The Hola Mohalla fair was started by the great Guru Gobind Singh of Punjab for the Sikhs to practice military exercises. Mock battles are also held during the three-day course period.
Throughout this week, Sikh sovereignty is evident as the local government and police are mere onlookers guiding traffic or coordinating logistics
Guru Ji is trying to inspire us to have union with Supreme-Soul so that we can be eternally happy. Once, we have that happy feeling, then the ‘Chet’ will really be enjoyable and all the celebration will become worthwhile.
"He is perhaps the first environmentalist in South Asia who during his reign from 1644 to 1661 started and promoted herbal gardens and wild life refuge and exhorted Sikhs to care for nature," EcoSikh said.
The fine work of the EcoSikh organization (which also lead a campaign to plant gardens of trees in honor of the 550th incarnation remembrance of Guru Nanak) established a new Sikh holiday:
The poetic expression for the game in Punjabi for "Gur ka Noor Awaaz Banenda" is written with an artistic point of view by Harmanjeet Singh (Rani Tatt.)
I'm glad I got to say this today because it's the birth anniversary of our Guru Gobind Singh.
He felt that a divine soul had incarnated there. Not just a messenger of God, but that a part of the all merciful Allah Himself had taken the form of a human body.
Digital releasing of the first English documentary on Guru Nanak.