MOST TRAVELLED PERSON: Travels (Udasis) of Guru Nanak Ji - Travelled 28000 km Plus & Many New Discoveries

Travels or Divine Journeys of Guru Nanak Ji called Udasis. It is believed that Guru Nanak Ji is the the second (travelled person in the world. Most of his journeys were made on foot with his companion Bhai Mardana ji. He travelled in all four directions - North, East, West as on record! Though there are sufficient leads when concluded can be established to have travelled most.

The Guru Nanak Ji is believed to have travelled more than 28,000 Kms in five major tours of the world during the period from 1500 to 1524. The record for the most travelled person is held by Ibn Battuta of Morocco.

Below is a brief summary of the confirmed places where Guru Nanak visited:

·  First Udasi: (1500-1506 AD) Lasted about 7 years and covered the following towns and regions: Sultanpur, Tulamba (modern Makhdumpur, zila Multan), Panipat, Delhi, Banaras (Varanasi), Nanakmata (zila Nainital, U.P.), Tanda Vanjara (zila Rampur), Kamrup (Assam), Asa Desh (Assam), Saidpur (modern Eminabad, Pakistan), Pasrur (Pakistan), Sialkot (Pakistan).

    Second Udasi: (1506-1513 AD) Lasted about 7 years and covered the following towns and regions: Dhanasri Valley, Sangladip (Ceylon).

    Third Udasi: (1514-1518 AD) Lasted about 5 years and covered the following towns and regions: Kashmir, Sumer Parbat, Nepal, Tashkand, Sikkim, Tibet. Believed to have gone to China too, while collection of evidence to support is underway.

Gurudwara Nanak Lama, Sikkim, India

     Fourth Udasi: (1519-1521 AD) Lasted about 3 years and covered the following towns and regions: Iraq, Mecca, Turkey and the Arab countries. It is said that in Syria there is a mosque named 'Mosque of Wali Hind' near the mosque of Baba Farid". Believed to have gone to Africa continent, while collection of evidence to support is underway.

Guru Nanak JI Visit to Turkey & Memorial Raised



Memorial of Guru Nanak Ji in Turkey

Following is in scripted over memorial of Guru Nanak Ji

in Turkey



In Arabic/Persian/Turkish languages

(Transliterated in Gurmukhi Script):

· ਜਹਾਂਗੀਰ ਜਮਾਂ ਹਿੰਦ ਲਤ ਅਬਦ ਅਲ ਮਾਜੀਦ ਨਾਨਕ ।
(Jehangir jaman hind lat abd al majid Nanak.)

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Meanings in Punjabi:

ਜਮਾਨੇ ਦਾ ਮਾਲਕ, ਹਿੰਦ ਦਾ ਬੰਦਾ, ਰੱਬ ਦਾ ਨਾਨਕ ।
(jamanay da malik, hind da banda, rab da Nanak)

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Meanings in English:

The Lord of the time, resident of India, Nanak – the man of God

The rest of the long inscription is not legible and is still to be deciphered. However, the date,1267 Hijri (1850 CE), in the crown and at the bottom line of the monument is quite legible.

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 Meeting Bahlol, the Pir from Baghdad & Shrine Raised

 

After having travelled to Madina, Guru Nanak Dev soon arrived in Baghdad and took up a position, along with Mardana, outside the city. Guru Nanak Dev ji shouted the call to prayer, on which the whole population became wrapt in silent astonishment – the Guru omitted the usual words Muhammad ar Rasul Allah, and substituted Arabic words of a similar sound (Satnam) to express his own ideas, hence the astonishment. As a result Guru Nanak Ji was pushed in to a well, & stoned. Looking at Guru Nanak Ji coming out of the well un hurt, the temporal & spiritual leader of Iraq, Pir Bahlool Shah also called as Pir Dastageer & Abdul Qadir gilani understood for Guru ji to be a holy saint from Hind (India) and invited for spiritual discussions.

Pir Bahlool Shah who an Irani but settled in Iraq, asked three questions and upon getting the third answer pleaded Guru Nanak Ji to pardon the locals for the mistreatment given and to stay for long. Upon his insistence Guru Nanak Ji stayed for 17 days. It was during this stay that Guru Nanak Ji along with Pir Bahllol's Son travelled to the nether world (astral travel). The two melted in air in a fraction of second and when returned brought back a bowl of sacred food to earth. Today science too is working over astral travel.

After the Guru's departure, they raised a memorial in the form of a platform where the Guru had sat and discoursed. After some time when a room was constructed over the platform, a stone slab with the following inscription in Turki was installed in it. The shrine was completely rubbled during the 2003 war.

Guru Nanak Ji's Shrine near Bhagdad, Iraq (uptill 2003 Iraq war) 

"Guru Nanak's stay with Sheikh Bahlool was an early example of inter-faith dialogue, of a kind that is hard to imagine in Iraq today," said Dr Rajwant Singh of the the Sikh Council on Religion and Education in the United States.

Bhai Gurdas Ji's Var 

Bhai Gurdas Ji says the following of Guru Nanak Dev ji's visit to Baghdad:

Read at SikhiToTheMax

From Mecca Baba went to Baghdad and stayed outside the city.

Firstly, Baba himself was in the form of Timeless and secondly,

he had his companion Mardana, the rebeck player.

For namaz (in his own style), Baba gave call, listening to which the

whole world went into absolute silence.

The whole city became quiet and lo! to behold it, the pir (of the town) also got wonderstruck.

Observing minutely he found (in the form of Baba Nanak) an exhilerated faquir.

Pir Dastegir asked him, which category of faquir you belong to and what is your parentage.

(Mardana told) He is Nanak, who has come into kaliyug, and, he recognises God and

His faquirs as one.

He is known in all the directions besides earth and sky.

 

In Iraq, it is said that "Untill recently there were several disciples of Guru Nanak in Iraq. These people live on the banks of the Tigris river, particularly in the cities of Al Kut and Baghdad. They are called Sobi and generally they are gold-smiths by occupation. They are experts in their trade. They keep long hair and do not cut their beards and remember the Guru by names of Baba Nanak or Baba Nana."

Modern accounts of the shrine date back to World War I when the site was rediscovered, after being lost in obscurity for centuries, by a regiment of Indian Sikh soldiers sent to Iraq with the British army. Dr Kirpal Singh, a Sikh captain in the Indian medical service who travelled to Iraq, described the shrine in a letter dated October 15, 1918. Curiously, it was the hymn by Gurdaas that probably led to the rediscovery of the shrine. Subedar Fateh Singh, one of the Sikh soldiers in Iraq during World War I, announced the discovery in 1918.

Faded photographs reveal an ancient stone plaque at the entrance, commemorating the building of the memorial, as the centrepiece of the shrine. The plaque was dated 917 on the Islamic calendar, or 1511 A.D.

Pritpal K. Sethi, who visited Baghdad in 1968 said, "It was a very small, simple structure of about 600 square feet (56 square metres). There was a large courtyard outside.

In 2008 Iraqi National Congress chief Ahmed Chalabi, one of Iraq's prominent leaders, who drove down through the desolate streets of Baghdad to the sacred Sikh site said 'it has unfortunately been wiped out by fanatics because they thought it was against Islam'.

"It's shameful they cannot respect someone who has millions of followers," he said at the gurdwara site along the river Tigris. Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who accompanied him, also requested immediate rebuilding of the gurdwara.

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New discovery now suggests that Guru Nanak Dev Ji to have travelled as far as Uganda..... settlement is named ‘Bamu Nanika’

According to recent research, a new discovery now suggests that Guru Nanak Dev Ji may have travelled as far to the west as East Africa . A small settlement, a hundred miles from Kampala , Uganda , is named ‘Bamu Nanika’ which the locals revere for its spiritual powers. They say that a holy man, not one of their own, sat on a certain spot there and meditated. They say that the spot is covered in a bark-like material and not shown to anyone. Prayers are done in their traditional way. It is also said that all of Uganda ’s Kabakas (traditional kings) visited the ’shrine’ to receive blessings upon their advent of rule.

The area is arid with no fresh water for miles. But only a few hundred meters away is a small spring of fresh water which the locals do not allow anyone to drink or use for hand washing. The water is somehow used like ‘giving amrit’ to devotees who are all Africans. When asked about who they revere the place for, the locals said that, "He is not one of ours but there is some great spiritual power here".

Recently, a number of Gianis from India visited the shrine to research the discovery (it is even believed that, in a sakhi, Bhai Mardana asked Guru Nanak why the locals had curly hair). That faintly suggests that Guru Nanak visited Africa . The locals had no knowledge of Sikhs before our arrival. We are strangers to them. With further research, we feel there is a high possibility of adding Africa to the list of places visited by Guru Nanak.

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Fifth Udasi:(1523-1524AD) Lasted about 2 years and covered the following towns and regions: Placeswithin the Punjab.

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Guru Nanak Jitravelled 28000 km and beyond, when no other messenger or propagator of a faith/ sect / religion have done so!

Guru Nanak Jihas answered on his quest to travel in discussions with Sidhas of Himalayas. This conversation with Sidhas is recorded as SIDHGOSHT.

Guru Nanak Ji with Bhai Mardana in Himalayas

Raamkalee, First Mehl, Sidh Gosht ~ Conversations With The Siddhas:


One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

.............The Siddhas formed an assembly; sitting in their Yogic postures, they shouted, "Salute this gathering of Saints."

GURU NANAK JI: I offer my salutation to the One who is true, infinite and incomparably beautiful.

SIDHAS:: Where is your seat? Where do you live, boy? Where did you come from, and where are you going? Tell us, Nanak - the detached Siddhas wait to hear your reply. What is your path?"||2|

GURU NANAK JI: He dwells deep within the nucleus of each and every heart. This is my seat and my home. I walk in harmony with the Will of the True Guru.

I came from the Celestial Lord God; I go wherever He orders me to go. I am Nanak, forever under the Command of His Will.

I sit in the posture of the eternal, imperishable Lord. These are the Teachings I have received from the Guru.

As Gurmukh, I have come to understand and realise myself; I merge in the Truest of the True. ||3||

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