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| City wears religious ambiance on Guru Nanak Dev’s birthday | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Nov 24: Sikh devotees in different parts of the state and nation are celebrating the 538th birth anniversary of founder leader Guru Nanak Dev Ji with great traditional religious fervour.
Thousands of devotes have gathered at the various city Gurudwaraas in city to participate in the celebrations while many have opted to go to the globally known Holy Golden Temple at Amritsar to pay their obeisance.
The Gurpurabs programme was marked with the culmination of Prabhat Pheris, the early morning procession that starts from the gurdwaras and then goes around localities singing ‘shabads’ (hymns). The procession passed through the decorated streets and bazaars of the city where the devotes were offered prasads at the langers arranged at various places.
"The Nagar Kirtan is started to spread the holy message of Guru Nanak Dev Ji," said a devotee and claimed that this is very relevant in this phase when people have forgotton then brotherhood and secularism. Devotees organised 'langar' or community meal on the occasion were distributed.
"On this auspicious occasion of Guru Nanak birthday, I want to wish everyone. We pray to the almighty that this holy celebration passes off peacefully," said Chaman Sabharwal, a devotee.
It is to mention that the revered Guru Nanak Dev Ji, popularly known as Guru Ji is the founder of the Sikh religion, was born in November 1469 at Talwandi, now called Nankana Sahib in Pakistan.
The anniversaries of Sikh Guru’s are known as Gurpurabs (festivals), and celebrated by Sikhs with devotion.
The celebrations also include the three-day Akhand path, during which the Guru Granth Sahib is read continuously, from beginning to end without a break.
On the day of the festival, the Granth Sahib is also carried in a procession on a float, decorated with flowers, throughout a village or city. |
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