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The Sant Nirankari Mission splintered from the Nirankari sect in the 20th century. Nirankari, a movement within Sikhism, started in the mid-19th century.Their belief in a living guru as opposed to the scriptural guru, Guru Granth Sahib, developing over the decades especially in one branch, [2] resulted in their difference with traditional Sikhs, though they were tolerated. [3]
Nagar Kirtan of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In Hinduism, Bengali saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu [3] propagated ideas of bhakti, or devotion to a personal God, through kirtan (collective recitation of hymns) and nagar kirtan (kirtan the in form of religious processions), [4] and is credited in the Vaishnava tradition with introduction of the custom. [5]
In 1979, Briggs performed Sikh religious music throughout northern India [29] and was the first non-Indian to perform kirtan at Harimandir Sahib (also called the Golden Temple of Amritsar), which was a very powerful religious moment for him. [1]
Guru Arjan is further credited with establishing the practice of there being five kirtan chaukīs (sittings) at the Harmandir Sahib shrine in Amritsar. [1] The five sittings of kirtan that were established by him are as follows: [1] early morning chaukī performance of the Asa ki Var [1] mid-morning chaukī performance of the Anand [1]
The reports of some immoral acts perpetrated at Tarn-Taran reached the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee at its meeting on 14 January 1921. A fortnight earlier a local jatha was beaten up and not allowed to perform kirtan at the gurdwara. It decided to send a jatha from Amritsar under Jathedar Teja Singh Bhuchar
Painting of kirtan in the Golden Temple of Amritsar Bhai Jawala Singh Ragi playing harmonium, Bhai Gurcharn Singh on Jori, and Bhai Avtar Singh on Taus at Gurdwara Dehra Sahib, Lahore, 1935. Kirtan (Gurmukhi: ਕੀਰਤਨ Kīratana) refers to devotional singing in Sikhism. [53] [54] It is typically performed at Gurdwaras (Sikh temples).
[36] [37] [38] Guru Arjan's son and successor Guru Hargobind fought a Battle at Amritsar and later left Amritsar and its surrounding areas in 1635 for Kiratpur. [39] [40] For about a century after the Golden Temple was occupied by the Minas. [39] In the 18th century, Guru Gobind Singh after creating the Khalsa sent Bhai Mani Singh to take back ...
Hola Mohalla (Gurmukhi: ਹੋਲਾ-ਮਹੱਲਾ hōlā muhalā), also called Hola, is a three-day long Sikh festival which normally falls in March. [2] [3] It takes place on the second day of the lunar month of Chett, usually a day after the Hindu spring festival Holi, but sometimes coincides with it.