The 550th (Prakash Utsav) or birth anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji  was celebrated on Nov 15-17, 2019.  2019 is the year of the 550th birth anniversary of the 1st Sikh Guru, a spiritual master, poet and philosopher. At the date of this anniversary, a number of events is scheduled to be organized on the occasion in Sultanpur Lodhi, Nanakana Sahib, Kartarpur Sahib marking a grand celebration in their history.

Travels of Guru Nanak Dev ji

 

Guru Nanak Dev Ji (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539), also referred to as Baba Nanak[1] (‘father Nanak’), was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November.

Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes the eternal Truth. He set up a unique spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and virtue.

Nanak’s words are registered in the form of 974 poetic hymns in the holy text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, with some of the major prayers being the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var and the Sidh-Gosht. It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Nanak’s sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them