President Obama to Visit Punjab Sikh Shrine, The Golden Temple in Amritsar
Posted: Sunday, September 19, 2010
by Gaurav Virk
Human Rghts Online
In 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Sikh temple, the Golden Temple in Punjab, India, and was surprised to see the Sikh temple is covered with real gold. Premier of South Australia Mike Rann, his wife Sasha Carruozzo visited the Sikh temple, the Golden Temple on September, 2010 and shared a vegetarian meal, known as' langar at the community kitchen. Now, November 2010 Visit U.S. President Barack Obama, India with a visit to the temple of the Sikhs revered Golden Amritsar Punjab.
Sikh community in Punjab is prosperous and mobile is one of the largest communities in India who have migrated and settled in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia. Recently, Amardeep Singh, a Sikh dedicated and co-founder and program director of the Sikh Coalition, the largest Sikh organization Human Rights in the U.S. were taken to the Advisory Committee of the White House. Amardeep work also led to the formulation of regulations protecting the 1.1 million New York City public school students through harassment in schools. Obama has many followers in the United States that respect for the Sikh faith, Sikh philosophy, especially true name of God (Onkar). Recently, he showed kindness to the Sikh faith by organizing a large demonstration at the White House celebrating the first anniversary of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith. His plan to visit the Golden Temple and all are seen as a gesture of goodwill towards the Sikhs, who form a powerful economic and political community in the U.S. Furthermore, Amritsar is at the border with Pakistan and it will be a strong message from the President to all of South Asia by visiting Amritsar, 10 km from the border with Pakistan.
What is a Sikh in Punjab Amritsar and the Golden Temple?
Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar in Punjab is on the outskirts of Pakistan's border and about 20 km from Lahore in Pakistan and is the famous pilgrimage site in the Sikh world. Golden Temple is located in the city of Amritsar, which was established by Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru and is known as the guru of the Sikh city. The Golden Temple is considered holy by Sikhs because the eternal guru of Sikhs, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, is always present inside of him and his construction was mainly intended to build a place of worship for men and women of all backgrounds and all religions to come and worship God's unity. The Guru Granth - Sahib is the holiest literature in the Sikh community. Sikh Golden Temple is loved and respected by Hindus and also Muslims and Punjabi-speaking majority, the people of Pakistani Punjab. Current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India is Sikh and his hometown Amritsar in Punjab.
What is the Sikh faith?
Sikh faith was founded in the 15th century in Punjab on the teachings of Guru Nanak and is the fifth organized religion in the world. He pledged to pursue peace by accepting human rights of all human beings, personal meditation on the name and message of God (Onkar). It gives equal rights to women, and not to worship idols, as Hindu. His temple is open to people of all religions, and vegetarian meals shared services, medicine and shelter to all visitors. It proposes a meditation center shared singing spiritual music in the name of the true God (Onkar). The most authentic text of the Sikh faith is in Punjabi. If you want to understand the Sikh faith base, free books in English is available at http://www.heavenlygardens.org/Onkar/indexonkar.htm
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Top-level comments on this article: (9 total)Do you really reply to your commenter's.Anyways, another very good article which I enjoyed.CP
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What an appropriate temple for Barack Obama to visit. This will surely be a momentous occasion.
Interesting, Gaurav. I wasn't aware that President Obama was going to visit Punjab.Years ago I used to record weddings videos for the Punjabi community in San Antonio, Texas. They were the most delightful people, and they always insisted that I stayed around for the feast afterwards.
With respect, welcome to comments of Jennifer Stewart.--------------Thank you for visiting Fran Larson. There is much literature of the Sikh religion on the Internet, but it is in Punjabi which is the basic language of Sikhs. If you want basic understanding of the Sikh faith, I gave an A Refrence free book of 100 pages in English that is available on the Internet.-----------I Feel Honoured To Have comments from Bruce Horst. Thank you sir.
Interesting article Gaurav, thanks for sharing.
Welcome your visit and comments sir, David Tanguay.
Always nice to learn about things we do not often hear about here in the U.S. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Sir,David Levitt. If you want to see the image Of Golden temple and what it is, Where President Obama intend to visit , I suggest to visit its website. 90% Sikh live in Punjab of India and farming is their main profession. 70% food requirement of wheat and rice requirement of 1200 million people are produced by them .Partnership on Agriculture and its storage is one of Agenda during visit of President Obama
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