Guru Har Krishan Ji, the eighth Guru, was the youngest of the Gurus, taking on the mantle at the age of five and breathed his last at the age of eight, where Bangla Sahib is established in Delhi.

At the age of 13, Guru Hargobind erected Sri Akal Takhat Sahib, ten feet above the ground and adorned two swords, Miri and Piri, representing temporal and spiritual power.

The town was then renamed ‘Nankana Sahib’ in honor of the Guru. Guru Nanak is the one who founded Sikhism and he is said to have been born in 1469.

Shree Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture written and compiled by the Ten Sikh Gurus, is the most prominent example of this fact. The Holy Scripture is a Living Guru for a Sikh.

Simran also talks about their holy text, called the Guru Granth Sahib. She says that it is unusual among holy texts because some of it was written by Muslims and some by Hindus, as well as the ...

Guru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism and is revered as the first of the 10 Sikh Gurus. Born in Talwandi, Punjab (now in Pakistan's Nankana Sahib), he was deeply spiritual from a young age.

Guru Granth Sahib consists of 5,894 poems in which the works of 10 gurus and 15 Muslim Sufis and Hindu devotees are included. Granth Sahib is divided and organised into 18 different chords.

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