason=Is a comma missing here?|date=May 2023}} who was approached by some Sikhs with a request that he should prepare an authentic account of Nanak's life. As such, it is said that Bhai Mani Singh wrote his story with the express intention of correcting heretical accounts of Nanak.

One popular janamsakhi was allegedly written by Bhai Bala, a close companion of Nanak. However, the writing style and language employed have left scholars, such as Max Arthur Macauliffe, certain that they were composed after his death.{{sfn|Macauliffe|2004}} According to such scholars, there are good reasons to doubt the claim that the author was a close companion of Guru Nanak and accompanied him on many of his travels.

Bhai Gurdas, a scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib, also wrote about Nanak's life in his vars ('odes'), which were compiled some time after Nanak's life, though are less detailed than the janamsakhis.

File:Fresco of Guru Nanak from above the entrance of the Baoli Sahib located in Goindwal.jpg of Guru Nanak from Baoli Sahib, Goindwal]]

Nanak's teachings can be found in the Sikh scripture Guru Granth Sahib, as a collection of verses recorded in Gurmukhi.{{Cite news |date=2021-11-19 |title=Gurupurab: Guru Nanak Dev's 5 teachings that will change the way you look at life |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/how-to/gurupurab-guru-nanak-devs-5-teachings-that-will-change-the-way-you-look-at-life/articleshow/87804818.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2025-03-13 |work=The Economic Times |issn=0013-0389}}

There are three competing theories on Nanak's teachings.{{sfn|Mandair|2013|pp=131–34}} The first, according to Cole and Sambhi (1995, 1997), based on the hagiographical Janamsakhis,{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1995|pp=9–12}} states that Nanak's teachings and Sikhism were revelations from God, and not a social protest movement, nor an attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Islam in the 15th century.{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1997|p=71}}

The second theory states that Nanak was a Guru, not a prophet. According to Singha (2009):{{sfn|Singha|2009a|p=104}}

Sikhism does not subscribe to the theory of incarnation or the concept of prophet hood. But it has a pivotal concept of Guru. He is not an incarnation of God, not even a prophet. He is an illumined soul.

The third theory is that Guru Nanak is the incarnation of God. This has been supported by many Sikhs including Bhai Gurdas, Bhai Vir Singh, Santhok Singh and is supported by the Guru Granth Sahib.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} Bhai Gurdas says:{{Cite web |title=Vaaran Bhai Gurdas:- Vaar1-Pauri17-ਜੁਗ ਗਰਦੀ-Anachy of the agesਵਾਰਾਂ ਭਾਈ ਗੁਰਦਾਸ; :-SearchGurbani.com |url=http://www.searchgurbani.com/bhai-gurdas-vaaran/vaar/1/pauri/17/line/1 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.searchgurbani.com |language=en}}

ਗੁਰ ਪਰਮੇਸਰੁ ਇਕੁ ਹੈ ਸਚਾ ਸਾਹੁ ਜਗਤੁ ਵਣਜਾਰਾ।

The Guru and God are one; He is the true master and the whole world craves for Him.

Additionally, in the Guru Granth Sahib, it is stated:{{Cite web |title=Ang 306 of Guru Granth Sahib Ji - SikhiToTheMax |url=https://www.sikhitothemax.org/ang?ang=306&source=G |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.sikhitothemax.org |language=en}}

ਨਾਨਕ ਸੇਵਾ ਕਰਹੁ ਹਰਿ ਗੁਰ ਸਫਲ ਦਰਸਨ ਕੀ ਫਿਰਿ ਲੇਖਾ ਮੰਗੈ ਨ ਕੋਈ ॥੨॥

O Nanak, serve the Guru, the Lord Incarnate; the Blessed Vision of His Darshan is profitable, and in the end, you shall not be called to account. ||2||

Guru Ram Das says:{{Cite web |title=Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji -: Ang : 442 -: ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਜੀ :- SearchGurbani.com |url=http://www.searchgurbani.com/guru-granth-sahib/ang/442 |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.searchgurbani.com |language=en}}

ਗੁਰ ਗੋਵਿੰਦੁ ਗੋੁਵਿੰਦੁ ਗੁਰੂ ਹੈ ਨਾਨਕ ਭੇਦੁ ਨ ਭਾਈ ॥੪॥੧॥੮॥

The Guru is God, and God is the Guru, O Nanak; there is no difference between the two, O Siblings of Destiny. ||4||1||8||

The hagiographical Janamsakhis were not written by Nanak, but by later followers without regard for historical accuracy, containing numerous legends and myths created to show respect for Nanak.{{sfn|Singh|2011|pp=2–8}} In Sikhism, the term revelation, as Cole and Sambhi clarify, is not limited to the teachings of Nanak. Rather, they include all Sikh Gurus, as well as the words of men and women from Nanak's past, present, and future, who possess divine knowledge intuitively through meditation. The Sikh revelations include the words of non-Sikh bhagats (Hindu & Muslim devotees), some who lived and died before the birth of Nanak, and whose teachings are part of the Sikh scriptures.{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1995|pp=46, 52–3, 95–6, 159}}

The Adi Granth and successive Sikh Gurus repeatedly emphasised, suggests Mandair (2013), that Sikhism is "not about hearing voices from God, but it is about changing the nature of the human mind, and anyone can achieve direct experience and spiritual perfection at any time."{{sfn|Mandair|2013|pp=131–34}} Nanak emphasised that all human beings can have direct access to God without rituals or priests.{{sfn|BBC: Religions|2011}}

The concept of man as elaborated by Nanak, states Mandair (2009), refines and negates the "monotheistic concept of self/God," where "monotheism becomes almost redundant in the movement and crossings of love."{{sfn|Mandair|2009|pp=372–73}} The goal of man, taught the Sikh Gurus, is to end all dualities of "self and other, I and not-I," attaining the "attendant balance of separation-fusion, self-other, action-inaction, attachment-detachment, in the course of daily life."{{sfn|Mandair|2009|pp=372–73}}

Nanak, and other Sikh Gurus emphasised bhakti ('love', 'devotion', or 'worship'), and taught that the spiritual life and secular householder life are intertwined.{{sfn|Nayar|Sandhu|2007|p=106}} In the Sikh perspective, the everyday world is part of an infinite reality, where increased spiritual awareness leads to increased and vibrant participation in the everyday world.{{sfn|Kaur|2004|p=530}} Nanak described living an "active, creative, and practical life" of "truthfulness, fidelity, self-control and purity" as being higher than the metaphysical truth.{{sfn|Marwha|2006|p=205}}

Through popular tradition, Nanak's teaching is understood to be practised in three ways:{{sfn|McLeod|2009|pp=139–40}}

• Vand Shhako ({{Langx|pa|ਵੰਡ ਛਕੋ|lit=share & consume|label=none}}): Share with others, help those who are in need, so you may eat together;
• Kirat Karo ('work honestly'): Earn an honest living, without exploitation or fraud; and
• Naam Japo ({{Langx|pa|ਨਾਮ ਜਪੋ|lit=recite His name|label=none}}): Meditate on God's name, so to feel His presence and control the five thieves of the human personality.

Nanak is the founder of Sikhism.{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1978|pp=[https://archive.org/details/sikhs00cole/age/9 9–10]}}{{sfn|Moreno|Colino|2010|p=207}} The fundamental beliefs of Sikhism, articulated in the sacred scripture Guru Granth Sahib, include faith and meditation on the name of the one creator; unity of all humankind; engaging in selfless service, striving for social justice for the benefit and prosperity of all; and honest conduct and livelihood while living a householder's life.{{sfn|Kalsi|2007|pp=41–50}}{{sfn|Cole|Sambhi|1995|p=200}}{{sfn|Teece|2004|p=4}}

The Guru Granth Sahib is worshipped as the supreme authority of Sikhism and is considered the final and perpetual guru of Sikhism. As the first guru of Sikhism, Nanak contributed a total of 974 hymns to the book.{{sfn|Shackle|Mandair|2013|pp=xviii–xix}}

File:Miniature painting of Guru Nanak listening to musicians, circa 1680.jpg

Many Sikhs believe that Nanak's message was divinely revealed, as his own words in Guru Granth Sahib state that his teachings are as he has received them from the Creator Himself. The critical event of his life in Sultanpur, in which he returned after three days with enlightenment, also supports this belief.{{sfn|Singh|1982|pp=12, 18}}{{failed verification|date=July 2020}}

Many modern historians give weight to his teachings' linkage with the pre-existing bhakti,{{sfn|Lorenzen|1995|pp=1–2}} sant,{{efn-lr|"In its earliest stage Sikhism was clearly a movement within the Hindu tradition; Nanak was raised a Hindu and eventually belonged to the Sant tradition of northern India." {{harv|McLeod|2019}}}} and wali of Hindu/Islamic tradition.{{sfn|Fenech|2014}} Scholars state that in its origins, Nanak and Sikhism were influenced by the nirguni ('formless God') tradition of the Bhakti movement in medieval India.{{efn-lr|name=David Lorenzen 1995 pages 1–2|"Historically, Sikh religion derives from this nirguni current of bhakti religion." {{harv|Lorenzen|1995|pp=1–2}}}} However, some historians do not see evidence of Sikhism as simply an extension of the Bhakti movement.{{sfn|Singha|2009b|p=8}}{{sfn|Grewal|1998|pp=28–}} Sikhism, for instance, disagreed with some views of Bhakti saints Kabir and Ravidas.{{sfn|Singha|2009b|p=8}}{{sfn|Pruthi|2004|pp=202–03}}

The roots of the Sikh tradition are perhaps in the sant-tradition of India whose ideology grew to become the Bhakti tradition.{{efn-lr|name=Louis Fenech 2014 page 35|"Technically this would place the Sikh community's origins at a much further remove than 1469, perhaps to the dawning of the Sant movement, which possesses clear affinities to Guru Nanak's thought sometime in the tenth century. The predominant ideology of the Sant parampara in turn corresponds in many respects to the much wider devotional Bhakti tradition in northern India." {{harv|Fenech|2014|p=35}}}} Fenech (2014) suggests that:{{sfn|Fenech|2014}}

Indic mythology permeates the Sikh sacred canon, the Guru Granth Sahib and the secondary canon, the Dasam Granth and adds delicate nuance and substance to the sacred symbolic universe of the Sikhs of today and of their past ancestors.{{efn-lr|"Few Sikhs would mention these Indic texts and ideologies in the same breadth as the Sikh tradition, let alone trace elements of their tradition to this chronological and ideological point, despite the fact that the Indic mythology permeates the Sikh sacred canon, the Guru Granth Sahib and the secondary canon, the Dasam Granth,Rinehart 2011 and adds delicate nuance and substance to the sacred symbolic universe of the Sikhs of today and of their past ancestors." {{harv|Fenech|2014|p=36}}}}

{{See also|Baháʼí Faith in India}}

In a letter, dated 27 October 1985, to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India, the Universal House of Justice stated that Nanak was endowed with a "saintly character" and that he was:{{sfn|Sarwal|1996}}

...inspired to reconcile the religions of Hinduism and Islám, the followers of which religions had been in violent conflict.... The Bahá'ís thus view Guru Nanak as a 'saint of the highest order'.

File:Mural of Guru Nanak from Sui Simbli temple in Jammu.jpg in Jammu]]

Guru Nanak is also highly influential amongst Punjabi Hindus and Sindhi Hindus, the majority of whom follow Nanakpanthi teachings.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefridaytimes.com/2018/04/13/nanakpanthi-saints-of-sindh/|title=Nanakpanthi Saints of Sindh|first=Zulfiqar Ali|last=Kalhoro|date=13 April 2018}}{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/41323099|title=Inderjeet Singh (2017). Sindhi Hindus & Nanakpanthis in Pakistan. Abstracts of Sikh Studies, Vol. XIX, No.4. p35-43|first=Inderjeet|last=Singh|date=1 October 2017|journal=Abstracts of Sikh Studies|via=www.academia.edu}}

Trilochan Singh claims that, for centuries, Tibetans have been making pilgrimages to the Golden Temple shrine in Amritsar to pay homage to Guru Nanak's memory.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Trilochan |title=Guru Nanak: Founder of Sikhism: A Biography |publisher=Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee |year=1969}}{{Rp|page=338}} However, Tibetans seem to have confused Nanak with the visit of Padmasambhava centuries earlier, and have superimposed details of Padmasambhava onto Nanak out of reverence (believing the essence of both figures is one and the same) or mistaken chronology.{{Efn|Padmasambhava is alternatively known as 'Guru Rinpoche'.|group=note}}{{Cite book |last1=Gill |first1=Savinder Kaur |title=Two Gurus One Message: The Buddha and Guru Nanak: Legacy of Liberation, Egalitarianism and Social Justice |last2=Wangmo |first2=Sonam |publisher=Library of Tibetan Works and Archives |year=2019 |pages=302–304}} According to Tibetan scholar Tarthang Tulku, many Tibetans believe Guru Nanak was an incarnation of Padmasambhava.{{Cite book |last1=Chauhan |first1=G. S. |title=Shri Guru Nanak Dev: Life, Travels and Teachings |last2=Rajan |first2=Meenakshi |date=January 2019 |publisher=All India Pingalwara Charitable Society Amritsar |edition=2nd |pages=176–178}} Both Buddhist and Bon Tibetans made pilgrimages to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, however they revered the site for different reasons.Lucia Galli, “Next stop, Nirvana. When Tibetan pilgrims turn into leisure seekers”, Mongolian and Siberian, Central Asian and Tibetan Studies [Online], 51 | 2020, posted online on December 9, 2020, accessed on May 21, 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/emscat/4697; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/emscat.4697

Between 1930 and 1935, the Tibetan spiritual leader, Khyungtrül Rinpoche (Khyung-sprul Rinpoche), travelled to India for a second time, visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar during this visit.{{Cite book |last=McKay |first=Alex |title=Pilgrimage in Tibet |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=9781136807169}}{{Rp|page=78}} Whilst visiting Amritsar in 1930 or 1931, Khyung-sprul and his Tibetan entourage walked around the Golden Temple while making offerings.{{Rp|page=78}} Khyung-sprul referred to the Golden Temple as "Guru Nanak's Palace" (Tibetan: Guru Na-nig-gi pho-brang).{{Rp|page=78}} Khyung-sprul returned to the Golden Temple in Amritsar for another time during his third and final visit to India in 1948.{{Rp|page=80}}

Several years later after the 1930–31 visit of Khyung-sprul, a Tibetan Bonpo monk by the name of Kyangtsün Sherab Namgyel (rKyang-btsun Shes-rab-rnam rgyal) visited the Golden Temple at Amritsar and offered the following description:{{Rp|page=78}}

{{Blockquote|text="Their principal gshen is the Subduing gshen with the 'bird-horns'. His secret name is Guru Nanak. His teachings were the Bon of Relative and Absolute Truth. He holds in his hand the Sword of Wisdom . . . At this holy place the oceanic assembly of the tutelary gods and buddhas . . . gather like clouds"|author=Kyangtsün Sherab Namgyel}}

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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community consider Guru Nanak to have been a Muslim saint and that Sikhism derived from Sufism.{{Cite web |last=Raza |first=Ansar |title=Baba Guru Nanak – A Muslim Saint |url=https://www.alislam.org/articles/baba-guru-nanak-muslim-saint/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |website=Al Islam}} They believe Guru Nanak sought to educate Muslims about the "real teachings" of Islam. Writing in 1895, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad defended Nanak from the accusations that had been made by the Arya Samajist Dayananda Saraswati, and asserted that Nanak was a Muslim. According to Abdul Jaleel, Nanak being a Muslim is supported by a chola inscribed with Quranic verses that is attributed to having been belonging to him.{{Cite web |last=Jaleel |first=Abdul |date=March 1993 |title=Birth of Sikhism - The Review of Religions |url=https://www.alislam.org/articles/birth-of-sikhism/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |website=Al Islam}}

• A Punjabi movie was released in 2015 named Nanak Shah Fakir, which is based on the life of Nanak, directed by Sartaj Singh Pannu{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Allegory: A Tapestry of Guru Nanak's Travels is a 2021–22 docuseries about Nanak's travels in nine different countries{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}

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• Gurudwara Reetha Sahib, Champawat, Uttrakhand
• Nanakmatta

• Gurudwara Pehli Patshahi Guntur, Andhra Pradesh

• Gurdwara Sri Guru Nanak Sheetal Kund – Rajgir
• Patna

• Gurdwara Nanak Piao, Delhi
• Gurudwara Majnu Ka Tila, Delhi{{cite news |title=A Gurdwara steeped in history |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/A-Gurdwara-steeped-in-history/articleshow/10552745.cms |work=The Times of India |date=25 Mar 2012}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=May 2023}}

• Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, Lakhpat, Gujarat

• Panipat

• Hari Parbat, Srinagar

• Gurudwara Shri Ber Sahib, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurudwara Shri Hatt Sahib, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurudwara Shri Kothri Sahib, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurudwara Shri Guru Ka Bagh, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurudwara Shri Sant Ghat, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurudwara Shri Antaryamta, Sultanpur Lodhi
• Dera Baba Nanak
• Gurudwara Manji Sahib, Kiratpur Sahib
• Achal Batala{{cite book |date=1993 |title=The Sikh Review, Volume 41, Issues 469–480 |publisher=Sikh Cultural Centre |page=14 }}

• Gurudwara Nanak Lama, Chungthang, Sikkim
• Gurudongmar Lake

• Gurdwara Guru Nanak Datan Sahib, Cuttack, Odisha
• Gurdwara Bauli Math Sahib, Puri, Odisha

• Nankana Sahib
• Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, Kartarpur
• Gurdwara Sacha Sauda, Farooqabad
• Sultanpur Lodhi
• Gurdwara Rori Sahib, Gujranwala
• Gurdwara Beri Sahib, Sialkot
• Gurdwara Panja Sahib, Hasan Abdal
• Gurudwara Chowa Sahib, Rohtas Fort
• Narowal
• Dudhu Chak

• Gurdwara Nanak Shahi, Dhaka

• Gurduara Baba Nanak Dev Ji, Jalalabad
• Chashma Sahib Patshahi Pahili, Jalalabad

• Gurudwara Pehli Patshahi, Mashhad

• Baba Nanak Shrine, Baghdad

• Gurudwara Pehli Patshahi Batticaloa
• Koti, now known as Kotikawatta

File:Janamsakhi manuscript painting with the caption "Guru Nanak in Mecca - 'Turn my feet in the direction where God is not.' ".jpg manuscript painting with the caption "Guru Nanak in Mecca - 'Turn my feet in the direction where God is not.' "]]

• Mecca
• Medina

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• Fatehabad, Punjab
• List of places named after Guru Nanak Dev
• Bebe Nanaki

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| publisher = Black Rabbit Books

| page = 4

| isbn = 978-1-58340-469-0

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• {{Cite book| title = Adi Granth, or The Holy Scriptures Of The Sikhs; translated from the original Gurmukhī

| last = Trumpp | first = Ernest | year = 1877

| publisher = W. H. Allen & Co. and N. Trübner | location = London

| via = Internet Archive

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• Singh, Sahib. Guru Nanak Dev and His Teachings.
• {{Cite book|last1=Singh|first1=Shamsher|title=Life of Guru Nanak Through Pictures|last2=Virdi|first2=Narendra Singh|publisher=Modern Sahit Academy|others=Phulan Rani|year=1969}}

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