Visit to Gurudwara and Our Seva in Society

A group of 15 PJI volunteers visited the Guru Nanak Pura Gurudwara in Raja Park last week, on April 14th, for the Sikh festival of Baisakhi! We joined crowds of attendees to perform seva, helping to prepare food and clean the cooking area. We  also sat down for a langar, sharing a meal of roti, daal, sabji, and halvah with the hundreds of others in attendance.




After the visit, the group sat down for a discussion. Many volunteers talked about new experiences they had at the Gurudwara, and we all learned about the concepts and symbols of Sikhism. We spoke for a while about the ideas of seva and langar, and how these relate to the religion.


The discussion progressed towards the idea of looking at things that all religions share (like attitudes of service and sharing), and how this can sometimes be more important than just focusing on the differences between them. Very similar is a concept from the Self-Awareness Workshop--that we actually share 95% similarities in personality and ideas between people, but we spend so much time on just the 5% differences. This also led into a talk about how we can perform seva in society as a whole.


Our trip and discussion were very valuable in terms of learning new things and further exploring concepts that we've already known. PJI hopes to continue exploring diversity with sessions on different religions and other groups.