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When an Indian yoga teacher came to give a class at his Los Angeles high school in 1970, Dale Sklar recognized at once a calling from out of the ordinary. He quickly attached himself as a devoted student to Yogi Bhajan and the fledgling American Sikh community a few miles' bike ride from his home. For his sheer focus, love and devotion to his new path, Dale was recognized as "Bhai Sahib" - a religious title meaning honoured brother - "Dayal Singh" - a spiritual name meaning lion of compassion, before his 18th birthday. Towering above fellow Sikhs ten and twenty years his senior, Bhai Sahib ...

Volume One starts with an exploration of Guru Nanak’s "House", the empowering legacy of the Sikhs with its roots in the south Asian subcontinent, and continues with stories and lessons learned from the childhood and youth of the man we have come to call “Siri Singh Sahib”. Escaping the partition of British India in 1947, young Harbhajan becomes involved in the Sikh student movement. Married and graduated with a master’s degree in economics, Harbhajan Singh still finds time to meet reclusive yogis and swamis in their caves and ashrams during a colorful career as customs agent for the...

This book was written to give anyone an overview of Sikh meditation, its significance, history, and methodology, together with recent developments in its scientific study, including the people researching it.

It is common practice today to measure the vitality of the Sikh religion by its number of adherents, its quantity of places of worship, the sum total of members successfully engaged in respected professions, and the number of schools and universities with programs that study it. An alternate view is that the Sikh faith is best judged by the degree to which it successfully conveys the original meditative awareness of its founders to its members in the present day. In this study, we will consider evidence for the existence of these two distinct paradigms: a contemporary one characterized by a...

Stories are stories. When a powerful story takes root in a child’s heart, that story may shape and guide that tiny heart to imagine, to hope, to love, to conquer, and live an extraordinary life. Some among us who have lived by magnificent stories, have themselves gone on to be storied. Such is the magic of stories. Stories can be fun. They may be blood-curdling. They can be funny. The stories we tell and the ones we dare not, in turn, they tell a story about us. While on a teaching mission to South America, I saw boys there had no books of the stories I know and live by. The book I wrote ...

Guru Gobind Singh famously said, “By living in love, one realizes God.” It is remarkable then that so very little is written about love and lovers in our glorious tradition. History – check. Travels of the Guru – check. Sociological evolution – check. Battles – check. Biography – check. Love – nada. In this concise, new book we make the surprising connection between the greatest spiritual and erotic work of Indian love poetry with Gurbani. We explore the torpid traditional love stories – the Romeo and Juliets – of Punjabi folk literature. We compare the love lives of our...

Today, in the 21st century, the possibilities for a girl are practically boundless. This book is filled with the true stories of girls who reached out and realized their dreams. Starting with the lives of Sikh heroines from long ago, the stories take us to the present and future. Brave women, award-winners, world-changers, artists, scholars, healers, scientists and trend-setters fill these pages with their epic accounts of challenges met and destiny fulfilled.

Five Paragons of Peace is a unique guide to our helter-skelter world today from a vantage point of the peace-givers and peace-makers of the world, with a special focus on the legacy of Guru Nanak and his Sikh tradition. Section one explores the theme of oneness as related by Guru Nanak and as it has evolved with us over the centuries. Section two investigates the subject of happenstance, both our playful and prayerful responses to what happens, expectantly or unexpectedly, in our lives. Part three shares true stories of people who live or lived their lives, in one way or another, for the ...

The growth of Khalsa values in the West invites visits from esteemed Indian guests and more tours of the East, including historic performances by the 3HO Sikhs at the Golden Temple. Growing links with India are challenged when the Indian Prime Minister declares war on Sikhs and sends the army to attack the Golden Temple, killing and jailing thousands of innocents. Still, the Yogi’s mission continues and expands to Africa, South America, China and Australia. As the Master’s health suffers from endless teaching, a school is founded in Amritsar and the Khalsa Nation, “Steelstock” is ...

Part III continues the amazing, some say “miraculous”, story of the Siri Singh Sahib in the West as he leads dedicated members of the Woodstock Nation to a future that is healthy, happy and holy. This journey includes a special focus on building the confidence and strength of his American and European women students, with the launching of an annual summer camp in New Mexico just for them.

The Essential Gursikh Yogi: The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between yogic thought, practice and yogis themselves with Sikhs in their 550-year tradition. It is based on some 300 quotes from Gurbani, including the entire Sidh Gosht and Anand Sahib, replete with harsh condemnations of shallow pretenders and evocations of profound states of yogic meditation. This study would not be complete without an historical examination of the first, formative years of Sikh Dharma from the birth of Guru Nanak to the ...

Sikh dharma was founded just five hundred years ago, not through any superhuman intervention, but through the life and teachings of one humble man. Guru Nanak taught the values of meditation, service, and humanity in an age widely characterized by rigid barriers of religion and social class. Friendly to all, his foremost teaching was the need to conquer the rascal mind. The inspired poetry of the Guru, known as ‘Gurbani,’ is central to Sikh worship. While Gurbani is typically interpreted as a body of hymns devoted to a theological God, it can also be understood as a living body of ...

In 1846 C.E., when they had defeated the Sikh nation of Punjab, the officers of the British East India company found themselves in charge of a vast tract of land inhabited by a proud people with a history of surviving political and religious oppression. The Khalsa Sikhs, the order of "saint-soldiers" founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699 had weathered Mughal oppression and rebounded from two ghallugharas, or "holocausts" (1746 and 1762). When the Sikh confederacy was joined together by Maharaja Ranjeet Singh in 1801, it governed a domain the size of France. The Punjab was the last part of ...

"You are a poet. All these works should be saved and preserved as a book for our future generations." Yogi Bhajan

Las historias son historias. Cuando una historia poderosa se arraiga en el corazón de un niño, esa historia puede moldear y guiar ese pequeño corazón para imaginar, tener esperanza, amar, conquistar y vivir una vida extraordinaria. Algunos quienas han vivido éstas historias magníficas, se han hecho dignos de ser recordados y celebrados. Así es la magia de las historias. . Las historias pueden ser divertidas. Pueden ser espeluznantes. Pueden ser graciosas. Las historias que contamos y las que no nos atrevemos a contar, a su vez, cuentan una historia sobre nosotros. Durante una misión...