Introduction To 'Me Judice' By Kapur Singh

It has been customary to regard Guru Nanak as a medieval bhakta saint in class with Ramanuj, Kabir, Dadu, Vallabha and Chaitanya o. under the impact of Moslem political domination and Sufi mysticism Islam, endeavoured to discover underlying identities between Hinduism d Islam and to integrate religious discipline and experience to their primal urce of emotion, rather than dogma and intellection. Indeed, Guru Nanak only in the historical perspective was. close to this movement but he assented with the fundamental motivations of these saints and bhaktas. it he was much more and he falls into a type altogether apart and this is he first point I would like to make out.

Guru Nanak was not a mere saint for a saint is one who manifests his life the true essence of an already established creed. Guru Nanak is emphatic that. "I can think of no one entitled to claim my allegience as a ratter of right". ¹ He was not a bhakta proper, for, he repudiated the basic tenets of the medieval Bhakti Movements of India, namely, the doctrine of avtarvad and devotional worship of one form of the already manifest Vishnu, through utter and unreserved devotion: although he accorded a ugh place to integration of trained emotions in the life ofa religious person.

In particular, Guru Nanak is the first prophet born in India in the sense of one who claims that the religion he preaches is a revealed religion. A revealed religion is one which in imparted through a chosen individual as a consequence of his encounter with God.