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 06-Guru Hargobind, Gurpurbs, Sikh History
Guru Hargobind created the martial art of the Sikhs - called Gatka. He also built the Akal Takhat, or the Throne of the Undying One, next to the Harimandir Sahib. The throne was a statement that the Sikh community was sovereign in its spiritual identity, and was self-governing in its social/political identity.…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 06-Guru Hargobind, Community, Dharmic Education, Gurpurbs, Sikh History
"Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh"
The inspiration and the most inspiring factor of human is his memory to a dream or to an image, or to a reality, in those three stages, comes the Akal Takht, the throne of deathlessness, which makes human to inspire to the point that…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 03-Guru Amar Das, Gurpurbs, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh History
Gurdwara Lecture by Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan
You have heard bhakti, bhakti means devotion, prayer and meditation and Shakti means power, self-control, discipline, elevation and everything in the spiritual world and the personal world is divided into bhakti and Shakti. There are different beliefs. Some people with bhakti you will get Shakti,…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 07-Guru Har Rai, Gurpurbs, Sikh History
Gurpurb of Guru Har Rai
January 31, 2016
(Collage artwork of Guru Har Rai and his animals created by children in Sunday School at Siri Singhasan e Khalsa Gurdwara, Española, New Mexico, USA)
Guru Har Rai was only 13-years-old when he became the 7th Sikh Guru. His Grandfather, Guru Hargobind, was Guru before him. His son,…
Posted by Kamalroop Singh& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Gurpurbs
In remembrance of the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh ji Maharaj – The Lord of Radiance.
A story that really touched my heart about the Guru is about the poet laureate of the Tenth Master, Bhai Nand Lal ji. He was a scholar of Persian and Arabic in the Court of the Mughal…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Gurpurbs, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Publications
By Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
Originally published in Beads of Truth, Vol. 1, No. 35, Summer 1977
"Three hundred and some years ago, the finite being known as Guru Gobind Singh, the father of the Khalsa, could see the unseen times to come. He understood completely in the…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Gurpurbs, Our Authors, Sikh History
by SS Shanti Kaur Khalsa
The late seventeenth century was a brutal time in India. The world had the noose of the Kali Yuga around its neck, the age of darkness, and it was pinching deeply. It was a time where it was punishable by death to sit next to someone of higher rank. …
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 10-Guru Gobind Singh, Bana, Gurpurbs, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh History
Beads of Truth, Fall 1979, #3
by Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
Since New Year's 1979, the year of infinity that "will determine your fate in the 'hand of God'," the Siri Singh Sahib has aided our recognition of that destiny in a number of addresses that culminate in this issue with a…
Posted by Siri Pritam Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Events, Gurpurbs, The Guru, Your Stories
We ourselves have a full house: children & grandchildren, in-laws, friends and yoga students.
On Friday & Saturday Gurukar Singh from Bolinas - for maybe the 25 th year in a row - drives to our house, puts his mat & sleeping pad behind the couch, and goes to work. A farmer friend, Kulwant Singh Johl and his brother, for as…
Posted by Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa& filed under 08-Guru Harkrishan, Gurpurbs, Sikh History
There is simple example of the pure compassion that is born out of the innocence that comes naturally to a child. Guru Harikrishan was just such a child when he heard the news of a plague that was taking many lives in Delhi. He immediately requested to go there and upon his arrival insisted that…
Posted by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa& filed under 04-Guru Ram Das, Gurpurbs, Your Stories
One year, around the time of Guru Ram Das’ birthday, sangat from the Espanola Ashram came to visit the Siri Singh Sahib at the ranch. They asked, “Sir, to honor Guru Ram Das on his birthday, we always do langar, a meditation for 11 days, and host a special Gurdwara; but how can we actually…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Events, Gurpurbs
On Friday, November 15th, President Barack Obama greeted "Sikh friends" around the world in remembrance of the birth anniversary of Sikhism's founder Guru Nanak, saying Sikh values of pluralism were also "central to who we are as Americans".
The following is the text of President Obama's message:
"I want to extend my best wishes to all…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Gurpurbs
We join with Sikhs around the globe in celebrating the birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the beloved founder of the Sikh faith.
Guru Nanak was inspired by a powerful spiritual experience that gave him a vision of the true nature of God, and taught that the way to spiritual growth was through meditation…
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