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Vanjara: Recognizing the Trader Within Us

Saturday
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15
March
2025
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Saturday
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15
March
2025
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Vanjara: Recognizing the Trader Within Us

Saturday
,
15
March
2025
11:30 am
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4:00 pm
(PDT)
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Meeting Room, Surrey Libraries - Strawberry Hill Branch
(
Surrey
,
British Columbia
)
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no one

We are all traders, constantly engaging in exchanges through our interactions, choices, and pursuit of meaning. But what do we truly seek to accumulate? What holds lasting value?


This presentation explores Guru Ramdas Sahib’s Vanjara, situating it within its cultural framework and lived experience. We will reflect on the composition's foundational themes and their relevance to our daily lives.

Through this exploration, we will examine our world transactions and our relationship with IkOankar—the One asking: What are we trading in? What are we gathering? And ultimately, what will we take with us on our journey ahead?

What is a Saneha?

Saneha is a beautiful Panjabi word that means personally delivering a message on behalf of another.

Saneha: Becoming Guru-centered sessions are for personal and/or community development. Content incorporates the Gurmat framework of bani (wisdom), tavarikh (history), and rahit (lifestyle), as well as other universal principles that resonate with the message of the Sikhi.

Participants are encouraged to ask questions and arrive at answers through collective understanding.

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Presenters

Anupreet Kaur Bal
Vice Principal, Surrey Schools
Sukhmann Kaur
Associate Editor, The Guru Granth Sahib Project
Surender Pal Singh
Senior Research Associate

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Saturday
,
15
March
2025
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Saturday
,
15
March
2025
11:30 am
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4:00 pm
(PDT)

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Meeting Room, Surrey Libraries - Strawberry Hill Branch
7399 122 Street
Surrey
,
British Columbia
V3W 5J2
Canada
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Anupreet Kaur Bal
Vice Principal, Surrey Schools
Sukhmann Kaur
Associate Editor, The Guru Granth Sahib Project
Surender Pal Singh
Senior Research Associate

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