Baba Banda Singh Bahadur was a great Sikh general who established Sikh rule in large part of Punjab. Born to Rajput parents, his childhood name was Lachhman Das. He was very fond of hunting in early life but an incident changed his entire life and he shunned the worldly pleasures to become a bairagi sadhu.
Shanti Kaur Khalsa shares some historical accounts about the Vaisakhi story. There are several versions and in some of them Guru tricks the crowd by using goats, and in some versions the 5 beloveds actually give their heads. She gives a great perspective on all of these versions.
In this video Guruka Singh answers someone who asked him "Why am I a Sikh?". First we must understand what a Sikh is...
Guru Nanak was the very first leader of the Sikhs and he started the Sikh religion. He traveled to many places, and once he went to Lahore, a big town in Pakistan.
Consider the power and grace of these women, when Bibi Amro had the good fortune through her melodious singing which resulted in the simple 'churning of curd' to the "churning of a mortal into the Immortal - Ram Das into Guru Ram Das Sahib...
'The First Anglo-Sikh War' unearths a wealth of rarely studied sources and marries them to exhaustive field research to produce a detailed study of an important but largely forgotten campaign."
One of the most precious of our traditions is our distinct spiritual music, which flourished during the time of our great Gurus..
It was a soul-touching, eye-wetting and emotional roller-coaster experience.
This is the story of how Baba Deep Singh mastered the Guru Gayatri Mantra and was able to keep fighting without his head.