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Founder | Sikh
Born in 1469 at Talwandi into a Hindu merchant family, Nanak refused the sacred thread ceremony as a boy — if the thread binds you to caste, why not bind kindness and truth instead? In 1499 he walked into the Bein river at dawn to bathe and vanished for three days; when he emerged his first words were Na koi Hindu, na koi Mussulman — neither the priests nor the qazis are asking the right questions. He then spent 24 years walking an estimated 28,000 miles across four great journeys — east to Bengal, south to Sri Lanka, north to Tibet, west to Mecca and Baghdad — composing hymns at every stop, accompanied by his Muslim musician Bhai Mardana. He founded the Kartarpur community in 1521 around three commitments: Naam Japo (meditate on the divine name), Kirat Karo (work honestly), Vand Chhako (share what you have).
Parallels: Moses (the founding prophet who delivers a new people a new law); the Prophet Muhammad (a merchant who received divine revelation and walked away from convention); Socrates (itinerant teacher who refused the establishment’s categories and died for it — though Nanak was not executed). See also: [[Guru Gobind Singh Ji](/bestiary/sikh/guru-gobind-singh-ji-the-founder-of-the-khalsa/)](#guru-gobind-singh-ji----the-founder-of-the-khalsa), Bhai Mardana, [Waheguru](#waheguru)
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