Vaisakhi Flashcards
When do Sikhs celebrate vaisakhi?
April 13th or 14th - one of the most important dates.
Where do Sikhs celebrate vaisakhi?
In the home.
In the Gurdwara.
In the local community.
How is Vaisakhi celebrated at home?
Starts with Ardas - personal prayer.
Meditation upon the name of God.
How is Vaisakhi celebrated at the Gurdwara?
The Sikh community attend Gurdwara.
The GGS is read in an akhand path.
Langars are held and open to wider public.
Amrit sanskar - initiation ceremony to become an amritdhari Sikh in the Gurdwara.
Covering of flag mast (chola) outside the Gurdwara will be changed.
The flag will be stripped of the old, dirty chola and and a new chola will be wrapped around it, washed with yogurt to purify it.
How is Vaisakhi celebrated in the local community?
Nagar Kirtan.
Parties and celebrations, wearing of new clothes.
Dances and celebrations.
Families get together.
Why do Sikhs celebrate vaisakhi?
Commemorate the year of 1699.
To indicate communities that are becoming more self confident in the lands they have settled in.
For spiritual renewal, purify your faith.
What is Nagar Kirtan?
Street processions led by the panj pyares which involves the singing of Sikh hymns, chanting of scripture and full reading of GGS (akhand path)
How do Sikhs celebrate vaisakhi overall?
Many Sikhs choose to be baptised into the Khalsa brotherhood.
Gurdwaras are decorated and visited.
Parades, dancing and singing throughout the day.
Nagar Kirtan.
What is the significance of Vaisakhi for Sikhs today?
Still one of the most important days in the Sikh calendar.
New year celebration and is celebrated on April 13 or 14. Still celebrate every year.
Commemorates 1699, the year Sikhism was born as a collective faith.
Is also and still a long established harvest festival in the Punjab.
Gives Sikhs a chance for spiritual renewal and to purify there faith.
What is vaisakhi?
One of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar.
It commemorates 1699, the year Sikhism was born as a collective faith.
It is a long established harvest festival in the Punjab.
It is usually the time when voting takes place in gurdwaras which have elected committees.
What was the quote from W. Owen Cole about Vaisakhi?
“Today Vaisakhi in Amritsar is a political, religious and social occasion.”
What are the two quotes from sikhiwiki about Vaisakhi?
“Vaisakhi was originally a harvest in the Punjab before it came the Sikhs most important festival.”
“People of the Punjab celebrate the festival of Vaisakhi with exuberance and devotion.
What was the quote from bbc.org about Vaisakhi?
“On Vaisakhi day all the Sikhs used to assemble at Amritsar and decide their problems relating to politics and religion. This convention still goes on today.”
