Browsing Tag: Death

If I had only a few hours or days to live what would I do? Would I spend the next hours mindlessly traveling social media? Would I spend time reading and contemplating something philosophical and uplifting, or would I think and do something that would leave my footprints in the sands of time after I am gone?

Simran Jeet Singh, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and regular contributor to the media, was kind enough to speak about how the Sikh tradition approaches dying and mourning.

My whole life I have heard that the soul continues to come and go until one’s soul gets assimilated with God. The body perishes, but the soul remains. Some time ago, however...

Hari Simran Singh Khalsa's family, who plan on creating a foundation in his name, have shown great grace, strength, warmth and humor during his memorial. For them it is no coincidence that the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh...

President Mandela: May your soul rest in much-deserved and rightly-earned eternal peace among the stars.

The death of global anti-apartheid icon and South Africa's liberation leader Nelson Mandela has unleashed a chorus of awed respect from across the worlds of politics, religion, sport and culture.

World renowned Kirtani, Bhai Amrik Singh Zakhmi passed away yesterday evening. Bhai Sahib, known for singing classical kirtan renditions, was celebrated across the world for keeping traditional kirtan alive.

Have you achieved anything worthy of reflection in this mortal form?

Many doctors, nurses, students, residents and experts had palpated, probed and prodded my flesh like dead meat. But I was alive and duly certified even though I was told that my life hung by a slender thread. The tentative diagnosis pointed to my reality as hanging poignantly between life and death.

The sharing or selfless service we call Seva should be used to ease the lives of others who are experiencing difficulties. Society has a responsibility to ensure that their last days on this earth are as comfortable as possible, and their dignity is maintained when they are too weak or frail to look after themselves.

This journey needing courage, Faith and hope to succeed To warm us deep within as we Get ready to proceed

Following a review of dozens of studies, University of Missouri researchers found that thoughts of mortality can lead to decreased militaristic attitudes, better health decisions, increased altruism and helpfulness, and reduced divorce rates.

The family of a student killed during a demonstration in India are calling for a full investigation into his death.

Abbotsford senior Amarjit Singh Sidhu is being warmly remembered by the city's Indo-Canadian community as a kind and devoted man who spent his days overseeing the kitchen at Abbotsford's Gur Sikh temple and helping out wherever he could.

Death and loss are universal experiences, which we all face at some time in some form. Death/loss is experienced according to one’s orientation, i.e. culture, religion, experience, and nervous system. For some, death is a wall, an ending; for some, it is a door, a beginning.

New research suggests that when non-religious people think about their own death they become more consciously skeptical about religion, but unconsciously grow more receptive to religious belief.

As God Conscious beings, we are in the world. We are like the lotus flower, with its roots in the mud and its flower floating on the water, untouched by the dirt. Whether we are a street sweeper or a brain surgeon, we can do everything with a consciousness of service.

We can achieve Jiwan-Mukht, liberation while yet alive. We don’t have to wait until an afterlife to achieve it. It exists for us right now.

The Prince George Sikh community is in mourning following the death of one of its prominent members in an arson fire over the weekend.

We recognize at a certain level of awareness that men like Jesus, Nanak, Gobind Singh were special — beyond human understanding — so much so that we unnecessarily free them of all human experiences, particularly those that are universally recognized as painful or noxious.

The morning of October 6, 2011, I just opened the Google web page and under the search window was a small line with name Steve Jobs and dates 1955-2011 written with it. I was shocked to learn that the legendary visionary, the creative genius was no more.

STUDENTS at James Cook University in Townsville were rocked by the sudden death of second-year medical student Gurpreet Singh, 18, who was found dead in his college dormitory last Wednesday night.

Gurpreet's death came the same day as President Obama's announcement that, beginning next month, the U.S. would begin a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan toward a goal of 33,000 service men and women pulled out by the end of 2012.

Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education (SCORE), said that “We appreciate President Obama’s leadership in bringing justice to a man who caused so much grief to many fellow Americans and to so many people around the world.

Bibi Joginder Kaur, wife of late Akali leader and Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Panth Rattan Gurcharan Singh Tohra, died in Patiala today after a brief illness...

Cease all thoughts of your daughter-in-law, Mother, providence has shown its hand Tying the knot of marriage with the mean bride And thus helped me cross over this vast ocean. Death is now my consort !

A heartfelt poem from Harman Sadana with an English translation by Coco Singh.

What I’ve studied in Sukhmani this year gives me a much clearer context for the last moment of life, that last breath. And it basically comes down to this: Is God good? Or is God everything?

People who die of extremely high fevers in the community can be misdiagnosed and the cause of death can be attributed to other diseases and vice versa. As most deaths in India occur at home, without medical intervention, cause of death is seldom medically certified.

Nirmal Singh Kalsi was an outstanding scholar of Gurmat symbol philosophy. His real love was to serve and disseminate the message of his guru, Guru Granth Sahib. While fighting progressive cancer, he spent the last few years of his life searching and articulating the tradition and meaning of the Sikh symbol – Ik Onkaar – which means One God.