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Purandara Dāsa

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Purandara Dāsa · c. 1470 – 1564

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Founder of Sikhism; poet of nearly a thousand hymns in the Guru Granth Sahib.

“A Punjabi accountant walked into a river, came out three days later saying "there is no Hindu, there is no Musalman" — and instead of founding a sect of hermits, founded a working farm with an open kitchen, which grew into a religion of some twenty-five to thirty million people who still cook for strangers first and pray second.”
— The Great Indians, Ch. 128

The big idea, in the book's words:

“Religion is not a label you are born with but a way you live — earn honestly, remember the One, share what you earn — and he built a village where all three were practiced daily, with a free kitchen at its centre where caste dissolved at the meal.”
— The Great Indians, Ch. 128

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