Gobind Sadan—a living interfaith spiritual community founded by Baba Virsa Singh on the outskirts of New Delhi, India—is like paradise to me and many who come here. I am Mary Pat Fisher, author of Living Religions and other college textbooks... Read more

SHIBI’S SACRIFICE

Actors: Actors, hawk, dove, attendant holding scales

Props: Knife, 2 steel plates as scales, robes for Indra and Agni

Narrator: Once there was a great king named Shibi. He was very generous and kind. One day a hawk... Read more

Neem trees are one of the most useful medicinal plants in India. Part of neem trees—leaves, berries, and twigs—are naturally antiseptic and antibiotic, and since they taste so terrible, they discourage insects from eating crops and flowers.  Neem extracts even... Read more

Raised in Louisiana as a Methodist, with a very sincere and humble pastor, I nonetheless felt as a child that something was missing. I didn’t know its name. But with a vague, nameless longing, I used to sit alone... Read more

The whole of Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred Sikh scripture, is a great outpouring of love for God. For example, the Gurus say,

Thou art the River, All-knowing and All-seeing.

How can I, a fish, find Thy limit?

Wherever I... Read more

Purpose in Life

In these times of self-centered thinking, it is very difficult for us to understand Guru Gobind Singh, the Tenth Sikh Guru. During his short life of 44 years, he sacrificed his father, his four sons, and eventually... Read more

Bhagat Ravi Das was an uneducated shoemaker in India, but he knew what true wealth is. In one of his hymns that is part of the beautiful Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagat Ravi Das sings to God:

O... Read more

I’ve just been reading Jaap Sahib, and my happiness is so intense that I cannot describe it. Jaap Sahib is the second daily prayer of Sikhs, the powerful hymn of God’s praises by the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.... Read more

As I travel around the world, doing research for my book on the world’s religions and meeting people on behalf of my teacher, Baba Virsa Singh, an extraordinary thing often happens to me: I keep meeting my sisters and brothers,... Read more