Posted by Dharmatma& filed under Your Stories
I didn't even use my name at all it for a couple of years, I wasn't a Sikh at the time and wasn't sure what to "do with it." But I was told by my Sikh friends that a spiritual name can be: what you have been, what you are, and/or what you need…
Posted by Bibiji& filed under Our Authors
In many places in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, it is stated that everything in existence is nothing but an atomic vibration, a sound, a frequency. A vibrational frequency can be expressed mathematically. The mathematical root of all numbers being 1, is a powerful force. Ek Ong Kaar, the beginning of the Mul Mantra or…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Events
Looking for a conscious way to celebrate this month's holidays with your sweetie?
How about this installment of 3HO's new KundaLiving web series, with Guruka Singh and Guruka Kaur.
It's completely free and if you can't tune it on Wednesday it will be available for 48 hours…
Posted by Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa& filed under Siri Singh Sahib Ji, Your Stories
Some schools of yoga teach that Shakti Pad is a good thing. And, of course, they’re right. As we’ve seen above, Shakti Pad should be a gateway to more and more blessings. Our Teacher gives his students a heads up, a warning that all isn’t beautiful until you begin to overcome your karma. Everything isn’t…
Posted by Sirgun Kaur& filed under Around the World, Community, The Guru, Your Stories
In times of strife, we often forget that some of these more esoteric solutions might work better than the biggest effort to manually "fix" our problem. When we are receptive to the sacred energy that holds this world together, it builds a bridge for us. …
Posted by harisingh& filed under Your Stories
My concern is that with the passage of time, the memory of the Oak Creek massacre and other tragedies will fade away. I strongly encourage all members of the Sikh community - and especially Sikh Dharma Ministers - to act now to meet this ever-present challenge - not out of a sense of reactionary fear,…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Community, Our Authors, Sikh Dharma International, Sikhs Feed People, Videos, Your Stories
In the honor and memory of those people who lost their lives at the Oak Creek Wisconsin Gurdwara (Sikh temple) shooting in the summer of 2012. Snatam Kaur, along with the Sikh community of the New Jersey Bridgewater Gurdwara, gives us an inside view of the beautiful Sikh way of life. Visit Snatam Kaur's website…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Our Authors
In December, I was invited to attend the celebration of Guru Nanak Devji’s birthday at the White House. I learned this was not the first, but the third annual celebration. Before I went, I took a hukum from the Siri Guru Granth Sahibji and received the blessing by Guru Arjan Devji at…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Your Stories
Bhajan Lal, my tabla teacher's teacher, was born in Lahore in 1935. One of three brothers, his father passed away before he completed the sixth grade, the grade in which he would end his formal education. He was twelve years old. Something else happened in his twelfth year: Indian independence, the formation of the Pakistani…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Our Authors
Rather than give you a play by play of many places that I witnessed and an account of my internal process, I will share with you my visit to one very special place: the Matrimandir at Auroville. I had little understanding of what the Matrimandir was. My hosts said that its construction was a massive…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Our Authors
After a quick flight to Delhi, a manic layover where I had to leave the terminal and go back through security (with no prior directions to do so), I made it to Chennai. It is hard to convey the sensation that overcame me. At the first glimpse of the palm trees soothing warmth swept over…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Your Stories
What often happens, I think, to people born into a unique community with specific lifestyle, is that we do not feel we have chosen the life for ourselves. I think we also see a lot of hypocrisy. What is wrong with my parents’ marriage if they meditate all the time and bow before the Guru?…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Your Stories
My inner dialogue is conflicted. As a Sikh, I value the principles of a person over their religion, race, or creed. I try to live by principles over rules and value inner faith and goodness over outer physical identity. Why, then, should I be so concerned with the outer representation of the buildings that house…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Music
The program allows you to listen to virtually any Gurbani kirtan that has EVER been recorded and its being updated daily. You can even make your own playlists!…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Your Stories
Shabd celebrates the birthday of Kirshna: "I found myself in a minor inner dilemma: how do I interact with the shrines and idols that my fellow visitors each took the time to adore and meditate on? I do not value or worship those objects as divine or magical, but I do respect the place as…
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