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…
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 Sikhnet& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Legacy Organizations, Sikh History
Guru Nanak used to travel all over India with his companions Bala and Mardana. Wherever they went, they made beautiful music to help people understand God and spread truth. This story takes place when they visited a remote village in Northern India.…
Posted by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan& filed under Bani, Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib, Sikh Dharma Technology, Siri Singh Sahib Ji
Japji is misunderstood by the world today. Japji has two sloks and thirty-eight steps. Guru Nanak recited Japji. It starts from God comes to the Earth. If, from the Earth towards God, you recite it step by step and apply it step by step, every problem not only can be solved, it can be dissolved. That's the power of Japji.…
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. …
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