Sikhism is Unique: Was Guru Nanak a plagiarist?

[Neha.Kulkarni]

Sikhism is Unique: Was Guru Nanak a plagiarist? (The legend of Bhakta Prahlada)

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In this video , we question the validity of the Sikh Granth (Holy Book).

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Below are the verses in question, many more exist.


hir jugu jugu Bgq aupwieAw pYj rKdw AwieAw rwm rwjy ]
har jug jug bhagat upaiaa paij rakhadhaa aaiaa raam raaje ||
In each and every age, He creates His devotees and preserves their honor, O Lord King.


hrxwKsu dustu hir mwirAw pRhlwdu qrwieAw ]
haranaakhas dhusaT har maariaa prahalaadh taraiaa ||
The Lord killed the wicked Harnaakhash, and saved Prahlaad.


https://www.sikhitothemax.org/shabad...e=3&source=all


"Those who serve their Beloved True Guru obtain eternal peace.
Those who meet the True Guru, O Nanak - the Lord Himself meets them."
https://www.sikhitothemax.org/shabad...e=3&source=all




"Servant Nanak has so served the Lord, that He will deliver him in the end. "
https://www.sikhitothemax.org/shabad...e=3&source=all




"Jesus said to him,
“I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me..”
https://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm




Verses from Vedic HIndu sources:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlada


https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Bhagat_Prahlada




"In the fourteenth incarnation, the Lord appeared as Nṛsiṁha and bifurcated the strong body of the atheist Hiraṇyakaśipu with His nails,
just as a carpenter pierces cane."
https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/3/18/


Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself.
https://asitis.com/4/7.html


In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.
https://asitis.com/4/8.html




Among the Daitya demons I am the devoted Prahlada; among subduers I am time; among the beasts I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuda, the feathered carrier of Visnu.
https://asitis.com/10/30.html

[MsTee1985]

Some really good points