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…
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“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…
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“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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Reflections from MSS Hari Dharam Kaur Khalsa, Chief Granthi
The fifth Paurī must be recited when you feel a sense of failure within yourself. When you feel that you are not up to the job this Paurī will grant you all success.
~from the Teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan…
Posted by Ram Singh& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Shabad Guru, Sikh Dharma Technology
After introducing and developing the notion of hukam, Gurū Nānak invites us to a new relation to the divine, a new kind of exchange with God.
One of the main manifestations of our ego is thinking that we are doers. The very word Gurū Nānak uses for “ego” says it clearly: in its Sanskrit etymology, ahankar means “me-doer” or…
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