On Guru Nanak Jayanti

When the country was fragmented

By races, sects and mean mindedness

People had lost their ways

And they were caught in false practices,

In that deep darkness

Many great men descended on this land

With their bright knowledge and holy conduct

They showed the people the path to God’s land.

Among them was a luminous star

That we by name know as Guru Nanak Dev

He neither argued with the oppressors

Nor did he fight with sword

Rather he put a greater line of truth,

Love, mercy and humanity on the dash board.

To that great soul,

That still burns in millions on this land

And guides their paths

Enabling them to serve their mother land,

I salute a thousand times

And bow my head with reverence

I pray to him send some lights

On my ways for my guidance.