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Guru Nanak Dev Ji

The Founder

Sikh Monotheism, social equality, devotional poetry, the dignity of honest labor
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ATK 30
DEF 80
SPR 99
SPD 90
INT 95
Rank First Guru / Founder of Sikhi
Domain Monotheism, social equality, devotional poetry, the dignity of honest labor
Alignment Holy / Sikh
Weakness His radical leveling offended both Brahmin and Mullah establishments
Key Act Disappeared into the Bein river at Sultanpur Lodhi (1499); emerged with the founding declaration *Na koi Hindu, na koi Mussulman*. Spent twenty-four years traveling the subcontinent and beyond with his Muslim companion Bhai Mardana. Founded the Kartarpur community (1521) where the three-fold rule -- Naam Japo, Kirat Karo, Vand Chhako -- was lived out and langar began
Source *Guru Granth Sahib* (Nanak's hymns); *Janamsakhi* literature

“Ik Onkar — One God whose name is Truth, the Creator, without fear, without hatred, beyond time, unborn, self-existent, by the Guru’s grace.” — Mool Mantar, opening line of the Guru Granth Sahib

The founder. Nanak’s theological vocabulary draws on both Hindu bhakti (devotional) traditions and Sufi poetry, but resolves into something new: a strict monotheism with no incarnation, no ritual specialists, no caste hierarchy, and no withdrawal from the world. The Guru-disciple relationship he establishes — and the practice of meditative remembrance of the divine Name — becomes the spine of everything that follows.


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