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The main part of the Anand Karaj (Sikh Marriage Ceremony) is the reading and then the singing of each laav. While the laav is sung, the couple, joined by a piece of cloth, circle the Guru Granth Sahib. When the couple circle the Guru Granth Sahib each time they are making a commitment to God with the Guru as their spiritual witness and support.
A Sikh couple taking Laavaan during the ceremony. Anand Karaj (Punjabi: ਅਨੰਦ ਕਾਰਜ ānada kāraja) is the Sikh wedding ceremony, meaning "Act towards happiness" or "Act towards happy life", that was introduced by Guru Amar Das.
In a Sikh wedding, the bride and groom will walk in tow around the Guru Granth Sahib four times, called laavaan. This signifies they not only vow to see each other as one soul in two bodies, the ideal in Sikh marriage, but also as the Guru as the center of their marriage. Sikhs do not do pujas during any part of the marriage ceremony.
She was the first wife of the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. [3] [4] [5] The couple married on 21 June 1677 and had three children together. [1] [6] The initial marriage ceremony between Mata Jito and Guru Gobind Singh took place when she was seven years old and he was eleven. Due to the dangers associated with traveling to Lahore—her ...
English: Sikh painting of a marriage procession, circa 1850-1900. Opaque watercolors on paper, 31.8 × 54.6 cm, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Gift of the Kapany Collection, 1998.70. Opaque watercolors on paper, 31.8 × 54.6 cm, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Gift of the Kapany Collection, 1998.70.
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The etymology of the term gurdwara is from the words gur (ਗੁਰ) (a reference to the Sikh gurus) and dwara (ਦੁਆਰਾ) (gateway in Punjabi), together meaning 'the gateway through which the guru could be reached'. [7] Thereafter, all Sikh places of worship came to be known as gurdwaras.