What we're doing is just teaching you the philosophy a little bit
with this little leaflet, it's quite a handy one.
And what we just say is "Look, What do we believe in?"
We believe that there is one God.
I'm sure - I don't know if you guys believe in God or not?
But we believe that theres One that made all of us.
Do we connect to God?
Are we here as human beings to experience God or just believe in him?
It's like me saying to you "Oh, you've got a mother, yeah. Somewhere."
But you don't want to go and see her.
But we believe that at the top of our head [here] you can actually expeirence God.
If we meditate, and we're a good person,
and we help people with compassion
we open our heart up
then we can actually experience God.
And that's what we're trying to recreate in the world with other people.
So we're not trying to convert people.
We're saying "Look, if you're a Christian."
"Then I'm sure if you sang and you loved and you served you would experience God as well."
Same with Muslim.
So we're not trying to convert people.
What we say is "Look,
"In this life, don't waste it not connecting to God."
Because before us this is the chance.
Imagine like -
Woman: Yeah, you get one chance.
Well, we believe you get 8.4 million lives, but you get one human chance.
Woman: Wow.
So imagine a lottery ticket in this country.
It's eight million to one chance to win the lottery!
We believe that getting a human life is even harder than you winning the lottery.
So we've all won the lottery.
Woman: Yeah.
All of us walking around now, we are all lottery winners.
But the thing is, this ticket that we've got in our pocket
this lottery ticket that we've won, you can't get the money unless you cash it in.
So for us the human life is a bit like that.
There's no point in spending your whole life saying "Oh maybe there's a God, I don't know."
Meditate.
You can experience God.
And then you will know.
And you don't need someone to tell you.
You just know inside.
I know God is true.
So we believe in meditation.
The best way for us to mediate is to sing.
So we've got a lot of shared thing with Christianity and the people because they sing.
Because singing opens up the heart.
And loving is the way to God, right?
So by singing -
Woman: I think that a lot of Gospel singers, in what they do, is they sing.
You know our text, yeah.
Now we had 10 Gurus and They passed over everything to the 11th and the Final which is the Text.
If you go to a Sikh temple, you're going to see one room
with at the front is going to be a big throne.
On that throne it will be our Guru Granth Sahib Ji which is like a text.
And next to Guru Granth Sahib Ji there will be a whole bunch of musicians playing music
And we sing.
So inside that text, is fourteen hundred and thirty pages of poetry.
The whole thing is Poetry.
From beginning to end.
And you can sing It.
It's written in music.
And we're meant to sing.
So Gurus actually said "I need to get you guys to sing."
"So everything I say, I'm going to sing it to you."
And what we're supposed to do is sing those words ourselves.
Woman: Yeah.
The thing is like..
You like music yeah?
I'm sure, most people like music.
You guys have heard of Marvin Gaye obviously.
Woman: Oh yeah.
If you put on 'I feel good' by James Brown
you're going to feel it like straight away.
[happy gestures]
You're going to cheer up!
No matter how sad you are you're going to cheer up!
Or you put on some Marvin Gaye or whatever, something nice.
You're going to start feeling that mood, right?
So music gives you a mood.
Woman: It does, yeah.
The Gurus actually were Musicians.
And They actually invented musical instruments
and They wrote Stuff in Music that was going to give you a mood.
So let's say I wrote a poetry, but I was thinking from a sad mood.
How do I make you understand that I was thinking from a sad point of view when I wrote it?
Because you can sing that in a happy tune and that wont make any sense.
You won't get the full effect.
So the Gurus, They actually said "Sing It in this tune"
So they wrote the tune at the top.
They said "Look, this is the tune."
"Now sing these words in that tune."
And as you sing it in that tune you're going to get the feeling of that tune as well.
You see what I mean?
So the Gurus are all about getting us to experience God.
So the music, the poetry, it's all so we can see through Their Eyes.
So the Guru is seeing God with complete clarity.
Him and God are face to face and He's singing to Him.
We're not face to face.
We're sort of backwards somewhere down the road.
Somewhere
Nowhere near.
So what we've got to do is you've got to sort of look at Him through Gurus' eyes, right?
And that certaintly it's just amazing.
Woman: Very nice! Yeah.
Like me, I can look at Christian scriptures and I can see oh look
what Christ is talking about is that experience of God.
You know if you say "hallowed be Thy Name."
You've heard that right?
Woman: Yeah.
So that's like 'great is Your Name'.
But we say to connect to God all you've got to do is call God's name.
So we believe call God's name.
So how Sikhs meditate, we just sit there and we chant God's name.
Guru has given us a Name for Him which is Vaheguru.
And we just meditate, we say "Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru."
Now if you're saying Your Name is great,
why don't we say it then?
Woman: Yeah.
They say "don't say God's Name in vain."
But then say it in earnest.
You see what I mean?
You can flip it around and say why don't we sit down in earnest and say Gods Name.
And for us that is actually the way to God.
Just call Him.
Like a child keeps calling the mum until the mum answers.
In the same way if we just sat down and call God's Name and then He would answer.
Woman: That's lovely.
Woman: Yeah, that's very nice.
Woman: Thank you for telling us.
Check us out on YouTube.
Basics of Sikhi on YouTube.
You can check us out.
That's our YouTube channel.
I'll give you one of these [leaflets].
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