Guru Nanak Dev Ji
The first Guru of the Sikhs (1469–1539). This page holds a short verified outline, our source method, and the roadmap for a 100-episode English series on his life and word.
Overview
Guru Nanak Dev Ji founded the Sikh path. He taught remembrance of the One Creator, honest work, and sharing with others. He travelled widely so that teaching could take root. The later Gurus continued that path. Today Sikhs look to the living Guru, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
How we source this series
We are making the most reliable English-language telling of Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s life and word that we can stand behind. That means verified material only.
A detail goes in only if it ties to at least one of these:
- His words — his own bani in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji (Mahalla 1).
- History — a short, widely accepted outline (family, place, work, Kartarpur, successor, 1539).
- The world around him — 15th–16th century Punjab that historians can actually describe (farms, markets, caste, neighbours, Lodhi/Mughal time, accounts).
On screen when needed: His words · History · We do not know.
We do not invent Gurbani. We do not invent dialogue. We do not put a face of the Guru on screen. Famous miracle tales and disputed travel diaries circulate; they are not our camera. When we do not know, we say so.
There is not enough proven daily biography for 100 plot episodes. There is enough proven word and world for 100 episodes. That is the whole method.
History — key facts
- Birth: 1469 at Rai Bhoi Ki Talwandi — later known as Nankana Sahib — in the Punjab region. Older records place the birth in Vaisakh; the Gurpurab most families keep falls in Kartik. We keep the year and the place firm.
- Parents: Mata Tripta Ji and Mehta Kalu Ji (Bedi Khatri; remembered as a village patwari).
- Sister: Bebe Nanaki Ji — elder sister.
- Work: Later outline includes Sultanpur Lodhi and storehouse work under Daulat Khan Lodhi; marriage at Batala; sons Sri Chand and Lakhmi Das; companion Bhai Mardana Ji in early Sikh remembrance.
- Teaching centre: ੴ Ik Onkar — there is One Creator. Honest work, sharing, and equality before the One. (Scriptural home: Japji and his other compositions in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — we do not invent verse here.)
- Travel: He travelled widely. We do not film a town-by-town miracle map as fact.
- Kartarpur: He settled a community of work, sangat, and langar by the Ravi.
- Successor: Guru Angad Dev Ji. Common date of joti jot: 22 September 1539, about age seventy.
- Living Guru today: Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji — the eternal Word, not a person depicted as an AI face.
100 episodes — watch order
Watch order is this order. Do not reshuffle. Episode length target: 6–8 minutes. Bani episodes are not extras; they are the series. If a script needs a scene we cannot source, we delete the scene — we do not replace it with a sakhi.
Block A — How we know (1–4)
- Welcome
- How we know anything
- What we do not know
- Punjab in his century
Block B — Birth and house (5–14)
- 1469
- The village as a place
- Mata Tripta Ji
- Mehta Kalu Ji
- Bebe Nanaki Ji
- What the house wanted
- School
- Letters and the One
- Mixed Punjab childhood
- The boy and the walls
Block C — Sultanpur and family (15–22)
- Sultanpur Lodhi
- The modikhana
- Kirat Karo
- Mata Sulakhani Ji
- A householder Guru
- Baba Sri Chand
- Baba Lakhmi Das
- Bhai Mardana Ji
Block D — Mission without a fake map (23–28)
- Ik Onkar
- Mool Mantar 1
- Mool Mantar 2
- Mool Mantar 3
- Why he travels
- How far is true
Block E — The wounded Punjab (29–32)
- Lodhi to Mughal
- Cities in pain
- Babur-bani 1
- Babur-bani 2
Block F — Kartarpur (33–44)
- Why he settles
- Kartarpur founded
- A morning there
- Work in the fields
- Sangat
- Langar
- Evening and night
- Who came
- Short later journeys
- Naam Japo
- Vand Chakko
- The three pillars together
Block G — His compositions (45–86)
- What Mahalla 1 means
- How many hymns
- Japji — what “Jap” is
- Japji — Truth
- Japji — Hukam
- Japji — listening and living
- Japji — empty washing vs a true life
- Japji — the five khands, slowly
- Japji — the closing slok
- Asa di Var — what a vaar is
- Asa di Var — false pride
- Asa di Var — empty religion
- Asa di Var — the world as it is
- Sidh Gosht — who the sidhs are
- Sidh Gosht — why he will not live in a cave
- Sidh Gosht — Naam in the world
- Barah Maha — twelve months
- Barah Maha — longing through seasons
- Patti — the alphabet hymn
- Dakhni Onkar
- So Dar
- Sohila
- His shabads on caste
- His shabads on the neighbour
- His shabads on greed and show
- His shabads on the Name
- His shabads on the householder
- His shabads on fear and fearlessness
- His shabads on Hindu and Muslim names for God
- His shabads on pilgrimage without a changed life
- His shabads on death and truth
- His shabads on the earth and the One
- Raga: why his hymns are music
- What we do not quote
- Reserve inside the Granth (79–86) — named Mahalla 1 only; if we cannot name it, we do not film it
Block H — Successor and 1539 (87–92)
- Why not a family throne
- The two sons, fairly
- Bhai Lehna Ji
- Guru Angad Dev Ji
- 1539
- What “the light meets the Light” means
Block I — After him, still his word (93–97)
- From his mouth to the Granth
- Living Guru
- Words children should know
- What other videos get wrong
- How to go further
Block J — The whole life (98–100)
- Recap of the life
- Recap of the teaching
- The beginning and the end in one telling
Episode 1 Welcome is in production. Cinema episodes will appear here as they pass the source gate.
The Gyani is AI and is not the Guru.