Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji was Born on 15 April 1469 in Punjab,Pakistan and died on 22 September 1539 in Kartarpur,Pakistan, was the Founder of the religi on of Sikhism and the first of the eleven Sikh Gurus,the eleventh being the living Guru,Guru Granth Sahib. His birth is celebrated World-wild on Kartik Puranmashi,the Full moon day which falls on different dates each year in the Months of Katak,October-November.

Guru Nanak traveled to places far and wide teaching  people the Message of One God WHO dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes the Eternal Truth. It is part of Sikh religius belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak's sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended Upon each of the Nine subsequent Gurus when the Gurusip was devolved on to Them. Today,his birth palace is marked by Gurdwara Janam Asthan. His parents were Kalyan Chand Das Bedi, popularly shortened to Kalu Mehta, and Mata Tripta. his father was a patwari (accountant) for crop revenue  by a Muslim landlord of that area, Rai Bular Bhatti.

He had one sister,Bibi Nanaki,who was five years older than him and become a spiritual figure in her own right. In 1475 she married Jai Ram and went to his town of Sultanpur, where he was the Steward to Daulat Khan Lodi,the eventual  governor of Lahore. Nanak was attached to his older sister, and , in traditional  Indian fashion, he followed her to Sultanpur to Live with her and her husband. Nanak also found work with Daulat Khan, when he was around 16 years.

On 24 September 1487 Nanak married Mata Sulakkani,daughter of Chand and Chando in the town of Batala. The couple had two sons,Sri Chand and Lakhmi Chand. Nanak was Moved by the plight of the people of World and wanted to tell Them about the "real Message of God". The people of the World were confused by the conflicting Message given by the priests,pundits, qazis,mullahs, Etc.He was determined  to bring his Message to the masses;so in 1499,he decided to set out on his scared mission to spread the holy Message of Peace and compassion to all of mankind.

According to the Puratan Janamsakhi, which is one of the oldest accounts of the life history of Guru Nanak, the Guru under took five misionary journeys(udasiya) to the far away places of Ceylon(Sri Lanka), Mecca, Baghdad, Kamroop (Assam), Tashkand and many More. 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 Bhai lehna as his successor, Guru Nanak died on 22 September 1539 in Kartarpur, at the age of 70.