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Why Punjab is banking on Guru Nanak's message to fight stubble burning, conserve water -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express

The Punjab government felt that people would heed to the reinforcement of the Guru’s message and stop abusing natural resources.

The Punjab government recently passed a resolution based on one of the basic tenets of Guru Nanak’s philosophy to desist farmers from burning stubble post paddy harvest and stop overexploiting groundwater. The Indian Express explains why something that the Guru said over five centuries ago is relevant in today’s Punjab.

* What was Guru Nanak’s tenet on protection of water and earth?


“Pavan Guru, Paani Pitaa, Maataa Dharat Mahat (Air is teacher, water, the father and Earth, the great mother), is a shalok (verse) in ‘Japuji Sahib’, a religious text of Sikhism. Guru Nanak Dev had given this mantra on the land of Sultanpur Lodhi over five centuries back. With this the Guru had created tried to sensitise people on respecting air, water and Earth just like one respects teacher, father and mother by keeping all these natural sources clean.

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