Miri Piri Diwas
Report on the celebration of Miri Piri Diwas
“Miri” and “Piri” symbolize the Temporal and Spiritual powers of an authority. In Sikh history, these two
words are associated with the ceremony of succession to guruship pertaining to Guru Hargobind (sixth
Guru of the Sikhs). As most historians have written that the fifth Guru (Arjan Dev) during his captivity
concentrated on God and sought divine light and guidance to save the nascent religion from
annihilation. It is said that the only solution revealed to him was to guard it with the aid of arms. Thus,
he sent to his eleven-year-old son and successor, Hargobind a ‘bel fruit (Wood apple or Aegle marmelos)
with five paise as a token of his nomination with his last injunction through a Sikh “Let him sit fully
armed on his throne and maintain an army to the best of his ability” (Macauliffe-III-99).
On this special and historical day our academy recited the Shri Sukhmani Sahib Ji path on 16th July 2024.
The students of grade VI recited the path which was followed by the shabad kirtan by the students of
grade V. The ardaas was done by our music teacher Ms Rupinder Kaur.After the karha prashad was
distributed among all.
