Sikhi dwells heavily on the five fundamental evils that haunt and command us. They define our life; its purpose and demeanor - the kind of person we become....further we learn that haumae...
Study, work, study, work, study, work. We have to reach our mission. We have to buy a new house. We have to earn enough money to establish a family. We have to read all these pages before the exam.
With wedding season just around the corner, Kaur Life thought it would be nice to run a series of articles on different topics of Anand Karaj. We start with “The Sikh Purpose of Marriage.”
FAMILY, FASHIONS, AND FUN were on exuberant display on a sunny Saturday Indiana morning: to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Military Park looked like a Punjabi Mela
You may have just celebrated your 30th, 50th, or 75th birthday, but the cells that make up your body are actually much younger than that. If you go by the numbers, your cells are, on average, around 10 years old, or less.
Sikhi talks about the chardikala concept. Being in a stable state. How can we be in a stable state when we are dependent on which button people around us are pressing? It’s logical that our state of mind will fluctate, when we depend on others.
Every year on 4 May, the Netherlands commemorates the victims of war. On 5 May we celebrate the fact that we were liberated.
Clearly, in Sikhi, the flesh of the Guru-Founders is not important; the ideas and teachings are paramount and eternal. Sikhi and Nanak's message needs to travel outside the four walls of gurdwaras, our community TV, and radio media.
These teachings are embedded into the painting in symbolic representations. Perhaps that's why this painting is huge - it is seven feet tall - or perhaps Guru Sahib's larger than life personality requires a larger than life portrait!
Congratulations to the entire Sikh world and our friends in other faith communities on the sacred and joyous occasion of the 316th Baisakhi that falls this year on April 14th. Baisakhi, some people say Vaisakhi, is the most important and transformational event in Sikh faith history.