Guruka Kaur and Guruka Singh at the Birthday Breakfast.
Monthly Archive for December, 2005
Here is a short poem that Panch Nishaan Kaur wrote for Guruka Singh for his 60th Birthday.
Guruka Singh, Joy to our hearts you bring. The memory of spring.
The man, the sun. All celestial beings, sing for you today.Sing for you always. Open your ear to hear
Infinity rings - Clear your mind of any question.Press your ear against the lips of God
Constant Naad, Imbue time and space.Every breath, Fulfilling Destiny with ease, joy and grace.
Press your ear to hear the beauty resound at the depth of your being
Throughout every fiber God is found.May the beauty of your soul, continually inspire all you know
Every one at the table getting ready for a yummy birthday breakfast.
Ram Rattan Kaur
Today is the Birthday of another very special person to me; Guruka Singh Khalsa. Most of you who have read this blog have probably already seen/heard him talking about many different topics in the videos that I post. As you have probably noticed, he has a lot of love, joy and inspiration to share with everyone about Sikhi and life. When we sit and record the videos for the blog it always seems to just flow so naturally.
He has always been an inspiration to me and a great role model. I have learnt (and continue to learn) a lot from him over the years, and it has been exciting for me that we work with him on a daily basis. It is hard to express in words how much I appreciate and love him. May Guruji bless him with many more years to continue serving.
You can send him an email here if you would like to wish him a happy birthday.
There sure are a lot of different terms to get familiar with! I’m sure by now most of you at least know what a “blog” is. There are now quite a few Sikh related blogs online, which is great! Every morning I check out a selection of Sikh blogs that have been updated.
I remember way back in the day, “March 2005″, when I started blogging. I was in search for other Sikh bloggers. I looked all over the place and found some, but not that many. This was part of the reason that I setup the Sikhi Wiki Bloggers page so that it would be easier for people to find other Sikh Bloggers. Anyways…. I think it is great that many Sikhs have embraced new communication methods like blogging. I know for me it has changed my life in many ways and is a lot of fun!
So, continuing with going into new mediums of communication I have been playing around with Podcasting (especially since I now have the new Video Ipod which I got as a gift from family). Think of a podcast as a radio show. Each show consists of a series of individual episodes that you can listen or watch, how you want - on your PC, using your MP3 player, or with just a web browser.
Basically I am taking the videos that I normally post on the blog and converting to different formats for podcasting. I setup two podcasts; One as audio only and the other as video.
For example there are some podcasts that I subscribe to because I don’t normally have the time to listen or watch them during the day. This way I can hear the podcast in my own time, whenever I want. I was just doing dishes in the kitchen and cleaning up the house while I listened to “Democracy Now!“, and before that “Living on Earth“, which are both radio programs that I like but don’t normally get a chance to hear live. It is soo cool to have them automatically downloaded onto an Ipod/computer or other MP3 player. I just tested some of the video podcasts on the ipod which are also great.
I really hope that others people get inspired to create their own podcasts so that we can have some variety of Sikh podcasters on the internet covering different topics.
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Ps. I am still catching up with some of the older content that I have added for the past months.
by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa
When I was a child, Christmas Eve was my very favorite night of the year.
Maybe it was because of the fire roaring in the fireplace, and the little colored lights on the Christmas tree. With all the other lights turned out, it created a feeling of magic, this sense that something special was about to happen.Maybe it was the way my mother would put electric candles in all of our windows – so when we walked upstairs to go to bed, there was a warm orange glow bathing all the rooms in a luminescence that seemed almost other worldly.
Maybe it was the special food that she only made once a year - the brownies with chocolate and marshmallow frosting, or the “Yum-Yum” cake - moist, warm and crumbly with raisins, nuts and spices.
But mostly it was because of Santa Claus.
Last night we celebrated Himmat Singh’s 18th birthday! To start the dinner/celebration we all did a shabad together: “Poota Mata Ki Aasis“. Below is a short video clip.
It was a nice cozy evening by the fire, with DELICIOUS food that his mother (Guru Fateh Kaur) made. I ate double what I normally would eat because it was soo yummy. Narayan as always had a blast! He has so much fun at his Uncle Dharam and Himmat’s house.
You can check out Himmat’s blog. He just started his own :)
Happy Birthday Himmat Singh! Bringing out the cake with candles for him to blow out.
I don’t recall having birthday cakes and candles in India for birthdays. From what I remember we gave out sweets instead. I’m curious if Sikhs in England/USA/Canada do the “sweets” thing or…the birthday cake with candles.
Gurujot Singh cutting the yummy cake.
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