BACK IN KARTARPUR

After the missionary tours, Guru Nanak came back to Indian to practice what he had preached.

He wanted to practice his teachings while living in a household rather than living life of an ascetic or a traveler.

He had called his family to stay with him. His wife Sulakhani and his two sons came to live with him in kartarpur. The family was reunited.

There he started a common kitchen or langar where everyone could come and eat. It did not matter whether the people were rich or poor, of a low caste or a high caste. They all sat together and ate the food cooked in the same kitchen. Even today the Sikhs follow this customs of langar in their holy shrines called Guru wars. These are open Kitchens where all who come have to eat the same food sitting together at the same place. 

Guru Nanak tried to remove the artificial divides constructed by mean by making people of different caste, class and gender sit and eat together.

He also opened Dharamshales or Manjis which became meeting places for Sikhs to meditate and spread the world of God. In the morning, the Japji was sung. In the evening, the Sodar and the Aarti were sung.

His followers would sit and listen to him and sing hymns with him.

His name spread far and wide, and his followers increased in number.

All the offerings that the people gave to him were given to the poor. He himself supervised the food and offerings that were given to the poor.

As Guru Nanak spread his message in the language of common people, i.e. Punjabi, the people felt close to Sikhism.

He preached in favor of brotherhood, love and faith in only one God. And he preached against formal ritualism, idol worship and asceticism.

He preached that people should practice a disciplined worldly life instead of rejecting worldly life altogether.