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Pairs

Cut out the cards and challenge your classmate to a game of pairs! There are a number of key terms, each of which corresponds to its definition. The key concepts are those that are underlined and the others are terms that will help your understanding of the concepts. Can you figure them out?

A prayer which is said at the start and/or end The Sikh place of Spiritual liberation from of a significant task. worship; it means the cycle of birth and GURDWARA MUKTI AARDAS For example, it is often ‘gateway to the Guru’. death. said during the Amrit Sanskar.

The holy congregation The name given to the The continual reading of gathered in the presence ceremony that initiates the Guru Granth Sahib AMRIT SANSKAR SANGAT of the Guru Granth AKHAND PATH a person into the khalsa. over a 48 hour period. Sahib.

The celebrations of the anniversary of The name given to the the birth or death of a Service to fellow human non-physical part of us Guru. Gurpurbs is also beings; acts of kindness GURPURBS SEWA ATMA (soul) that is believed to a celebration of the or charity. installation of the Guru be immortal. Granth Sahib in 1604.

Means ‘basic teaching’ The Sikh harvest festival Religious duty of giving and these are the first that also marks the day one tenth of earnings MOOL MANTRA statements of each VAISAKHI in which Guru Gobind DASWANDH and time toward the section of the Guru Singh formed the first common resources of Granth Sahib. Khalsa in 1699. the community.

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The community of fully Someone who reads initiated Sikhs. They the Guru Granth Sahib The commanded will of have undergone the GRANTHI at religious festivals or HUKAM God. KHALSA initiation ceremony of through acts of worship. Amrit Sanskar.

This is found at the The free community Someone who has beginning of the mool kitchen found in all GURMUKH become God-centred. IK ONKAR mantra and means LANGAR Gurdwaras. ‘there is only one God’.

The belief that a person Means ‘slow adopter’ The title given to a Sikh and refers to those who may achieve spiritual person whose life is follow Sikhism but have liberation during their SAHAJDHARI JIVAN MUKTI SEWA PANTHI dedicated to the service yet to be initiated into lifetime and not only of the Sikh Community. the khalsa. upon death.

Belief that actions, A sweet substance and the consequences The sacred scripture of made from semolina, of these, determine GURU GRANTH Sikhism that is regarded sugar and ghee served whether the atma will as the revealed Word of KARAH PRASHAD at religious ceremonies KARMA SAHIB be released from the God. in the presence of the cycle of birth, death and GGS. rebirth.

Means ‘princess’ and Means ‘lion’ and is the is the middle or last middle or last name of Pride, ego or self- name of a Sikh female. a Sikh male. All Khalsa HAUMAI centredness. KAUR All Khalsa Sikh females SINGH Sikh males must carry must carry this last this last name. name.

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The fifth of ten Gurus Known as the ‘holy city One of the five Ks who compiled the worn by a member of of bliss’ where the Panj Adi Granth. He was the Khalsa. This is the Piaras, the first five KARA GURU ARJAN martyred for refusing ANANDPUR bangle that reminds initiated into the Khalsa, to remove Hindu and them that God is eternal. was formed. Islamic references.

The last of the ten Gurus A Sikh who follows the This is the dagger worn who organised Sikhs soldier lifestyle of the to symbolise defence GURU GOBIND into the Khalsa to fight time of Guru Gobind against attack and the KIRPAN Mughal oppression NIHANG Singh. They wear protection of those who SINGH are oppressed. and made the GGS the blue robes and reject successor. household comforts.

The founder of Sikhism These are shorts worn Translated as ‘pool of to remind them of the who was well educated nectar’, this is their place clothes worn by soldiers in Eastern and Western of pilgrimage where KACHERA who fought for the faith. AMRITSAR GURU NANAK scriptures and brought the pool surrounds the They also symbolises together Hindu and Harmandir Sahib. continence. Islamic teaching.

This is the comb that The ninth of ten Gurus reminds them that The bibliographic who refused to comply God is there to remove account of the life of GURU TEGH with Mughal authority. KANGA JANAM SAKHI the tangles from their Guru Nanak or the other BAHADUR This refusal to convert life and can always be Gurus. to Islam led to his turned to. martyrdom in 1675.

The third of ten Uncut hair and beard, Gurus. He started symbolising the The writings of the the langar to remove rejection of pride and KESH GURBANI Gurus. GURU AMAR DAS caste distinctions the appreciation of God’s gift of creation. and establish social cohesion.