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Gurdwara Sewa
Please view large... to see the deails of all the 3 photos. These photos have been taken in Hari Ke Pattan and Tarn Taran Gurdwara Amritsar, Punjab.
Also (though not a conscious decision), the people here belong to 3 different age groups performing 3 kinds of sewa.
Seva is a prominent part of Sikh religion. Illustrative models of voluntary service are organised for imparting training, in the Gurdwaras. Its simple forms are : sweeping and plastering the floors of the Gurdwara, serving water to or fanning the congregation, offering provisions to and rendering any, kind of service in the common kitchen-cum-eating house, dusting the shoes of the people visiting the Gurdwara, etc.
Guru Ka Langar : The philosophy behind the Langar (Guru's kitchen-cum-eating-house) is two-fold : to provide training to the Sikhs in voluntary service and to help banish all distinction of high and low, touchable and untouchable from the Sikhs' minds.
All human beings, high or low, and of any caste or colour may sit and eat in the Langar. No discrimination on grounds of the country of origin, colour, caste or religion must be made while making people sit in rows for eating. However, only Amritdhari Sikhs can eat off one plate.
www.sgpc.net/sikhism/other-rites.asp
Gurdwara Sewa
Please view large... to see the deails of all the 3 photos. These photos have been taken in Hari Ke Pattan and Tarn Taran Gurdwara Amritsar, Punjab.
Also (though not a conscious decision), the people here belong to 3 different age groups performing 3 kinds of sewa.
Seva is a prominent part of Sikh religion. Illustrative models of voluntary service are organised for imparting training, in the Gurdwaras. Its simple forms are : sweeping and plastering the floors of the Gurdwara, serving water to or fanning the congregation, offering provisions to and rendering any, kind of service in the common kitchen-cum-eating house, dusting the shoes of the people visiting the Gurdwara, etc.
Guru Ka Langar : The philosophy behind the Langar (Guru's kitchen-cum-eating-house) is two-fold : to provide training to the Sikhs in voluntary service and to help banish all distinction of high and low, touchable and untouchable from the Sikhs' minds.
All human beings, high or low, and of any caste or colour may sit and eat in the Langar. No discrimination on grounds of the country of origin, colour, caste or religion must be made while making people sit in rows for eating. However, only Amritdhari Sikhs can eat off one plate.
www.sgpc.net/sikhism/other-rites.asp