BAARAH MAAH:
Baarah Maah literally means: twelve months (of a year). Baarah Mah is a form of poetry. In Guru Granth Sahib, there are two Baarah Maahs, one by Guru Nanak Sahib (in Raag Maajh, pp. 1107-09) and the other by Guru Arjan Sahib (in Raag Tukhari, pp. 133-36).
The Hindus regard certain days or dates as auspicious. These hymns (Baarah Maah) reject this concept of auspicious-ness of any specific moment etc.
The theme of these hymns is that all the months, dates, days and moments are of equal importance for remembering God. One should not attach any special importance to a particular moment, day or date. One should remember God all the time.
Those priests or other people who are under the influence of Hinduism, on the Sangraand (the first day) of every month of the Bikrami calendar, they recite a hymn from Guru Arjan Sahib’s Baarah Maah, depicting the scenes of the month. It has no spiritual meaning and moreover, it is an un-Sikh like practice.
This is being practised in the Gurdwaras, managed by the ignorant Sikhs.
(Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer)