Buddha And Guru Nanak Analysis

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Buddha and Guru Nanak were both born into the ancient world already established as extraordinary people who both had plans to be successful. Buddah’s birth name is Siddartha which is translated into “he who can achieve success” (Amore, 378) and due to his physical features he was given two outcomes of his life, one stating if he stays “in the world” he will become a great emperor but if he “departs the world” he will reach the highest possible goal of enlightenment (Amore, 379). Guru Nanak was born into an upper-caste royal merchant family knowing what he wanted to devote himself to and that was establishing a religion because he created a community for his followers to have a supportive place to learn the traditions of Sikhism. Both Buddha …show more content…

He knew that he achieved success when reaching nirvana and wanted everyone to be at his level with him. Buddha ordains many people and even his own cousin to be able to spread his lifestyle. When Buddha reaches 80 he is served a rotten fish and when his disciples realize he is on his deathbed they ask whom they should follow. Buddha replies to follow the dharma and that another key example he intended to make Buddhism a religion. The Dharma is a wheel that does not stop turning so symbolizes the Buddha never wanting the religion to die out. Lastly, it is important to recognize that the Buddha created the eightfold path for anyone to follow his instructions on how to reach enlightenment.
Similarly, Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism religion intended to kindle this new religion. It is proven by Nanak’s goal that he and his disciples “can reach spiritual liberation in a single lifetime through meditation on the divine Name (nam) “(Singh, 437). Guru Nanak was born into an upper-caste royal merchant family and founded a community for his followers to learn from Nanak by the time Delhi Sultanate was overthrown by the first Mughal emperor, Babur (Singh, …show more content…

This encouraged him to set “a model of human behavior based on divine authority” (Singh, 442). Even though Nanak was born into an upper-caste family he created a place called gurdwara, which made everyone equal and was his first duty to improve society. The final analysis that Guru Nanak must have intended to seek the religion of Sikhism is that he created the institution of the Guru, which he appointed his disciple Lehna as his new successor before he died to the religious traditions can travel on for decades to come. He did not want his hard work and knowledge that he already discovered to die out without a way for it to live

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