Aarti? With lamps and flowers?

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Can we please have soojvaan Gursikhs comment on the content of this video?

This practice of lamps, flowers and plates with candles is against Gurmat.

This practice didn't just get abolished from the Singh Sabha & Gurdwara Reform Movements it was from Satguru Sri Guru Nanak Dev Sahib jee.

At Jagannaath Puri, a famous pilgrimage center of the Hindus, Sri Guru Nanak Sahib jee noticed that the priests were more interested in the rituals and elaborate arrangements rather than in their love for God. So he stepped outside the temple and burst into the following masterpiece. The Aarti

We read it everyday in our Sohila Sahib jee da paath.

Gagan mah thaal, Rav-chand Deepak baney
Taarka mandal Janak Moti
Dhoop maliaanlo Pavan chavaro karey
Sagal Banrai phoolant jyoti

Keertan is the real Aaarti. The practice which is done in the video is from Hindu rituals which has crept in and stayed with some Sikhs. May Guru Sahib bless us with Gurmat Giaan and stay Niaara,

I hope somebody can post the full sakhi from Jagannath Puri regarding Aarti.

The sooj SatGuroo gives us is:

ਨਾਮੁਤੇਰੋਆਰਤੀਮਜਨੁਮੁਰਾਰੇ ॥
ਹਰਿਕੇਨਾਮਬਿਨੁਝੂਠੇਸਗਲਪਾਸਾਰੇ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

that too 24/7...

Chota veer

Its plain and simple that what those " sikhs" are doing in the
video is manmat. But the use of flowers, incense, lamps, Nagaras, singasan, cannot
be considered as manmat. Even today we shower flowers on GUru Sahib during Sukhasan,
or we use Nagara after Ardas. In addition, there is nothing wrong in decorating Guru Sahib
with incense, flowers, shasters, lamps etc.

agiyaan jeeo thanks for
asking this question it reminded
me I have a question about the Gagan Meh thaal

In JapJi Sahib we recite
ਤਿਸ ਦੈ ਚਾਨਣਿ ਸਭ ਮਹਿ ਚਾਨਣੁ ਹੋਇ ॥

but in aarti it is written as
ਤਿਸ ਕੈ ਚਾਨਣਿ ਸਭ ਮਹਿ ਚਾਨਣੁ ਹੋਇ ॥

Is this a typo in aarti or is there is a significance between
the difference?

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