From the day I was born, she showed me how to sacrifice, giving up her own career to stay at home with her newborn daughter. She called me her “best friend” and the gift she had always wanted.
[VIDEO] “You don’t need to fear the worst case scenario. Love yourself and know that all will be ok. If you remain positive and loving, life will surely work out for you. Be kind to yourself and patient with others.”
In this poem a mother speaks to her daughter about an incident where she is called a burden. "You are not a responsibility, you are a blessing. You are not someone’s, this world is yours."
[VIDEO] It is a story of despair, love, hopelessness, grace and triumph. Viewers of the video have commented that they both laughed and cried.
In the world of spirituality stemming from Eastern cultures and philosophy the higher sentiments are related to divine attributes.
Jim said that it would be quite an upheaval for himself, his bride to be, and their families to partake of 'amrit sanchar' which he had read about. I informed him that 'amrit sanchar' and joining the ranks of the Khalsa were still far away for him. All he and Jacqueline needed to do in the first instance was to sincerely profess the Sikh faith and thus embark on the path of Sikhi.
I just wanted to share a few thoughts from my own experience about the Partnership Question. I hope the young man who spoke to me at the conference reads this essay, and I pray that these thoughts will be of some use to you.
Unfortunately, the question is not if you will die, but when will you die. When you die, you can leave a plan to achieve your goals and care for your family or you can leave it to chance. Your family and your hard-earned assets are too important to pass without your direction.
While the Sikh community may have adopted family planning methods, it is the “selective family planning” evidently adopted by a significant section of the community which goes against the tenets of Sikhism propounded by Guru Gobind Singh.
Exposure in the womb to mercury from the fish the mother is eating or the store in her body, has detrimental effects on the IQ of the child as multiple studies have shown. Most recently mercury exposure in children is associated with epilepsy.