Browsing Tag: Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa

The values of a society, the power structures, the oppression, even, exist in the subtext of the stories that we tell each other.

When people ask me about prosperity from the perspective of the Guru, this passage by Guru Arjan in Sukhmani sums it up perfectly. We only have what the Creator arranges for us to have. Nothing comes to us just because of own efforts.

[VIDEO] We have habits that are ancestral survival mechanisms that live in our subconscious minds, that are generations old. The problem is they don't allow you to be yourself. Nothing less than that is going to work.

I believe that Gurbani says things that English has no experience with, and therefore, no words for. The spiritual reality of Anand is one of those terms.

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."

We all know that trees are good in that they provide shade and greenery. Could trees also have a mystical intelligence and a profound affect on the greater environment around them?

That little bit of surrender to the shadow ignites a light within that protects me from the darkness, even if there is no way out of it.