Browsing Tag: 5 K's

That day, side by side, yet magically together, white, black, brown, yellow threads of humanity wove a tapestry I can only call "Life."

The zero, a halo and a prayer wheel - all circles - boast no unbroken lines, no beginning, no end, and the solar system offers a veritable festival of circles within circles, a plethora of round objects orbiting each other in a well-choreographed space ballet.

If you are a Sikh youth and wavering on this issue, I humbly suggest you really explore your reasons for not wearing the Five K’s. Go to your parents, find older Sikhs who’ve gone through the same issue, read the example of other Sikhs, and go to Waheguru–that wonderful light which dispels all darkness–for guidance.

I keep reminding myself that Guru Gobind Singh is not the first Khalsa, though he is the embodiment of Khalsa. Khalsa means ‘the pure’. Guru Gobind Singh did not initiate people into his faith, he showed, through that awesome Baisakhi day, that there are people who are great and that possibility of greatness is within us.

Within the Sikh community I am valued more for my outward appearance than for who I actually am, and nobody cares if I do really live the Sikh lifestyle.

An important part of Sikhi, is bana. The image a Sikh possesses is supposed to let others know that he or she is a Sikh. The turban, the kara, the unshorn hair. These are all supposed to be like lighthouses to people that need help, so that they know who they can turn to in their need.

The Sikhs have yet to make the public at large aware of the significance of the Five K's of the Khalsa.