Sikh Guru Teachings - Wisdom From Guru Granth Sahib

The Weight of Pride — Season 3, Episode 2. Guru Granth Sahib does not speak of pride in general; it names it. In the first half, the things we call mine: the man on his boundary line (Ang 178), Guru Nanak Dev Ji's verdict on caste (Ang 83, Ang 142), the bitter gourd of rule, beauty and wealth (Ang 708), Kabir's courtier (Ang 1124) and youth as a guest for four days (Ang 23). In the second half, the pride that turns holy: giving up Maya but keeping pride (Ang 1372), the pride of learning (Ang 412, Ang 432), the devotee and the preacher (Ang 255, Ang 973), the elephant's bath (Ang 1428), and the root and cure of haumai (Ang 466).Science, as analogy only: Hogeveen, Inzlicht & Obhi (2014), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Ottati et al. (2015), Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.📘 The Weight of Pride — Gurbani Study Companion (59 selected shabads and shaloks on haumai and pride, Ang 23 to Ang 1428; Gurmukhi, Gurmat-aligned English meanings, reflections and practices; CA$7.99 PDF):House of Hemera on Etsy — https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseOfHemeraDirect link — https://www.etsy.com/listing/4607453508Kindle edition — https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0HQ4RWBQ7 (also https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HQ4RWBQ7)Free one-shabad sample (Ang 178): message House of Hemera on Etsy.Comments and suggestions: [email protected] the free podcast: https://www.patreon.com/c/SikhGuruTeachingsListen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1895427760

Season 3 of Sikh Guru Teachings opens with a new series, The Wandering Mind — Realization After Wandering. In this episode Hemera Kaur walks through three compositions from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji: Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s shalok Bhoolee Bhoolee Mai Phiree (Ang 1087), the honest admission “I am lost”; Guru Amar Das Ji’s E Man Mere Baavale (Ang 430), the mind that runs after other tastes; and Guru Amar Das Ji’s chhant Saajan Mere Preetamahu (Ang 440–442): wherever you run, O mind, Waheguru is with you, and when the True Guru is met, the running mind is held still and comes home. Gurbani is recited in Gurmukhi with plain-English meanings, and two studies on mind-wandering are offered as analogies, never as proof.📖 The Wandering Mind — Gurbani Study Companion (PDF, CA$5.99): https://www.etsy.com/listing/4594502887🏡 House of Hemera on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseOfHemera🙏 Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/SikhGuruTeachingsGurbani is free to all. The companion covers our research, meanings, reflections and design, and helps keep the podcast going.Research mentioned: Killingsworth & Gilbert (2010), Science; Christoff et al. (2009), PNAS.

What actually happens in your brain when you sit in Simran and let the sound of the Saranda wash over you? In Episode 3 of Tanti Saaz, we trace the journey from a restless, anxious mind to the stillness of the Anhad Naad — the unstruck sound — through the lens of both Gurbani and modern neuroscience.We climb the brainwave ladder: Beta (the busy, worried mind) → Alpha (calm, focused Naam Simran) → Theta (deep meditative Bhagti) → Delta (total absorption). Then we ask why the old tanti saaj instruments were built the way they were — sympathetic resonance, the warmth of gut strings versus steel, and why the Saranda, with its 30+ resonating strings and long bowed sustain, is the ultimate tool for carrying the mind toward that inner sound. We close on Ang 917, Anand Sahib by Guru Amar Das Ji.This isn't just history — it's devotional neuroscience. The Gurus gave us a precise, sound-tuning technology centuries before the first EEG.🎧 New episodes explore the sound science of Sikh sacred strings.🛍️ Prints, art & more from the House of Hemera: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseofHemera📸 Follow the journey: @sikh.guru.teachings#TantiSaaz #Gurbani #Kirtan #Saranda #AnhadNaad #NaamSimran #Waheguru #Gurmat #SikhPodcast #Sikhi #GurbaniKirtan #Meditation #Neuroscience #SoundHealing #AnandSahib #GuruAmarDasJi #HouseOfHemera

In Episode 2 of Tanti Saaz — the sound science of Sikh sacred strings — we walk the Guru-by-Guru lineage of the instruments that carried Gurbani into the world.From the Rabab of Bhai Mardana, the House of Nanak built a whole sound laboratory: the Saranda, created by Guru Arjan Dev Ji with its deep sympathetic resonance; the Jori, the paired drum of Guru Arjan Dev Ji's darbar; the voice-like Sarangi brought in by Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji for the Ḍhāḍī tradition; the peacock-shaped Taus; and the portable "heart-stealer" Dilruba of Guru Gobind Singh Ji. Underneath it all runs the sound-mysticism of Bhagat Namdev Ji (Samkirtana, the Anhad Naad) and Bhagat Kabir Ji (Shabad Surat Sangam).We unpack the real science too — how sympathetic strings vibrate on their own to wrap the listener in resonance (acoustic entrainment), and how the low, resonant rhythm of the Jori entrains slow, Delta-band meditative brain states. Gurmat Sangeet meets neuroscience.🎧 New here? Start with Episode 1 — The First Sound.📿 Love this work? Explore evidence-based wellness guides at House of Hemera on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseofHemera📸 Visuals & infographics: Instagram @sikh.guru.teachingsIn this episode: Tanti Saaz · Saranda · Jori · Sarangi · Taus · Dilruba · Rabab · Bhagat Namdev · Bhagat Kabir · Anhad Naad · sympathetic resonance · Gurmat Sangeet · Kirtan · Gurbani · neuroscience of sound · meditation.

Tanti Saaz — literally "stringed instruments" — is the family of sacred stringed instruments of the Sikh tradition, and this episode explores the sound science behind them.Sikhi did not begin with a book; it began with a sound. From the gut-strung Rabab that Bhai Mardana played for Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the House of Nanak built an entire "sound laboratory" — the Saranda, the Sarangi, the Jori, the Taus, and the Dilruba — each engineered for a specific spiritual purpose.We walk the lineage Guru by Guru, then go inside the brain: gut strings vs. steel, sympathetic resonance and acoustic entrainment, and the brainwave journey from Beta → Alpha → Theta → Delta — the edge of the Anhad Naad, the unstruck inner sound. Modern neuroscience meets Gurmat Sangeet, grounded in Ang 917 (Anand Sahib) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.Whether you love Kirtan, Gurbani, meditation, or the science of music and the mind, this is the story of how the Gurus built a sound technology three centuries before the first brain scan.🎧 Listen, then explore the visuals on Instagram @sikh.guru.teachings.https://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseofHemera/In this episode: Tanti Saaz meaning · Rabab · Saranda · Sarangi · Jori · Taus · Dilruba · Harmonium vs. Tabla · gut strings · sympathetic resonance · Anhad Naad · brainwaves & meditation · Sikh musical instruments · Gurmat Sangeet · Kirtan · Gurbani · neuroscience of sound.