Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Sikh Dharma International, Sikh History In 1975, MSS Livtar Singh Khalsa (Atlanta, Georgia) wrote “Song of the Khalsa,” an English-language inspirational song to inspire new Western Sikhs. The song blends folk guitar accompaniment with poetic lyrics that recount some of the major events in Sikh history and echo traditional Sikh values.
The Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan…
Posted by Dev Suroop Kaur Khalsa& filed under Music, Sikh Art Corner, Siri Singh Sahib Ji In the autumn of 1999, during one of Yogi Bhajan’s meditation classes in Espanola, he requested that I write this song. He specifically requested that it include the line “Don’t cry for me children of Sikh Dharma” and that it be written in the past tense as if he had already passed.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Bana, Woman, Your Stories
Krishna Kaur tells the story of the origin of the women’s turban in the early days of Sikh Dharma and 3H0 :
I first started wearing an African head wrap in 1965 or so. It was something I did on a whim. I was sewing my own clothes at that time and…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Legacy Organizations, Siri Singh Sahib Ji, Your Stories In 2019, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan's arrival in the West in 1969. As soon as he arrived, he began teaching his students about Sikh history, Sikh Dharma and Kundalini Yoga. To celebrate this milestone and Yogi Bhajan's lasting legacy, we compiled 50 years of historical content from the…
Posted by Sikhnet& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Around the World, Community, Music, Videos In this video Siri Chand Singh from Mexico played the song 'Chanting Sat Nam,' written by Guru Dass Singh Khalsa, after Light of Guru Nanak yatra participants and Miri Piri Academy students finished doing 31 minutes of chanting Mul Mantra together in Sultanpur Lodhi. …
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Around the World, Community, Ministry, Your Stories It is a great honor for me to announce that on February 15, 2018, Sikh Dharma of Argentina was formally recognized as an official religion in our country for the first time in history.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Music, Your Stories Guru Dass Singh traveled the world, teaching and sharing his music. He trained hundreds of Kundalini Yoga teachers in courses he led in different countries. Guru Dass was a long-time, and a highly experienced, Kundalini Yoga teacher and trainer, and one of Yogi Bhajan's early students. He met him in 1971 at the age of 17.…
Posted by Sikhnet& filed under Around the World, Community, Videos, Your Stories Chile has over 200 legally recognized spiritual paths. But until January 25, 2016 the Sikh religion was not one of them. After four years of consistent effort, however, the fledgling Sikh community in Chile achieved legal recognition of Sikh Dharma as a religion.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Publications, Sikh Art Corner, Sikh History In 2014, Gurutej Singh Khalsa published the historical novel 'Rajni'. Akal Purkh, the solitary and eternal personality of the cosmos, narrates the story.
Since eternity there is only Me. My vastness is profound, My peacefulness is absolute, but My loneliness incomprehensible. I have no peer, I have no mother or father,…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories One day I was talking to a friend about the 400 children in need of weekend food at the school we were working with. We were serving 30 children weekly. We did the math and realized that each child in need was only receiving food every 15 weeks. She said, “Tell the Universe you have…
Posted by Sikhnet& filed under Around the World, Legacy Organizations, Your Stories On Sunday, January 9, I played in Darbar Sahib for the first time with the Chardikala Jatha. It was a feeling that I can’t really describe, but I’m going to try. It was extremely foggy. Those of you who have been to India in the winter know exactly what I’m talking about.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People Langar Chile is a non-governmental organization founded in 2003 by Kundalini Yoga instructors Sinmrit Singh and Guru Darshan Singh, and they have been working since 2004 without interruption. This inspiring team serves hot vegetarian food to those who live in a street situation, and to anyone else who needs it, on Thursday nights in different…
Posted by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories Food for Kids is a volunteer program that serves hungry children in and around the Española, New Mexico area. It was founded in 2009. The program regularly provides bags of food to local children between ages 6-12 who do not always get enough food to eat.…
Posted by Aquarian Times& filed under Community, Your Stories I was recently blessed to be in Mexico City with the community there as Babaji Singh Khalsa prepared for his great transition from this lifetime. I felt so privileged to share in this very sacred time of Babaji’s returning Home to God. In the early ‘70s Babaji was the first teacher to bring Kundalini Yoga…
Posted by Aquarian Times& filed under Community, Publications Yogi Bhajan told us insanity and violence would increase, and we shudder in horror at the accuracy of his prediction. Yet we see light at the end of the tunnel. Mother Nature erupted in 2005 with tsunamis and hurricanes, tragedies that injured and killed, but brought out the courage, compassion, and kindness of “strangers."…
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