Posted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education
In the 13th Pauree, Gurū Nānak begins to describe the incredible gifts that come with Manai – that come with trusting or obeying the inner command. This practice of listening and then trusting what you hear bestows immense knowledge and courage.…
Posted by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur& filed under Dharmic Education
The Suṉi-ai and Manai Paurees in Japji Sāhib make up 20% of this beautiful, universal prayer. In the first Pauree of Jap Jī Sāhib, Gurū Nānak rejects the notion that thinking will get us anywhere. If thinking does not give us knowledge, then how can a person know anything?…
Posted by Pritpal Singh Khalsa& filed under 01-Guru Nanak, Dharmic Education, Our Authors, Sikh History
Nanak was born into a middle-class Hindu family in 1469 in a small village near Lahore, Pakistan. As a boy, he rejected commonly held spiritual conventions and spent as much time as he could in the company of traveling sadhus, mystics, and spiritual teachers. Although well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, and the sacred texts of…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Dharmic Education
Many times I’ve started improving my translations from Gurū’s Japji over and over again. I have never been satisfied with it and have always been wondering what it is, that makes Gurū’s Bani so powerful, so life changing, such a revolution in the spiritual world, so Aquarian, that oftentimes people who listen to it only…
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