WAHE GURU DE KHALSA, WAHE
GURU DI FATEH!
Was all I heard as I entered the Sikh community, from the starting
point and to when and where Jhera started, all serene and non polluted, where
air was untouched and cool breezes surrounding everyone all over. There was a
pinch of positivity in all over, the people all around were very cooperative
and helped us through our way to Nanak Jhera. The people around were very
curious to know about us, they were willingly ready to start a conversation
with us.
We met two brothers Baljeet and Daljeet Singh, who told us about the
story of how this Jhera came into existence and how Guru Nanak played his role
in all of this.
People here call Guru Nanak as – Guru Nanak Ji.
Some 504 years ago, Guru Nanak Dev ji came to Bidar because there were
a lot of water problems. Water in Bidar was the hard water, and there was no
sweet water for people to drink. This day to day problem became one of the major
problems in and of Bidar. It is said that Guru Nanak Ji went on four world
tours to enlighten people about the almighty. During his second tour to Deccan
from Sulatanpur(Punjab) he reached Bidar via Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and
Maharashtra. People in Bidar who came to take his blessings shared their water
problems with him , Bidar water at that time was salty and hence it was not
eligible to drink. Guru Nanak ji then he said Satkarta then touched the hillock
with his right foot, and a spring of sweet water started flowing from this place, and
since then its still flowing continiously till the date. People all over Bidar
come to take drinking water from here.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji then sowed the seeds of sikhism during 1699 when he
also created the Khalsa Panth the fifth beloved (pyara). Bhai Saheb Singh ji
came from Nanded to Bidar and offered himself to the 10th Guru
Keshgam Anonupur Saheb.
But there are a lot of controversial things to the history of jheera
which were put into the light by unkown. It is said that Guru Singh Saheb came
to bidar after the Kharez water system was built. So it is claimed by the
unkown that when Guru Nanak ji touched the hillock, he might have accidently
opened a gap to the kharees canal, due to which the water broke out.
But we don’t know what exactly it was. This was all the information we
collected and got by having conversation’s with people in the Jhera.
No comments:
Post a Comment