In a unique, the first of its kind at­tempt, with the vi­sion that every Sikh un­der­takes a read­ing and con­tem­pla­tion of Guru Granth Sahib, Kho­jGur­bani launched its A-Sabad-A Day ini­tia­tive on 1 Sep­tem­ber 2020. The dis­sem­i­na­tion of Gur­bani as be­ing done by Kho­jGur­bani is a far-sighted en­deav­our to em­power the com­mu­nity as well as en­able those not born as Sikhs to un­der­stand the re­li­gios­ity and spir­i­tu­al­ity of Sikh teach­ings as en­shrined in God’s words re­vealed by the Gu­rus. World Sikh News ap­peals to all read­ers to join this ini­tia­tive and on its part, WSN will soon make it a per­ma­nent fea­ture on its web­site.

THINK OF THIS AS SE­HAJ PATH DONE TO­GETHER AND ON THE SAME SCHED­ULE -BUT WITH A DIF­FER­ENCE.  It will be ac­com­pa­nied by Gur­mat Vichaar and will con­sti­tute our Am­rit-vela, not in terms of clock-time, but as a pri­or­ity.

Be­gin­ning with the open­ing verse, Kho­jGur­bani pre­sents a daily pas­sage se­quen­tially ac­com­pa­nied by a trans­la­tion and nar­ra­tive – in Eng­lish text and an au­dio pod­cast in Eng­lish and Pun­jabi.

Ravin­der Singh tells us, “The pro­ject seeks to build a cy­ber-San­gat that is col­lec­tively en­gaged in an on­go­ing read­ing and study of the Guru Granth Sahib, with a view to build­ing syn­er­gies around fu­ture lead­er­ship and knowl­edge pro­duc­tion in the form of trans­la­tions and com­men­taries.”

Not stop­ping at that, there is a sup­ple­men­tary text for the San­gat to build on with an ex­change of ideas through their own in­ter­pre­ta­tions, com­ments, ques­tions, and ru­mi­na­tions.

As Ravin­der Singh and Harvin­der Singh -the sheet an­chors of the pro­gram tell us, this new ini­tia­tive of Kho­jGur­bani.org is des­tined to “bring Sikhs from across the world to­gether on a com­mon plat­form to read, study, and re-in­ter­pret the Guru Granth Sahib col­lec­tively – AS A SAN­GAT.”

Their no­ble in­ten­tions and the vast can­vas that they pro­pose to ex­plore is clear from their three-pronged tar­gets:

• To forge a global com­mu­nity of Sikhs uni­fied in love of Gur­bani.
• De­velop a pool of fu­ture lead­ers steeped in Gur­mat and
• Col­lec­tively de­velop an al­ter­na­tive “every per­son” in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Gur­bani through an id­iom and per­spec­tive that is con­tem­po­rary and of­fers greater im­me­di­acy.

The pro­mot­ers of this sin­cere and ex­em­plary pro­ject seek 5-10 min­utes of your valu­able time every day. Can you spare 5 min­utes?

The team at Kho­jGur­bani pro­vides the fol­low­ing free sub­scrip­tions:

links:https://​pod­casts.ap­ple.com/​us/​pod­cast/​kho­jgur­bani/​id1435439834
https://​pod­casts.google.com/​feed/​aHR0cH­M6­Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJ­lY­W4uY29tL2­to­b2p­ndXJiY­W5­pL2
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https://​kho­jgur­bani.pod­bean.com/
https://​www.stitcher.com/​pod­cast/​kho­jgur­bani
http://​tun.in/​pjyUO
https://​www.youtube.com/​chan­nel/​UCi90XhB-Z1x8s25­GAegdgEg

In their pas­sion­ate ap­peal to the San­gat, Kho­jGur­bani team asks for 5-10 min­utes in a day to par­take the wis­dom, the way of life, the beauty and un­fath­omable glory of Guru Granth Sahib. Can you spare 5 min­utes?