purification

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...

Self Purification by Dr Gobind Singh There can be no exclusive road to spiritual evolution. Different religions offer different paths, but the goal is eventually the same. Let us try to understand the four-fold path of progress as suggested by the Sikh Gurus. Progress implies the...

WAHEGURU WORD The word “Waheguru/ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ” was never used by Sikh Gurus and is absent from their compositions in AGGS. The words “Gur Wahe” comes twice in AGGS in two hymns of Guru Amardas and Guru Arjan; ਨਾਨਕ ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਵਾਹੁ ਵਾਹੁ ਜਿਸ ਤੇ ਨਾਮੁ ਪਰਾਪਤਿ ਹੋਇ ॥ Nānak saṯgur vāhu vāhu jis ṯė nām...

Hi People, I had an interesting conversation a while ago in the Gurudwara at a Langaar where a devout Sikh friend I know said that when we have food before Langaar and do Ardas over it we are purifying it, just like Muslim's do Halal. I was taken a back and argued that we given thanks to God...