Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Around the World, Community, Our Authors, Your Stories
I remember getting the phone call from GuruGanesha, my band mate: "Siri Gobind Kaur of Barcelona, Spain rented a 950 seat church and she says she's gonna fill it!"
I was in dismay. At the beginning of our music touring days those kind of numbers were just unheard of. We were lucky to fill a…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Around the World, Our Authors, Your Stories
Excerpt from Snatam Kaur's blog on January 16, 2017
One morning during our winter break vacation, I sat meditating on a beach. The sound of the ocean, the spray of fresh air and the beautiful blue of the water and sky captured me. The Sivananda Ashram in the Bahamas has thrived for thirty plus years…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Our Authors, Shabad Guru, Your Stories
An excerpt from my book, Original Light, pg 26
When I was eighteen, Yogi Bhajan asked me to move to Los Angeles. Living just a few blocks away from his home and the community Gurdwārā, I was quite busy with work, community activities, and taking part in Yogi Bhajan’s classes. Within just a few months,…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Around the World, Our Authors, Sikh History, Your Stories
There was an echo of laughter in the streets of Patna 350 years ago, when the amazing soul of Guru Gobind Singh Ji was born.
Far from their familiar home in Punjab, Mata Gujri was traveling with her saintly husband and the ninth Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib, on a teaching…
Posted by Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa& filed under Our Authors, Sikh Dharma Technology
This is a blend from two shabads about the 12 months. One shabad is by Guru Nanak (page 1107) and the other by Guru Arjan (page 133).
We reach a turning point in the soul's journey.
Grieving can feel, and be, deadly. This is because all grieving carries within it's heart the ultimate…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under 04-Guru Ram Das, Music, Our Authors, Shabad Guru, Sikh Art Corner, Sikh Dharma Technology, Videos
Close your eyes, it's the end of another busy day.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of other children slept this way,
with Guru Ram Das to protect them, keep them safe all through the night.
Oh.... Dhan Dhan Guru Ram Das, Rakho Saharanai.
Meditate on…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Around the World, Our Authors, Your Stories
In 1995, Snatam Kaur, Shanti Kaur, Sat Kirin Kaur and Bibiji were in India and had the blessing of participating in a walk from Anandpur Sahib to Dumduma Sahib. This is a poem written by Snatam Kaur about her experience there.
“Green trees in cool mud, away from the hot sun.
Villagers gather and…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under Our Authors, Sikh History
There are brilliant teachers of philosophy, and there are knowledgeable professors of Sikh theology, but there are very few teachers of Sikh Dharma. Sikhism, by its very nature, is difficult to teach. Sikh Dharma is a way of life, not a dogmatic religion, and is rooted in a personal relationship between the Sikh and his…
Posted by Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa& filed under Our Authors
A reminder of what we are reading and reflecting on. First there is the sleeping soul. Like a seed in winter. Then the nerve of the soul starts moving in its longing. Reaching up and reaching out. This is spring. However, by default, the soul gets kidnapped by false identity (ego, haumai, ahankar,) and therefore…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Legacy Organizations, Our Authors, Sikh History, Videos, Your Stories
In 2008, in celebration for the 300th anniversary of Hazur Sahib, Shanti Kaur tells the history of how Guru Gobind Singh came to Hazur Sahib, how Maharaja Ranjit Singh built it up, and that it was ultimately where the 10th Guru passed the Guruship on to the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
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Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Bani, Our Authors, Your Stories
This summer I have been immersed in the 19th stanza of a sacred poem, called Japji, given to us by Guru Nanak, a saint and sage of the 15th Century in Northern India. I always feel that the Naad, or the sacred sound current of the Guru, is alive and that it finds us exactly…
Posted by Gurutej Singh Khalsa& filed under Our Authors, Sikh Art Corner, Siri Singh Sahib Ji, Your Stories
A poem by Gurutej Singh Khalsa on the Occasion of the 66th Birthday of
Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan
The touch of the master is what brought us here,
Through Maya’s illusion, through doubt and fear,
We have followed him through this long, dark night,
To awaken from the dream and…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under 09-Guru Teg Bahadur, Ministry, Our Authors, Sikh History
Written by SS Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Española, NM
Courtesy of the #60 Summer 2016 SDI Ministry Newsletter
In the month of Vaisakh we celebrate the birth of the 9th Sikh Guru—Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib. His life is an epic story of bravery and fearlessness, devotion and meditation, and ultimately the sacrifice of his own life…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Events, Gurpurbs, Our Authors, Sikh History, Your Stories
On a dark and stormy night in December 1705, Guru Gobind Singh Ji and the people of Anandpur Sahib left the city to escape the siege of the brutal Mogul Empire. They left with the promise of safe passage, but were cruelly betrayed and attacked from the rear as they crossed the river Sarsa. During…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Events, Our Authors, Your Stories
By MSS Guru Raj Kaur Khalsa, October 2008
We often hear people say, “Oh, I felt his presence….” What does that actually MEAN, anyway? Yet we have all experienced it with individuals whom we love, respect, look to: the saints, sages, heros and warriors, beyond Time and Space, we feel their presence. Well, in…
Posted by Bibiji& filed under 08-Guru Harkrishan, Our Authors, Sikh History
There was an epidemic of small pox in Delhi. Guru Har Krishan went to the place where the outbreak had occurred and through his blessing, a spring of sacred water appeared that could heal the people of the illness.…
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