Misguided Patriot Or Misunderstood Prophet? He never considered himself as belonging to any one region or religion; entire mankind was his constituency. Yet his legacy remains largely unknown, or worse, misunderstood in India.
Japji is a summary of Guru Nanak’s philosophy of the Nature of God and Universe, the dilemma of life and birth, the way to reach into our inner conscience to cut through the fog of Maya created by our ego so that we can understand the true purpose of life.
Accepting death by choice for a principle to make a political statement was unknown in India until the Sikh era.