Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, was a simple and beautiful man. He had only one student, whom he never taught anything. He simply sang with inspiration, and the student sang along with him and played a simple musical instrument.
They tell this story. One day Nanak went to travel. He walked around Arabia and reached Mecca, where the Muslim shrine - the black stone of the Kaaba - is kept. It was already late. Nanak prayed and lay down to rest. But the guardians of the shrine approached him and said that such behavior seemed incredible to them:
— You come from India, where people know how to be respectful. You laid your feet towards our sacred stone. This hurts our religious feelings. For us, this stone represents God, it contains the divine.
Nanak said:
“You said that your God is contained in this stone, but my God is not contained in anything.” So wherever I turn my feet, He will be there.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru