Sri Guru Teg Bahadur
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has bowed to Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji on his 400th Parkash Purab.

About Guru Tegh Bahadur

• Guru Tegh Bahadur was the ninth of ten Gurus.
• He founded the Sikh religion and the leader of Sikhs from 1665
• Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed on the orders of Aurangzeb the sixth Mughal emperor in Delhi in 1675.
• Born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 considered as disciplined and fearless warrior.
• 115 hymns are included in Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
  • They cover a wide range of topics, such as the nature of God, human attachments, body, mind, sorrow, dignity, service, death, and deliverance.

Sikh Gurus

• Gurus are the spiritual masters of Sikh.
• They established religion over a period of two and a half centuries starting from 1469.
• Sikhs have a student–teacher relationship with their Gurus since their teachings, written in Guru Granth Sahib, serve as a guide for the sikhs.
• Guruship was finally passed on by the tenth guru to the holy Sikh scripture, Guru Granth Sahib
  • This is now considered as the living Guru by the followers of the Sikh faith.
• The ten Gurus are
  1. Guru Nanak Dev
  2. Guru Angad Dev
  3. Guru Amar Das
  4. Guru Ram Das
  5. Guru Arjan Dev
  6. Guru Hargobind
  7. Guru Har Rai
  8. Guru Har Krishan
  9. Guru Tegh Bahadur
  10. Guru Gobind Singh

Guru Granth Sahib

• Guru Granth Sahib is the central religious scripture of Sikhism
• This is regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and eternal Guru following the lineage of the ten human gurus of the religion.
• Adi Granth its first rendition was compiled by the fifth guru Guru Arjan Dev.
  • It was installed at the Golden Temple, with Baba Buddha as the first granthi or reader.
• The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script.
  • It is the official script for writing Punjabi in the Indian State of Punjab.
• It also contains hymns and verses of thirteen Hindu Bhakti movement sant poets (saints) and two Muslim saint poets.

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