Sikh Holy Books are to be transported just as if they were the holy guru himself

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Sikh Holy Books Take a Sacred Flight to Canada

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/598186.cms

 

AMRITSAR INDIA, April 3, 2004: About 150 birs (books) of Sri Guru

Granth Sahib were airlifted from Amritsar to Canada on a chartered

plane. Jaswinder Singh Advocate of Akal Purakh Ki Fauj said that birs

would be received by Prime Minister of Canada and would be placed at a

Gurdwara before being transported to other Gurdwaras across North

America. He said the attempt would prove to be the platform for

transporting birs to other countries in future. Surjit Babra who came

from Canada said the old and tattered birs of Sri Guru Granth Sahib

would be replaced with these with full maryada (respect). He said

besides panj payara, two sewadars and 17 crewmembers were accompanying

the bir and the plane did not carry any cargo. In the Sikh tradition,

the Guru Granth, the holy scriptures of Sikhism, are to be transported

just as if they were the holy guru himself, hence each had its own seat

on the plane.