Nirinjan Khalsa offers a prayer from the Sikh tradition on this day of the Week of Prayer for World Peace when we pray for those who hold to their beliefs in peace and justice.

Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa-Baker is Senior Instructor Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount

University, where she has served as Clinical Professor Jain and Sikh Studies and Acting Director Graduate Yoga Studies. She was born into a Sikh and Kundalini Yoga community in the American Southwest and in 2000 began learning the precolonial tradition of Sikh devotional music (Gurbani Sangeet) with thirteenth-generation memory bearer Bhai Baldeep Singh who honored her as the first female exponent of the drumming tradition. As a practitioner, scholar, and teacher she is inspired by Indigenous, interfaith, and mystical perspectives and practices that cultivate spiritual connection and communal care for all life.

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Guru Arjan’s prayer sung in raag kanara to a twelve-beat rhythmic cycle

played on the Jori-Pakhawaj and sung by Nirinjan’s mother Nirvair Kaur.

ਕਾਨੜਾ ਮਹਲਾ ੫ ॥

Kānṛā mėhlā 5.

Raga Kaanraa, Fifth Mehl:

ਬਿਸਰਿ ਗਈ ਸਭ ਤਾਤਿ ਪਰਾਈ ਜਬ ਤੇ ਸਾਧਸੰਗਤਿ ਮੋਹਿ ਪਾਈ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

Bisar gaī sabẖ ṯāṯ parāī jab ṯe sāḏẖsangaṯ mohi pāī. ||1|| rahāo.

I have totally forgotten envy of others, since blessed with the company of

the awakened. ||1||Pause||

ਨਾ ਕੋ ਬੈਰੀ ਨਹੀ ਬਿਗਾਨਾ ਸਗਲ ਸੰਗਿ ਹਮ ਕਉ ਬਨਿ ਆਈ ॥੧॥

Nā ko bairī nahī bigānā sagal sang ham kao ban āī. ||1||

No one an enemy, and no one a stranger. We are all interconnected. ||1||

ਜੋ ਪ੍ਰਭ ਕੀਨੋ ਸੋ ਭਲ ਮਾਨਿਓ ਏਹ ਸੁਮਤਿ ਸਾਧੂ ਤੇ ਪਾਈ ॥੨॥

Jo prabẖ kīno so bẖal mānio eh sumaṯ sāḏẖū ṯe pāī. ||2||

What the Divine does, I accept as good. This is the sublime wisdom I have

received from the sages. ||2||

ਸਭ ਮਹਿ ਰਵਿ ਰਹਿਆ ਪ੍ਰਭੁ ਏਕੈ ਪੇਖਿ ਪੇਖਿ ਨਾਨਕ ਬਿਗਸਾਈ ॥੩॥੮॥

Sabẖ mėh rav rahiā prabẖ ekai pekẖ pekẖ Nānak bigsāī. ||3||8||

The One pervades all. Everywhere I look, I see the One, Nanak blooms in

bliss. ||3||8||

(Sri Guru Granth Sahib, 1299)