Browsing Tag: Anand Karaj

From the moment you get engaged (or even before that), it seems everyone has some wedding advice to share.

What if you want to do something crazy? Something that not many people have even considered before? What if you want to break with tradition, completely? That’s exactly what Shawn Singh Tucker and Baljit “Bally” Kaur Lehal did during their Anand Karaj this summer in Atlanta, GA. “We walked side-by-side during our lavan,” said Shawn.

The question is, why insist on a religious wedding when a couple cannot agree on one religio-cultural path in married life. In such unions, religion takes low priority or has no place at all. Why not accept that reality from the outset?

The ultimate relationship is marriage. I don’t consider a relationship unless I can see a future. Old school? Maybe. I don’t understand girls, and guys, who get into “serious” relationships, knowing they can’t see themselves with the other person for the rest of their lives.

It’s amazing how sometimes Sikhs surprise everyone! Recently I came across this article written by Suringer Singh from Springfield VA, that was posted on the Sikh news website. I applaud the writer for his ability and vision to address such a sensitive topic.

Though ailing and raining the whole day nothing could dampen the beauty of this day.

Like the beautiful earth, adorned with jewels of grass, Such is the mind, within which the Love of the Lord abides. All one's affairs are easily resolved, O Nanak, When the Guru, the True Guru, is pleased.

Some believe divorce has no place in Sikh religion while others believe if a mistake has been made there is no harm in rectifying it and take recourse to civil law. However what takes the cake is divorce in presence of Guru Granth Sahib!

It is my observation that the significance and meaning of the actual ‘lavan’ are today, generally, a mere formality and the remaining ‘merry-making’ and that other, sometimes meaningless and outdated, cultural ceremonies have taken greater prominence.

It is amazing to me that it took quite a while for me to appreciate the significance of the Sikh marriage ceremony called the Anand Karaj.