Guru Nanak: Poetry, Work, and a Shared Community
100 Lives That Shaped the World · Episode 30
- Historical Biographies
- 41 min
- Ages 12–99
- 10 chapters
About this audiobook
A culturally sensitive biography of Guru Nanak built from his hymns, early community, later janamsakhi traditions, Punjab's religious landscape, Kartarpur, and the succession to Guru Angad.
Why it's worth a listen
It centers poetic teaching and institution-building while distinguishing beloved sacred stories from recoverable chronology.
A question to keep
How did Guru Nanak join spiritual teaching, honest work, music, and shared community into a tradition that outlived him?
Chapters
- A Song in a Working Settlement
- Punjab Between Courts and Communities
- What the Hymns and Stories Can Tell
- Family, Work, and the River Tradition
- One Reality and Honest Living
- Nanak and Mardana
- The Udasis as Sacred Geography
- Babur's Invasions and Moral Witness
- Kartarpur and Succession
- From Nanak's Voice to a Living Panth