Recent content by Lily Kaur

I'm reminded of Professor Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, who is currently in the process of becoming the first Sikh woman to translate Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji into English. She has some very strong opinions about the idea of the 'soul' in Sikhi. She believes that the very notion of the 'soul' is a...

Aww, thank you so much!

I'm no gyanan, so I'm sure that my interpretation will be flawed, and many people wiser than me will probably have thoughts on this that are very different from my own. So take this as simply my own imperfect understanding. To me, I think one of the fundamentals of Sikh philosophy is the...

I don't know what it means to be anti-semiotic, could you clarify?

This might be an esoteric question, but it's something I've been thinking about recently. In the Mool Mantar, Guru Nanak Dev Ji says sat naam 'the name is Truth', implying that Truth is the signifier by which we know the divine. Yet in the expression sat sri akaal 'Truth is the Eternal (i.e...

Sat Sri Akal! My name is Lily, and I'm still trying to figure out how this site works, so I hope this is the correct place to supposed to post this! I'm a Sikh from New Zealand currently living in the United States, and I'm currently in university studying linguistics, hoping to specialize in...