Positive Impact of Guru Nanak's teaching from Mecca to Tibet reshaped faith across borders
Religious leaders of our nation have learned alot by wandering and eminent epitome of the saying that not all wanders are lost. Likewise Gautam Buddha, who wandered for six years; Mahavira, who spent half his life travelling; and countless yogis and saints of Hinduism who roamed homeless throughout India’s past. In the fifteenth century, the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, also took to the path of wandering, journeying through the desert regions of the Far West, the dense forests of Myanmar, and the arid expanse of Tibet for some twenty-three years. Embracing spiritual, social and political platform deeply rooted in equality, fraternity, love, goodness, and virtue. His teachings are remembered not only in India but also very prominent in Tibetan Buddhism and Islam, where the Ahmadiyya community regarded him as a Muslim saint and Tibetans confused his identity as ' Padmasambhava ', whom they considered to be a spiritual guru in the mediaeval age. Nanak visited Mount Sumeru in I...