Browsing Tag: Life

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...

But as I thought about writing an end of year column, it occurred to me there is one little passage from my 2013 diary that I could share. It comes from one of the dreams this year that I recorded.

When I meditate on Gurbani, the phrase "Har Naam" often appears. The translation most used in English is, "the Lord's Name." But there is a whole world that gets lost in that translation.

If we approach Gurbani’s message, Guru Sahib makes it clear that we are here in this world on a pilgrimage – from the time we were born, to aging and how it is progressing with the passage of day and night, month by month and year by year.

Yesterday’s hukamnama touched on temporal love. Guru said that man drowns in it. When do we know that our love is divine rather than temporal? Certainly a marriage ceremony alone is not enough.

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.

I have come to believe that nothing should come before God and as my life progresses and the love inside my heart and soul grow more than I have ever dreamed or known , I come to a greater understanding of true love and Gods secret place.

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.

Sometimes its better to stand out than fit in! You are you. Set the bar. Be yourself! Be Confident! Make a difference!

Every moment is precious.... every breath so blessed when I recite "Waheguru's" name... for tomorrow is not promised and I don't know if this breath I am breathing in will exhale out..... let me pray for his grace... and yes, let me savor every moment of this life.....

The karmic spaces can never confine the soul—nothing can—but they can confine the small self that yearns to become one with the universal soul. As you grow in awareness, you be able to give up things you don’t need, one by one, bit by bit—a pattern of anger, an attachment to someone who hurts you, a habit of negativity. What’s left is the soul, and the soul’s joy.

Problems and bad news abound everywhere; but wisdom lies in taking note of small incidents of joy that can bring happiness and touch our lives every now and then.

I knew this day would come. My showdown with the River Temple has been on my mind since I abandoned it in September, because no matter how hard we try to avoid it, our destiny/fate/karma/purpose will always haunt us.

We often hear people say things like “Well, I’m not into religion, but I’m a very spiritual person” or, “he’s really very spiritual.” But what does it actually mean to “be spiritual?”

There are many leaders in our Sikh Panth. Some are true and some are not. Just as the phrase we hear our parents say, “Eh duniya mutlab di ah, koi nahi kise da.” This world is selfish, no one belongs to anyone. Accept the truth that even the biggest of leaders and kings have left this world empty-handed. We don’t have time to waste on empty debates and fights.

Just as every individual is unique, his/her point of view about love is also unique. This article aims at developing an LQ (Love Quotient) for the revered reader and help make them Love-conscious.

So it is evident that judgment, or seeing life in the polarizing lens of good/right-bad/wrong is ultimately no different whether it is judgment of another or yourself, but you will find that as you release yourself from judgment, the tyranny of good/right and bad/wrong, so, by projection, you will also let go of judging outwardly, choosing instead, as far as you will allow yourself, to actually see yourself, things, people and situations for what they are.

I think it's great to learn more about the Gurus. I feel more and more at home with the different "Nanaks" as I connect to their words through my daily hukam.

It is important to honor and value the differences in our packaging, but it is just as important to honor the Gift of Life inside each one of us, and the fact that, no matter how different the packaging, the Gift inside is the same.

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?

If ones tries to vanquish foes in the outer world, They increase in greater measure. If one conquers his Self-mind within, All his foes soon disappear. ~ Milarepa (A tibetan yogi)

Death does not exist in any real sense. One of the surest axioms of science is that energy never dies; it can't be created or destroyed.

Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference has heard.

The Guru is enlightening souls by giving them exactly the life experiences they need to let go of everything except the Infinite.

My son used his turban to stop the bleeding - if I had kept bleeding I would have died.

What words can describe my experience here at the Special Olympics in Ludhiana…

Practicing life in a holy manner is the real prayer of soul.