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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Making it Sweet
#37 Fall 2010 Newsletter
The theme for the Fall 2010 Ministry Newsletter is Transformation Through Translation. We asked Sikh Dharma Ministers and others to share the experience of translating the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Please enjoy the following articles on this topic. We welcome comments and feedback on this newsletter and our website. Please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in the articles on this website are those of the various authors and not necessarily those of the Office of the Secretary of Religion or Sikh Dharma International.
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God’s Tree
by SS Shiv Charan Singh, Portugal Winter 2009 The Gurmukh is like God’s tree, always green, blessed with the Sublime Love of the True One, with intuitive peace and poise.—Siri Guru Granth Sahib (p. 66) “Use the tools to take the fools to the Guru.” Such was the simplicity and down to earth elegance of the Siri Singh Sahib as he gave voice to the hukam [to serve the Guru] that has been written in my soul for lifetimes. The same call to bring souls to the feet of the Guru can be found in this passage by Guru Arjun: I
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The Eternal Shabd Guru
Ask the Bhai Sahiba Column Winter 2009 A few years back, a man approached a group of us going to have breakfast. He asked us about our Dharma. He didn’t know much, but what he did know was revealed in his opening comments: “Oh, you are ‘the chanters’.” I chuckled internally. Over the years we have been identified with various virtues. Now, this man was recognizing us as the lovers of the Shabd, the worshippers of the Shabd. Don’t we LOVE the Shabd Guru? That great Eternal Sound as Teacher, carrier of the flow and rhythm of the movement of
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Siri Guru Granth Sahib – A Living Guru
Ask the Bhai Sahiba Column Winter 2008 From”Living Reality” by Bhai Sahiba Dr. Inderjit Kaur Khalsa (Bibiji), Miri Piri Academy Press, Chheharta, India. How did the Siri Guru Granth Sahib become the living Guru? On October 6, 1708, Guru Gobind Singh assembled the Sangat at Nanded and told them that he was the last in the line of human teachers or Gurus. In his last farewell he said, “I have entrusted you to the immortal God. I have infused my mental and bodily spirit into the Granth Sahib, and the Khalsa should henceforth obey the Granth Sahib. It is the
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