{"id":68751,"date":"2016-11-13T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divineblissinternational.org\/?p=68751"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T11:16:59","slug":"guru-nanak-bday2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divineblissinternational.org\/guru-nanak-bday2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Guru Nanak Dev ji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Monday, 14th November 2016 is Guru Nank Dev ji&#8217;s Birthday<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>&#8220;I bow at His feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the way.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Guru Nanak<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Guru Nanak Dev ji was a prophet of peace, love, truth and renaissance. Through His lifetime, He travelled to many countries in Asia, Middle east and even Europe to spread the glory of the Almighty. He taught the people how to connect to their inner truth through the simpliest way of\u00a0singing and praising the Lord, without the necessity\u00a0to do complex rituals and practices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The full moon day in the month of Kartik\u00a0(November), is a day to honor the one who has shown the world that it is a Guru\u00a0who helps us to discover ourselves. This day is called \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8216;<em>Guru Nanak Gurpurab&#8217; or &#8216;Guru Nanak Jayanti&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><\/span>and is celebrated as the birthday of this\u00a0great saint and philosopher Guru Nanak \u00a0ji. [ <em>Gurupurab<\/em> means &#8216;Day dedicated to the Guru&#8217; and<em> Jayanti<\/em> means &#8216;Day to Praise the Almighty&#8217;. ]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, 'times new roman', serif;\">Guru Nanak\u00a0Jayanti marks the\u00a0day this great\u00a0Saint and his divine teachings are celebrated in lights\u00a0and grandeur!\u00a0Traveling far and wide, He spread the message of the one God who dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes eternal Truth. His\u00a0birthday is celebrated as a day to praise the Lord and sing hymns of devotion to honor God!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">His unique teachings based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and virtue have touched countless lives and formed strong social, spiritual, and political communities around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To commemorate the birthday of\u00a0this first Sikh Guru, here are two profound quotes from His Holiness:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Even Kings and Emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Guru Nanak<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, He is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>Guru Nanak<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>When you connect to your inner truth, there is joy in everything within and around you.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 14th November 2016 is Guru Nank Dev ji&#8217;s Birthday &#8220;I bow at His feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the way.&#8221; &#8211; Guru Nanak Guru Nanak Dev ji was a prophet of peace, love, truth and renaissance. 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