by SS Kulwant Singh Khalsa, West Midlands, United Kingdom 2023 (First Quarter) Aasaa, Seventh House, Fifth Mehl: Meditate continually on the Name of the Lord within your heart. Thus you shall save all your companions and associates. ||1|| My Guru is always with me, near at hand. Meditating, meditating in remembrance on Him, I cherish Him forever. ||1||Pause|| Your actions seem so sweet to me. Nanak begs for the treasure of the Naam, the Name of the Lord. ||2||42||93|| ~ Guru Arjan Dev Ji – Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji – Ang 394 In this Shabad, Guru Arjan, our fifth
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Archives for Siri Guru Granth Sahib
Hukam: The Sweet Will of God
Path to Guru
by SS Siri Ved Kaur, Coarsegold CA 2021 (First Quarter) In early 1971, when Yogi Bhajan returned from the first India Yatra with 88 students, he brought back enough copies of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib (8-volume sets with English translation) for every ashram. Within a few weeks, we started a non-stop reading of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib at Guru Ram Das Ashram (GRDA) in West Hollywood. I showed up for my assigned reading time, knowing only that I was to cover my head, read aloud, and not stop reading for any reason. When I arrived, I saw another
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Serving the Truth
by SS Christ Singh Khalsa Winter 2018 Obey When I think of the word obey, I think of duty. Or as our teacher taught us, the concept of “keep up.” Since it seems that I’ve always been a “lighting rod” for helping other people work out their karma, my life has often been an exercise in chaining down my ego and letting God work His/Her way, using me as a catalyst. This started early, as I was raised by a very bright, but emotionally unstable, single school-teacher mother in far north Texas. Being raised as an only child in this
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The Beauty of Shabd Guru
by SS Sat Purkh Kaur Khalsa, Belton TX Winter 2018 Of all the many tools the Siri Singh Sahib delivered to his students, perhaps the most subtle and most powerful was Shabd Guru. As we begin to vibrate these sounds, we refine our own minds, so that we can listen more clearly, with less and less ego, and allow our inner wisdom to guide us. What motivates most of us to participate and practice in any spiritual path is our own desire to change. We want to be happy. This is the basic motivation for all human behavior. But to
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Part of the Guru’s Mission
by SS Sat Jagat Singh Khalsa, Brooklyn NY Winter 2018 I have had two unique experiences while serving at the Golden Temple that have helped me to excel with the Guru. First, I took a rag and started polishing the walls in the stairways inside Harimandir Sahib. I thought I was doing a really good job; my rag got very dirty and I was very proud of myself. I thought, “nobody has ever done a better job on this than I!” I dipped my dirty rag in the sarovar to rinse it. A sevadar with a spear came and yelled at
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Guided With Love
by SS GuruKirin Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Fall 2018 There is a saying that God is always working in our best interest to serve us and we just need to connect with this energy to deliver the goals or prayer we are seeking. Throughout my life, I’ve explored how this happens and have felt many times how this love flows from the Divine, and how much it comes closer to us when we reach out for more. Several years ago, I was at a turning point in my life. A mission I had served for many years had come to
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What Prayer Can Be Offered?
By SS Karta Purkh Singh Khalsa, Kansas City MO Fall 2018 My first visit to India—after adopting the Sikh faith—was in 1980. We went to visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Upon my arrival at the Harimander Sahib, the Guru determined that I was in desperate need of some serious cleansing, because I became violently ill. However, the task of the yatra for me was to “keep up.” I was blessed to be able to proceed, feeling uncomfortable, but still blessed. After touring many holy places during the 40-day trip, our final stop was Anandpur Sahib. From Sikh history, I
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Connecting with the Sound Current
by SS Bibi Bhani Kaur Khalsa, Phoenix AZ Fall 2018 In 1970, I was finishing my first year at Antioch College in Columbia, Maryland. I had been playing music with a man I met there and we’d performed at some local coffee houses. That summer he went to England and began playing at “folk clubs.” He called and asked me to join him so we could play music together. I decided to go for it. So I flew to London, took a train to Cornwall, and then hopped a ferry to the Scilly Isles, where he was staying. We performed
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Guru’s Love
by SS Gian Kaur Khalsa, Guadalajara, Mexico Fall 2018 Beloved Sadh Sangat, I feel honored to speak about this ultimate experience of Guru’s Love, although to describe the indescribable subtlety of this profound love is a challenge. I experience it like the endless and natural processes of the white dunes moving in the desert—always evolving, always bringing a unique experience of beauty, purity, and perfection. Impeccable design, sophisticated forms always guiding my mind to Infinity. My Guru is the pure delight of this movement, a balm of wisdom to my finite body. A hope for Oneness. May I always be guided
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Returning to the Guru’s Feet
by SS EkOngKar Singh Khalsa, Albany CA Summer 2018 Although I have and am very grateful to have a relationship with Shabd Guru, I have no words to express how that has developed or how it is sustained—except to say that, after a very long journey, by some grace, I entered the sacred space of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. I can only say that when I am in the presence of the Guru, when I hear the vibration of the Guru’s Shabd, I feel I have come home and that the place in which I sit is filled with
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