[VIDEO] Sikhs believe in good will to all. We serve, feed, and help people. We get this inspiration from our Guru's and our Siri Guru Granth Sahib (Universal Teacher). This Guru has now been torn apart and disrespected. This video calls to stop disrespect of Siri Guru Granth Sahib ji, and asks the media to wake up. Save Punjab. Pray for Punjab.
The composition was so spiritually elevating that Guru Arjan declared that it would be included in the Adi Granth – the huge compilation he was creating to embody the best of all spiritual expression at that time from all traditions.
Chardi Kala Jatha playing kirtan in celebration of Guru Gaddi Divas.
ਆਗਿਆ ਭਈ ਅਕਾਲ ਕੀ ਤਬੀ ਚਲਾਇਓ ਪੰਥ ॥ ਸਭ ਸਿਖਨ ਕੋ ਹੁਕਮ ਹੈ ਗੁਰੂ ਮਾਨਿਓ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ॥
"Under orders of the Immortal Being, the Panth was created. All the Sikhs are enjoined to accept the Granth as their Guru. Consider the Guru Granth as embodiment of the Gurus. Those who want to meet God, can find Him in its hymns. The pure shall rule, and impure will be no more, Those separated will unite and all the devotees shall be saved."
Bhisham Pitama, the son of the Ganges, meditated on that Naam; his consciousness delighted in the Ambrosial Nectar of the Lord's Feet.
When you feel anger, you cannot feel love. When you feel lust, which is sex for sex's sake, that sophisticated sensitivity disappears. Greed. Pride. Attachment. All of them block the experience of love.
Akrur taught the people of Mathra to remember the Lord in pain and peace and to stop slandering one another. Mathra became a very peaceful and holy place, where the Lord's name was chanted by all.
Those who take the religious-secular dichotomy for granted will fail to recognise Sikhism, as ‘what the modern Anglophone consciousness understands as the religion of the Sikhs.’
Our body may be very healthy, but if the corresponding mind is not mature, and if it is not rationally together, then it is impossible to believe that our behaviour as well as our achievement will be worthy of anything.
The process of translating Guru Arjan's Sukhmani Sahib took me about eight years to do. So, I wanted to share with all of you the steps that I went through to translate Sukhmani Sahib, complete with pictures.
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