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<blockquote data-quote="JustCurious" data-source="post: 123890" data-attributes="member: 11479"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Why did Guru Nanak undertake the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood if he was aware that he would need to go and travel to share his mission? </span></span><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><?"urn:<img src="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/ /></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">How can it be right or fair for the breadwinner to leave his family for a total of 28 years (almost half his adult life) to be a burden for others to take care of? How can it be called love to leave your wife behind with your children to fend for herself and her children for years on end. What could his sons have felt seeing their father and role-model disappearing for years on end? Even if Guru Nanak had left behind sufficient money to cover their material needs, what about the emotional and physical needs of his wife? Who was taking care of these in his long absences?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Wouldn't his wife and sons begun to resent the fact that their absent husband/father was busy taking care of the "whole world was his family" & "sons(children) under the sun were his sons" instead of his own flesh and blood? </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Isn't the fact that Guru Nank went gallivanting around India and other parts of the world for the majority of his children's early-mid years show as a bad example for them and also other Sikhs to emulate? How then can he be seen as a good example, when the example is bad?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Why did he see a need to go to Mecca to convince the people there of the One God when they already believed in One God and were following a strictly Monotheistic religion? Isn't that called preaching to the choir? Also if Sikhism believes that all religions lead to God, why was Guru Nanak proselytising the Sikh religion at all?</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"When Guru Nanak received his call from God , he left everything & set out on a mission that has hardly been achieved by any other human being."</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">There are many accounts of other human beings who travelled far wider and through different parts of the world then Guru Nanak. Like Marco Polo & the famous traveller ibn Battuta who according to wikipedia: </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered as one of the greatest travellers ever." </span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JustCurious, post: 123890, member: 11479"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Why did Guru Nanak undertake the responsibilities of marriage and fatherhood if he was aware that he would need to go and travel to share his mission? [/FONT][/COLOR]<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><?"urn:[IMG]http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/ /></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=[/IMG][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]How can it be right or fair for the breadwinner to leave his family for a total of 28 years (almost half his adult life) to be a burden for others to take care of? How can it be called love to leave your wife behind with your children to fend for herself and her children for years on end. What could his sons have felt seeing their father and role-model disappearing for years on end? Even if Guru Nanak had left behind sufficient money to cover their material needs, what about the emotional and physical needs of his wife? Who was taking care of these in his long absences?[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial Unicode MS][/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Wouldn't his wife and sons begun to resent the fact that their absent husband/father was busy taking care of the "whole world was his family" & "sons(children) under the sun were his sons" instead of his own flesh and blood? [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Isn't the fact that Guru Nank went gallivanting around India and other parts of the world for the majority of his children's early-mid years show as a bad example for them and also other Sikhs to emulate? How then can he be seen as a good example, when the example is bad?[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]Why did he see a need to go to Mecca to convince the people there of the One God when they already believed in One God and were following a strictly Monotheistic religion? Isn't that called preaching to the choir? Also if Sikhism believes that all religions lead to God, why was Guru Nanak proselytising the Sikh religion at all?[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]"When Guru Nanak received his call from God , he left everything & set out on a mission that has hardly been achieved by any other human being."[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]There are many accounts of other human beings who travelled far wider and through different parts of the world then Guru Nanak. Like Marco Polo & the famous traveller ibn Battuta who according to wikipedia: [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana][/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]"His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered as one of the greatest travellers ever." [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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