Gurpurab - Parkash Diwas of 3rd Guru Sri Guru Amardas Ji
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Parkash Diwas of 3rd Guru
Sri Guru Amardas Ji
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Sri Guru Amardas Ji, were born at village Basarke Gillan in Sri Amritsar district on Vaisakh Sudi 14th, (8th Jeth), Samvat 1536 (5th May 1479). Their father Tej Bhan Bhalla ji and mother Bakht Kaur ji (also referred as Sulakhani ji and Lakhmi Devi ji) were orthodox Hindus and used to pay annual visits to the Ganges river at Haridwar. Sri Guru Amardas Ji were married to Mata Mansa Devi ji and had four children: two daughters; Bibi Dani ji and Bibi Bhani ji (she was married to Sri Guru Ramdass Ji), and two sons; Baba Mohan ji and Baba Mohri ji.
Once Sri Guru Amardas Ji heard some shabads & Japji Sahib path of Sri Guru Nanak Dev JI from Bibi Amro Ji, the daughter of Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji. They became so impressed and immediately went to see Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji at Khadur Sahib. Under the impact of the teachings of Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji, Sri Guru Amardas Ji adopted them as their spiritual guide (Guru). They then started living at Khadur Sahib. They used to rise early in the morning, bring water from the Beas River for Guru's bath and fetch wood from the forest for 'Guru Ka Langar'.
Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji appointed Sri Guru Amardas Ji as third Guruji in March 1552 at the age of 73. This was a result of their sewa and devotion to Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji and their teachings. They established their headquarters at newly built town Goindwal Sahib. There they propagated the Sikh faith in a very planned manner.
They strengthened the tradition of 'Guru Ka Langar' and made it compulsory for the visitor to the Guruji saying that 'Pehle Pangat Phir Sangat'. Once the emperor Akbar came to see Guruji and he had to eat the coarse rice in the Langar before he could have an interview with Guruji. He was so impressed with this system and expressed his desire to grant some royal property for 'Guru Ka Langar', but Guruji declined it with respect. Sri Guru Amardas Ji persuaded Akbar to waive off toll-tax (pilgrim's tax) for non-Muslims while crossing Yamuna and Ganga, Akbar did so.
They supported remarriage for widows and denounced the practice of sati, a Hindu custom compelling a widow to be burnt alive on her husband's funeral pyre.
Sri Guru Amardas Ji constructed a Baoli at Goindwal Sahib having eighty-four steps and made it a Sikh pilgrimage centre for the first time in the history of Sikhism. They reproduced more copies of shabads of Sri Guru Nanak Dev JI and Sri Guru Angad Dev JI.
At age 95, Sri Guru Amardas Ji departed for heaven and appointed their son-in-law Sri Guru Ramdas Ji as the 4th Guru.
ghanhar boond basu-a romaaval kusam basant ganant na aavai.
The raindrops of the clouds, the plants of the earth, and the flowers of the spring cannot be counted.
ਰਵਿ ਸਸਿ ਕਿਰਣਿ ਉਦਰੁ ਸਾਗਰ ਕੋ ਗੰਗ ਤਰੰਗ ਅੰਤੁ ਕੋ ਪਾਵੈ ॥
rav sas kiran udar saagar ko gang tarang ant ko paavai.
Who can know the limits of the rays of the sun and the moon, the waves of the ocean and the Ganges?
ਰੁਦ੍ਰ ਧਿਆਨ ਗਿਆਨ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਕੇ ਕਬਿ ਜਨ ਭਲ੍ਯ੍ਯ ਉਨਹ ਜ ਗਾਵੈ ॥
rudr Dhi-aan gi-aan satgur kay kab jan bhal-y unah jo gaavai.
With Shiva's meditation and the spiritual wisdom of the True Guru, says BHALL the poet, these may be counted.
ਭਲੇ ਅਮਰਦਾਸ ਗੁਣ ਤੇਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ਉਪਮਾ ਤੋਹਿ ਬਨਿ ਆਵੈ ॥
bhalay amardaas gun tayray tayree upmaa tohi ban aavai. ||1||22||
O Guru Amar Daas, Your Glorious Virtues are so sublime; Your Praises belong only to You.
Aap sabh nu Guru Amar Das Ji Maharaj de Parkash Gurpurb Di Lakh-Lakh vaadhaai hove ji.
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