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Guru Nanak

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Noun1.Guru Nanak - Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)
Sikhism - the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam


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This religion's founder, Guru Nanak, instructed his followers to direct each day's activities to the celebration of God.
This weekend, he's back home for the 22nd Guru Nanak Hockey Tournament at Moorpark College.
Historians will be astonished to learn that "it was out of the anguish caused by Muslim persecution of Hindus that the Sikh religion had arisen", a view totally ignorant of the Hindu-Muslim synthesis of Guru Nanak.
 
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