Browsing Tag: Thailand

As is quite common with religion and its many different incarnations, to the unaccustomed, practices seem odd, foreign and well... just different.

You know it is really odd for me, as a third-generation Thai-Sikh to be writing for an Egyptian web site about a Found Nation. The mystery of how this comes about is quite interesting to consider in its entirety.

After finishing the morning prayer, I practice Sahej Sukh Dhyan, silently reciting the Mool Mantra, once on the inhale, three times suspending the breath, then once more on the exhale. I continue for about ten minutes than just sit allowing the mind and the body to experience the experience.

On Guru Nanak Dev Ji's birthday Rajveer Singh and I had the blessing to speak at the Gurdwara Sahib Petaling Jaya about the Mool Mantra, and how to apply it to your own life.

In more recent times, Tamils and Gujaratis migrated to Thailand in the late 1800s, trading in gems and textiles. Large-scale modern migration from northwest India began in the 1890s, followed by a wave of Sikhs...

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are today, generally, a mere formality and the remaining ‘merry-making’ and that other, sometimes meaningless and outdated, cultural ceremonies have taken greater prominence.