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Every April, the Sikh community all over the world gathers to celebrate Vaisakhi. For decades, Vaisakhi has marked the beginning of the spring harvest, and Punjabi farmers have observed the occasion with community gatherings and celebrations. Vaisakhi is also known as Baisakhi.
It was originally a spring harvest celebration observed in the northern Indian state of Punjab. The festival gained religious significance for Sikhs when in 1699, the 10th Sikh guru-prophet, the last living guru for Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, chose the occasion to found a formal order dedicated to defending the Sikh community, known as the Khalsa Panth.
Sikhs all over the world celebrate the festival of Baisakhi, a holiday with a special religious significance, observed each year on April 13 or 14.
On the Vaisakhi day of 1699 (the first day of the month of ‘Vaisakh’ in the Sikh calendar), Guru Gobind Singh Sahib, the tenth Guru, formalized the concept of Saint-Soldier by introducing the Amrit ceremony (the formal initiation ceremony). He transformed the Sikhs into a family of soldier saints, known as the Khalsa Panth.
