Browsing Tag: Anand karaj

What Disney Taught Me, or Didn’t

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.
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Sikh Anand Kaaraj and Homosexuality ~ [OP-ED]

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.
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Tanveer+Gursharan... A Sikh Wedding In Two Parts

Though the groom had stomach flu and it rained for most of the day, nothing could dampen the beauty of this day.
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Anand Karaj – A union of two souls

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.
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Divorce in the Presence of Guru Granth Sahib

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!
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Some trends in Sikh weddings and a special ‘Anand Karaj’ in Thailand

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are today, generally, a mere formality and the remaining ‘merry-making’ and that other, sometimes meaningless and outdated, cultural ceremonies have taken greater prominence.
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The Anand Karaj and the Lavan

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.
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