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(Reel rattles)

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Preetinder: I think growing up

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- I always associated
- my faith with family.


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- The guru Aasaanji,
- is our living guru,


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- and we can consider
- the guru Aasaanji


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- to be above all human beings
- to be our king


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- and the embodiment
- of all of our teachings.


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(Praying quietly)

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In every home that we've had,

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- we've had a guru Aasaanji
- in the home.


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- He's definitely part
- of our family.


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- My mom she likes to do
- in the morning


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- is she'll go to
- the prayer room


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and she'll do the ardas first.

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After that she'll go

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- and she will open
- the Granth Sahib,


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- where the page opens
- she'll read that passage


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and that that will remain open

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for the rest of the day.

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(Praying quietly)

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- - My mom designed
- and built this house.


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- We had a Sikh architect
- as well,


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- and so when he was designing
- our house


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he and my mom both decided

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- to have the guru Aasaanji's
- room


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- right at the front
- of the house.


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It's a very quiet area.

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There's no floors above it.

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- I think that it reflects
- this part of our life,


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our spiritual life.

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(Praying quietly)

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- The evening prayer's
- called Rehras.


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Praying with Manbwit,

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- it does I think strengthen
- our marriage,


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- in that we have a specific
- activity,


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a specific moment of our day

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- that we choose to spend
- with each other


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- in the company of our guru
- of our guru Ransad.


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- I'm not that fluent in Gurbani
- or even Punjabi.


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Manbwit's much better than me,

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- but that also makes me a lot
- more careful than he is


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- because he is a native
- Punjabi speaker,


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- and I've learned it.
- Like I went to school,


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- and I learned it
- grammatically.


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- So he'll read it
- just like he's reading,


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you know, the newspaper.

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- It's very second nature
- to him.


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- It makes me more attentive
- in a way


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- because there's someone else
- with me


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- and we're coordinating
- together.


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- We're doing a shared
- sort of activity.


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(Singing)

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- Kirtan is, really is singing
- God's praises,


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- and for me like the beauty
- that I sense


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- and that I appreciate
- in Gurbani.


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When it's now being sung,

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- I'm able to give it even more
- attention


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- and I'm able to really connect
- with it on a much,


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I think, deeper level...

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- because it's, it becomes
- more real to me.


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(Playing the Harmonium)

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(Singing)

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(Singing)

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(Praying)

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- When we read from
- guru Aasaanji,


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- I'll usually stand with him
- if he's reading


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- or he'll stand by me
- if I'm reading


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- and we'll sort of read
- together.


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We try not to really interrupt

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- when the other person
- is doing it.


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It helps me if he's reading

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- and I'm singing
- at the same time


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- how he's able to read
- very fluently


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and then he also gets to see

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- how I break things down
- very specifically.


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- And how I take the time
- to not speed through words,


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- but I also enunciate and
- pronounce them quite clearly.


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Sikh means learner,

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and so I would always consider

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- that I'm learning more
- every day.


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- But the way I go out
- interpreting my life,


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- he also has the same
- flexibility


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- and the same way
- to approach life


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- and it's not about doing
- things a certain way.


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- It's not about following
- certain rituals or,


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- it's more of a holistic
- approach to life and,


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- and how to be a Sikh
- in, in this world.