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  Guru Arjan Dev
Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji was born on 15 April 1563 to Mata Bhani and Guru Ramdas Ji in Goindwal.
The religious prejudices and political suspicions of Jehangir, the intrigues of the Lahore rulers and the conspiracies of Prithi Chand, Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi, Meharban and Chandu caused Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji’s martyrdom.
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 The Sikhism Home Page: Guru Arjan Dev
Guru Arjan Dev was the youngest son of Guru Ram Das and Mata Bhani.
Guru Arjan Dev exclaimed; "My faith is for the people of all castes and all creeds from whichever direction they come and to whichever direction they bow." To help raise money for these monumental public works projects, the Guru declared that all Sikhs should donate 1/10th of their earnings to charity.
Guru Arjan asked the Emperor to instead exempt the people of Punjab from the annual land revenue that year since their was a severe drought.
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 Sikh Martyrs - Guru Arjan Dev Ji
Guru Arjan Dev Ji Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji Bhai Mati Das Ji Bhai Sati Das Ji Bhai Dyal Das Ji Shaheed Guru Arjan Dev Ji Guru Arjan Dev was the fifth Guru of the Sikhs.
Guru Arjan took up his duties as the fifth Guru in April 1563 A.D. At that time Akbar was the Emperor of India.
Guru Arjan Dev was martyred in May 1606, that is, seven months after Jahangir came to the throne.
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 Guru Arjan Sahib Ji, Fifth Sikh Guru, 5th guru, Panjvi Patshahi, Guru Arjun Dev Jee, Sahib Shri Guru Arjan Dev Ji, The ...
Guru Arjan Sahib, the youngest son of Guru Ramdas Sahib and Mata Bhani Ji was born at Goindwal Sahib on Vaisakh Vadi 7th, (19th Vaisakh) Samvat 1620 (April 15,1563).
During the period of Guru Arjan Sahib the Amritsar city became the central institution where all the Sikhs used to gather annually on Baisakhi and the Massands began to deposit the collected offerings from the different parts of India in Guru Sahib's treasury.
Guru Arjan Sahib was arrested and brought to Lahore where he was charge-sheeted and implicated in the false cases.
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 Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji :Page :SearchGurbani.com
Guru Granth was composed in poetry perhaps to both prevent alterations or adulterations, and to reach out to human heart.
The Gurus were keen lovers of nature and as such, have written glowing descriptions of panoramic environmental beauty, changes in the times of day, and the changes of seasons to inculcate love for the One Creator.
Obviously, the idea of Guru Arjan Dev was to celebrate the diversity in all religions and mystic experiences, and, at the same time, establish the fundamental unity of spirituality and faith through the scripture of Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
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 BBC - Gloucestershire Faith - The Guru's Martyrdom
Guru Arjan Dev was martyred on May 30 1606 on the banks of river Ravi.
On June 16, the martyrdom of 16th century Sikh Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru of Sikhism, is observed by members of the Sikh faith worldwide.
Guru Arjan Dev was the fifth Sikh Guru and the first Sikh martyr.
www.bbc.co.uk /gloucestershire/faith/2004/05/guru_arjan_dev.shtml   (616 words)

  
 Guru Arjan - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
Guru Arjan Dev Ji (15 April 1563 - 30 May 1606) was the fifth of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism and became Guru on 1 September 1581 following in the footsteps of Guru Ram Das ji.
Even though Guru Arjan was consecrated as the fifth Guru by his father himself, before he left for his heavenly abode, he showed no resentment to his elder brother and inundated him with reverence and honour.
In Guru Angad's days the professional bards, Satta and Balwand by name, who sang the hymns at the Guru’s Darbar had started to believe that their excellence as musicians and singers was responsible for their Guru's popularity.
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 Guru Arjan - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
Baba Prithi Chand ji, Baba Mahan Dev Ji
Guru Arjan Dev Ji was born on April 15, 1563, in the house of Guru Ram Das, the fourth Guru.
Guru Arjan Dev Ji was a born apostle of peace.
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 Guru Arjan Dev
It is a clear testimony of the fact that the Guru took this vital step to emphasise that their message and mission were prophetic.
Guru Arjan was moved at the 13 years old Prince and gave him help with money and shelter.
The Fifth and the Sixth Gurus had done nothing beyond the extension and development of the foundations laid and the organisation built by Guru Nanak.
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 Sri Guru Arjan Dev ji
The Guru has talked of a school, an institute, a workshop, a mint, in fact a university where human life is prepared, mended, erected so that man may achieve the most needed purposeful and successful cherished aim of life.
Simplicity and kindness of Guru Arjan and sincerity and devotion of the wise leading Sikhs and the Sikhs in general proved the futility of the enmity of Prithi Chand against the Guru.
The Guru was boiled in hot water, asked to sit on a red hot iron plate with fire underneath and sprinkling hot sand over his body and thus he gave away his life in the waters of river Raavi (now in Pakistan) in the year 1606 AD.
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 Guru Arjan Dev (Makers of Indian Literature)
Guru Arjan Dev (1563 - 1606), the third and youngest son of Guru Ram Das and the fifth Guru of the Sikhs is the author of a considerable part of the Gurubani or poetry in the Guru Granth Sahib.
The general tone of Guru Arjan's writing is that of saintly devotion to God and simple but meaningful teaching of the deity and virtuous living.
Guru Arjan made use of all metres known to Indian prosody but he never sacrificed the clarity of his idea, the vibrance of his emotion or the lyricality of his note up to make his verse conform strictly to the rules of a confined metre.
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Guru Arjan Dev also purchased some land near Jullundur and laid the foundations of a new township called Kartarpur and a well called Ganga Sagar.
Guru Arjan Dev dictated that the Pothi Sahib could be open to reading by anyone of any caste, creed or sex.
Guru Arjan Dev was tortured to death at the instance of Emperor Jehangir on the charges that the Pothi Sahib was blasphemous to both Hinduism and Islam.
www.culturopedia.com /Religions/sikhguru-guruarjandev.html   (321 words)

  
 Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji Arjan Dev was born to Guru Ram Das and Mata Bhani on April 15, 1563 at Goindwal in a District of Amritsar.
The parting message of Guru Arjan Dev to his son Hargobind was : "Not to mourn or indulge in unmanly lamentations, but to sing God's praises.
Guru Arjan Dev nominated his son, Hargobind as the sixth Guru of the Sikhs.
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 Thai Sikh Organization :: Sikh Gurus - Guru Arjan Dev Ji ::
Guru Arjan Dev, the youngest son of Guru Ram Das and Mata Bhani, was born at Goindwal in 1563.
Guru Arjan Dev collected all the hymns of Guru Nanak Dev Ji and the other Gurus before him and also of several other saints and compiled them into the holy book with the help of Bhai Gurdas, a scholar and poet.
Guru Arjan pitched a tent by the side of Ramsar tank and started the arduous task of compiling the first edition of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib.
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 Guru Arjan Dev Ji   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guru Arjan Dev was born on April 15th 1563 AD at Goindval in Dist. Amritsar, Punjab.
Guru Arjan Dev composed his Sukhmani Sahib from 1601 to 1604 in whch he describes the essence of true life, the union of one's soul with the Supreme Being and the importance of the Guru and saintly people in one's life.
Guru Arjan led an exemplary life of service to humanity, above he is depicted personally attending to lepers even abandoned by their own families.
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 Guru Arjan Dev Ji
Guru Arjan Dev Ji Guru Arjan Dev Ji Guru Arjan Dev Ji was the fifth Guru of the Sikhs and he was also God in the form of a human.
Guru Ji collected all the hymns of his predecessors along with some Hindu and Muslim hymns and compiled the Adi Granth, which is called Guru Granth Sahib Ji today.
Guru Ji was martyred by being tortured for five straight days upon the orders of Emperor Jahangir because of his beliefs and teachings.
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 Vaaran Bhai Gurdas :VaarPauri:SearchGurbani.com
He also had the opportunity to be the scribe of Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, the holiest Sikh scripture that was compiled by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh Guru, in 1604.
Bhai Gurdas was the cousin brother of Mata Bhani, the mother of Guru Arjan Dev Ji.
Guru Arjan Dev was martyred as per orders of emperor Jahangir on May 30, 1606.
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 The Sikhism Home Page: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Guru Arjan Dev now pitched a tent by the side of Ramsar tank in Amritsar and started the arduous task of compiling the first edition of the Holy Guru Granth Sahib.
Guru Arjan Dev gave this copy of the Granth Sahib to Bhai Banno one of his disciples to take to Lahore for binding.
While at Talwandi Sabo (known as Damdama Sahib today) Guru Gobind Singh undertook to prepare a new edition of the Granth Sahib including in it all of the hymns appearing in the original edition as well as the hymns of his late father, the Ninth Master Guru Tegh Bahadur.
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 GURU ARJAN DEV
Guru Arjan was born in Goindwal, a small town in Amritsar district, on April 15, 1563.
Guru Arjan was married to Ganga, daughter of Krishen Chand, a resident of Meo village near Phillaur in Jalandhar district.
The Guru replied, "The welfare and happiness of monarchs depend on cherishing their subjects and doing justice." The Guru then stated that there was a severe famine in the land and cultivators required some consideration.
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 Sacred Martayrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji
During the rein of Guru Arjan, crowds were converted to Sikhism in Punjab and in various other parts of India and even in the neighboring countries.
The Guru's reply did not sooth Jahangir's feelings and he ordered him to pay two lakhs of rupees (two hundred thousand rupees), and also to erase the hymns in his Granth which were opposed to the Hindu and Muslim religions.
Guru Arjan was made to sit on the red hot iron pan and burning sand was poured over his bare body.
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 Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the Apostle of Peace - Martyrdom   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Prithi Chand, the elder brother of Arjan Dev, who had earlier unsuccessfully contested the Guruship and Chandu Lal, the Diwan of Lahore, to whose daughter the Guru had refused to betroth his son, exploited the situation and exaggerated the pad played by the Guru in inciting Khasrau's revolt.
Emperor Akhbar was a friend of Guru Amar Das and he had also met Guru Arjan Dev and at the latter's request remitted 12 per cent land revenue of the Punjab but none of the Gurus honoured him with a mark.
Guru Arjan Dev's martyrdom was thus a test case to prove that the Emperor kept his solemn promise of acting as the defender of Islam.
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 The Hindu : Kerala / Kochi News : Guru Arjan Dev remembered
KOCHI: Sikhs in Kochi gathered at the Gurudwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha on Sunday to remember Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth guru, and the first guru to become a martyr.
The teachings of the Gurus were highlighted at the function held on Sunday.
Guru Arjan Dev, who compiled the Adi Granth or he Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture comprising the teachings of the Sikh gurus as well as Hindu and Muslim saints, was tortured to death.
www.hindu.com /2006/06/19/stories/2006061900920200.htm   (262 words)

  
 Sikh Videos - Melodious Gurbani Kirtan
Guru Arjan was burning in fire for the sake of the burning world.
Guru Nanak, the Fifth sat on fire because the world was on fire.
Guru Granth Te Ghol Ghumaya Apna Jeevan Sara - Bal Leela Baba Nand Singh Ji Vich Bani Amrit Sare - Tribute on Tercentenary GurGaddi Diwas of Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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 Gurmat Sangeet Project
Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s use of music as a medium for his message had a lasting and far reaching impact on the practice and traditions of the new faith that he created.
Guru Arjan’s contribution towards the compilation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib as well as the richness of his own compositions, in 30 ragas, is well known.
Guru Arjan led by example; it is believed that he started the practice of singing the complete Asa Di Var, as it appears in its present form not just by professional Rababis but by the common Sangat.
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 A Gateway to Sikhism
Guru Arjan sent for Bhai Bahilo and uttered, Bhai Bahilo, the first and the foremost.
Guru Ji said, Whoever has done service everyday by remaining modest and keeping his low profile.
Guru Arjan honoured Bhai Banno by placing the first platter of the feast before him.
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 Dhan Guru Arjan Dev Ji, Fifth Sikh Guru
The child Arjan was equally blessed as the progeny of Bibi Bhani, known for her piety, service and humility and Jetha Ji who was subsequently hailed as Guru Ram Das, the Fourth Guru, in recognition to his devotion and commitment to Sikh religion.
TEACHINGS OF GURU ARJAN DEV JI The important teachings of the Sikh Gurus that were followed zealously were SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT from the then prevalent religious practices of dominant religions in India.
As caste system was abolished amongst the followers of the Gurus, literacy for all was advocated.
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