Golden Temple Guru Ki Nagri
Welcome to the city of Guru ki Nagri, Shri Amritsar Sahib
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I travel to Punjab in the month of January via train which took 24 hours to reach which is less as compared to a road trip which takes more than a 31-hour of a Non-Stop drive. Traveling by train was a pretty good idea because me reach early in the morning so we can explore as much as we can.
We were going to start our day in Amritsar by paying obeisance at Shri Darbar Sahib & eating the Langar. Before starting the Blog let me share some historical fact with you guys Amritsar city was founded in 1574 by the fourth Sikh Guru, Guru Ram Das, in 1577, Guru Ram Das initiated the digging work for the Amrit Sarovar (pond), And in 1586, the task was completed by Guru Arjun Dev. In the year of 1604, Guru Arjan Dev placed a copy of Guru Granth Sahib in Harmandir Sahib also known as the Golden temple. Shri Darbar Sahib has four doors in four different directions, which symbolize that any person, belonging to any cast, creed, or religion, is welcome here all the time.
The first place we visited in Amritsar was “The Jallianwala Bagh” which is, located about 200 meters from the Golden Temple. We all have studied in our history lesson about Jallianwala Bagh and the Brutality of General Dyer, under the British rule over India. As an Indian, I can imagine the pain our peoples were faced on that day.
Jallianwala Bagh is a historic public park, spread over 6–7 acres. On April 13, 1919, on the occasion of Baisakhi, thousands of people have assembled at this park, for a peaceful protest to condemn the Rowlatt Act. There were many families, including children, who had come to celebrate Baisakhi at the park. For your information, under the Rowlatt Act, the British Government was authorized to arrest anyone without an arrest warrant and keep him imprisoned for up to 2 years, not giving the person a chance for a trial or a chance to prove his innocence.
On Dyer’s orders, his troops fired on the crowd, targeting those trying to flee. It is also said 1650 rounds of bullets were fired in about 15 minutes. More than a 1000 people were killed and more than 1500 were injured. One of the walls in the park still showcases 28 bullet marks of that fateful day.
There was only one way out of the Jallianwala Bagh, which was blocked with a tank, thus not allowing anyone to escape the attack. A lot of people tried to escape the bullets by jumping into a well in the park, which is today known as the ‘Martyrs’ Well.’
In the Martyrs’ Gallery in the park, you can see a painting that depicts the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The gallery also contains information about other freedom fighters and their life stories. We could not cover much of it because the gallery in the park stays open till 5 o’clock. So, we move forward towards Golden Temple.
As we enter the compound of the temple, the Sarovar (Pond) attracts us, from far and you can see the beautiful view of Golden Temple, middle of a pond covered with around 750 kg of gold and a long queue of Devotees to enter inside the sanctum at Sarovar people/Devotees, come here especially to take a dip in the holy pond. It is believed that a dip in the holy pond cures all ailments and grants inner peace of mind and body.
One thing you have to keep in mind that you can’t take pictures and videos once you enter in, rather than the traditional pose as you can see in the images. The darbaar or people of the temple will delete all the images from your phone or camera and that’s how I lost all my Jallianwala Bagh images.
Few movements later we join the queues and spend a long hour of chit chat with my friends and Locals peoples about exploring the places in Amritsar, he suggested me to visit the Partition Museum unfortunately, it was closed, so he tells me the thing about it until we take the Darshan of Sahab.
After Darshan we moved to have Langar in the world’s largest kitchen there are lots of restaurants and stall in premised of Golden temple, but it doesn’t match the taste of langar and its open 24 hour a day with a help of volunteers who helps by giving their time if anyone asked me which is the best restaurant in Amritsar my answer is the golden temple langar is the best the food is priceless.
Later on, we do some shopping around and go back to the hotel to have some rest because the next day, we were going to Waga Border.
