He was an accountant in the service of Daulat Khan Lodi before joining the company of the Muslim bard Mardana. Establishing his reputation as a spiritual master in the town of Kartarpur, he based his teachings on the doctrine of nam simran, or repetition of the divine name. He preached awareness of the cosmic shabad, or sound, of which all existence was a form, though his 
He was an accountant in the service of Daulat Khan Lodi before joining the company of the Muslim bard Mardana. Establishing his reputation as a spiritual master in the town of Kartarpur, he based his teachings on the doctrine of nam simran, or repetition of the divine name. He preached awareness of the cosmic shabad, or sound, of which all existence was a form, though his central commitment was to raj men yog, or the achievement of transcendence in everyday life, and his teachings were collected in the Adi Granth. FTP, identify this first of the ten Gurus and founder of Sikhism.
He was an accountant in the service of Daulat Khan Lodi before joining the company of the Muslim bard Mardana.
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