The Guru readily offered to go with him.Īs dusk fell, the priests lighted the lamps and sumptuous ritual for which the devotees had been waiting began. The local chief whose name has been described, as Krishan Lal one day visited the Guru and invited him to join the aarti, or the evening service of lights, in the temple. The temple priests felt angry and held the Guru Ji guilty for not making adoration to the deity within the sacred enclosure. Several of them came to hear the Guru’s word. The notes from Bhai Mardana’s Rabaab (rebeck) touched the devotees’ hearts with fresh fervor. Guru Nanak Dev Ji and Bhai Mardana Ji stopped near the shrine upon which sat centuries of history mute and immobilized. Guru Nanak Dev Ji at Jagannath Puri Mandir.Īccording to the Janam Sakhis, Guru Nanak Dev Ji accompanied by Bhai Mardana Ji, stopped near the temple of Jagannath, which is dedicated to Hindu god Vishnu. In the Sikh faith, which totally rejects image-worship, there is no permission for this form of worship. This is also the name given to a Hindu ceremony which is a mode of ritual worship to please the deity. It is usually accompanied by the chanting of mantras. Derived from the Sanskriti language, Aarti (ਅਾਰਤੀ) means the light, or the vessel containing it, which is waved before an idol, generally in the clockwise direction.
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