MrSikhNet Video

Tonight I am posting the end of a video by Hari Kirin Kaur titled "We are the Khalsa". The original video teaches 8 different songs accompanies by certain hand movements. This video portion was added on to the video at a later date showing some of the Sikh Children in Los Angeles practicing the songs. This was one of the things that Siri Singh Sahib ji taught and is now a regular part of our Sunday Gurdwara program. During Gurdwara you will see the children perform various songs to music in front of the sangat. Before Anand Sahib the "Kids Program" starts and most of the kids from the sangat will go up and do perform various songs with the motions. I normally sit with my Son Narayan and do it along with him. Many of the Sangat also do the motions/songs along with them to show support and participate. It is great fun and gets the children involved. As they start to learn the songs and motions, the kids really get into it. As adults we might feel embarrased to do this, but for children it is so natural and enjoyable. When I am up with Narayan, I see almost the whole sangat has a bright smile on their face as they see the beautiful children glowing as they sing and do the songs. It's great! I think it is important to have different ways for the children to be involved in the Gurdwara program. These types of things give them confidence and and an experience. All Sikh communties should find ways to involve the children and start teaching from a very young age. I remember when I was little, at the same time as the normal "Adult Gurdwara" someone would get the children together in a different location and talk about Sikhi in ways that we could relate. We would learn different things or just do part of a bani together. After our little kids program we would all go over to the Gurdwara together and join the Sangat. Without this type of thing Gurdwara would just be a really long ceremony that we didn't understand.

In gratitude, and inspired by Guru Gobind Singh's prakash, Gurumustuk Singh put together a little video to share with all of you. Click here to experience the impact that Guru Ji has had all over the world through SikhNet on the hearts and minds of our CyberSangat.

Here is a video "slide show" of stories from Sikh history about Guru Gobind Singh. Every year some of the members of our community get together and make a video like this to show during the big Baisakhi Gurdwara in Los Angeles. It's a great way to get into the spirit of Baisakhi and learn something from our history.

It's been a while since I posted one of the videos with Guruka Singh so I thought it might be a good time to share another one. I didn't want to post too many of the meditations at once and allow some of you to try them out. I am curious to know if you have tried any of the meditations that I posted earlier and what your experiences were. Obviously you have to do them in order to experience them. The Kirtan Kriya meditation is one of the first meditations that I ever learnt and is great for breaking habit patterns, emotional balance and just overall calmness and clarity. Yogi Bhajan used to say that if you had to chose just one meditation, to do this one. Watch the video below to see Guruka Singh explain the meditation and how to do it. More info at: http://www.mrsikhnet.com/2006/01/kirtan-kriya-meditation.html

In this video Guruka Singh talks about the differences between fate and destiny and how in order to reach your destiny it requires effort. Either you can let the river of life just take you where it does (maybe to a waterfall up ahead?), or you take control of your life and direct it consciously.

In this video Guruka Singh explains about the different parts of Ardas and the role of the Ardasi (The person doing the Ardas).

I went through all the pictures that I posted this past year on the blog and struggled to narrow the many thousands of images down to 300. I put together a little movie/slideshow of some of these images. Most of the images are a little window into the life of my family and sangat here in Espanola, New Mexico (USA). The video is about 25 minutes long, so if you want to watch, Go get some tea or snacks, download the video, and sit back and enjoy :)