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What Do Sikhs Believe About the Afterlife?

What Do Sikhs Believe About the Afterlife?

Transmigration is a common theme in Sikhism. The soul travels through countless lifetimes in a perpetual cycle of birth and death. Each lifetime the soul is subject to the influences of past deeds, and is cast into existences within various realms of consciousness and planes of awareness. In Sikhism the concept of salvation and immortality is enlightenment and liberation from …

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What Do Sikhs Believe About God and Creation?

What Do Sikhs Believe About God and Creation?

Sikhs believe in one creator inseparable from creation. Part and participle of one another, the creator exists within creation pervading and permeating every aspect of all that is. The creator watches over and cares for creation. The way to experience God is through creation and by meditating inwardly on the divine characteristic of the manifest self which is in tune …

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सद्गुरु जगजीत सिंह जी

सद्गुरु जगजीत सिंह जी

सद्गुरु जगजीत सिंह जी का जन्म 22 नवम्बर 1920 को श्री भैणी साहिब (लुधियाना) में पिता गुरु प्रताप सिंह जी व माता भूपिंद्र के गृह में हुआ। तीक्ष्ण बुद्धि और दैवी शक्तियों के मालिक होने के कारण आपको ‘बेअंत’ के नाम से पुकारा जाता था। गुरु पिता की आज्ञा में रह कर आपने बचपन से ही संगीत विद्या व नाम-वाणी …

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Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival – Tunes of the dunes

Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival - Tunes of the dunes

A heady mix of rustic and contemporary notes and global rhythms — Rajasthan folk festival encourages and promotes people’s music Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan International Folk Festival) is different. It is music from dawn to midnight and beyond. It coincides with Sharad purnima — the brightest full moon each year. From finding one’s way in the dark before dawn, to get …

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What does Langar mean in Sikhism?

What does Langar mean in Sikhism?

The Sikh Gurdwaras are not only places of worship but also the training center of service. Such service as sweeping the precincts, serving drinking water to the thirsty, fanning the congregation in hot weather and serving food to the hungry have always formed an integral part of the factions in a Sikh shrine. Of these, Langar is perhaps the most …

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Use Facebook just for posting ‘likes’ to ward off depression

use-facebook-just-for-posting-likes-to-ward-off-depression

If you are young and love Facebook, keep it to just “liking” and minimise your virtual circle of friends to cut the upcoming depression risk. According to researchers, the social networking site can have positive and negative effects on the levels of a common stress hormone in teenagers. The team found that having more than 300 Facebook friends increased teenagers’ …

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Who founded Sikhism and when?

Who founded Sikhism and when?

Sikhism began around 1500 A.D, in the northern part of ancient Punjab, which is now part of Pakistan. It originated with the teachings of Guru Nanak who rejected the philosophies of the Hindu society that he grew up in. Refusing to participate in Hindu rites, he argued against the caste system and preached equality of mankind. Denouncing the worship of …

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