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In search of Good Food-Visit to Amritsar,Part-1


posted on 1st of may, 2012
We required divine intervention to continue ahead with the blog, and what better place than Amritsar.
Amritsar:the spiritual capital of the Sikhs and gained its name, meaning "Holy Pool of Nectar", from the body of water around the Golden Temple.
We start our journey for search of good food with a visit to the golden temple(Harmindir Sahib). So in this part we will cover the visit to the Golden temple and continue with the places known in Amritsar for excellent mouth watering food.

The Golden temple is open all around the year,365 days and for 24 hrs. You may visit the complex at any time of the day/night, however, there is a ceremony at sunrise and sunset,so 'darshan' is stopped at that time. The morning ceremony (Palki Sawari) is around 4.30 am and the evening one (Samapti)...

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Comments (3)

Posted by Gauravmasand on May 02, 2012
Thanks Egomezta and Halilin :-)
Posted by Egomezta on May 02, 2012
Great images, that place looks very beautiful.
Posted by Halilin on May 01, 2012
cong:) Thanks for the information...



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In search of Good Food-Visit to Amritsar,Part-2


posted on 6th of may, 2012
For the first part, pls visit this link.

With these words, we enter the community kitchen(langar) at the Golden temple complex,Amritsar,Punjab,India.


The Lord himself is the farm Himself is the farmer Himself he grows and grinds the corn
Himself he cooks Himself he places in on a platter And Himself he eats too
Himself is the water Himself the toothpick Himself he offers a handful of water
Himself he calls the men to eat Himself he bids them off
The Lord is merciful He makes him walk in his will

Guru Amar Das created the community kitchen during his time as the third Sikh guru in the 16th century. Its purpose, he said, was to place all of humanity on the same plane.As...

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Posted by Picstudio on May 07, 2012
great pics!
Posted by Egomezta on May 07, 2012
Your images are great, good luck. Great trip.



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