by MSS Nirvair Singh Khalsa, Santa Rosa, California 2025 (First Quarter) What is Shuniya? Here are few quotations from Yogi Bhajan. “In science of yoga it is called pratyahar or it is the science of shuniya or best word in English is the science of zero. Science of zero is anything which multiple zero becomes zero. When you know zero then there is nothing else to know. You know everything else and if zero is put on the right side is a plus. If zero is put on the left side it is minus but the power of zero is
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by SS Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Claremont, California 2025 (First Quarter) I have been taught that we are Spiritual Beings, having a Human Experience. This feels true to me. In this human form, we can serve, we can elevate; we are challenged and can grow in consciousness. I was also taught that our development flows through Individual and Group Consciousness to Universal Consciousness. As a psychologist, a yogi, and a Sikh, I have found this to be true. There is great value and great risk in each level of consciousness. I am imperfect and we are imperfect. This much I know.
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by SS Hargopal Kaur Khalsa, Los Angeles, California 2025 (First Quarter) Challenges in life? These days (and maybe always), there are so many opportunities to grow! Here are some of my practices that may help sail through the rough seas. Dropping attachments has been vital for my growth. My daily practice is to surrender my attachment to any person, any situation, any thought, anything. In fact, I give the writing of this article to God and Guru. Ego and agendas are no longer involved. Then it is about what will serve. It took practice for this approach to be effective.
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by SS Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa, Moucheira, Portgual 2025 (First Quarter) To answer some of these questions posed on Shuniya, or rather to make sense of my answers, I might first say a few things as to what Shuniya is for me. My sense of Shuniya is not a darkness. Rather, it is a continuous, underlying, background, quality of light; always everywhere, the source of all. Being in Shuniya means being present with myself as a microcosm in the midst of an immeasurable macrocosm.  It is quiet, it is peaceful, it is healing; a place of rejuvenation and regeneration. It
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by SS Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Espanola, New Mexico 2025 (First Quarter) “Oh mind, the most exalted and glorious thing that you can do, is to recognize the Divine Reality in you.” Ashtapadi 3, Verse 3, Sukhmani Sahib, from Guru Arjan On Guru Ram Das’s birthday, October, 1986, the first Kundalini Yoga therapeutic class for those living with HIV disease was to start. In a few hours I would be literally face to face with people who had the most vilified illness of the 20th century. No question that I was in over my head. To prepare, I stood
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by SS Bachitar Kaur Khalsa, Engen, Germany 2025 (First Quarter) “Shuniya” is often described as a state of neutrality, emptiness, or zero-point. Sunn, a Punjabi form of the Sanskrit Sunya, is rooted in terms meaning “to swell,” “to expand,” or “to increase.” While Shuniya can imply “zero” or “nothing,” mathematically, zero amplifies any figure by tenfold. In the context of Siri Guru Granth Sahib, Shunyia represents a primordial, formless state of pure consciousness, the unmanifested reality from which all creation arises. Guru Nanak refers in his conversation with the Sidh Yogis to ਸੁੰਨ (Sunn or Sunn(a)) as the Absolute Reality: “When the heart
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