Throughout 2016, our Ministry newsletter is focused on the Subtle Body. We invited Sikh Dharma Ministers to reflect on how we impact the world through our Subtle Bodies. Especially, how do we use the Subtle Body to support us in situations of challenge as we serve as teachers, leaders, and healers of the Aquarian Age? In the Winter 2016 issue, our theme is Shabad Guru and the Subtle Body. Please enjoy these articles and personal stories by Sikh Dharma Ministers about the Subtle Body in relation to our roles as Sikh Dharma Ministers. We welcome comments and feedback on this newsletter and our website. If
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#62 Winter 2016 Newsletter
Experience vs. Superstition
by Sant SS Guru Dev Singh Khalsa, Rome, Italy Fall 2016 How do we experience the Subtle Body? It is experienced through awareness. Unfortunately, 99.9% of the people are not aware, or not aware enough to recognize their experience. So we meditate and bring stability to our meditation and awareness. If you understand the Subtle Body, imagine it like a radio transmission, like waves. The archetype system we learned from the Siri Singh Sahib of the eleven Light Bodies can be paralleled with the ten Gurus of the Sikhs, the eleventh being the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The ninth body (the Subtle Body), in Sikh
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Subtle Body and Healing Generations
by SS Hargopal Kaur Khalsa, Los Angeles CA Fall 2016 Sometimes, in meeting a person, the exterior gruffness or roughness can be off-putting. At the same time, the Siri Singh Sahib always said, “If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all.” Relating to that person at a more subtle level often brings to awareness the pain they’ve had in their life, the fear they have, the masks they display. Then it’s possible to relate to the beauty, the image of how God is showing up in them. “[In the] same way in our life we
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Evolution of Consciousness
by SS Dr. Kartar Singh Khalsa DOM, Santa Fe NM Fall 2016 As we go through the evolutionary process of consciousness, our souls develop the capacity to experience life more thoroughly through the Subtle Body. The Subtle Body—being the container for the soul and the sensory organ of the soul—gives us the capacity to experience the subtlety of God in all things. As our consciousness grows, so does our ability to “read between the lines,” in order to pick up the subtle cues expressed in the ways people speak and act. When students or patients come to us, they are
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The Whole World in Your Hands
by SS Sat Kartar Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM (as told to SS Sangeet Kaur, Article Editor) Fall 2016 I came to Hacienda de Guru Ram Das in Espanola in April 1991. One day I was doing some seva (service) at the Ranch [the Siri Singh Sahib’s residence]. I was just coming back from cleaning a trailer, with a brush and rag in hand. Let’s just say, I was not elegantly attired. The Siri Singh Sahib ji was in the dining room and saw me. “Oh you, come here!” He had me sit down at the table with all the staff
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Ministry News and Notes (Fall 2016)
Congratulations and blessings to SS DukhNiwaran Kaur Khalsa of Chicago, IL, and SS Ram Krishan Singh Khalsa of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both individuals took their Sikh Dharma Minister vows at the 2016 Summer Solstice Sadhana in New Mexico on June 25, 2016. The vows were administered by SS Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Assistant Secretary of Religion. The vows were translated into Spanish by SS Sham Kaur Khalsa of La Paz, Bolivia. May God and Guru guide their service on this path as Ministers of the Divine. Wahe Guru! The Office of the Secretary of Religion announces our NEW! online Minister Renewal System to
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Secretary of Religion Column (Fall 2016)
“The Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Yogiji is coming!” Do you remember what it was like when the Siri Singh Sahib would visit our communities? There was much preparation, cleaning, repairing of things that might have been neglected for a while, all in a mad dash to receive our teacher. The whole vibration of the living space seemed to be lifted, brightened, cleansed, and transformed. When he would arrive, his eagle eye would inspect all that had been done. If something had been missed, he would see it, comment on it and tell someone to fix it or
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#61 Fall 2016 Newsletter
Throughout 2016, our Ministry newsletter is focused on the Subtle Body. We invited Sikh Dharma Ministers to reflect on how we impact the world through our Subtle Bodies. Especially, how do we use the Subtle Body to support us in situations of challenge as we serve as teachers, leaders, and healers of the Aquarian Age? For the Fall 2016 issue, our theme is Healing and the Subtle Body. Please enjoy these articles and personal stories by Sikh Dharma Ministers about the Subtle Body in relation to our roles as healers and Ministers. “When the Subtle Body, the carrier of the soul unto the destiny
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Ministry News and Notes (Summer 2016)
The Office of the Secretary of Religion announces our NEW! online Minister Renewal System to facilitate annual Minister credential renewals through a secure online portal. You can review and update your Minister record, submit your renewal letters and exams, and securely pay your annual Minister fees. For assistance with your 2016 Minister Renewal or to catch up on past year’s renewals, contact Executive Assistant SS Sarb Nam Kaur Khalsa at [email protected]. Sikh Dharma International presents the SDI Academy tent at Summer Solstice 2016, offering a schedule of more than 20 classes and events about various aspects of Sikh Dharma presented
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#60 Summer 2016 Newsletter
Throughout 2016, our Ministry newsletter is focused on the Subtle Body. We invited Sikh Dharma Ministers to reflect on how we impact the world through our Subtle Bodies. Especially, how do we use the Subtle Body to support us in situations of challenge as we serve as teachers, leaders, and healers of the Aquarian Age? “If in subtlety you become very refined and in activity you become very subtle, you are very near to your soul….The spirit and the Subtle Body are very much related, they never leave each other. So anything which is refined—refined art, refined acts, refined speech…will put you nearer
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