Pray Together, Eat Together

The tenth master of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, took forward Guru Nanak's lessons and the sky is the limit from there, composes AMARDEEP S DAHIYA 

Valuing the requirement for a feeling of solidarity and attachment among his youngster group keeping in mind the end goal to give them a feeling of personality and quality, Guru Nanak presented the organization of sangat and langar in the act of Sikhism. The sangat was an assemblage of his followers, meeting up first every night and on exceptionally assigned celebrations and afterward later every morning and night. By asking together and partaking in the kirtan the followers got a sentiment having a place with a similar group. A familial holding was made among the devotees of the new confidence, particularly like the holding that occurred among Christians when they went to chapel, Muslims when they said their namaz in a mosque and Hindus when they congregated in sanctuaries for group customs like the aarti. Be that as it may, Guru Nanak's… sangat was interested in all, independent of position, statement of faith or sex.… Guru Nanak had additionally presented, though in a casual way, the organization of langar or group kitchen. 

Every one of his supporters sat together paying little mind to position or belief and shared of the same meal.The organization of langar emphasised,more than whatever else, the solidarity of the assembly. In eating together his pupils abandoned them all partiality of rank and religion and got to be distinctly one group. Master Gobind Singh was an awesome supporter of both these foundations and gave them both an extra measurement. 

The motivation behind the sangat was stretched out to go past the public petition meeting that Guru Nanak had imagined it to be. Master Gobind Singh now utilized the meeting of the sangat to talk about matters other than religious, which influenced the group both exclusively and collectively.This provided for the assemblage the feel of a darbar where grievances were reviewed and debate settled and the master took upon himself, not just the part of an educator and a mainstream pioneer additionally that of a judge and an arbitrator.The establishment of the langar turned out to be more formalized and organized. Master Gobind Singh went above and beyond and lectured that every one of his followers ought to, keep an open langar in their homes, to the degree that it was monetarily possible for them to do. Max Arthur Macauliffe relates an intriguing story which draws out the significance that Guru Gobind Singh appended to this one of a kind institution.... One night the guru,assuming an astute camouflage, went to his own particular kitchen and requested food.The cooks taking him to be a meandering homeless person put him off with one reason or the other. One said that the supplications were not yet over and he couldn't be served food.Another said that the master had not been served thus nobody else could be served. 

Regardless of how unequivocally the 'stranger'urged that he was ravenous and in desperate need of support, the cooks discovered some guise or the other not to sustain. The master next went to Nand Lal's home and asked for sustenance. 'My supper has not yet been cooked so I can't give you any sustenance that you can eat. Yet, I will give you the fortitude to cook a supper and encourage yourself.' Then he delivered flour, vegetables, lentils, salt and illuminated margarine and gave them to the panhandler. The following day when the sangat met the master portrayed his encounters. His cooks overcome by disgrace, asked for forgiveness.The master gave orders that his kitchen entryway should dependably stay open and all who went to their entryways must get nourishment, regardless of whether crude or cooked, with no reason. He lectured the accompanying sermon to the gathering. 'There is nothing equivalent to the bestowal of sustenance. Blest is the man who giveth to the truly eager. Let nobody settle a period for the activity of this temperance. It is not important to consider whether it is night or day,evening or morning, regardless of whether the moon is dull or full, or if there is a specific commemoration. Nor is it important to consider what the social position of the candidate may be.Avoid all postponement in such a matter.Charity is of all endowments the best, for it saveth life.' 

The langar was run totally through the endeavors of the lovers. It was the fans who profited and sustenance — it was the lovers who cooked and served the nourishment and it was the aficionados who performed humble assignments like the washing of the utensils and the cleaning of the kitchen. Along these lines, the langar came to fill a need a long ways past an endeavor to break the boundaries of standing and creed.The langar educated the Sikh enthusiasts the pride of work and the estimation of benevolent support of the group. These comparative floods of believed that gone through the lessons of Guru Nanak and Guru Gobind Singh bolster the Sikh convention that the soul, which showed itself in the groups of the ten masters was the same spirit.... Master Nanak demonstrated his teaches a way that they should follow keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish individual salvation.He lectured that all men ought to be great. He said that God cherished His holy people and every one of the individuals who had ethical existences. Master Nanak lectured that we should dependably do right and never waver to raise our voices against what we see to be wrong.... Master Gobind Singh lectured that ought to all men be great as well as keeping in mind the end goal to stay great they should pulverize fiendish. He said that god did, surely, adore every one of His holy people and all men who lived good,saintly lives,but He additionally rebuffed all practitioners of shrewdness. Master Gobind Singh said that not exclusively should we generally make the wisest decision and raise our voices against wrong, however we should likewise secure the individuals who were doing well regardless of the possibility that we needed to depend on viciousness to do as such. 'At the point when the sum total of what roads have been investigated, all methods attempted, it is legitimate to draw the sword out of the casing and employ it with your hand.'