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Figure of Sikhism
Guru Nanak — the first light.
Emerged from the river after three days with one sentence — there is no Hindu, there is no Muslim — and walked four directions teaching it.
Names & titlesGuru Nanak
DomainThe first Guru — founder of the path
RelationsFirst of ten; his light, the tradition holds, passed to each successor
Depicted asWhite-bearded, radiant, a hand raised in blessing; Mardana beside him with the rabab
StandingThere is no Hindu, there is no Muslim — the sentence the faith begins with
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Nanak's biography is told through janamsakhis — birth stories — that Sikh scholarship reads with open eyes: what is certain is the poetry, 974 hymns preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib in his own meter and voice. The tradition trusts the words over the wonder-tales.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
There is One Reality, truth by name, creative being, without fear, without enmity, timeless in form, unborn, self-existent.
Guru Granth Sahib — the Mul MantarThe opening of the scripture: Nanak's credal sentence, sung daily.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Bwa Kayiman.
Haitian Vodou · story
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Jah lives in every person.
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Sound rightly spoken has power.
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Holi — the festival of color.
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Vairocana — the cosmic buddha.
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The fourfold sangha.
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