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Sat Sri Akaal How do you prepare yourself to pray? Is your preparation different depending on the activity - for instance, if you're singing nitnem bania, or if you're performing a random ardaas, or if you're going to do some activity involving chanting or meditating? For instance, if you...

Please pray for peace in Gaza. There is a holocaust going on right now in Gaza, children are being killed, and hospitals being bombed. And the international community is doing nothing. This is wrong and it must stop. Sikhs know what this feels like, we went through it in 1984. It is so sad...

Sat Sri Akal to all Spn family Members. I hope all of you are in Chardikalha and in Good health. :) Few days back one Internet Forum which was asking people to pray for 4 persons missing made me helpless and wonder a lot of things in my mind.I was helpless as i couldn't pray.The question in...

Bushra Baseerat, TNN Feb 17, 2013, 01.03AM IST HYDERABAD: The dwindling number of vultures is adding to the woes of the dwindling Parsi community in the city. Depending on the scavenging birds to dispose of their dead in the 'Tower of Silence', the 1,200-member Parsi community in Hyderabad has...

Sat Nam _/|\_ I ask that all make at least one prayer for peace in the world today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Cz1RJXbpM&feature=colike Peace before me. Peace behind me. Peace above me. Peace below me. Peace to my right. Peace to my left. Peace to my heart. Peace to all...

Gotta pay to pray: Germany’s Catholic bishops call on faithful to hand over tax By Juergen Baetz, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - September 28, 2012 A woman sits Thursday on a bench in the Catholic cathedral of Frankfurt, Germany. The country’s 24 million Catholics have been told that, if they...

Dear SPNers.I was going through this thread "Sikhism and Black Magic" in this forum when I read people say everything is hukam and one should not worry about going to babas or black magicians for benefit. One often comes around the work "Hukam" in Sikhism. I think it means God's will. If...

Gurfatehji The dictionary definition of prayer is a. A reverent petition made to God, a god, or another object of worship. b. The act of making a reverent petition to God, a god, or another object of worship. 2. An act of communion with God, a god, or another object of worship, such as in...

I just finished talking to a dear friend of mine who I had not heard from for some time. This same friend who introduced me to Sikhi had some time ago turned away from Sikhi. This friend of mine experienced some extremely painful events in her life. I was wondering if Sikhs can pray for another...

WaheGuru ji ka Khalsa, WaheGuru ji ki Fateh. Greetings Sat Sangat, My apologies but I have yet another question to impose upon the learned members of the forum. I have a practice that whenever I do my Nitnem Before I start I prostrate myself and say (in english because I can't yet speak panjabi)...

If someone who claims to be an atheist is put in a life and death situation, would they not pray for their life to be saved, when all other options that they can control have been exhausted? If prayer comes so naturally to us, if emotion precedes thought, and prayer is rooted in emotion, then...

Offering God a cut of stolen money may not be the best way to win divine favour, a gang of bank robbers recently found out. The police arrested Hitesh Sharma, alias Vicky, one of six robbers who looted a State Bank of India branch on September 24, after a CCTV caught him offering Rs 3.5 lakh...

How to pray & receive anything you want? We all pray to God. Some of our prayers are answer some are not. I was wondering why it is so. How God decides which prayer to answer now or which to delay or which prayer not to answer at all? In our experience this is exactly what happens. I asked God...

I came across a website called One Million Chaupai Sahibs - Play your part, Pray for the Panth! | One Million Chaupai Sahibs by June 2009 which is basically an effort to get one million chaupi sahib paths read in remembrance for the 1984 attack on Darbar Sahib and Sikhs. Please do at least one...

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH Lets ask WAHEGURU to teach us to pray Please teach me, Lord ... I want to know Exactly how to pray. I need some words Which ones are right? Please tell me what to say. I've bowed my head I have knelt down,But ... should I be upright? I've...

It is a part of play staged by Him, we all are merely players and as such wisdom and blessing are accorded to each individual as per the part. A very good write up, quite impressed. But there is no escape but to pray for His grace. Guru Nanak in Japji sahib has clearly indicated, 'moh kai...

Salabatpur/Amritsar, May 27 (ANI): As the deadline set by the Akal Takht for the closure of Dera Sacha Sauda camps ends today, people in Punjab prayed for peace and normalcy at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The devotees, who came to pray at the Sikh's holiest shrine, said they wanted a peaceful...

Hi All, I live in Spore. Although i am a teenage sikh, my mother tongue is infact Mandarin (Chinese ). My parents made me take up this language as in the Asian Peninsula, China is a Business Paradise. I cannot speak punjabi at all..although i understand simple terms of the language...

Hi, i just want to say that, ioften get confused about what to belive in... for example, many have said god is within, but what is one suppose t obelive in, himself, or god, how do you fee lthe god inside you, meditation by itself does not actually work properly, because alot of things may...

The Joyful Things At times I'm so discouraged with the problems of the day, I fail to see the joyful things that are along the way. When troubles overwhelm me it's then my nerves may fray. That's when I need to take the time To simply sit and pray. Reflecting on God's many gifts, it makes me...