So my Guru, my scripture,
we have maybe 20 years
to stop humanity's worldwide war against the trees,
the water and air and animals.
Sikhs will probably spend that time
arguing about non-canonical texts,
breeding for "fair" skin,
and chasing money.

It is so absurd!
Why do brown-skinned people
buy into white supremacy?
GOD, these people have
the most enlightened religion on Earth,
yet their temples are unwelcoming to "foreigners".
Sikhs preach women's equality
but their women don't stand as Khalsa.
Sikhs are so caught up within their own politics
that they don't seem to notice world politics.
Sikhs are forever forming Authoritarian Male Dominated Hierarchies
and they aren't even blushing about it;
even though it is against their religion,
even though it makes them appear very backwards.

My Guru, the world is so small,
yet most Sikhs seem to know more Sikhs
than anyone else.
The 7th largest religion in the world,
yet the world knows more about Mormons than Sikhs.
In this day and age
you have to work to stay
so self-absorbed
and self-concerned.
Sikhs fear spreading Guru's teachings
because Sikhs know they are hypocrites
and they need to change.
Sikhs don't drink alcohol,
yet they are the biggest drinkers of India.
My Guru, do you have a plan in all this?

SIREE RAAG, THIRD MEHL, FIRST HOUSE, ASHTAPADEES:
ONE UNIVERSAL CREATOR GOD. BY THE GRACE OF THE TRUE GURU:

By God's Grace, the Gurmukh practices devotion; without the Guru, there is no devotional worship. One who merges self into GOD understands, and so becomes pure. The Dear GOD is True, and True is the Bani. Through the Word of the Shabad, Union with GOD is obtained.

|| 1 || O Siblings of Destiny, without devotion, why have people even come
into the world? They have not served the Perfect Guru; they have wasted their lives in vain.

|| 1 || Pause || The Divine, the Life of the World, is the Giver. GOD forgives, and unites us with GOD. What are these poor beings and creatures?
What can they speak and say? GOD grants glory to the Gurmukhs; GOD joins them to Divine Service.

|| 2 || Beholding your family, you are lured away by emotional attachment,
but when you leave, they will not go with you.

Serving the True Guru, I have found the Treasure of Excellence. Its value
cannot be estimated. The Dear GOD is my Best Friend. In the end, GOD shall be my Companion and Support.

|| 3 || In this world, GOD's home, the Great Giver is the Life of the World. The self-willed manmukhs have lost their honor. Without the True Guru, no one knows the Way. The blind find no place of rest. If the Divine, the Giver of Peace, does not dwell within the mind, then they shall depart with regret in the end.

|| 4 || In this world, GOD's house, through the Guru's Teachings, I have
cultivated within my mind the Great Giver, the Life of the World. Night and
day, performing devotional worship, day and night, ego and emotional
attachment are removed. And then, attuned to GOD, we become like GOD, truly absorbed in the True One.

|| 5 || Bestowing the Glance of Grace, GOD gives us Love, and we
contemplate the Word of the Guru's Shabad. Serving the True Guru, intuitive
peace wells up, and ego and desire die. The Divine, the Giver of Virtue,
dwells forever within the minds of those who keep Truth enshrined within
their hearts.

|| 6 || My GOD is forever Immaculate and Pure; with a pure mind, and GOD
can be found. If the Treasure of the Name of the Divine abides within the
mind, egotism and pain are totally eliminated. The True Guru has instructed
me in the Word of the Shabad. I am forever a sacrifice to GOD.

|| 7 || Within your own conscious mind, you may say anything, but without
the Guru, selfishness and conceit are not eradicated. The Dear GOD is the
Lover of devotees, the Giver of Peace. By Grace, GOD abides within the mind.
O Nanak, GOD blesses us with the sublime awakening of consciousness; GOD
grants glorious greatness to the Gurmukh.
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Kamalla Rose Kaur is a professional writer, theater director, workshop and seminar leader, publicist, events planner and singer.

USA born of Irish descent, Kamalla Rose Kaur embraced Sikhism in 1972 at age 18. She tried everything for over twenty years, including frantic practice of Yoga, until she learned "why Sikhs are so adament about having the Sri Guru Granth Sahib as their only Guru."

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