He's born into a merchant class Hindu family, and he's known to be precocious from a very young age, especially when it comes to matters of spirituality. He's constantly questioning. He goes and learns about various religions. Remember, north India is under the control of the Muslims, but it's a Hindu majority population, and you also have populations of Christians and Jains. And this is also a time, as we've studied in other videos, where the bhakti movement is on the rise, this notion of devotional love to God within Hinduism. And it's in this context that Guru Nanak becomes a significant, some would say, bhakti guru. To get a sense of some of his teachings, there is but one God, his name is truth.