I hope very much you are enjoying the Bani: The Divine Connection campaign this year. I am excited to share our next gift with you today.
Anand Sahib is called
"The Song of Bliss"
"Anand' doesn't just translate to simple bliss. Bliss can mean joy or delight, but Anand speaks to something more, something deeper. It's about the experience we have when the relationship between MIND and SOUL have come into balance through the word of the Guru.
Anand is more like the feeling you get when you KNOW you are living life in alignment with your Highest Truth. The only problem is: our minds tend to be pulled in a thousand different directions - every second of every day.
It's important to remember that Anand isn't about forgetting all the things that distract our mind. We don't have to avoid responsibility or live alone in the wilderness to achieve Anand.
The true gift of Anand is learning to be free from strong attachments, or feelings of greed and anger. Meditating on the Shabad helps replace those feelings with something deeper and stronger - a connection to Ultimate Truth.
The purpose of life is to see the Divine, which could be seen as too vast for the mind to comprehend. What the mind CAN do is penetrate within; allow the loud and messy turbulence of the world around to keep being what it is, while the mind turns inward through meditation on the Shabad. There, in that deep space of connection, the mind can behold its own Divine LIght, its True Self.
True Anand comes when the mind is trained to relate to its own soul every day, every step of the way, rather than more mundane achievements on the earth plane. Then happiness happens, even in the midst of challenges, we experience Anand.
Today our gift for you is a beautiful new Anand Sahib PDF, free to download.
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I know that this year, many households are stretched and strained, I experience it myself. But I also know that if every one of those 1.3 million people who visited last month gave a donation of any size, we could end our year end campaign today.
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Gratefully in your service,
Darshan Kaur
Chief Development Officer
SikhNet