You and I have the same value, but are treated differently depending on our surroundings.
Before you keyboard warriors freak out and think I’m attacking Sikhi, believe me, I’m not. I’m just going to be giving you an insight to what it’s like being a Sikh girl in 2016 because last time I checked, no one in the community tries to step into our shoes.
Love is not a passing feeling; it is an act of will. It is the choice to extend our will for the flourishing of others and ourselves. When we pour love in places where there is fear and rage, we can transform an encounter, a relationship, a culture, a country. Love becomes revolutionary.
Its time we did some serious deliberation. … is it really just about limiting women….
Infant Gobind Rai placed his hands in both bowls, indicating that he would not profile people based on religious divides
...on Guru Gobind Singh Ji's gurpurab for me today was to see that someone who used to cut their beard, keeping it.
His biological father was the Guru. His biological father was perfect. And even Guru Sahib wasn't attached to him. He did what was right for the panth.
The temporal power was with the Guru-Sangat or Guru-Panth empowered to interpret the Guru-Bani and to direct the affairs of the Khalsa Panth
Can a Sikh do an Anand Karaj with someone who is not a Sikh? Ouch!!! I actually struggled with this one for a while. I struggled because deep down I knew the answer. I just didn’t know how to process it.