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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Manika Kaur, a Sikh devotional singer songwriter

Good Morning.

When I鈥檓 not busy enjoying motherhood I dedicate my 鈥榤e time鈥� to composing and singing Sikh spiritual music known as kirtans. My music is all about healing and has helped me to combat fear, anxiety and low frequency thinking.

Recently I have been working on a Sikh musical prayer that describes that moment of death as 鈥渢he wind merges into the wind, the light blends into the light and the dust becomes one with the dust, no one dies, the soul is imperishable.鈥�

Like birth, death is a natural part of all life cycles and yet there is much fear attached to it. Of course no one is suggesting death is easy 鈥� especially the untimely deaths of a pandemic or the terrible Grenfell Tower Fire, which happened 5 years ago today. Such deaths are terrible and bitter.

But I wonder if we as a community can find a way to look at death differently and remove some of the dread and fear more generally around the subject. Could a new perspective give us the tools to heal when we lose someone we love and feel like we may not be able to go on?

I cannot re-call a time in my life that has been as fixated on illness and death as it is in today鈥檚 Covid reality and so I let go into these words by Guru Nanak who founded the Sikh faith. He said 鈥渄eath would not be called bad if one knew how to truly die.鈥�

Merciful Father

Today we remember all the souls you have called home. Through tragedies like Grenfell tower, the terrible event so many will be thinking of today, or the Covid pandemic, numerous diseases, accidents or old age. Please grant them and us the strength to find peace within your will.

Waheguru

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