Water for friend and foe on the field of Anandpur.
From the original text · Sikh history
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Water for friend and foe on the field of Anandpur.
From the original text · Sikh history
Everyone sits in one row, everyone eats the same.
From the original text · Sikh history

The tent at Anandpur.
From the original text · Sikh history
One God, written as one word.
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Twenty rupees spent on feeding the hungry.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Khalsa, the Zafarnama, and the Guru Granth as the last Guru.
From the original text · Sikh history
Talwandi, 1469: a baby who laughed.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
Ajit, Jujhar, Zorawar and Fateh.
From the original text · Sikh history
A snake that shaded a sleeping boy.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Guru who gave Gurmukhi its shape.
From the original text · Sikh history
Two small boys who would not change their minds, told with great care.
From the original text · Sikh history
The king who ate langar first.
From the original text · Sikh history
Five beloved ones from five corners of India.
From the original text · Sikh history
The first lines of the Guru Granth Sahib.
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
What kind of thread would never break?
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
Langar before darshan, and the well at Goindwal.
From the original text · Sikh history
The people who kept doing it.
From the original text · Sikh history
Open on every side, to every side.
From the original text · Sikh history
And the Guru who asked to drink it too.
From the original text · Sikh history
How do we become true?
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Bum La, 1962, told for the courage in it.
From the original text · Biographies
The Guru who dug the pool at Amritsar.
From the original text · Sikh history
A field bought with coins standing on their edge.
From the original text · Sikh history
Kesh, kangha, kara, kachera, kirpan.
From the original text · Sikh history
Air the teacher, water the father, earth the mother.
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Watering the family fields with his mind on God.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Adi Granth, the Harmandir, and the hot plate, told carefully.
From the original text · Sikh history
Cleaning the shoes, washing the floor.
From the original text · Sikh history
Rising spirits, and good for all.
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Counting to thirteen and never stopping.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
Two swords: Miri and Piri, and the fifty-two kings freed.
From the original text · Sikh history
Everything is God (Namdev, Ang 485).
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Three days in the Bein.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Guru who kept a garden and a hospital.
From the original text · Sikh history
One thing he said when he came back.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The child Guru who healed Delhi.
From the original text · Sikh history
A mandir with four doors, and a Sikh one.
From the original text · Art and music histories
The friend who played while Nanak sang.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Guru who gave his head for another's faith, told gently.
From the original text · Sikh history
Milk from a poor man's bread, blood from a rich man's.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
Which way is God not?
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
Panja Sahib.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
A farmer-guru, and the first langar.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The muddy grass, the one who obeyed.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
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