What also bothers me is our confusion in how to refer to the person who conducts the religious service in a gurdwara. Is he akin to a priest, a minister, or a rabbi, or is he uniquely different? What should we expect of him? What moral or ecclesiastical authority does he have? What title shall we give him when we speak in English so that his position and functions are not misunderstood?
"This is one of the events that the community is doing and we're part of the community," Singh said, adding that members have been welcoming to their congregation of a different faith.
He was born in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan. There are mutterings of returning him to Amritsar, the Sikh holy city, but nothing has been decided....But for now, the maharajah remains buried at Elveden.
...these rare manuscripts, books, documents (some of which are hand-written) and newspapers would now be available to the public at large on the internet after a month. The effort was meant for restoration and preservation of the precious material for posterity.
I am impressed by the equality in the temple that spans across boundaries of sex, gender, caste, and material wealth. The Golden Temple has accomplished the task of uniting people in spite of their differences. It has become a place to escape social inequalities and embrace collaboration and mutual respect.
The 419th ‘Prakash Gurpurab’ celebrations of sixth Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib ji, concluded at Hyderabad on Sunday (July 06) with a large number of Sikhs devotees and other community faiths celebrating with religious fervour, gaiety and devotion.
[VIDEO] In the video, they talk about how LGBT children are often discriminated against in the society and looked down upon. “It is time we accept our children, love them and be proud of them and give them their rights in society,” the mother says.
“It means a lot to our family and the Sikh community that the Department of Education and the school have shown a great respect for our child’s religious beliefs,” the family said, in a statement issued to The Sunday Times.
Even today when tourist visits a Sikh Gurudwara the cultural revival of Sikh history, literary history, ethno-history, and so forth can be seen. Sikhism, is still close to the hearts of many Sikhs.
Hearing these words of the Chaupai Sahib during the morning prayer program on the radio, which had accidentally been set to an alarm, I jolted back to consciousness and dropped my knife and collapsed onto the floor, crying.