Guru Nanak Birthday Gurpurab 2015

Nanak was born on 15 April 1469 at Rāi Bhoi Kī Talvaṇḍī (present day Nankana Shab, Punjab, Pakistan) near Lahore His parents were Kalyan Chand Das Bedi, popularly shortened to Mehta Kallu and Mata Tripta. His father was the local Patwari (accountant) for crop revenue in the village of Talwandi. His parents were both Hindus and belonged to the merchant caste.
He had one sister, Bebe Nankani who was five years older than he was. In 1475 she married and moved to SultanPur.Nanak was attached to his sister and followed her to Sultanpur to live with her and her husband. At the age of around 16 years, Nanak started working under Doulat Khan Lodhi employer of Nanaki's husband. This was a formative time for Nanak, as the Puratan (traditional) Janam Sikhi suggests, and in his numerous allusions to governmental structure in his hymns, most likely gained at this time.
Commentaries on his life give details of his blossoming awareness from a young age. At the age of five, Nanak is said to have voiced interest in divine subjects. At age seven, his father enrolled him at the village school as was the custom. Notable lore recounts that as a child Nanak astonished his teacher by describing the implicit symbolism of the First Letter of Alphabet which is an almost straight stroke in Persianor Arabic. resembling the mathematical version of one, as denoting the unity or oneness of God.Other childhood accounts refer to strange and miraculous events about Nanak, such as one witnessed by Rai Bular, in which the sleeping child's head was shaded from the harsh sunlight, in one account, by the stationary shadow of a tree or, in another, by a venomous cobra.

On 24 September 1487 Nanak married Mata Sulakkhani, daughter of Mūl Chand and Chando Rāṇī, in the town of Batala The couple had two sons, (8 September 1494 – 13 January 1629)and Lakhmi Chand (12 February 1497 – 9 April 1555). Sri Chand received enlightenment from Guru Nanak's teachings and went on to become the founder of the Udasi sect.