Comments for True Tales http://www.ourtruetales.com On the Spiritual Path... Memoirs and Writings Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 Comment on Visions by Nam Kaur http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/07/23/visions/#comment-50643 Nam Kaur Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:28:57 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/07/23/visions/#comment-50643 Dear Ganga, Love reading your early day stories -- thank you! Wondering if you met Ken Kesey - I hear he was on the green bus to solstice or at solstice? Where are you now? I read that you "used to" have a healing practice - what do you do now? do you still like coffee ice cream ? i do ; - ) Sat Nam, Nam Kaur Dear Ganga,
Love reading your early day stories — thank you! Wondering if you met Ken Kesey - I hear he was on the green bus to solstice or at solstice?
Where are you now? I read that you “used to” have a healing practice - what do you do now?
do you still like coffee ice cream ? i do ; - )
Sat Nam, Nam Kaur

]]> Comment on Summer Solstice 1973 - Photos by bopadum http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-49466 bopadum Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:39:23 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-49466 Wow, amazing historical pictures. Nice one. Wow, amazing historical pictures. Nice one.

]]> Comment on Late Night Reader… by dallas http://www.ourtruetales.com/2009/03/01/late-nate-reader/#comment-49065 dallas Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:35:15 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2009/03/01/late-nate-reader/#comment-49065 great story, I think for many reading from the Guru is a treasured part of the 3ho experience. great story, I think for many reading from the Guru is a treasured part of the 3ho experience.

]]> Comment on Tribute to Sardar Singh by Sukhdev Singh http://www.ourtruetales.com/2008/01/05/tribute-to-sardar-singh/#comment-48691 Sukhdev Singh Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:53:50 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2008/01/05/tribute-to-sardar-singh/#comment-48691 I met Sardar Singh when i was a student in Melbourne in the early 80's. Being born a Sikh, we used to attend Preston Gurdwara and Sardar Singh would come and sing beautiful shabads with Sewa Kaur and daughters. Such devotion and love for the Guru and beautiful flowing beard in white bana! It stirred something in me to also learn more about the Sikh panth and discover my "roots". Here was an outsider who saw so much about Sikhi which we only took for granted. Wanting to learn more, i took the courage to ask if i could move into the ashram and was excited when Sardar Singh and Sewa Kaur agreed! It was the begining of an incredible journey of self-discovery and "cold-showers". The yoga was strenuous but chanting was bliss. It was the best time of my life and provided such great experience and love from a true GurSikh family! It opened my eyes to the universality of the teachings and the qualities i saw in him were those we read about in the teachings and Sakhis of the Gurus'...honesty, piety, devotion, love, commitment, endurance, continuity, elegance, grace, strength and so forth. What was more important was the message that anyone could "work" towards this goal by applying the lifestyle. Thank you Sardar Singh Ji for the wonderful experience and memories! SatNam I met Sardar Singh when i was a student in Melbourne in the early 80’s. Being born a Sikh, we used to attend Preston Gurdwara and Sardar Singh would come and sing beautiful shabads with Sewa Kaur and daughters. Such devotion and love for the Guru and beautiful flowing beard in white bana! It stirred something in me to also learn more about the Sikh panth and discover my “roots”. Here was an outsider who saw so much about Sikhi which we only took for granted.

Wanting to learn more, i took the courage to ask if i could move into the ashram and was excited when Sardar Singh and Sewa Kaur agreed! It was the begining of an incredible journey of self-discovery and “cold-showers”. The yoga was strenuous but chanting was bliss. It was the best time of my life and provided such great experience and love from a true GurSikh family!

It opened my eyes to the universality of the teachings and the qualities i saw in him were those we read about in the teachings and Sakhis of the Gurus’…honesty, piety, devotion, love, commitment, endurance, continuity, elegance, grace, strength and so forth. What was more important was the message that anyone could “work” towards this goal by applying the lifestyle.

Thank you Sardar Singh Ji for the wonderful experience and memories! SatNam

]]> Comment on Journey to Goindwal Sahib by Dr Daljit Singh Virk http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/09/20/journey-to-goindwal-sahib/#comment-48670 Dr Daljit Singh Virk Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:16:31 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/09/20/journey-to-goindwal-sahib/#comment-48670 Dear all, Reading this experience I have decided to tell you my story about Baoli Sahib. I usually shun from telling it. I returned to India from UK in 1978 as Associate Professor in Genetics in Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. In 1979-80 I had severe backbone problem. I was told by doctors who diagnosed from X-ray that I had increased space between 7th and 8th vertebra. I got the treatment from Christian Medical Hospital in Ludhiana but with no effect. I also tried desi malish (massage) through experts. Still I was in pain: unable to sleep, sit or walk pain free. So much so it started affecting my thinking and I started getting confused and blurred. My wife went to Amritsar to see her parents. She cried before her mother on my conditions that could not let me sleep or sit. Her mother was a Gursikh. She advised my wife to take me to Goindwal Sahib. On my wife's insistence I decided to go to Goindwal Sahib. I told her I would not be able to do 84 Paths but there would be no harm to visit. Myself, my wife, my son and one colleague reached Goindwal at about 4PM. It was in end of July when it is warm and raining. When we were walking towards the Gurdwara I was very emotional and intensely praying for Guru's grace. A few hundred yards from the Gurdwara when I was engrossed in the splendor of Guru's place my right foot got entangled in the bars of iron cover on a drain that passed through the road. Nail of my toe got injured and it started bleeding. I had a bit of pain but without any sorrow. Feelings started flowing in me that the Guru is curing me and He has given me this small pain to relieve my bigger pain. We got a room, and went to the Baoli after Mathatake. I thought I shall do one Path and have Ishnan as I could not sit and concentrate due to pain. I sat on the first step, finished Japuji and did Ardas and went down to take a dip and then came up. I did another path and continued it till next day early morning without any break. More and more strength came to me after every path and I did not feel any pain. My wife came in-between many times to ask for tea or break for loo. Every time she asked me I nodded her not to disturb because I was having internal bliss that I wanted to carry on. The next morning at about 630 AM when I completed 84 path on every step of Baoli we went before Guru Granth Sahib and prayed. I also offered to contribute some utensils and a bag of Atta in langar on my second visit after getting healthy. We travelled back to Ludhiana in a bus. My pains had disappeared. I went to the CMC doctor for another X-ray. The X-ray was faultless. He asked me how I had corrected it? Was it due to exercises he had suggested to me? I replied that I could not have exercised due to pain. I told him the story of my Doctor Guru. It is now 30 years after I am healthy and with no backbone problem. If the Guru can cure a serious suffering through prayer then why can he not uplift us from 8.4 m (or more!!) cycles of transmigration? Dr Daljit Singh Virk Derby, UK Dear all,
Reading this experience I have decided to tell you my story about Baoli Sahib. I usually shun from telling it.
I returned to India from UK in 1978 as Associate Professor in Genetics in Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. In 1979-80 I had severe backbone problem. I was told by doctors who diagnosed from X-ray that I had increased space between 7th and 8th vertebra. I got the treatment from Christian Medical Hospital in Ludhiana but with no effect. I also tried desi malish (massage) through experts. Still I was in pain: unable to sleep, sit or walk pain free. So much so it started affecting my thinking and I started getting confused and blurred.
My wife went to Amritsar to see her parents. She cried before her mother on my conditions that could not let me sleep or sit. Her mother was a Gursikh. She advised my wife to take me to Goindwal Sahib.
On my wife’s insistence I decided to go to Goindwal Sahib. I told her I would not be able to do 84 Paths but there would be no harm to visit. Myself, my wife, my son and one colleague reached Goindwal at about 4PM. It was in end of July when it is warm and raining.
When we were walking towards the Gurdwara I was very emotional and intensely praying for Guru’s grace. A few hundred yards from the Gurdwara when I was engrossed in the splendor of Guru’s place my right foot got entangled in the bars of iron cover on a drain that passed through the road. Nail of my toe got injured and it started bleeding. I had a bit of pain but without any sorrow. Feelings started flowing in me that the Guru is curing me and He has given me this small pain to relieve my bigger pain.

We got a room, and went to the Baoli after Mathatake. I thought I shall do one Path and have Ishnan as I could not sit and concentrate due to pain. I sat on the first step, finished Japuji and did Ardas and went down to take a dip and then came up. I did another path and continued it till next day early morning without any break. More and more strength came to me after every path and I did not feel any pain. My wife came in-between many times to ask for tea or break for loo. Every time she asked me I nodded her not to disturb because I was having internal bliss that I wanted to carry on.

The next morning at about 630 AM when I completed 84 path on every step of Baoli we went before Guru Granth Sahib and prayed. I also offered to contribute some utensils and a bag of Atta in langar on my second visit after getting healthy.

We travelled back to Ludhiana in a bus. My pains had disappeared. I went to the CMC doctor for another X-ray. The X-ray was faultless. He asked me how I had corrected it? Was it due to exercises he had suggested to me? I replied that I could not have exercised due to pain. I told him the story of my Doctor Guru.

It is now 30 years after I am healthy and with no backbone problem.

If the Guru can cure a serious suffering through prayer then why can he not uplift us from 8.4 m (or more!!) cycles of transmigration?
Dr Daljit Singh Virk
Derby, UK

]]> Comment on Journey to Goindwal Sahib by roby http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/09/20/journey-to-goindwal-sahib/#comment-48172 roby Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:27:24 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/09/20/journey-to-goindwal-sahib/#comment-48172 yeah it is very hard to chant japji sahib 84 times.but it is possible it will take about 17 hours. we can't say that after completing these 84 steps you will surely go to heaven . you should also have to chant his name and don't be sinner after completing these steps. if you will follow this .so,in this there is no dought it is sure that you will go to heaven yeah it is very hard to chant japji sahib 84 times.but it is possible it will take about 17 hours. we can’t say that after completing these 84 steps you will surely go to heaven . you should also have to chant his name and don’t be sinner after completing these steps. if you will follow this .so,in this there is no dought it is sure that you will go to heaven

]]> Comment on Summer Solstice 1973 - Photos by Noor Singh Khalsa http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-47590 Noor Singh Khalsa Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:30:09 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-47590 Ref post #1, above, from my son, Prabhu: "My Pitaji said that he went to a solstice in the Pecos, maybe it was this one?" Yes, this was my 1st solstice, my first trip out West, my first exposure to 3HO, really. I remember it vividly. I moved into an ashram immediately afterward. Ref post #1, above, from my son, Prabhu:
“My Pitaji said that he went to a solstice in the Pecos, maybe it was this one?”
Yes, this was my 1st solstice, my first trip out West, my first exposure to 3HO, really. I remember it vividly. I moved into an ashram immediately afterward.

]]> Comment on Summer Solstice 1973 - Photos by Gurutrang Singh Khalsa http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-46783 Gurutrang Singh Khalsa Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:17:26 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/04/05/summer-solstice-1973/#comment-46783 I am crying just to see these pictures and stories from a Summer Solstice that was the pinnacle of my whole life and I didn't even realize it. All love in Guru Ram Das Ji, Gurutrang Singh I am crying just to see these pictures and stories from a Summer Solstice that was the pinnacle of my whole life and I didn’t even realize it.

All love in Guru Ram Das Ji,

Gurutrang Singh

]]> Comment on Our Wedding: January 13, 1973 by Cameron Healy ( Nirbhao Singh Khalsa) http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/14/our-wedding-january-13-1973/#comment-46769 Cameron Healy ( Nirbhao Singh Khalsa) Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:06 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/03/14/our-wedding-january-13-1973/#comment-46769 Hi you two! HBK , it was great to read your account of that gathering. It seems so long ago but, at the same time, just yesterday. I do remember those infamous carob wedding cakes that were simply the expanded carob brownie recipe that used no leavening whatsoever. They were affectionately known as " gut loggers ' in the Eugene Ashram. I send my love and blessings to both of you and am happy that your marriage has thrived for so many years. Cameron Hi you two!

HBK , it was great to read your account of that gathering. It seems so long ago but, at the same time, just yesterday. I do remember those infamous carob wedding cakes that were simply the expanded carob brownie recipe that used no leavening whatsoever. They were affectionately known as ” gut loggers ‘ in the Eugene Ashram. I send my love and blessings to both of you and am happy that your marriage has thrived for so many years.

Cameron

]]> Comment on Summer Solstice 1972 - Photos by Bhupinder Singh http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/05/06/summer-solstice-1972/#comment-46702 Bhupinder Singh Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:56:35 +0000 http://www.ourtruetales.com/2007/05/06/summer-solstice-1972/#comment-46702 hi, What is kundalini Yoga, How do you practice kundalini yoga? If I am not wrong, for enlightenment Yoga and Sikhism (Gurbani) are two poles apart. Please elaborate, Thanks! Bhupinder Singh 9990814287 (India) New Delhi hi,
What is kundalini Yoga,

How do you practice kundalini yoga?

If I am not wrong, for enlightenment Yoga and Sikhism (Gurbani) are two poles apart.

Please elaborate,

Thanks!

Bhupinder Singh
9990814287
(India)
New Delhi

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