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Guru Nanak Dev Ji Joti Jot Purab 2023

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Joti Jot Diwas is the Day of Ascension of the Founder of Sikhism and First Guru Nanak Dev Ji. He left the mortal world on 1596 Bikrami Assu Vadi Dasmi, Sri Kartarpur Sahib, accordingly 10th October 1539. In 2023, It comes on October 9th, Monday.

ਜੀਵਣ ਮਰਣਾ ਜਾਇ ਕੈ ਏਥੈ ਖਾਜੈ ਕਾਲਿ ॥
Life and death come to all who are born. Everything here gets devoured by Death.
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ਸੋ ਨਰੁ ਜੰਮੈ ਨਾ ਮਰੈ ਨਾ ਆਵੈ ਨਾ ਜਾਇ ॥
Then, they are not subject to birth and death; they do not come and go in reincarnation.
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ਮੁਇਆ ਜਿਤੁ ਘਰਿ ਜਾਈਐ ਤਿਤੁ ਜੀਵਦਿਆ ਮਰੁ ਮਾਰਿ ॥
To reach your True Home after you die, you must conquer death while you are still alive.
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Guru Merged into Supreme Being

Guru Nanak had established 'Guru Seat at Kartarpur. It was here that he started 'The langer' food-for-all kitchen system. A man named Chaudhry Lehna Singh used to live in Nagay's Inn near Ferozepur. He was a 'Mata' devotee. Once he came to Kartarpur to hear Nanak and never went back. He became the most devoted Sikh of the Guru. Bhai Lehna could do anything to honor the command of Guru Nanak. He served Guru Nanak till his last moment.

In consideration of his spirit of sacrifice Guru Nanak declared him to be the 'Heir to the Guru Seat'. Nanak's wife had wished the seat for her elder son. But Guru Nanak didn't want it to be a dynastic property. He wanted it to go to the best deserving candidate.

Before relinquishing his mortal body Guru handed over the seat to Bhai Lehna in the presence of his faithful Gursikhs.
In death, Guru Nanak's body had transformed into a heap of flowers which was consigned to the flames of the funeral pyre. This occurred somewhere between the fourth quarter of 1539 AD.

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