Comments on: Late Night Reader…

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:44:07 +0000

This is really great to see and read the different experiences of people of other countries and places, their belief for Sikh religion and then the following of the Sikh Maryada is really fabulous.
Thanks for sharing all.
Keep this Up and keep going.
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Shri Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!!!!

By: Gurukarm Kaur

Gurukarm Kaur — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:01:29 +0000

In the early days of Ahimsa Ashram in DC (I first moved there in ‘72) we also had a “niche” in the sadhana room where we’d read for Akhand Paths.

The single men’s room was a rather gloomy dungeon, called the Nanak Room, in the basement of the brownstone style house that was Ahimsa, and once the men got to sleep down there, *nothing* woke them up!

It wasn’t uncommon, therefore, for someone to actually pick up the volume being read from, walk down to the basement and bang on the Nanak Room’s door while reading loudly the entire time to try to wake up the next reader. But I promise you, it was all done with the utmost respect! or at least as much as we knew how to generate in those days

By: Sahib-Amar Kaur

Sahib-Amar Kaur — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:06:11 +0000

Back in the very early days of the Espanola ashram we used to have Akand Paths in “the niche” in the Sadhana Room. I was scheduled to read at 11 PM to midnight. Well, midnight came and no one came to relieve me. Then the next hour no one showed up either. Ringing the bell didn’t help. Even though people slept in the house, no one heard it. And so the night went. The person who was supposed to do wakeup overslept. I ended up reading the whole night!

By: Gurumustuk

Gurumustuk — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:57:47 +0000

I think we all probably have “Akhand Path Tales”. My office at SikhNet is in the Gurdwara building so I am normally the first responder during the day when someone rings the bell while reading the akhand path.

Thanks for sharing the story….