The Guru Granth Sahib is the anthology of prayers and hymns that constitute Sikh scriptures, and they contain actual words and verses uttered by the Sikh Gurus themselves. It is a storehouse of spiritual knowledge and teachings that stress meditation in the name of God in order to become a ‘person of truth’.
This day commemorates the first parkash (‘opening ceremony’) of the Guru Granth Sahib at the newly built Golden Temple inAmritsar, India, in 1604.