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America’s Love Affair with Amritsar (Part 1): I always knew politics was a funny old game but I wasn’t laughing when media reports confirmed that President Barack Obama had pulled out of visiting the Golden Temple during his state visit to India in 2010.
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SIKHI: The Global Vision That Was: There is a universality of the Sikh message that lies beyond the territory and self-limiting boundaries of Punjab, and this universality is entirely consistent with Sikh teaching and practice from Guru Nanak to Guru Gobind Singh.
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Out Of Respect: What I love most about being a Sikh, is that outside a few boundaries in the rehat marayada, I am free to define my own relationship with the Guru, so if that means I change rumaalay every day or my mutha tek routine takes 15 minutes...so be it. That said, Guru Sahib challenged us, not to be mere devotees...but to be students (Sikhs.)
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Is Sikhi sustainable in the self?: What happens when I begin to see hypocrisy, jealousy, anger in those who I most respected and considered to be MY panthic leaders? What happens when I see my “brothers” dishonoring my sisters? What happens when I see my role models talk shit, or bully, or straight up ignore those who have fallen off the path instead of helping them back up?
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Male Circumcision and Sikhi: Personally, I don’t understand what part of being made in God’s image is unfashionable. In a world where Jews and Muslims are circumcised due to their religious obligations, and others due to claims of hygiene, Sikh males may feel disadvantaged mentally and physically.
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Sikh History on Display in California: As a Sikh child who grew up in the west, my knowledge and experience with Sikh history came mostly through stories and books. Aside from occasional visits to India, what I knew and saw of Sikh history was predominantly left to my imagination that provided to me a visual to the words I read or the static pictures I saw.
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Complete Shri Sai Satcharitra On Grains Of Rice: So he began to draw the faces of the Gurus on little grains of rice, mustard seeds and sesame. After that he drew the entire Sukhmani Sahib on 5,0000 grains of rice and has ever since been known in India for his work.
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Wounded Bird: AND THE SUBLIME HAS BLESSED ME BEYOND THE TORMENTS OF TIME................ AND WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE.THE BEAUTY OF THE PEACE THAT I FEEL INSIDE!!!..
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A Sikh sister's journey of keeping Kesh...: In today's world keeping Kesh (hair) has become an issue for some men and women. However, our sisters struggle the hardest to maintain Sikhi saroop in this western society whilst dealing with the images bombarded by the media all around us of what an ideal woman should look like.
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Sardar or Sevadaar?: Interestingly, every guy with a dastaar on his head is dubbed “Sardar Ji”… not much thought goes into that - it’s just the way it is. I guess it does come with the territory…after all, the dastaar our men (and some women) don is reflective of royalty, isn’t it? However, I think we need to be a little more careful just throwing that word around.
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