Anand marriage ceremony was first performed by Guru Ram Das Ji (fourth Guru) when the third Guru Amar Das Ji tried to remove all the caste barriers, Hindus did not like it. Hindus excommunicated those Sikhs of the Guru who had ceased to practice castism. ‘Among those Sikhs was one named Randhawa, Brahmins refused to come and officiate at the solemnization of the marriage of his daughter. Brahmins declared that since he was a Sikh of Guru Amar Das he had ceased to be a Hindu and thus had forfeited every right to have the marriage of his daughter performed according to Hindu rites.
Randhawa went to Guru Amar Das Jiand said he was prepared to keep his daughter unmarried but would on account consent to the ceremony being performed according to Hindu rites. Guru Amar Das Ji realized his problem and asked his son in law (afterwards Guru Ram Das Ji) to go and officiate at the marriage of the Sikh’s daughter. It was on this: occasion that the four law an’ were originally composed by the fourth Guru. The next noteworthy occasion when the entire form was prescribed jointly by the third and’ fourth Gurus was on the occasion of the marriage of the sixth Guru’s
daughter (Bibi Viro).
Article extracted from this publication >> March 21, 1986
