Sanjam means giving direction to life. Sanjam means giving a goal to life. Without sanjam you run in all directions. There is so much in life. You cannot get everything. You have to choose what to take and what to discard. You have been granted the boon of choice. The ability to choose intelligently is […]

Satguru is an opportunity, a rare opportunity. Satguru is a window through which you can see the sky from your dark room. Satguru is a gate through which you can pass and come out in the open sky. Satguru is the path to reach the state of sublime bliss. Satguru is like the clouds showering […]

~ Lao Tsu~ The visible world is transient. It keeps changing all the time. Here, whatever is said, gets lost. Whatever is written, gets erased. Here, all signatures are on water. They disappear even before they can be written. Therefore, the name that can be articulated with the lips, with speech, with word, in time, […]

The inner journey to attain bliss begins from where you are. There is no other starting point. As you are, you are in deep slumber. Not the ordinary sleep that you enjoy every night, but a spiritual sleep. In other words, you move about doing your daily things almost unconsciously. Basically, one needs only five […]

Shabad is the soundless sound — Ek Omkar. Sound is produced by friction. The soundless sound is that which is continuously there without any friction. If you have any experience of chanting a mantra, you would know that you begin by chanting aloud, and this loud chanting creates excitement in the atmosphere; there is friction. […]

A Sikh is a learner. A learner is a seeker who has the desire to know. Most people think they already know. They are not learners. They have already gathered too much information. There is no room for more. A learner, a disciple, a shishya or a sikh has to first recognise the fact that […]

Guru Nanak says that Hukam cannot be described. Whatever is significant in life cannot be said in words. And, Hukam is the most important thing. There is nothing beyond it. Words are utilitarian. They are useful in our day-to-day life. But there is no way to talk about the extraordinary in words. There are various […]

The cause of pain is forgetfulness. You have forgotten who you are and where you have come from or where you are heading. In ordinary day-to-day life also, when you forget something, you become restless. It often happens that you forget a word or thought. You know it, and it is right there at the […]

Existence is divine. It is overflowing with God. But, we seek God elsewhere. God is not separate from existence. God is not the creator; God is creativity. The division between the creator and creation is false. There is no creator and there is no creation. There is only creativity. When a flower blooms, it is […]

There are two ways of living life. One way is of struggle, the other of surrender. Struggle means that my will is different from the whole; surrender means I am a part of the whole. There is no question of my will being different from the whole. If I am separate from the whole then […]

Guru Granth Sahib is the living Guru of the Sikhs. It is the embodiment of the spirit of all the ten Gurus who came in human form. The Gurbani, the religious poetry of the Guru Granth Sahib covers the entire spectrum of life. It shows the devotee how to live life meaningfully so that the […]

For Guru Nanak the singer and the song are one. They are inseparable. As long as the singer is singing, he is a singer. Once he stops singing, he ceases to be a singer. As long as the song can be heard, the singer is there. When you cannot hear the song, you cannot feel […]

The seeker has innumerable paths in front of him. Which one to choose? That is the problem – the problem of plenty. Not only that, there are innumerable wrong paths as well. How not to fall in these traps? Before trying it, how can one decide which is the right path. Guru Nanak says there […]

The enlightened masters, the Gurus and saints whose spontaneous outbursts of ecstasy comprise the Guru Granth Sahib, were seers, visionaries. Seers differ from the common man because they see things as they are, whereas the common man sees them through the mind which is blurred with the dust of the prejudices, biases and conditioning of […]

ੴਸਤਿਨਾਮੁ It is said that if you want to understand the whole of Guru Granth Sahib, you can do so by understanding Japjee alone, because Guru Nanak’s message was complete in Japjee itself. The rest of the Guru Granth Sahib is an interpretation, elaboration and explanation of Japjee Sahib. Many claim that in order to […]