Posted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education
The Suṉi-ai and Manai Paurees in Japji Sāhib make up 20% of this beautiful, universal prayer. In the first Pauree of Jap Jī Sāhib, Gurū Nānak rejects the notion that thinking will get us anywhere. If thinking does not give us knowledge, then how can a person know anything?…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under Dharmic Education, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Videos, Videos-Siri Singh Sahib
This is an excerpt from a lecture given at the Ross Street Gurdwara in Vancouver, BC, Canada on September 7, 1991, by the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan
Student:
Why do Sikhs wear turbans?
Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan:
Sikhs wear turban for a simple rule. Now I'll explain to you: the solar center has…
Posted by Guru Singh Khalsa& filed under Community, Legacy Organizations
What is that?” I heard a huge voice behind me asking, as I sanded an antique Thonet bentwood chair. I turned to see Yogi Bhajan, my new teacher, towering over me with a most inquisitive stare. “It’s my turban, Sir,” I responded with great enthusiasm. It was actually a scarf that I’d managed to wrap enough…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh History
Gurdwara lecture from June 30, 2002 by Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan
Sikh means student and we have to learn. What is the necessity of that learning? The greatest possibility of learning is that we must understand God is in us. God is around us. God is a part of us and we…
Posted by Pritpal Singh Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Dharmic Education, Our Authors, Sikh History
Nanak was born into a middle-class Hindu family in 1469 in a small village near Lahore, Pakistan. As a boy, he rejected commonly held spiritual conventions and spent as much time as he could in the company of traveling sadhus, mystics, and spiritual teachers. Although well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, and the sacred texts of…
Posted by Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community
Background
The Sikh Dharma of Virginia Office of Public Affairs was created in March 2018. Guru Sangat Singh, Head of Raj Khalsa Gurdwara, had a vision of an Office that would accompany the excellent work being performed by the National…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Dharmic Education
Many times I’ve started improving my translations from Gurū’s Japji over and over again. I have never been satisfied with it and have always been wondering what it is, that makes Gurū’s Bani so powerful, so life changing, such a revolution in the spiritual world, so Aquarian, that oftentimes people who listen to it only…
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