Devotees offer prayers at Golden Temple on Guru Nanak Jayanti

With Covid-19 protocols in place, devotees supplied prayers at Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar on the event of the 551st delivery anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on Monday.

People together with their households supplied prayers and lightened candles within the temple premises. Golden Temple has been illuminated with elaborate lights.

“I along with my family, have come here all the way from Guwahati to offer prayers on the occasion of the 551st birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. We felt so good,” mentioned Sanjay Kumar, a devotee.

“A large number of devotees have come here to offers from far away places,” mentioned one other devotee, Umarjeet Singh.

Earlier within the day, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the founding father of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev and wished residents on his delivery anniversary.Taking to Twitter, the President mentioned that Guru Nanak Dev confirmed individuals the trail of unity, concord, fraternity, comity, and repair, and gave an financial philosophy to understand a way of life primarily based on arduous work, honesty, and self-respect.

 

The Prime Minister prayed that the Sikh Guru’s ideas hold motivating individuals to serve society and guarantee a greater planet.

 

Guru Nanak Jayanti is widely known with a lot pleasure and fervour all through the nation and totally different components of the world on the complete moon day of the Kartik month as per the Hindu calendar. It can be marked as Kartik Poornima.