The goodwill walk also aims to raise awareness and funds for the Gurpuri Foundation. Gurpuri, which means "Place of the Guru", intends to build a Sikh temple, a school and a home for orphans, widows, single mothers, handicapped children and the elderly on a seven-hectare site in Bentong, Pahang.
HUISH Episcopi Academy [Somerset, U.K.] students whipped up a traditional Sikh meal as part of their GCSE religious studies. Around 200 students and staff enjoyed the vegetarian ‘langar’ meal at school to help them learn about Sikhism.
Vikram Singh Ji was the first ‘gora’ Sikh to do kirtan at Darbar Sahib in 1979/80 having studied the rudiments of the ‘raag’ system from the legendary Bhai Sahib Bhai Autar Singh Ji of Bangla Sahib. His rendition of Jaap Sahib in music is still one of the best cutting edge Jaap Sahib I have heard.
Meditation, compassion, acceptance and love stick out as major Sikhi concepts incorporated in this Huffington Post article. "...modern science has validated a number of teachings and beliefs rooted in ancient wisdom that, up until now, had been trusted but unproven empirically."
The most touching chapter is the one on Kailash and Gopal’s visit to Pakistan. It confirms an urge all Punjabis uprooted from their roots have felt — to revisit, at least once, their roots. Finally, in 1983, an old world, long abandoned but never forgotten came back to life.
Paul Dhaliwal of Abbotsford went from working in saw mills to professional wrestling and owning a trucking business. He arrived in Canada in 1932, first settling in Abbotsford with his uncle. Today, Dhaliwal is regarded as one of the original settlers who helped build the local Sikh community.
There is the great story of how the Anand Sahib, by Guru Amar Das ji, came to be written. Author Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa begins a 41 part series. Each will be on a pourhi of Anand Sahib. In this story a Sidh Yogi leaves his body at the direction of the Guru, "Be reborn in my family. Then come to me and I will teach you how to live."
How high to you prioritize you health?Making an effort to listen to these five wellness clues, and make specific changes to your lifestyle habits, is one of the simpler ways least expensive to perhaps drastically improve your health and long term happiness to ideally avoid the need for “sick care.”
Continuing form mothers day here is the story of a man written by his mother: When I got frustrated, all I could do was yell at him, “I hope you have a son like yourself.” They now have a son-who is just like his daddy. Has my wish come true? Yes, it has! It was a beautiful wish from a mother’s heart.
The role of Sikhs in the Great War is a largely unknown but fascinating part of the story of the Allied War effort is the participation of the Sikh soldiers in the Dominium forces of Australia.