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.
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A snake that shaded a sleeping boy.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The Guru who gave Gurmukhi its shape.
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Two small boys who would not change their minds, told with great care.
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The king who ate langar first.
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Five beloved ones from five corners of India.
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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.
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Open on every side, to every side.
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And the Guru who asked to drink it too.
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How do we become true?
From the original text · Sri Guru Granth Sahib
The Guru who dug the pool at Amritsar.
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A field bought with coins standing on their edge.
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Kesh, kangha, kara, kachera, kirpan.
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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.
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Cleaning the shoes, washing the floor.
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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.
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One thing he said when he came back.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
The child Guru who healed Delhi.
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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.
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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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