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<strong>June</strong> 15-23<br />
<strong>June</strong> 23<br />
<strong>June</strong> 24-July 1<br />
6th of the month<br />
Sundays<br />
6:30 am<br />
Every Thursday at<br />
12:30 pm<br />
Fridays<br />
4:30—5:32 pm<br />
Gurdwara or langar<br />
hall<br />
Sunday’s after<br />
langar<br />
NOTICE OF CHANGE<br />
<strong>June</strong> Ashram Events<br />
Summer Solstice gathering<br />
Miri Piri Graduation<br />
At the La Mesilla home of <strong>Guru</strong><br />
Bachan Singh and Kaur<br />
Women’s Camp<br />
Ongoing Events<br />
Gurdwara commemorating the<br />
martyrdom of the Akal Takhat.<br />
This is traditionally a “Wishand-a-Dish”<br />
langar meaning<br />
each person prepares a dish filled<br />
with their prayers and wishes to<br />
share with the sangat.<br />
Ishnaan Seva, washing the marble<br />
floors in the Gurdwara. All<br />
are welcome to participate in this<br />
uplifting event.<br />
Langar served in the Langar<br />
Hall. All welcome! To help,<br />
call Amrit Kaur, 753-7705 for<br />
food preparation, and Deva<br />
Singh at 927-0988 for general<br />
information.<br />
Prosperity Meditation to<br />
“<strong>de</strong>velop the intuitive business<br />
mind and bring prosperity<br />
home.”<br />
Free healing sessions are held in<br />
the Gurdwara. Acupuncture<br />
treatments by <strong>Guru</strong> Mitar Kaur<br />
and Sat Nam Rasayan Free<br />
Clinic treatments.<br />
Sat Nam, our monthly newsletter is now available<br />
in living color on our website,<br />
www.espanolaashram.com. You can read and/or<br />
print out and enjoy at your leisure. This method will<br />
save printing, paper and labor costs for our Community<br />
Growth Fund. Of course, if you are not able to do<br />
this, or just prefer, we will be happy to mail a copy to<br />
you with your statement each month as we have<br />
done in the past. Call Mata <strong>Guru</strong>Meher Kaur at 367-<br />
1315 or email gurumeherk@Sikh Dharma.org. Blessings.<br />
<strong>Hacienda</strong> De <strong>Guru</strong> <strong>Ram</strong> DAS<br />
Words of Wisdom From the Siri Singh Sahib Ji for<br />
Parents<br />
“We’ve got to train<br />
our children to know<br />
that weapons are not<br />
something just to go<br />
around killing people<br />
with. Weapons are to<br />
be respected, they are<br />
an object of reverence,<br />
they are for<br />
<strong>de</strong>fense, they are<br />
something for grace.<br />
Those parents who<br />
give their children<br />
toy guns to play with<br />
and to shoot are not<br />
doing the right thing.<br />
That’s not the way to<br />
train children. It’s wrong. They should try to teach<br />
children reverence about guns. And that is my special<br />
request to mothers. If they give them these toys and<br />
teach them to enjoy shooting anything and everything,<br />
they lose the perspective and the respect of what<br />
shooting really is, and what arms are and what they<br />
can do, and then sometimes things really happen<br />
wrong. Please try to see that your children at least do<br />
not play in a very unrespectable way with arms. It’s<br />
not right.<br />
That is why we wear a sword and we respect it. We<br />
take it and touch it with our foreheads, we show it that<br />
way. That gesture means that your total soul is involved<br />
with it, and you are not going to misuse it. But<br />
if you think that arms are just a game, that you can<br />
just go bang, bang, bang and that life can be just bang,<br />
bang, bang well then you are just looking for trouble. I<br />
have seen people giving water pistols to children, and<br />
that’s not right. It creates a confusion in the mind of a<br />
child. Our children need to learn many things and it is<br />
up to us to see that they<br />
receive the proper education.”<br />
For the entire article, see Beads Of Truth # 37<br />
Winter, March 1978<br />
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