{"id":118,"date":"2007-04-01T16:48:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarunmendiratta.com\/hawan.net\/hawan\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:12:02","slug":"guru-nanak-dev-april-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Guru Nanak Dev (April 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guru Nanak ji was a poet singer who founded Sikhism and was the first of the ten gurus of Sikhs. He was born in 1469 in Talwandi, Punjab (in present day Pakistan). He preached that there was one God. He was able to remove many objectionable religious practices. Both Hindus and Muslims came under the influence of his teachings and his disciples belonged to both the groups.<\/p>\n<p>Contributions:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He formalized the three pillars of Sikhism.<\/p>\n<p>a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Naam: Meditation on God and reciting and chanting of God\u2019s name<\/p>\n<p>b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daan: To honestly earn from one\u2019s physical and mental effort while accepting God\u2019s gifts and blessings.<\/p>\n<p>c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ishaan<strong>: <\/strong>Share and consume together.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Equality of Humans: Guru Nanak preached against discrimination and prejudices due to race, caste, status, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Equality of Women: In about      1499 when the world offered no status or respect to the woman, Guru Nanak      elevated the position of women.\u00a0 He promoted the equality of women      from the 15th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guru Nanak ji was a poet singer who founded Sikhism and was the first of the ten gurus of Sikhs. He was born in 1469 in Talwandi, Punjab (in present day Pakistan). He preached that there was one God. He was able to remove many objectionable religious practices. Both Hindus and Muslims came under the influence of his teachings and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12","category-monthly-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}