Sri Harminder Sahib (Golden Temple)
Day 2……
As I joined my cousin at 7.30am honestly I was too lazy to get up early but I wanted to shoot some pix at the sunrise, so had to be there at the same time we had an appointment with our White Surd Dude named Gurnam Singh. Well as promised he was there and we just joined him for breakfast to know more about him. As we started to know him we learnt he was a follower of Hari Bhajan, he was a yoga instructor more about him here. It was nearly 10 yrs and he had been Sikh and he says he never realized until the first 3 years, after three years and self realization he started to grow beard and stop cutting hair and he also gave up meat completely. He was so moved by then he was completely following the Sikh religion closely.
He also enlightened us how others were accepting Sikhism and how they felt being a Sikh, while he had been here for a month he was learning Gurumukhi and how to recite prayers in Punjabi, he was also living a life like a monk, he wakes up early lives in the community living provided by the gurudwara, takes a cold bath and he recites all the daily prayers sitting around on the sarovar area of the complex of Sri Harminder Sahib. Well over the breakfast we had known so much about him and other White Surd from both sexes who were there in Amritsar itself. We had seen couple of them last night and the mystery was solved by Gurnaam Singh, he told us that there was an institution which was providing education and shelter for the white surds, as proof we took a picture of our self with Gurnaam, and a few others.
As our rendezvous with Gurnaam was coming to an end so was our breakfast by now we all had shared a spiritual experience and it was about time to take small walk back towards the market and Jallianwala Baug. We had our moments at the Jallianwala baug but that I shall be adding on a different post. As we had been long enough at Jallianwala, we had to rush thru our shopping, we had a flight to catch at 2.00 PM, and it was already 11.45 am in our watches and we realized our transport shall be at our hotel at 12.00, we still were sticking to plans, it was one last time we wanted to go in and share a prayer and be blessed before we leave Amritsar.
As we rushed to give our shoes and collect our token, we ran back to the gates ran across the steps up and got down on the other end, we were a bit disappointed as the queue was long to get in we had to settle to bow our heads in front of the Temple @ the sarovar, we still didn’t give it up on the last few minutes of photography, it was now more random and more or less just point and shoot at everything in our sights. We had taken so much back from here which is hard to explain in words, as we rushed back to our hotel our transport was behind us.
We were now on our way back to airport and still we could not believe our stay at Amritsar was over, we still were so mesmerized and so looking forward to be back. We were now at the outskirts and the fields and green patches which was a rare scene back in Mumbai was keeping my eyes glued to the window, with thoughts running through my head. Finally we made it to the airport and the next thing I knew we were flying back to Delhi for our connecting flight to Mumbai.
We by now were feeling so exhausted and were looking forward to be at home and we were so anxious to look at the pictures we had taken on a huge screen and we knew it’s going to be a task as we had 2 camera’s at work and tones of pictures to look at.
Well that’s from our trip to Sri Harminder Sahib, Amritsar. If anyone wants more information on how to go, where to stay is welcome to drop a line I shall be more than glad to respond.
