Posted by Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa& filed under 11-Siri Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh Dharma Technology
November: Number 11 – Sri Guru Granth Sahib – I am the Light of the Soul
The Karma of number 11 is 1 + 1 = 2. It is to be the duality. To be ever critical. To exist through denial of existence. It is the extreme expression of spiritual naivety.
The Dharma of number…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib
Thanksgiving Prayer
An excerpt from a lecture given by SSSJi on November 10, 1971
Our thanks to every such environment where man is supposed to grow in peace and harmony, in love and in tranquility.
Our thanks to all that is graceful around us and also our thanks to all that forces us to become…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib
The Siri Singh Sahib gave this lecture in Los Angeles on November 16, 1986.
"Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa."
Students: "Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh."
YB: It's a great pleasure to hear your own poem sometime translated but I wish you should hear them in the original Gurmukhi, they are not in…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Shabad Guru, The Guru
Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. November 1, 1992
"Today, we are celebrating the Shabad Guru. But what does it actually mean? It means Naam. It means perpetual experience of happiness. It means ecstasy. It means Anand. It means a lot of things. But it is not practiced. It is not…
Posted by Sada Bahar Kaur Khalsa& filed under Khalsa Council
Dear Members of the Khalsa Council and the Sikh Dharma/3HO Community,
Sat Nam and blessings to all. Through the grace of Guru Ram Das, the Fall 2014 Khalsa Council Meetings were held on October 1st - 4th in Espanola, New Mexico. These meetings were unique in that we had a convergence of very significant events bringing…
Posted by Pritpal Singh Khalsa& filed under 04-Guru Ram Das, Our Authors, Sikh History, The Guru
The Story of the Origin of the Shabad, Dhan Dhan Ram Das Gur
The first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak, was served by a wonderful musician, Mardana, who accompanied the singing of the Guru’s sacred compositions for many years. After Mardana passed away, two young and talented musicians, Balwand and Satta,…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Sikh Art Corner, Your Stories
In 1980, before I became a Sikh, I did a painting I called “Happy Hour”. In the painting my Kundalini yoga teacher, Sat Nam Singh, was sitting, clothed, on a bench at a bus stop surrounded by several figures wearing only clown make-up and accessories. Though the figures were obviously nude, all significant anatomical parts…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Siri Singh Sahib Ji, Your Stories
Honoring the Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan Ji
by Harbhajan Kaur Khalsa
The Siri Singh Sahib was a living example of his own formula: Obey, Serve, Love, Excel. As a world-renowned teacher, business leader, advisor to world leaders, and family man, he remained faithful to his own commitments and faithful to his word.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Siri Singh Sahib Ji
Once someone asked the Siri Singh Sahib: “Sir, we know who you are as a person, but what about the people who never got to or will get to meet you? The ones who are born after you leave your body, all of the yoga students? How can or will they be able understand who you are as a person?
The Siri Singh Sahib said: OK, take a…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Bani, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh Dharma Technology
by Siri Singh Sahib Ji
So within lifetime the Guru says: "Read Five Banis." Those five banis are the most divine combination, or permutation and combination, to stimulate your higher consciousness. Those five banis correct a sadhana in you. Those five banis clean your mind and reset it for every moment of the day.…
Posted by Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa& filed under 09-Guru Teg Bahadur, Sikh Dharma Technology
Walk in the Realm of the Subtle
It has Gifts for you.
September: Number 9 – Guru Teg Bahadur – Subtle Body
The Dharma of number 9: Calm, Persistent, Patient, Tolerance, Enduring, Peaceful, Subtle and refined.
The Karma of number 9: Impatience, Perfectionism, Tyranny, Disgust, Pressure, bluntness.
9 is beyond the infinity…
Posted by Kulwant Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
When I think about the Siri Singh Sahib and all that he was, all that he gave us, and the vast legacy he created, I go numb in the process of trying to comprehend it. But I take reassurance in those gemlike nuggets of wisdom that give simple and direct guidelines on how to live.
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Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Job Board, Your Stories
My story with the Khalsa Community Gardens started long before I came to Espanola
Malin Japa Kaur Arntzén, Sweden
I had been looking to live and work in a spiritually conscious community, that combined the lifestyle of Kundalini Yoga with an interest in small scale agriculture and promoting real, local, organic food.
By…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 05-Guru Arjan, Gurpurbs, Sikh History
A cousin of Guru Ram Das Ji came to Amritsar from Lahore especially to ask Guru Sahib to attend his son’s wedding. Guru Ji said, “I will not be able to go because I can’t leave my duties as Guru. Perhaps I can send one of my Sons instead.” Guru Ram Das Ji had three…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 05-Guru Arjan
Mera Man Lochai
The Bani of the Fifth Guru, Guru Arjan Dev, in the Raag (musical measure) called Maajh, Chau-Padas (Four lines per Hymn), First House of Raag.
My mind longs for meeting the Guru
(Guru Arjun Dev, not yet a Guru, expresses his desire to meet his father Guru Ram Das…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 11-Siri Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh Dharma Technology, Sikh History, The Guru
Every minute of every day divine scriptures are being read out loud from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, the holy book of the Sikhs, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.
This ceremonial, nonstop recitation of Sikh Scriptures, from beginning to end—all 1,430 pages—is known as an Akhand Path and continues, unbroken, to…
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