The period of his Guruship was the most crucial one.

The Guruship was consecutively passed down to nine other Gurus, who were stated to have the divine light of God with them.

The establishment of the Khalsa united the Sikh community against various Mughal-backed claimants to the guruship.

Guru Har Rai Ji faced some serious difficulties during the period of his guruship.

To this day, Sikhs consider the three bundles as important symbols of spiritual affairs, temporal affairs, and the Guruship.

Goindval became an important centre for Sikhi during the guruship of Guru Amar Das.

This is first Granth mentioned Guruship of Guru Granth Shahib.

During the Guruship of Guru Nanak, collections of his hymns were compiled and sent to distant Sikh communities for use in morning and evening prayers.

At the time when Guru Ram Das passed away, Guru Arjan Dev was honoured with the turban of Guruship.

Guru Gobind Singh, assumed the guruship in 1675 and to avoid battles with Sivalik Hill Rajas moved the gurship to Paunta.

The second Master spent 13 years of his Guruship at Khadoor Sahib, spreading the universal message of Guru Nanak Sahib.

The Guru's wife, Mata, said to Nanak "My Lord, keep my sons in mind," meaning that she wished them to be the ones considered for succession to the guruship.

Before he died, Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru, conferred the Guruship to the [Adi Granth].

Three days before his passing away, Guru Gobind Singh conferred on 3 October 1708, the guruship of the Sikhs on Guru Granth Sahib.

Both Guru Har Rai and Guru Harkrishan were also born at this place and they received the Gurgadi (Guruship) at this place.

Moreover, on bad terms with Bishan Singh, his eldest son and to despise him, made a gift of his property and Guruship to his younger son, Kabul Singh.

He also conferred guruship on the Guru Granth Sahib and Directed the Sikh people to consider the Guru granth Sahib an embodiment of the Guru.

Though Sri Chand was not an ambitious man, the Udasis believed that the Guruship should have gone to him, since he was a man of pious habits in addition to being Nanak's son.

The final and last Guruship was bestowed upon a combined institution of holy-book (Granth) immersed in The Guru Granth Sahib Ji and people(Panth) i.e the Guru Khalsa.

It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak's sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.

Guru Gobind Singh, while conferring Guruship on the holy Book, had himself named Nanded as "Abchalnagar" (literally "Steadfast city") after the first word of a hymn read at random on the occasion.

When the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan, was collecting the writings of his predecessor, he discovered that pretenders to the Guruship were releasing forged anthologies of the previous gurus' writings and including their own writings alongside them.

Gerald Parsons says that "Ravidasis are to be distinguished from the Ramdasias who also belonged to the Chamar caste in Punjab but who were converted to the Sikh community, according to tradition, during the guruship of Ram Das".

The Ninth Master Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib before acceding to the guruship kept meditating in a basement from 1644-1664 A.D., mainly at Baba Bakala, where Bhai Sada Nand was in attendance.

On the 16th of this month, Guru Angad and Guru Har Krishan took leave for their higher abode and passed the Guruship to Guru Amar Das and Guru Tegh Bahadur respectively.