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UPCOMING October 2019 PROGRAMMES & SIGNIFICANT DATES : President’s Message Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Kirtan Darbar Daily We also welcome back Ragi Jatha From 6.00pm 7.45pm Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh Bhai Jaspal Singh, Bhai Gurpreet Rehraas (6.00pm-6.30pm) Langgar Sewa on Wednesdays, How the year has passed! We are now Singh and Bhai Jagmohan Singh to Fridays and Saturdays. in October and only 11 weeks away our Gurwara to be our resident Jatha from the New Year. for the coming months. Wednesdays Sukhmani Sahib 4.00pm -5.30pm Following the acceptance of the Finally, I would like to take this Break amendments to the Constitution, we opportunity to extend our deepest 5.30pm- 6.00pm have now received the final copy condolences, from the Society, to Rehraas the family of the Rajbans Singh Gill 6.00pm- 6.30pm which has been uploaded to our Sangat Kirtan website. This exercise cost The for their loss. 6.30pm-7.00pm Society $4,284.50 in legal support. Jatha Kirtan & Ardaas S.Balwant Singh 7.00pm-7.45pm The MC has decided that we will not organise a Diwali function this year Sunday 10:00am -12.00pm and focus our energy on Bandhi Choor and Diwali. We will be having events Parkash Sri Guru Ramdas Ji 15 October 2019 all day and night with programmes starting from 9 am – late in the Sangrand evening. 17 October 2019 Further information can be found in the poster located at end of the Joti Jot Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji 22 October 2019 newsletter. Bandi Choor Divas (Diwali) 27 October 2019 Wanting to Book a Programme Gurgaddi Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji 29 October 2019 Langgar Sewa Opportunities Available Joti Jot Guru Gobind Singh Ji We have Wednesday programme’s still available to be booked with 1 November 2019 opportunities for Friday and Saturday as well. Punjabi School Contact Kiran on 0438 808 757 or Term 3 classes have ended and will recommence on Email [email protected] for further details. Sunday 20 October 2019 Sikh Society of South Australia “First Prakash Gurpurab Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji” 1st Prakash Gurpurab Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji was celebrated on Saturday 31 August 2019 at the Gurudwara Sahib with an evening Kirtan program and Guru Ka Langgar. The large number of Sangat joined in this auspicious occasion enjoyed Kirtan by our youth, Sangat, Bhai Kulveer Singh Ji and Jatha as the resident Jatha at the time, Dr Deshdeep Singh Ji and Jatha, Gianiji Balraj Singh Ji and Bhai Manjot Singh Ji. Younger children (and adults) enjoyed “lighting” up the occasion with Sparklers! The MC thanks all the Sangat and Jathas for making this a very nice event, thanks Jessie Penji for the Sparklers. SCHOOL VISIT- 2 September 2019 The Gurudwara Sahib hosted nearly 100 students and teaching staff from Kildare College learning about Sikhism as part of their religious studies. Students and staff from our Punjabi School and Bhai Manjot Singh presented to the College regarding aspects of Sikhism and answering queries from students. The College enjoyed Tea Langgar before leaving the Gurudwara Sahib and the Society appreciates the College’s donation of $150.00 to the Gurudwara Sahib. MC thanks Bhai Manjot Singh Ji and Heeyal Kaur, Patina Kaur and Fain Singh, Harveen Kaur from Punjabi School for their support in hosting and cooking for the event. Guru Granth Sahib Ji HISTORY the Mughal Emperor, received a report It descended from the Laṇḍā During the time of Guru Nanak that the Adi Granth contained passages scripts and was used from the Dev, collections of his holy hymns vilifying Islam. Therefore, while travelling were compiled and sent to north, he stopped en route and asked to outset for compiling Sikh distant Sikh communities for use inspect it. Baba Buddha and Bhai Gurdas scriptures.Gurus considered divine in morning and evening brought him a copy of the Adi Granth as it worship through shabad kirtan as prayers. His successor Guru existed then. After choosing three the best means of attaining that Angad Dev began collecting his random passages to be read, Akbar state of bliss -vismad- which predecessor's writings. This decided that this report had been false. resulted in communion with God. tradition was continued by the In 1604, Adi Granth was completed and Guru Granth Sahib is divided by third and fifth gurus as well. installed at the Harmandir Sahib, with musical settings or ragas into 1,430 When the fifth guru, Guru Arjan Baba Buddha as the first granthi, or Dev, was collecting religious pages known as Angs (limbs) in Sikh reader. Since communities of Sikh writings of his predecessor, he tradition. It can be categorized into disciples were scattered all over northern discovered that pretenders to the two sections: India, copies of the holy scripture needed guruship were releasing what he to be made for them. The sixth 1. Introductory section consisting considered as forged anthologies Guru added the tunes of 9 out of 22 of the Mool of writings of the previous guru Vars. Seventh and eighth guru did not Mantar, Japji and Sohila, and including their own writings have writings of their own added to the composed by Guru Nanak Dev; with them. In order to prevent holy scripture; however, the ninth 2. Compositions of Sikh gurus, spurious scriptures from gaining guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, did. The tenth followed by those of legitimacy, Guru Arjan Dev began guru, Guru Gobind Singh, included the bhagats who know only compiling a sacred scripture for writings of his father Guru Tegh Bahadur God, collected according to the the Sikh community. in the Guru Granth Sahib, and included 1 chronology of ragas or musical He finished collecting the salokh in mahala 9 Ang 1429. settings. religious writings of Guru Ram In 1704 at Damdama Sahib, during a one- A raga is a complex structure of Das, his immediate predecessor, year respite from the heavy fighting musical melody used in Indian and convinced Mohan, the son with Aurangzeb which the Khalsa was classical music. It is a set of rules of of Guru Amar Das, to give him engaged in at the time, Guru Gobind how to build a melody which can the collection of the religious Singh and Bhai Mani Singh added the ignite a certain mood in the reciter writings of the first three . religious compositions of Guru Tegh and listeners. The Sikh Holy gurus. In addition, he sent Bahadur to Adi Granth to create a Scripture, Guru Granth Sahib, is disciples to go across the country Source: http://www.discoversikhis definitive compilation. Guru Gobind composed in and divided by 60 to find and bring back any Singh’s banis are found in the Sri Dasam ragas. Each raga is a chapter or previously unknown religious Granth, they are part in the daily prayers section in the Guru Granth Sahib writings of theirs. He also invited of Sikhs. During this period, Bhai Mani starting with Asaa raag, and all the members of other religions and Singh also collected Guru Gobind Singh's hymns produced in Asaa raag are contemporary religious writers to religious writings, as well as his court found in this section ordered submit writings for possible poems, and included them in a secondary chronologically by the Guru or other inclusion. Guru Arjan pitched a religious volume, today known as Bhagat that have written hymns in tent by the side of Ramsar tank in the Dasam Granth Sahib that raga. Amritsar and started the task of compiling the holy Granth. He Composition Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Gr selected hymns for inclusion in The entire Guru Granth Sahib is written in anth_Sahib the Adi Granth and Bhai the Gurmukhi script, which was Gurdas acted as his scribe. standardized by Guru Angad Dev in the While the holy hymns and verses 16th century. The were being put together Akbar, word Gurmukhī translates to "from the mouth of the guru". The Seventh Master Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji( 1630-1661) Guru Har Rai became the Sikh leader at Krishan to succeed him. Har Krishan Reforms became the eighth Guru at age 5 age 14, on 8 March 1644, after the death The third Sikh leader Guru Amar after Guru Har Rai's death in 1661. of his grandfather and sixth Sikh Das had started the tradition of leader Guru Hargobind.He guided the Dara Shikoh appointing manji (zones of religious Sikhs for about seventeen years, till his Guru Har Rai provided medical care administration with an appointed chief death at age 31. to Dara Shikoh, possibly when he called sangatias), introduced Guru Har Rai is notable for maintaining had been poisoned by Mughal the dasvandh ("the tenth" of income) the large army of Sikh soldiers that the operatives. According to Mughal system of revenue collection in the sixth Sikh Guru had amassed, yet records, Har Rai provided other name of Guru and as pooled community avoiding military conflict. He supported forms of support to Dara Shikoh as religious resource,and the the moderate Sufi influenced Dara he and his brother Aurangzeb famed langar tradition of Sikhism Shikoh instead of conservative Sunni battled for rights to succession. where anyone, without discrimination influenced Aurangzeb as the two Ultimately, Aurangzeb won, arrested of any kind, could get a free meal in a brothers entered into a war of Dara Shikoh and executed him on communal seating. succession to the Mughal Empire charges of apostasy from Islam. In throne. The organizational structure that had 1660, Aurangzeb summoned Har Rai helped Sikhs to grow and resist the to appear before him to explain his Mughal persecution had created new relationship with Dara Shikoh.
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