Posted by Siri Ved Kaur Khalsa& filed under Dharmic Education The faithful praise God over and over again, reciting mantras, prayers, and hymns. We try to understand God by better understanding Gurbāṉī, through meditation, devotional service, and reflection. All who sing of the Wonderful One, who describe God in so many countless ways – with all the devotion that fills their hearts – how great…
Posted by GuruSangat Kaur Khalsa& filed under Dharmic Education In this Paurī, Gurū Nānak Dev Jī offers us two unique perspectives. Let us start with the first one in which he describes the vastness of God’s creation and the Universe. His poetry depicts infinite worlds beneath worlds and above them countless other celestial regions, vast canopies of skies.…
Posted by Guruka Singh Khalsa& filed under Dharmic Education This Paurī of Japjī Sāhib is the “it’s not what you think it is” Paurī. The Gurū’s underlying thought is that worship of the Divine is a continuous, internal state. It’s not about doing things or figuring things out. It’s a state of being.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Dharmic Education One of the main expressions of wisdom and mental clarity is the capacity to perceive the consequences of our thoughts, words and actions, and to act (or to refrain from acting) according to that perception. The twentieth Paurī of Jap Jī Sāhib gives us an opportunity to meditate on what is called samskara: the consequences of…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education Gurū Nānak tells us that God’s Name is the vibration that creates all things. We exist because of sound! We are a manifestation of sound and a living and breathing example of sound waves moving. When we realize this relationship, we can shift our lives. Just as a cook decides to add a little salt…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education What is the negative mind? In the science of Kundalini Yoga we learn that the negative mind calculates risks, it looks at all the possible negative effects of a possible choice, and it is aware of all of the negative energies at play. When does it become out of hand? When we lose ourselves in…
Posted by Snatam Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education There are key moments in Japjī Sahib when we shift gears into a particular state of consciousness. The beginning of the 17th Paurī is one of those moments, and there is a particular energetic pattern that we experience all the way through the 19th Paurī. …
Posted by Siri Sevak Kaur Khalsa& filed under Dharmic Education This Paurī talks about the “bull of dharma” which holds up the world. We learn in this Paurī that Dharma is born from da-i-ā (compassion). Meditate on this concept that Dharma supports the world and that it comes from compassion.…
Posted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education “The fifteenth Pauri brings salvation.”
~from the teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan (1)
The 15th Pauri as interpreted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa:
Trust what you hear When you listen And find The door of liberation.
Trust what you hear When you listen, And bring all your loved…
Posted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education “When you cannot find your path in life; when you cannot achieve fulfillment; the fourteenth Paurī will show you the way.”
~from the teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan (1)
The 14th Pauri as interpreted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa:
In trusting What you hear When you listen, There will be No obstacles On your…
Posted by Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology “The Eleventh Paurī gives virtuousness.” – from the Teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan (1)
Reflections from SS Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa:
This Paurī is the 4th of the 4 Suṉi-ai Paurīs. Suṉi-ai means through listening. Deep listening that involves not only hearing with your ears, but hearing with all the senses, every cell of you vibrating…
Posted by Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology “The Tenth Paurī grants grace.” – from the Teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan (1)
Reflections from SS Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa
This Paurī is the 3rd of the 4 Suṉi-ai Paurīs. Suṉi-ai means through listening. Deep listening that involves not only hearing with your ears, but hearing with all the senses, every cell of you vibrating…
Posted by Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology “The Ninth Paurī gives expansion.”– from the Teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan (1)
Reflections from SS Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa:
This Paurī is the 2nd of the 4 Suṉi-ai Paurīs. Suṉi-ai means: through listening. Deep listening that involves not only hearing with your ears, but hearing with all the senses, every cell of you vibrating…
Posted by Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology The Eighth Paurī is a meditation that touches on many subjects and guides the “listener” to merge into the essence of a Siddha, the person who can manifest the seemingly miraculous; a Pir, the revered spiritual guide; and Sur nāth, the great yogi of divine caliber; – to experience as near as is possible the consciousness of such illumined…
Posted by Siri Sevak Kaur Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology “When you suffer from greed, madness for power, overbearing expansion and the need to control, when you become trapped in your territoriality, the seventh Paurī will heal you.” – from the Teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan (1)
jay jug chāray ārajā hor dasūṉī ho-i. …
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