by SS GuruKirin Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Winter 2016 “If in subtlety you become very refined and in activity you become very subtle, you are very near to your soul because there is a direct relationship between the Subtle Body and the spiritual body. 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 which is not gross—will put you nearer to the soul. That is a rather simple way of reaching your God consciousness.” —The Siri Singh Sahib (May 27, 1981) The Shabad Guru (an infinite universal sound current)
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Archives for Siri Guru Granth Sahib
The Capacity of the Shabad Guru
Sweet Sloks of Guru Teg Bahadur
by SS Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Summer 2016 In the month of Vaisakh we celebrate the birth of the 9th Sikh Guru—Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib. His life is an epic story of bravery and fearlessness, devotion and meditation, and ultimately the sacrifice of his own life for freedom of religion.[1] Guru Gobind Singh ji writes with loving respect about his holy father in his autobiographical Bichitra Naatak: Guru Teg Bahadur became the protector of the sacred thread and the tilak; He gave the highest sacrifice so that we remember forever; He gave his head as an offering without the
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Siri Guru Granth Sahib
Miracle of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib (PDF) http://www.sikhnet.com/files/ereader/Siri%20Guru%20Granth%20Sahib%20(Gurmukhi)%20for%20Kindle.pdf
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Sow the Seed of Shabad Guru
by SS Deva Kaur Khalsa, Coral Springs FL Winter 2013 Bowing to another person often does not work well, due to human shortcomings, but bowing to an infinite, undying teacher—the Siri Guru Granth Sahib—can prevent the malady of spiritual ego. But even the Siri Singh Sahib, with all his caliber and consciousness, found it challenging to discover a way to deliver his students to the feet of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Because he loved the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, and his students loved him, the door was opened, and then he taught the powerful technology of Shabad Guru contained
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The Miracle of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib
Excerpted and edited from transcripts of lectures of the Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji It takes you many incarnations to find a Guru. And sometimes as a human you may not even find a Guru, or you may find a Guru who is bogus. These are not worth anything. The blind will take you to the pitch of darkness and death. But look at the Sikh. He is conceived in the womb of the mother and the Siri Guru Granth is outside waiting for him. You cannot be a Sikh and be Nirgura (without a Guru).
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The Soul of a Sikh
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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The Guru’s Translation Project
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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The Guru’s Glossary
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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The Art of Translation
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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Transformation Through Translation
by SS Gurudev Singh Khalsa, Houston TX Fall 2010 The translator’s desktop is seldom considered a place of pilgrimage, a sacred space where the seeker can find his deepest realization. Most of us imagine a place of pilgrimage as a physical place full of beauty and inspiration, where our prayers and hopes are answered and where our pain and suffering are healed. How could one imagine finding such a place in the humble desktop of a translator? Let me try to open a small window to gain a glimpse of such a place. During the years that I spent translating
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