To celebrate Sikh culture and to educate the larger American community on Sikhs, the San Antonio sangat hosted the first ever Sikh Heritage Night at the basketball game on December 28, 2015.
A Muslim woman who was followed in a local grocery store. When she finally turned around to confront the person, they asked “Are you ISIS?” She responded, “Are you KKK?”
And while his life has been pretty much an open book, not many people know about his mother, who happens to be a an Amritdhari Sikh who dons a turban and always wears her 5 K’s blessed by Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
We distance ourselves from these institutions of faith. This, in turn, is producing a generation of uninterested, and apathetic Sikhs. We don’t want to get tangled in politics, so we simply stop showing up.
I have been working continuously in transliterations and translations of the Banis for 16 years. In 2003 I finished the first version of the Japji Sahib.
In being present amongst like minded people who share the longing to connect, in being in the electrifying state of meditation and music, the spiral of positive energy created can wipe out any feelings of negativity and take you into a wonderful state of Higher Consciousness.
She also expressed empathy with the Sikh community over the recent incidents of violence against Sikhs and the reported case of vandalism at Los Angeles Gurdwara.
For many years, I have wondered why more attention hasn’t been paid to the constant head-butting that goes on in football, and other sports that our children are playing.