{"id":1523,"date":"2023-04-10T17:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2023-04-14T06:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T06:16:21","slug":"vaisakhi-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/vaisakhi-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaisakhi Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1523\" class=\"elementor elementor-1523\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ad1412d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ad1412d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e8ed327\" data-id=\"e8ed327\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75c2e4d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"75c2e4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Arambh (commencement) of Sri Akhand Paath Sahib will be on 14 April 2023 and Bhog will be on 16 April 2023 (morning) followed by Nishan Sahib Sewa and Kirtan \/ Katha. See program…<\/p><p><strong>Happy Vaisakhi!<\/strong><\/p><p>The birth of the Khalsa, whereby 5 men stood up, ready to give their heads to show their belief and faith in their Guru.\u00a0<\/p><p>The year was 1699.<\/p><p>The first to heed the call was <strong>Bhai Daya Singh<\/strong>, whose name signifies the fact that the start of Dharma (religion) is with Daya (compassion).<\/p><p>Second, it was <strong>Bhai Dharam Singh<\/strong>; reinforcing the fact that where there is Daya, there is Dharma too.<\/p><p>Next came <strong>Bhai Himmat Singh<\/strong>, teaching us that where Daya and Dharma are present, Himmat (courage, valor) can\u2019t be absent from there.<\/p><p>Fourth, <strong>Bhai Mohkam Singh<\/strong>; signifying that when Daya, Dharma, and Himmat all mingle, they become Mohkam (a Farsi word meaning very strong, determined).<\/p><p>The last Pyara was <strong>Bhai Sahib Singh<\/strong> and his name and inclusion symbolizes that where there is Daya, Dharma, Himmat and Mohkam, there is Sahib (meaning Master i.e. Waheguru).<\/p><p>After they had accepted Amrit, Guru Gobind Singh Ji took his turn – showing the importance of Amrit in the life of a Sikh. We are given a unique identity so that we can stand out from the crowd and not cower when confronted with adversity.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f4941db\" data-id=\"f4941db\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-734a99c elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"734a99c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-gsy-vaisakhi.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1742\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-gsy-vaisakhi.jpg 577w, https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2023-gsy-vaisakhi-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arambh (commencement) of Sri Akhand Paath Sahib will be on 14 April 2023 and Bhog will be on 16 April 2023 (morning) followed by Nishan Sahib Sewa and Kirtan \/ Katha. See program… Happy Vaisakhi! The birth of the Khalsa, whereby 5 men stood up, ready to give their heads to show their belief and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsy.org.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}