Guru Arjan SGGS page 924
Friend, my Friend – standing so near to me is my Friend!
Beloved, my Beloved – with my eyes, I have seen my Beloved!
With my eyes I see my Beloved
sleeping upon the bed within each and every heart.
My Beloved is the sweetest ambrosial nectar.
My Beloved is with all, but cannot be [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 29, 2008
SONG OF JOY!
February 29, 2008
Senior Car Jacking
If you’re going to have a Senior Moment, make it a memorable one!
From: http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Senior_Car_Jacking
An elderly Florida lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her vehicle. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at the [...]
February 28, 2008
Western Atheist’s Take On Sikhi
Posted in: America
By Dr. John Smith
Feb 21, 2008 – 4:22:20 PM
John Smith from Atheist Society Writes About Sikhism:Dear Ali, please help us. We were very impressed with your website and agreed that religion in general is no longer needed, we can all be humanistic and live in peace and harmony. [...]
February 24, 2008
A Bad Bad Day In Corporate Cubicle Land
VIDEO OF A BAD BAD DAY AT THE OFFICE
A friend sent me this video link, an assortment of examples of really bad days as filmed by surrveilance cameras in modern offices. I am struck by the horrible, dehumanizing, work conditions that corporate employees put up with!
February 22, 2008
Religious Literacy and Stephen Prothero by P. Willow Cloin
A university friend and I attended a lecture by Dr. Stephen Prothero recently, and she has kindly allowed me to publish the “extra credit essay” she wrote for her Religious Studies class below. Stephen Prothero is busy exposing how little USAers know about this world’s religions. He didn’t even mention Sikhi in his talk or [...]
February 21, 2008
Dr. Doris Jakobsh, Oh My! by Kamalla Rose Kaur
One of my dearest and most controversial friends ever is Dr. Doris Jakobsh, a Canadian scholar who stumbled into Sikh Studies.
“While I was at Harvard I visited the gurdwara at Millis. It was managed by Gora Sikhs of Yogi Bhajan. I found this ‘marriage’ of East and West fascinating and decided I needed to know [...]
February 17, 2008
The Sikh Motorcycle Club
The Sikh Motorcycle Club
The Sikh Motorcycle club is the only one of its kind in all of Canada. The club is the result of hard work by BC Sikhs to single-handedly win the battle to amend the Motor Vehicle Act for the Sikhs. The club was formed by Avtar Gill, Malkeet Singh [...]
February 16, 2008
The Turban Test
BRAMPTON, Ont. — A devout Sikh all his life, Baljinder Badesha never imagined that his religious devotion would compel him to race a motorcycle around an Ontario speedway to test whether turbans unravel at high speeds.
The bizarre image of Mr. Badesha’s experiment last year – conducted under the auspices of [...]
February 13, 2008
WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
The shepherd is in the field for only a short time, so it is for us in this world.
Practicing falsehood, people build their homes.
Wake up! Wake up!
O sleepers, see that the traveling merchant is leaving.
(Pause and reflect on this)
Go ahead and build your houses, if you think you will stay here forever and ever.
Yet [...]
