Posted by Rupinder Kaur Khalsa& filed under Around the World, Community, Your Stories The longing of the soul is so great, that even if it takes you thousands of incarnations, you are destined to have the experience of Oneness. That’s the Guru’s promise to all of us. Let’s keep walking together.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Dharmic Education It was in 1973 or 74 that I remember the Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan telling us to memorize the 25th Paurī and chant it 26 times a day. Many of us were just getting comfortable reciting Japjī Sāhib in Gurumukhi. Apparently, we were being introduced to our next adventure. Yogi Bhajan was addressing our…
Posted by Gurutej Singh Khalsa& filed under Dharmic Education The 24th Paurī uses the term Ant Na, repeatedly. Ant means end. Na is the negation of Ant, meaning without end, countless, as it is frequently translated. In this Paurī, Gurū Nānak marvels at the vastness of the Ek Ong Kār. He explains that countless are the praises and the praisers of God, countless are the works and gifts of God. Gurū Nānak goes…
Posted by Sikhnet& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Legacy Organizations, Sikh History When Nanak was a child he loved to meditate on God. Even when he was sleeping, he was with God. Once he fell asleep under a tree. The tree was shading his face from the sun. As the day passed the sun moved and the tree couldn’t protect Nanak’s face from the sun.…
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 3HO-Legacy Organization& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Sikh History The realm of the sensory human lies beyond the mind. It is the realm of awakened sensitivity and spontaneous action. Guru Nanak lived as a perfect example of a sensory human. Everywhere he went he simply tuned in to the places and people there and spontaneously sang the very words that people needed to hear…
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 Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Your Stories More and more I am aware of my heart’s cravings for the simplicities of life, stillness in deep listening and finding the beauty within every moment of life. I am okay with being vulnerable, with being mortal, with being open, with being fragile, with being of service, with being misunderstood, with being hurt, with being…
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 Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under Bani, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib Action has a reaction equal and opposite. How to resurrect? That's the twentieth pauri. Twentieth pauri is explanation per scientific in the words of Nanak how you can excel. I always call this twentieth the pauri of excellence.…
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…
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