Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Service/Seva
During these times of stress and turbulence, many of us are wondering how we can help. Rosie Sews, a nationwide volunteer effort, is offering one way we can do so from our homes during quarantine - making masks for medical workers without other options due to shortages, at-risk community members and essential workers (postal, grocery…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
We are one of the four Langar groups in Viña del Mar, Chile, called 'Guru Ram Das Ashram Langar.' We get together every Wednesday and cook vegetarian burgers with love, and then we give them to homeless people, or people who work on the streets.…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Your Stories
Can you briefly describe the Seva Sadhana program for those who haven’t heard of it before?
Seva Sadhana is a yogic lifestyle immersion program that allows a person to live in community and practice a healthy, happy and holy lifestyle. Program participants do seva for four hours each day, five…
Posted by Sikh Dharma International& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People, Your Stories
Amar Das Foundation provides homemade and blessed vegetarian meals to the homeless in downtown Santiago, Chile. We have already served over 10,000 meals. I think that when the heart calls, you have to simply answer and bow your head to the Guru without controlling anything, and without thinking of how you are going to do…
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 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 Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Around the World, Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
Last fall, Sikh Dharma hosted a fund-raiser for a regional hospital in Venezuela. The lack of food and medicine in that country is overwhelming and raising money is just one step - finding a way to spend that money on the people who need it is not as easy as it may seem. …
Posted by Dharmic Office of Public Affairs& filed under Community, Service/Seva, Sikhs Feed People
January 19 marked the fourth anniversary of Raj Khalsa Gurdwara’s monthly langar for the homeless program, an important milestone for the Raj Khalsa Gurdwara sangat in Virginia, USA.…
Posted by Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa& filed under Community
Background
The Sikh Dharma of Virginia Office of Public Affairs was created in March 2018. Guru Sangat Singh, Head of Raj Khalsa Gurdwara, had a vision of an Office that would accompany the excellent work being performed by the National…
Posted by Miri Piri Academy& filed under Around the World, Legacy Organizations
On Friday, the students at Miri Piri Academy completed 40 days of parkarma seva at the Golden Temple. For 40 days they rose in the Amrit Vela to complete this beautiful seva.
The Siri Singh Sahib himself participated in this seva for four years continuously.
"Now can you believe me, I was…
Posted by Shanti Kaur Khalsa& filed under Legacy Organizations
2017 a was tough year on the planet earth. Storms, floods, and earthquakes struck in all directions. Who knows what 2018 will bring, but we all must be prepared to see more trauma as Mother Earth evolves into a new reality. There is nothing we can do about that.
There is something we can…
Posted 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…
Posted by Sikh Dharma Ministry& filed under Khalsa Council, Ministry, Service/Seva
Written by SS Mata Mandir Kaur Khalsa from Herndon, VA and shared in the Summer 2017 SDI Ministry Newsletter.
“We as humans are supposed to live for each other and that is seva.”
—The Siri Singh Sahib (January 31, 1993)
Focusing on Seva
Seva is a basic human need. It is an expression of gratitude,…
Posted 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…
Posted 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…
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