Guru Nanak was born in 1469 in a village that is now in Pakistan. He left home at 30 and walked — possibly thousands of miles, possibly to Baghdad, possibly to Mecca, accounts vary. When he came back he said: 'There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim.' He had a message: one God, no castes, no ritual for its own sake, service to others. He gathered followers. They called themselves Sikhs, meaning seekers. Five hundred years later, there are 25 million of them.
April 15, 1469
557 years ago
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