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Parminder Kaur invited Guruka Singh us to teach in a 3+ day Sikh youth camp in Indianapolis Indiana but he couldn’t make it, so he asked me if I could go with my wife. When we started dialoging with her we realized that she intended us to be the only teachers in a camp with…
Posted by Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa& filed under Siri Singh Sahib Ji, Your Stories
A person we didn't know who had joined our party spoke up and asked the Master a question in the most innocent and humble way, “Yogi Ji, Why are we here?”
Now, this was the kind of elementary question the Master liked. It gave him the opportunity of possibly being understood more deeply. I could see…
Posted by Dharmatma& filed under Your Stories
Every year during Holy Week before Easter, thousands of pilgrims walk 1 to 100+ miles to the Santuario. They walk on the interstate. They walk across hills and mountains. They walk for their health, the health of a beloved, for gratitude, for knotty problems only solved by prayer. Some walk on their knees. Some…
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by Dharmatma Kaur Khalsa
Sat nam. Today is Baisakhi 2013, and my heartfelt wishes that you feel renewed and strengthened with the Radiance of Guru Gobind Singh and the blessings of the Panj Piaray, the Five Beloved Ones.
So I just found out that April 13 was International Turban Day. Is that cool…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Your Stories
What are we? What are Sikhs and what are Khalsa? We know the story on that day in 1699. We know the accounts of battles and valiant warriors and saintly heroines. These are the people and the potential that we draw inspiration from. Our role models are martyrs, saints, poets, musicians, and householders. But what…
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I remember the feeling of stepping into the water up at Hemkunt Sahib after a seeming daylong walk up a rocky path. The shallow pool was under a very thin sheet of ice that October day over 30 years ago. Both Sat Inder K and I were under the influence of amoebic dysentery. It felt…
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From the prospective of one who without hesitation knew they would go through Amrit Sanchar, I think it may be too obvious of what I would do. With the Guru present in front of me, in flesh bidding me I would not hesitate to do as my Guru ordered. If Gobind Rai was…
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Becoming a Sikh was a slow process for me, and I feel every aspect has touched my soul at different times. I was a new Kundalini yoga student at Guru Ram Das Ashram in Toronto when I blithely signed up for an Akand Paath, and that night was more transformational than any yoga practice…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Sikh Art Corner, Your Stories
The Siri Singh Sahib said about his work: “This man was able to do what I could never do; he accurately told the history of this world in his painting, and perfectly predicted the events of man up to 5,000 years into the future. O’Brien will be known in the history of man from this…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Events, Your Stories
Go to Summer Solstice Sadhana. Seriously. Just do it. Go! That trip to the beach can wait. Too expensive? Find a service scholarship. Bumps it down to 200 bucks for almost ten days of yoga and meditation in the savagely beautiful Jemez Mountains. Okay, so you…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Sikh History, Your Stories
The dusty roads between Garhshankar and Jalandar teemed with life. Surrounded by serene wheat fields lined with wispy trees, thousands of people motored up and down the cramped highway. They dodged affable but incessant sevaks demanding them to receive Guru’s langar. Their heads adorned with orange turbans in celebration of Holla Mohalla (Holla), the Sikh…
Posted by Jot Prakash Kaur& filed under Around the World, Your Stories
Although we learned much more, the theme became clear: When Sikhs stood up for others out of love, our efforts brought great victories to the people; when Sikhs fought on behalf of their own attachments, we lost brutally. The question then became, what are we standing for today?…
Posted by Dharmatma& filed under Your Stories
If you have never been to Darbar Sahib or India, there is a spiral circulation of people that is constant at Darbar Sahib, the Takhts (Sikh Thrones) and other large gurdwara complexes such as Goindwal or Tarn Taran. These Gurdwaras have perkarmas and sarovars—walkways encircling the water tanks. Some have only one entrance, but all…
Posted by Shabd Singh Khalsa& filed under Your Stories
India sneaks up on you and, when you least expect it, you’re so stressed that you could explode. It must be the endless cacophony or the pollution. Or perhaps it is the endless heavy Punjabi food; or perhaps that’s just life. Yes, that’s just life. Sorry India, I apologize.
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Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Marketplace, Your Stories
This whole book was very inspiring—looking into the window of her spiritual experience through the lens of her NDE. She talks about no religion or dogma being the “right” one; that everyone needs to find their own path that feels right to them…. All of this, I resonated with – her experience of…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Shabad Guru, Your Stories
The Shabad Guru stole my heart 5 years ago and has kept it ever since. With my heart
strings belonging to the Guru, my life, personality, karma and being have transformed
and continue to transform in ways I never thought possible. My vibrations have raised to
allow my souls destiny to shine through. It all started with the…
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