Posts tagged: seva

Guru Ram Das Chetna Yatra

Posted July 20, 2017 by Sikh Dharma International & filed under Yatra

Awakening to the Love of Guru Ram Das ji Join us October 4th through 10th for a seva yatra in the Punjab to celebrate Guru Ram Das ji’s birthday. Chetna is a beautiful word that means “awaken.” This yatra will be a trip of seva and devotion to awaken the love of Guru Ram Das in the sangat and…

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A DREAM OF SERVICE

Posted July 5, 2017 by Sat Bachan Kaur & filed under Ministry

by SS Sat Bachan Kaur Khalsa, Española NM, from the SDI Ministry Summer 2017 Newsletter “Your reliability will give people the courage to trust you. Their trust will give you the power to carry a situation. A leader carries and serves people. Learn to lead as a ‘seva;’ people will love you, and you will…

JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF SEVA

Posted July 5, 2017 by Sikh Dharma Ministry & filed under Khalsa Council, Ministry

“We as humans are supposed to live for each other and that is seva.” —The Siri Singh Sahib (January 31, 1993) The second project calls for the students to serve in their greater community, either individually or in partnership with other groups. As Sikhs, we have certain traditional ways of serving, organizing, and protecting that…

SEVA FROM THE HEART

Posted July 5, 2017 by Sikh Dharma Ministry & filed under Dharmic Education, Ministry

by SS Har Nal Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM, shared in the SDI Ministry Summer 2017 Newsletter Real seva comes from the heart: “Out of love you give selflessly to those who ask and those who don’t ask. When you are a giver, then your faculty and God’s faculty become the same. That is divinity.”—The…

TRADUCIENDO EL SHABAD GURU

Posted July 5, 2017 by Sikh Dharma Ministry & filed under Around the World, Community, Ministry, Shabad Guru, Your Stories

Por SS Guru Nam Singh Khalsa y SS Sat Jivan Kaur Khalsa, McAllen TX, Publicado en el Verano de 2017, boletín del Ministerio de SDI ARTICULO SOBRE LA TRADUCCION, IMPRESIÓN Y DISTRIBUCION DE LIBROS DE LAS ENSENANZAS EN ESPANOL. A principios de los años 80’s mi esposa hizo frente a una profunda…

TRANSLATING THE SHABAD GURU

Posted July 5, 2017 by Sikh Dharma Ministry & filed under Around the World, Community, Ministry, Shabad Guru, Your Stories

by SS Guru Nam Singh and SS Sat Jivan Kaur Khalsa, McAllen TX, published in the Summer 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter In the early 1980s, my wife SS Sat Jivan Kaur was facing a deep depression. Two prestigious doctors made the diagnosis and both agreed that it was imperative that she take strong medications…

KC Members Packing Food Bags for “Food for Kids” Program

Posted May 15, 2017 by Sikh Dharma International & filed under Khalsa Council, Service/Seva, Videos

Thursday, April 20, 2017 The Khalsa Council supported the Food for Kids program in Espanola, NM by helping to pack food bags for more than 400 elementary school children. This is a weekly effort by Food for Kids New Mexico Please visit their website to find out more and consider sponsoring…

Food 4 Kids – How to Get Started?

Posted May 8, 2017 by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa & filed under Community, Khalsa Council, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People

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An Experience of Seva at the Darbar Sahib

Posted July 19, 2016 by Sikh Dharma International & filed under Your Stories

Written by HarKiren Kaur, Courtesy of Sikhnet The below text is a funny and illustrated description shared by Harkiren Kaur from Malaysia about some of her experiences doing seva at Harimandir Sahib and being a Sikh woman. It is from 2006. "I think I’ve mentioned that I have joined the school (Miri Piri Academy) in Amritsar…

Bana, Bani, Seva, Simran and Shastar

Posted February 26, 2016 by Chardi Kala Jatha & filed under Bana, Bani, Dharmic Education, Videos

Sadasat Simran Singh from the Chardi Kala Jatha talks about the foundation elements of Sikh lifestyle - Bana, Bani, Seva, Simran and Shastar …

Share a Meal: Serving Those Who Need It Most

Posted February 8, 2016 by OngKar Kaur Khalsa & filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People

In mid-January, a few of us were in California for some meetings and on the Monday evening after our meetings were completed, we joined the Share a Meal team to serve food to the homeless on Skid Row in LA. Many of us do not have a reference point to how awful it is to actually “live on the…

Los Angeles Baisakhi 2014

Posted April 2, 2014 by Sikh Dharma International & filed under Community, Events

Espanola, New Mexico Sangat Members, Sat Kirtan Kaur and Siri Sadhana Singh share inspiring words on their experiences of seva at the Los Angeles Baisakhi Day Celebration. Sat Kirtan Kaur Baisakhi is my favorite event of the year. While I deeply love Solstice, White Tantric Yoga days and the Guru Ram Das…

Higher you are, Humbler you are

Posted March 31, 2014 by Siri Singh Sahib Ji & filed under Lectures-Siri Singh Sahib

WAHE GURU JI KA KHALSA, WAHE GURU JI KI FATEH! Something which I have practiced for many many years and I have qualified myself to look at myself as I am entering my 61st year. I have to share with you certain aspects of life which normally do not exist in spiritual education. In…

Chateau Anand Seva Camp – July 2013

Posted August 19, 2013 by Sikh Dharma International & filed under Around the World, Community

Participants in this Seva Camp came from around the world – Russia, the Netherlands, France, UK, Canada, Mexico, and USA Projects the seva team worked on included: varnishing the doors and windows of the refectories sanding, painting and varnishing of the dorms on top of the refectories creating fences around the pond, with…

“Food 4 Kids NM” Program

Posted July 19, 2013 by Guru Simran Kaur Khalsa & filed under Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories

When you start something new, it takes a lot of flexibility, creativity and plain work. No need for big committees, boards or anything. Just start simple and once it works, expand. Here is “How it started” Here we have a children’s program for the ashram children once a…