Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Bani, Ministry, Your Stories
by SS Kartar Singh Khalsa, Sterling VA
Winter 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
Let me be clear—I don’t currently read my banis every day, although I did so as a daily practice for many years. So let me speak honestly and openly about the topic of resistance.
Three times the Siri Singh Sahib told me—all…
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by SS Prabhu Prakash Kaur Khalsa, on the road USA
Winter 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
Like my mother before me, I’ve been a singer all my life. While still in the womb, I absorbed my mother’s joy of devotional singing and the love she projected through her voice. I can’t remember a time in my…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Our Authors, Your Stories
I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in Sacramento, California. I was always fascinated to go next door to our neighbor's, an older couple, who had the exact same house as us, but everything in their house looked neat, newly bought, sturdy, and white. Our living room, instead of the neat white couches and matching…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Around the World, Ministry, Your Stories
by SS Dharm Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM
Winter 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
My dear friend and spirit brother Sada Sat Singh has passed into the light. We both served Yogi Bhajan for many years in Los Angeles and formed a bond in that 24-hour-a-day seva. In the beauty and the spiritual challenge of it,…
Posted by 3HO-Legacy Organization& filed under Legacy Organizations, Your Stories
This article is courtesy of 3HO
My father committed suicide in 1942. I was 13. I blotted out thoughts about death for many years. In my mind, death was just a permanent dreamless sleep. I had never attended a funeral until I went with Yogi Bhajan to a memorial service for Peter the Hermit,…
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by SS Satya Kaur Corfield, Espanola NM
Fall 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
Simran—the constant remembrance of God—is the one aspect of Sikh Dharma that resonates above almost all else for me. Having two “10”s in my numerology has always given me a connection to Guru Gobind Singh. With two children who have Simran as…
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by SS Mata Mandir Singh Khalsa, San Francisco CA
Fall 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
Simran is often translated as “remembrance,” which, to me, doesn’t explain the word. Other people say simran is repeating a mantra. I understand repeating a mantra as japa, which means “to repeat a mantra.”
Does repeating a mantra lead…
Posted by Hacienda de Guru Ram Das& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Your Stories
by Nick Deez
Endings are never easy. But neither are beginnings. I got myself out of bed at three in the morning today and that pressing feeling weighed on me. I am leaving the ashram today. For the past two wonderful weeks, this place has been home to me – a place of refuge. Each day…
Posted by Jot Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Your Stories
A extraordinary place that is regularly recommended for Sikhs and spiritual seekers to travel to and visit is Hemkunt Sahib in India. It is considered a most sacred location where a great saint and savior of humankind meditated and prepared himself to inspire and lead humanity as well as to fight injustice. Below are details of…
Posted by Prabhu Singh& filed under Around the World, Dharmic Education, Events, Your Stories
My first encounter with Japji was in the winter of 2010 in Miami Beach (Ha! winter in Miami Beach). I was at my first early morning sadhana. I was very curious about what in the world people did at 4am. I know what most people did, but not these strange yogi people. I ended up…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Your Stories
By Sanrajpreet Rai Kaur Khalsa
Summer Solstice Sadhana on the Ram Das Puri land has been an empowering time in my journey ever since I have been part of 3HO. The profound experience of this year's Summer Solstice unfolded this year at the ashram with a couple of Sangat community events. The first was…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 04-Guru Ram Das, Around the World, Sikh Art Corner, Your Stories
There is that very beautiful picture of Guru Ram Das at the museum of the Darbar Sahib, where he is surrounded by flowers. (The one that's used a lot, he sits on a lovely Persian carpet and the view is out through the window onto the Golden Temple.
In my mind's eye, I picture…
Posted by Sat Bachan Kaur& filed under Your Stories
Sat Nam Dear Friends,
Eaekaa Maaee Jugath Viaaee Thin Chaelae Paravaan
Jiv This Bhaavai Thivai Chalaavai Jiv Hovai Furamaan
Ouhu Vaekhai Ounaa Nadhar N Aavai Bahuthaa Eaehu Viddaan
Aadhaes Thisai Aadhaes
Aadh Aneel Anaadh Anaahath Jug Jug Eaeko Vaes ||30||
“There is one mother who is married to the universe and she has three…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Around the World, Community, Ministry, Shabad Guru, Your Stories
by SS Guru Nam Singh and SS Sat Jivan Kaur Khalsa, McAllen TX, published in the Summer 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter
In the early 1980s, my wife SS Sat Jivan Kaur was facing a deep depression. Two prestigious doctors made the diagnosis and both agreed that it was imperative that she take strong medications…
Posted by Kundalini Research Institute& filed under Your Stories
Shared from the July, 2017 KRI Newsletter
If you watched Woodstock, the 1970 documentary movie, you probably remember the scene where, in between band sets, a long-hair hippie is up on the stage leading everybody in Breath of Fire. What you probably didn’t notice is part way through the exercise, in the crowd in…
Posted by Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa& filed under Your Stories
Sat Nam Dear Family,
“I don’t need to go to Gurdwara, sir. I carry Guru with me everywhere.” Now, who could argue with this statement? Who doesn’t want to carry their Guru with them? I’ll tell you who has another opinion, Yogi Bhajan, the Siri Singh Sahib, that’s who. He has an interesting and…
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