While em­pha­siz­ing the need to fo­cus on en­vi­ron­ment, the young writer wishes to em­u­late the na­ture lov­ing ac­tiv­i­ties of Guru Har Rai Ji.

“Pavan Guru Pani Pita, Mata Dharat Ma­hat” -Air, is our mas­ter; Wa­ter, the fa­ther and Earth the great Mother of all” is what Sikhs re­cite every morn­ing at the end of Japji Sahib.

On every 14 March, young Sikhs in In­done­sia, in con­so­nance with this day’s cel­e­bra­tion world­wide, we cel­e­brate “Sikh En­vi­ron­ment Day” to com­mem­o­rate the Gur­gaddi Di­was of the sev­enth Guru, Guru Har Rai Ji.  

Guru Har Rai Ji was known as a en­vi­ron­ment and an­i­mal lover. He nursed in­jured an­i­mals and sent them back to the wild. Guru Sahib had a wide col­lec­tion of herbs and plants as well as many trees and flow­ers in his gar­den. Gur­mat School cel­e­brates the Sikh En­vi­ron­ment day every year in March by fo­cus­ing on ed­u­cat­ing stu­dents to take good care of their en­vi­ron­ment through dif­fer­ent ac­tiv­i­ties.

We re­cite Shabads that fo­cus on pro­tect­ing the en­vi­ron­ment, con­duct re­cy­cling pro­jects, do clean-up ac­tiv­i­ties within our Gu­rud­wara and school and also lo­cal ar­eas. We also en­gage in tree-plant­ing ac­tiv­i­ties.

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We want our stu­dents to un­der­stand how im­por­tant it is that all of us to­gether take good care of our planet. Like our Guru Sahib, it is every­one’s duty to pro­tect the well-be­ing of the planet, the plants and the an­i­mals.