The human being has a wonderful capacity to clear out the unwanted thoughts and unconscious accumulations, a.k.a garbage, through Mantra meditation. The city of New York has a very wonderful system for collecting and disposing of unwanted refuse from the home. Unfortunately, most  human beings are not aware of the mental clearing system that we [...]

I always find it refreshing and inspiring to read about people starting their journey on this Sikh Lifestyle. More and more these days I have been getting emails from people who are learning about the Sikh lifestyle and starting to follow this path. When I hear their stories it seems that they just "stumbled" upon [...]

When I was a young girl, my family lived in an old 2-story home in a quiet neighborhood in South Jersey. Our house was only a few blocks away from St. Rose of Lima, the Catholic elementary school that my brothers and sister and I attended. We used to walk to school every morning through [...]

I have often thought about the Siri Akal Takhat Sahib and the role which it must have played for the Sikh Panth during the time of the Gurus. I then look at the state of the Sikh community these days and wonder how this has changed. The world is a very different place now with [...]

by Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa There is a story about Mata Damodari, Guru Hargobind”s wife, that I read several years ago in Max Macauliffe’s The Sikh Religion. It is my habit to go back to these volumes from time to time, searching especially for stories that involve women: stories that I find often present [...]