Guru Arjun clearly knew how the importance of Guru Nanak's message is for every state of life and to every condition of society.

He knew if my root Guru asked me, then I would agree to go.

You were practicing what you were coached in the house of the Guru.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

* Highlighting what he sees as the difficulty in understanding the guru from Eastern tradition in Western society, Dr. Georg Feuerstein, a well-known German-American Indologist, writes in the article Understanding the Guru from his book The Deeper Dimension of Yoga: Theory and practice :" The traditional role of the guru, or spiritual teacher, is not widely understood in the West, even by those professing to practice Yoga or some other Eastern tradition entailing discipleship.

* In their 1993 book, The Guru Papers, authors Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer reject the guru-disciple tradition because of what they see as its structural defects.

As far as Group Home was concerned, Premier commented, " They don't respect what fed them ," in a 2003 interview, going on to say that the only reason he produced a track on their second album was because Guru said he would rhyme on it.

It is quite possible that in the process of translations and publications of Zafarnama at different stages, some verses were not reproduced correctly and what we have today is not the original Zafarnama of Guru Ji in its entirety.

The concept of dasvandh was implicit in Guru Nanak ’ s own line: “ ghali khai kichhu hathhu dei, Nanak rahu pachhanahi sei — He alone, O Nanak, knoweth the way who eats out of what he earneth by his honest labour and yet shareth part of it with others ” ( GG, 1245 ).

He then asked the Guru to tell him what a proper janeu was.

The Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib details what behavior is expected of all Sikhs.

In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.

It was under the tutelage of the Guru that Bhai Kanhaiya subsequently founded a volunteer corps for altruism.

* 1699 – Khalsa: The Sikh Religion was formalised as the Khalsa-the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints-by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.

Amrit Pahul – Sikh baptism for both men and women – was instituted in 1699 by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru.

It was able to deal with many kinds of errors and gave the user a choice to either remove the offending process and associated screen or allow the machine to show the Guru Meditation.

An abugida derived from the Laṇḍā script and ultimately descended from Brahmi, Gurmukhi was standardized by the second Sikh guru, Guru Angad Dev Ji, in the 16th century.

Sikhism was founded in the 15th century on the teachings of Guru Nanak and the nine successive Sikh Gurus in Northern India.

As punishment Khusrau Mirza was blinded, and the Sikh Guru Arjan Dev ( the fifth Sikh guru ) tortured for five days until he disappeared while taking a bath in a river — for giving the then fugitive Khusrau Mirza money when he visited Guru Arjan.

Most notorious was the execution of the Sikh Guru Arjun Dev Ji.

" The trigger for Guru Arjun's execution was his support for Jahangir's rebel son Khusrau Mirza, yet it is clear from Jahangir's own memoirs that he disliked Guru Arjun before then: " many times it occurred to me to put a stop to this vain affair or bring him into the assembly of the people of Islam.

The final of this 10-day tournament was played at Guru Nanak Stadium.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

Scholars William M. Reynolds and Julie A. Webber have written that Guru Nanak Dev, the founder of the Sikh faith tradition, was a " fighter for women's rights " that was " in no way misogynistic " in contrast to some of his contemporaries.

Guru Nanak Dev was asked " Should I go and bathe at pilgrimage places?

See the sacrifice of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadar who on the final desperate and heart-rending pleas of the Kashmiri Pandit, agreed to put up a fight for their right to practise their religion in which he was executed so another religion besides his own could have the freedom to practice there religion against the tyrant moghul empire who were forcing people to accept Islam.

* 1604 – Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.

The Sikh religion was founded by Guru Nanak Dev.

It is stated in the Sikh texts that Guru Nanak while in deep meditation by a river was called to the court of God where he received direct revelations from God for three days.

From there on he was known as Guru Nanak so that he could teach the world that there is one God, that all humanity is one, and that religious divisions are man-made.

Guru Gobind Singh, the last of the living Sikh Gurus, initiated the Sikh Khalsa in 1699, passing the Guruship of the Sikhs to the Eleventh and Eternal Guru of the Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib.

On 21 August 1664, Guru Tegh Bahadur went there to console with Bibi Rup Kaur upon the passing away of her father, Guru Har Rai, and of her brother, Guru Har Krishan.

He returned to Nagpur after the passing away of his Guru in 1937.

The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University was formed by passing a bill in legislative assembly.

" Naam Dayv the printer, and Kabeer the weaver, obtained salvation through the Perfect Guru.

Many native born Canadians of various ethnicities have converted during the last 50 years through the actions of the Ramakrishna Mission, ISKCON, Arya Samaj and other missionary organizations as well as due to the visits and guidance of Indian Gurus such as Guru Maharaj, Sai Baba, the controversial Rajneesh and others.

This Amrit is also referred to God's name as a nectar which is obtained through Guru's word, as in the following example of page 119 of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Guru Puja ( literally " worship of the guru ") the practice of worshiping the guru through the making of offerings and requesting inspiration from the guru.

And for temporal authority, as the word passed through 10 mortal bodies and finally into the collective corporate body known as the Khalsa till eternity, kept changing with finally been vested in the Khalsa when Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru, merged into it.

The Guru ( teacher ) Shishya ( disciple ) parampara or guru parampara, occurs where the knowledge ( in any field ) is passed down undiluted through the succeeding generations.

Guru stressed the need for the spiritual and social upliftment of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions.

Frequently he referred to the realization that comes through practicing Kriya as taught by the Guru, and the grace that comes through the ' transmission ' of the Guru.

The etymology of the term ' gurdwara ' is from the words ' Gur ( ਗ ੁ ਰ )' ( a reference to the Sikh Gurus ) and ' Dwara ( ਦ ੁ ਆਰ ਾ)' ( gateway in Gurmukhi ), together meaning ' the gateway through which the Guru could be reached '.

As says the Gurbilas, Guru Arjan lay awake through the night reflecting on the question.

Guru Arjun ji, like all the Sikh Gurus, clearly embodies the light of Guru Nanak ji through teachings and acts.

By virtue of being the seat of the Guru, and with its connection to Sikhs in far flung areas of the country through the chains of Masands or missionaries, it had developed the characteristics of a state capital.

W. H. McLeod has noted that while the Guru Granth Sahib has a religious focus on " liberation through meditation ", the Dasam Granth's focus has " little to do with religious belief ".

On a stormy full moon's night ( night of Guru Pournima, Ashadh Paurnima ) a band of 600 select men, led by Baji Prabhu and Shivaji, broke through the siege.

Ardaas is an informal talk / request by an individual / congregation, with a specific objective, and with faith for its fulfillment to the Almighty through the Guru.

Basavanna is Vishwaguru due to the fact that only he universalised the concept of path of becoming God through four levels of divinity that exists in one ' sown own body-Unmanifest Chaitanya ( Guru ), Manifest Chaitanya-Shakti ( Linga ), Consciousness of the manifest chaitanya-shakti in Prana ( Jangama ), and the Individual consciousness ( Jeevatma / Mind ).

Swami Muktananda himself defined a true Guru, or spiritual teacher, as " one who awakens the inner shakti Kundalini through shaktipat.

Contemporary Sat Mat movements assert that the " Master " or Guru is provided by God as the channel through which God manifests in the world-God is believed to be unknowable and inconceivable, so he has created Gurus as a way in which to be available.

As a day of remembrance towards all gurus, through whom God grants the grace of knowledge ( Jnana ) to the disciples, special recitations of the Hindu scriptures especially, the Guru Gita, a 216 verse ode to Guru, authored by the sage, Vyasa himself, are held all day ; apart from singing of bhajans, hymns and organising of special kirtan session and havan at many places, where devotees from all over gather at the ashrams, matha or place where the seat of Guru, Guru Gaddi exists.