by Sat Kewal Kaur, Moscow, Russia Fall 2010 Guru’s Word sounds heart-touching to everyone, including people who hear Gurbani for the first time. [I had] just started practicing Kundalini Yoga. I listened to Japji every day on the way to work and after work. I simply like how it sounds. I asked myself, “Where is the text to this miracle sound?” I visited the Sikh Gurdwara in Moscow where I lived. To my surprise, I did not find the text in Russian. I visited a market where Sikh salesmen are, and asked one of them to bring Japji text for me direct from India.
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by SS Guruka Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM Fall 2010 On the first day of Khalsa Council in October 2009, we worked in small groups to identify projects that furthered the current Khalsa Council 2009-2011 agenda on the topic Sharing the Teachings: Kundalini Yoga, Shabd Guru, Women, Healing, and Family. In one of those small group sessions, Sardarni Sahiba Sat Mohine Kaur remembered an assignment that the Siri Singh Sahib had given to the women attending Khalsa Women’s Training Camp (KWTC). During the summer of 1983, the Siri Singh Sahib had requested each camp participant to translate some pages of the Siri
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by SS Prabhu Nam Kaur Khalsa, San Leandro CA Fall 2010 I had been in the Dharma for a year or two when I had my introduction to the sound current. Amarjeet Kaur was teaching a two-week class at the Golden Temple Restaurant in Los Angeles, which was a 40-minute drive from my home in Long Beach. We worked on one shabd, learning one line every day. I sang that shabd and a few others and never knew the meaning of a single word, but it was attractive to me and so I kept being drawn to singing them. Little
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by Gurujot Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM Fall 2010 Originally published on SikhNet.com The act of translation contains its own intrinsic impossibility. That is, every translation is only an approximation of the original. That does not mean that we should not attempt the impossible! In fact, I believe it’s actually necessary to do so. I find it somewhat difficult to translate Gurbani into English because one word in Gurbani could require a whole story or several paragraphs of explanation to understand the whole meaning. Many of the examples used in Gurbani require an understanding of the culture that existed at the time
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by SS Sat Mohine Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Fall 2010 The focus of our Fall 2009 Khalsa Council Meetings was the Shabd Guru. We broke into small groups to discuss this topic. It came up in our group, through Sat Bachan Kaur, that we needed a good translation of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Right away pearls of wisdom from our teacher came to me from Ladies’ Camp when he asked us to translate the Siri Guru Granth Sahib as a group of 300. I shared what I could remember from his request and the whole group lit up. Everyone was
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