{"id":965,"date":"2010-05-23T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/?p=965"},"modified":"2010-05-23T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:12:53","slug":"khoon-da-tilak-tilak-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Khoon Da Tilak&#8217; (&#8216;Tilak&#8217; of blood)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: I have recently read that Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj used to do &#8216;Jhatka&#8217; (of goats) Sri Hazoor Sahib as part of the shastar pooja. He used to do it as a &#8216;bali&#8217; (sacrifice) to goddess Chandi. Kindly tell me what is your view on this. <\/strong>(Asked by Amritpal Singh Panesar, UK). <strong><\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/strong> I do not remember any such references in any &#8216;Puraatan&#8217; source. The concept of &#8216;Bali&#8217; of animals is not approved by the Gurbani. The ritual of\u00a0 &#8216;Jhatka&#8217; of goat and applying &#8216;Tilak&#8217; of its blood to weapons is in practice at Takht Sachkhand Sri Hazoor Sahib Ji. My comments on this issue are available in Punjabi language: <a title=\"Khoon Da Tilak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/pbi\/commentary\/hazooree_maryada\/khoon_da_tilak.pdf\">http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/pbi\/commentary\/hazooree_maryada\/khoon_da_tilak.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I have recently read that Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj used to do &#8216;Jhatka&#8217; (of goats) Sri Hazoor Sahib as part of the shastar pooja. He used to do it as a &#8216;bali&#8217; (sacrifice) to goddess Chandi. Kindly tell me what is your view on this. (Asked by Amritpal Singh Panesar, UK). Answer: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amritworld.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}