Recent content by Claudia G. S. Martins

Environmental Concerns I was just trying to stress the importance of pay attention to nature and environment degradation. Instead of discussing over beaten themes like Sikh identity x 5 K's we would rather discuss which is our contribution to theendangered planet we live in. That's a vital...

Sikhee as an Universal Religion - Contribution for the Quadricentennial of AGGS Jaspreet Singh Oberai <jaspreetji@yahoo.com wrote: Sikhi is intended for all of mankind. If you people in Punjab would go out and spread the word of Gurbani among non punjabis instead of wailing about your...

GURBANI AND THE NATURAL WORLD We must dare to reexamine our longstanding preference for history over nature. The celebration of "historical monotheism" is a fierce attempt thinkers to distance Guru from the world of Hinduism. Nature is faulted for the primitiveness and decadence of...

WE ARE WHO WE ARE BECAUSE WE ARE LOVED Although we say the word love many times a day thatis a difficult one when articulated as a commandment. Can love be commanded ? Love is not something that we ordinarily think as enforceable. Love is not an action: it is an attitude. Love is a...

THE WAY OF GOD The first thing is that God's the first being; and that He existed before anything or anyone else, and will continue to exist after everything and everyone is gone. Were we to somehow or another appear out of nowhere and come upon reality for the first time, the first...

Dear Tejwant, The question is that I'm a Sikh (sehajdhari). I don't keep 4 K's so far (only wear a kara) but I'm a Sikh of the Guru. Fateh Claudia

THE VOICE OF GOD God is revealed to us at AGGS. And we, who are reflections of God, we who are part of God, are therefore, revealed to ourselves. This theme is picked up in a variety of ways by Sikhi tradition and its contemporary interpreters. We often use sensory metaphors to convey...

The Prayer Revolution - The Heart of *Sikhism Sikhs have always known the power and the purpose of prayer. People are been awakening to the fact that our relation with God sometimes have been a bit too cold and a bit too domesticated; we yearn to sing to God, to let our souls fly flee...

This article was published at www.sikhe.com by the occasion of Guru Granth Gurgaddi Divas, last October . http://www.sikhe.com/gsdno/specialissue/gurugranthgurgaddidivas.htm Insight Guru Granth: A Portable Homeland Claudia Gaspar Soares Martins Fri Oct 19, 2001 * The...