{"id":196849,"date":"2022-07-22T19:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=196849"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:56:36","slug":"explained-the-kali-bein-and-its-significance-for-sikhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-kali-bein-and-its-significance-for-sikhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: The Kali Bein and its significance for Sikhs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cExplained: The Kali Bein and its significance for Sikhs\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 22nd July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punjab Chief Minister has been admitted to Delhi\u2019s Apollo Hospital days after he had drunk a glass of water directly from the Kali Bein.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Kali Bein?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kali Bein is a holy rivulet (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a small stream) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Sultanpur Lodhi, Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rivulet starts from Hoshiarpur, runs across four districts and meets the confluence of the rivers Beas and Sutlej in Kapurthala.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along its banks are around 80 villages and half a dozen small and big towns. Wastewater from there as well as industrial waste used to flow into the rivulet via a drain turning its waters black, hence the name Kali Bein(black rivulet).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the significance of Kali Bein to the Sikh religion?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kali Bein is of great significance to Sikh religion and history because the first Guru, Nanak Dev, is said to have gotten enlightenment here.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Guru Nanak Dev was staying at Sultanpur Lodhi with his sister Bebe Nanki, he would bath in the Kali Bein. He is said to have disappeared into the waters one day, before emerging on the third day. The first thing he recited was the \u201cMool Mantra\u201d of the Sikh religion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cExplained: The Kali Bein and its significance for Sikhs\u201d published in Indian Express on 22nd July 2022. What is the News? Punjab Chief Minister has been admitted to Delhi\u2019s Apollo Hospital days after he had drunk a glass of water directly from the Kali Bein. What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-the-kali-bein-and-its-significance-for-sikhs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: The Kali Bein and its significance for Sikhs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-196849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704048034},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}