After Kabir, another great son of India was born in the Punjab. He was Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak also tried to bring the Hindu religion and the Islam religion closer together, to find a common bond between the two. Like Kabir, he believed that all men or equal in the eyes of God, no matter what their caste or religion. Guru Nanak preached the god will question a man about this good deeds and not regarding his tribe or sect. guru Nanak traveled through out the country to convey his message of love and unity.
He left behind the Granth sahib, which is great treatise bringing out all the best from all the regions. He went to the Middle East and other Muslim countries to speech the message of human unity. He went on pilgrimage Mecca, Varanasi, Haridwar and Puri.
He had two disciples, one, Hindu and another Muslim, who were with through thick and thin. By his spiritual powers, Guru Nanak performed miracles.
Sikh religion has a special dedication to the memory of Guru Nanak. Guru Nanak’s writings and sayings have been adopted as the sacred scriptures by the Sikhs.
Gowtham Buddha
Buddha, the great one, who never thought a thought and never performed a deed expect for the good for others; who had the greatest intellect and heart, taking in all mankind and all the animals, all embracing, ready to give his life for the highest angles as well as for the lowest worm.
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.
Buddha was named Gautam by his father who was the ruler of a tribe known he Sakyas Buddha’s father had a fine place to live and enjoyed all the comfort which a king could aspire. In his childhood Buddha had made the most wonderful toys, the best things to eat and the most beautiful clothes wear. But as he grew older, he developed a gradual dislike for all the comforts and luxuries of life.
Despite this comfortable live, Gautam was not happy. He went on thinking about the world outside the place gates, about the common people and their lives.
Ode day he saw an old man, he pitied his bending shoulders, haggard looks and the agony of pain. Then he saw a sick man suffering from a chronic disease. Gautam wanted to go deep in to the sufferings of human beings.
Once, while he driving through the city, he saw men carrying a dead body. This upset him very much. He asked himself why men had to die.
All these unhappy things of life troubled Gautam’s mind. He decided that he would not rest until he had found out way there was sorrow in the world and how men could be freed of it.
One night he slipped away from his place, when every body was sleep, including his wife yashodara and his little son Rahul. Leaving his wife and sweet little child was painful but he withstood the temptation and left. He dressed up a common man and set out in search for truth.
He went to a number of saints and sages but they could not answer his questions about unhappiness in the world.
He sat down under a tree to think out for himself by deep meditation and concentration. He did not eat or drink for many days. His penance continued until his body became all bones but still he did not know the answer. He wandered about for six years with out any results and then one day when he was sitting under tree, the answer came suddenly to him. He received enlightment. He felt as if he knew all secretes of the world.
Buddha discovered that there was sorrow and unhappiness in the world because people were greedy and selfish and wanted worldly things of life. He discovered that the only way to end unhappiness was to stop wanting things and to follow the enlightened path. He laid down eight principles for good life. These included doing no evil, speaking no evil and listening to no evil.