{"id":419,"date":"2020-12-01T02:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2020-12-01T02:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T17:41:23","slug":"guru-nanak-dev-jis-arunachal-pradesh-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Guru Nanak Dev ji\u2019s Arunachal Pradesh connection !!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>On the Guru Purub evening, here is a lesser known destination that the great Guru travelled half a millennia ago during his journey to Tibet \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we celebrate the 551st birth anniversary of\n#GuruNanakDevJi, here is a lesser known story of his travel to a remote place tucked\naway in Arunachal Pradesh in India\u2019s north east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early this morning, Aditya Bharat Tiwari, OSD to Arunachal\nPradesh, tweeted an old tweet thread about Mechuka in remote Shi Yomi district\nof his state. (Mechuka is also called Menchuka by some). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is believed that on his travel back from Tibet in 16th\ncentury, Guru Nanak Dev stayed in Mechuka and meditated. Today there is&nbsp; Gurudwara where Indian Army serves Langar to\nthe devotees. I was fortunate to have visited this place on auspicious day of\nGuruParv,\u201d he tweeted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is believed that on his travel back from Tibet in 16th century, Guru Nanak Dev stayed in Mechuka and meditated. Today there is  Gurudwara where Indian Army serves Langar to the devotees. I was fortunate to have visited this place on auspicious day of GuruParv. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HycpQuSCIs\">pic.twitter.com\/HycpQuSCIs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Aaditya \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 (\u0f56\u0fb7\u0f71\u0f0b\u0f62\u0f4f) Tiwari (@aaditya_bharat1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaditya_bharat1\/status\/1066269175247749120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do explore his entire thread that has beautiful pictures\nof the place and surrounding areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GuruNanakDevJi-Ar-Pr-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GuruNanakDevJi-Ar-Pr-map.jpg 680w, https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GuruNanakDevJi-Ar-Pr-map-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/GuruNanakDevJi-Ar-Pr-map-678x436.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><figcaption> Arunachal Pradesh leg from the map of Guru Nanak Dev ji&#8217;s epic journeys across the Indian sub-continent (Image from Aaditya Tiwari Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This prompted me to search a little more about Guru Nanak Dev\nJi\u2019s travels when I bumped into this blog \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/redscarabtravelandmedia.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/23\/path-of-the-guru-journeys-of-guru-nanak\/\">Path\nof the Guru: Journeys of Guru Nanak<\/a>\u2019. On the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti\n(birth anniversary) in 2015, Anurag Mallick and Priya Ganapthy had retraced\nGuru Nanak\u2019s <em>udasis<\/em> (epic journeys) across the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The opening lines beautifully sum up the settings at the\nArunachal Pradesh destination where Guru Nanak Dev Ji visited about 500 years\nago. \u201cThe Bamchu, a tributary of the Yargyap Chu (Siyom river) gushed past an\noverhang of creepers, just below the cave where Guru Nanak had meditated half a\nmillennia ago. Nearly 200 km northwest of Along deep in the upper folds of\nArunachal Pradesh, just 20 km short of the Indo-Tibet border, it was surprising\nto find a cave dedicated to the Sikh Guru, nearly 2,000 km from Punjab! It was\neven harder to conceive that locals considered him as one of their Guru\nRinpoches and worshipped him as Nanak Lama.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do read the original post to know more about the epic journeys of the Guru.   \u00a0May the great Guru bless us all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Guru Purub evening, here is a lesser known destination that the great Guru travelled half a millennia ago during his journey to Tibet \u00a0 As we celebrate the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,181,132,182],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arunachalpradesh","tag-gurunanak","tag-india-2","tag-tibet-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niveditakhandekar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}