Nanaksar Sampraday (school) of Sikhism ----Origin, past and present---part 1
Nanaksar Sampraday (School) of Sikhism Baba Nand Singh (Punjabi ਬਾਬਾ ਨੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ (1870-1943) was an ascetic Sikh sage. He was born in village Sherpur in the district of Ludhiana in Indian state of Punjab in the year 1870. He remained immersed in Lord’s name since his child hood. As a young man he for some time engaged in his hereditary profession of carpentry but soon he realised that this was not his calling and God had willed him to engage in the noblest job of preaching his name, as the Gurubani (Sikh Hymns from Sri Guru Granth Sahib (SGGS)) says “Aap japahu avrahi nam japavahu” meaning Meditate on His name and persuade others to do the same. He started on the path of God realisation in all earnestness thereafter. He had immense faith in Sri Guru Granhth Sahib which is not only a holy book of the Sikhs but was ordained to be the living Guru after Guru Gobind Singh the tenth Guru of the Sikhs discontinued the system of corporal gurus that had existed uninterrupted for...
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