Question

Who was immediate successor Guru Nanak Dev?
1. Guru Arjun Dev
2. Guru Ram Das
3. Guru Angad Dev
4. Guru Amar Das

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Guru Angad Dev

The correct answer is Guru Angad Dev.

• Guru Angad (31 March 1504 – 29 March 1552) was the second of the ten Sikh Gurus.
  • He was born in a Hindu family, with the birth name Lehna, in the village of Harike (now Sarae Naga, near Muktsar) in the northwest Indian subcontinent.
  • Bhai Lehna grew up in a Khatri family (Kshatriya, traditionally warriors), his father was a small-scale trader, he worked as a pujari (priest) and religious teacher centered around goddess Durga.
  • He met Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, and became a Sikh. He served and worked with Guru Nanak for many years.
  • Guru Nanak gave Bhai Lehna the name Angad, chose Angad as the second Sikh Guru instead of his sons.
  •  He is remembered in Sikhism for adopting and formalizing the Gurmukhi alphabet from pre-existing Indo-European scripts such as the Tankre of the Himalayan region.
  • He began the process of collecting the hymns of Nanak, contributed 62 or 63 hymns of his own. Instead of his son, he chose a Vaishnava Hindu Amar Das as his successor and the third Guru of Sikhism.