The Anand Kirraj Ceremony can be conducted in boy home or in Gurdwarain the presence of Sri Guru Gant Sahib. In Anand Karaj, four lavan’ (name of Hymns) are recited from Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh Holy Book), and with each Lavn’, the boy followed by the girl, circumambulate (goes around) Guru Granth Sahib. The marriage ceremony as propagated by the Singh Sabha resembled the Nirankari rather than the Namdhari version of the Anand marriage. The third and the most important attempt at the widespread propagation of the Anand form of marriage were made by the Singh Sabha movement. The second attempt was made by the Namdhari Guru Baba Ram Singh who also adopted the Anand ceremony, but with a major difference. The first serious attempt at the revival of the Anand marriage ceremony was made during the time of Ranjit Singh by Baba Dyal, founder of the Nirankari movement. Various Guru Bilas are in poetry and in language that is not quite easy to be followed by everyone. Varias Guru Bilas and most of the history do not properly dilate on the subject of Sikh marriage in old times. The anand marriage ceremony was initiated by the third Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Ram Das. The Sikh Marriage ceremony is called Anand Kiraj literally (anand means bliss and Kiraj means occasion or ceremony) “Blissful Occasion”. “They are not to be called husband and wife who only sit together rather they are husband and wife who have one spirit in two bodies”. The concept of Sikh Marriage is explained by Guru Amar Das, the third Guru of the Sikhs that marriage is an attempt of uniting the individual soul to the Universal Soul. They insisted that marriage is not merely a civil or social contract, but that its highest and most ideal purpose is to fuse two souls into one so that they may become spiritually inseparable. The Sikh Gurus had a very high regard for the state of marriage, and they themselves entered into matrimony. The real goal of marriage in Sikhism is union of both souls with Almighty Lord. It is a means to attain spirituality and not an end in itself. Marriage in Sikhism is regarded as a sacred bond of mutual help in attaining the heights of worldly life and spiritual bliss. Marriage is a spiritual identity, not just a love affair between two people. Marriage as more of a religious ritual than a social in east or legal affair like that in west and is considered a sacred institution in most cultures and religious traditions.
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