Jyoti Jot

16/03/2022

3 million refugees in 15 days…
Lives shattered. Living in trauma. Denied access to aid. Denied life.

/ Where there is darkness, there is light 🌓 /

With light, love and hope in our hearts, Jyoti Jot would like to introduce our limited edition Soniashnyk Wax Melts.

Soniashnyk (sunflower) is the national flower of Ukraine. A symbol of hope. A symbol of Sevak. A symbol of Jot 🌻

These wax melts are made with 100% soy wax, infused with natural gold pigment and wild peony fragrance oil. Simply place them in our wax melt burners and watch the magic happen ✨

Our Soniashnyk Wax Melts are available for purchase (Sydney orders only) this Saturday - 19/03/2022 on our website https://www.jyotijot.com, and all sales will be donated equally to and ✨

More than profit. More than a sunflower. More than you or me.

We hope our Soniashnyk wax melts remind you of the golden Jot within you, that is also burning bright within each refugee as they live everyday in fear and trauma.

For those who cannot purchase from our Soniashnyk project to contribute to this donation, please consider donating to organisations like -

https://www.unicef.org.au

or

https://www.savethechildren.org.au/donate/appeals/ukraine-crisis-response

Shabad in reel -
Jagat Jalandha Rakh Lai by Arvinder Singh Raina.

SGGS Ang 853-855
Bilaaval Ki Vaar M4, pauri 10-13/13.

ਸਲੋਕ ਮਃ ੩ ॥ ਜਗਤੁ ਜਲੰਦਾ ਰਖਿ ਲੈ ਆਪਣੀ ਕਿਰਪਾ ਧਾਰਿ ॥ ਜਿਤੁ ਦੁਆਰੈ ਉਬਰੈ ਤਿਤੈ ਲੈਹੁ ਉਬਾਰਿ ॥

Salok mėhlā 3 || Jagaṯ jalanḏā rakẖ lai āpṇī kirpā ḏẖār. Jiṯ ḏuārai ubrai ṯiṯai laihu ubār.

(Salok) M3) by the third Guru:
O Almighty, (jagat = world) the creatures are (jalandaa) ablaze/restless with fires of 4 types -

• Hans = violence/conflict
• Heyt = attachments to the world-play,
• Lobh = greed/ chasing desires
• Kop = wrath/intolerance

Please (dhaar) bestow (aapni = own) Your (kirpa) mercy and (rakh lai) save them.

(Jit) whatever (duaarai = gate) way they (ubrai = rise above) can be saved, please (laih ubaar) pull them out of the vices.

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Please note that these Soniashnyk wax melts are ONLY available for purchase and delivery in GREATER SYDNEY.
NOT available for interstate / international purchase. View more details on our website.

21/02/2022

💙 Our Masi’s (3/5 sisters) singing the shabad Sansar Samundey for Gur Sevak’s paath in Sydney last year. The first time I heard this shabad was at a family Satsang; and everybody couldn’t stop talking about how beautiful it was. The melody of our Beli Masi truly transported us. Sevak and I wanted to learn the Shabad and sing together.

💙 21/12/2021, on Sevak’s birthday, our families came together for a Satsang to celebrate Gur Sevak ✨ and through many voice breaks and tears, I sang this Shabad; taught by our sweet Beli Masi. And in true zoom fashion, nobody heard it (😩).. so Ma asked me to sing it again - I’d like to think that was Sevak taking his turn to also sing the Shabad as we both said we would 🌊💙

21/02/2022

SANSAR SAMUNDEY CANDLE|| 300g Soy Wax || Bergamot, Orange and Clove ||

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Available to purchase on our website now. Link in bio ✨

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10% of your Sansar Samundey Candle purchase will be warmly donated to The Ocean Clean Up

The Ocean Cleanup is a non-profit organization developing and scaling technologies to rid the oceans of plastic. They work on a combination of closing the source and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean (which doesn’t go away by itself).

More information can be found here: https://theoceancleanup.com/

09/02/2022

09/02/2022

BASANT || ਬਸੰਤੁ

🌿🌸🌺🌼🌻🌿

450ml hand poured soy wax candle.

Our Basant candle is made using coco-soy wax and scents of Vanilla, Patchouli and Sandalwood that are blended and hand-poured into sustainable, reclaimed coconut shells. The candle is decorated with small, natural dried flowers.

Raag Basant (ਬਸੰਤੁ) - Basant symbolises the changing of the season and the freshness of Spring. This Raag encourages one to complete a Spring cleaning of the mind and free it from the cobwebs of maya to create a fresh start. One is inspired with hope for new beginnings, cultivating change within.

FRAGRANCE

VANILLA - Inspires peace, dreams, and luck, and helps to improve sleep quality.

PATCHOULI - Patchouli oil stimulates the nervous system. It brings a sense for the sacredness of life, assisting in our connection with the planet and the vibrational patterns that we may encounter upon our journey. Patchouli can help one feel stable, peaceful, uplifted and abundant, healing feelings of separation and isolation.

SANDALWOOD - Emanates a great spiritual radiance and protective energies, inciting calmness and aids in meditation and spiritual devotion.

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10% of your Basant Candle purchase will be warmly donated to the Seed Indigenous Youth Climate Network

More information can be found here: https://www.seedmob.org.au

06/02/2022

SOHILA || ਸੋਹਿਲਾ ✨💜🌙

300ml hand poured soy wax candle

Our Sohila candle features a unique blend of Vanilla & Lavender oil, infused with amethyst crystals & dried lavender, to mirror the calm, protective & blissful energy one feels doing kirtan Sohila to heal the mind, body & soul.

Sohila: Shabad of Praise (of Ek). [ANG 12-13]

Kirtan Sohila is a composition of Shabads written by Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Guru Ram Das Ji & Guru Arjan Dev Ji, expressing one’s pain of separation, as well as blissful union with Ek.

It is a prayer sung by Sikhs while doing the Sukhasan of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, every night before sleeping, and as the final prayer of life recited to accompany one’s departing soul on their journey home into Eternal Bliss.

FRAGRANCE

LAVENDER - Promotes relaxation and is believed to alleviate anxiety.

VANILLA - Inspires peace, dreams and luck, and helps to improve sleep quality.

CRYSTAL

AMETHYST - Amethyst inspires groundedness, tranquility and calm.

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10% of your Sohila Candle purchase will be warmly donated to Harman Foundation

Harman Foundation is modelled on a mission of delivering open, empathic support, guidance and reassurance to all multicultural community members.

More information can be found here: https://www.harmanfoundation.org.au/

29/01/2022

Thank you for your kindness 🌻

‘s last Instagram post is a series of artworks I gifted him for our anniversary / Valentines Day💘

The message of thanks was to us, from the brilliant artist

I believe Sevak chose to include this message of thanks first on his series of posts to Instagram for his Sangat.
Thanking us all for our kindness that we have shared with him, and continue to share with each other; the world Sangat ✨

Though I think when we look at his post now, we all feel it is Sevak we are thanking, for his kindness 🥰

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His message of “thanks” stuck with me so completely, that I just had to incorporate the same message on Jyoti Jot’s thank you cards: the first image in this post.

Thank you for your support, before the journey even began ✨🌻

The artwork on the thank you card pictured above is my edited version of one of my favourite pieces I gifted Sevak.

The artwork by Elaine is based on a picture of our last date together in person (February, 2020) 💘

The final, and most favourite part of these thank you cards are our names ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਕੌਰ (Amrita Kaur), and
ਗੁਰ ਸੇਵਕ ਸਿੰਘ (Gur Sevak Singh)
in each corner, handwritten in Punjabi by Gur Sevak!
(With a quill and ink…of course Sevak has a quill and ink!😅)

Just like each candle, these thank you cards are a piece of me, a piece of Sevak, and the jot (light) of Ek (Divine One) within us all.
🌞🌕🌻💘✨

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✨ Our journey of Jyoti Jot ✨

The next 3 pictures I want to share with you all, are of our last conversation together on WhatsApp - 19/05/2021.

A blessing that Sevak could be a part of Jyoti Jot from its inception, and continue to guide me on each step of this journey. Our journey ✨

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The next image is of Sevak and I when I was around 10 years old.
I remember being so shy, next to the handsome boy with honey-golden eyes💘 From that moment, our hearts beat as one ✨

Though this is one of my first memories of you Sevak, we’ve always known that our journey together started long before this. And will continue eternally, into Ek 🌻

Thank you all, for being a part of our journey and Sangat 💛

Dhan Waheguru Ji ✨
Dhan Sevak ✨

Thank you for your kindness 🌻

29/01/2022

Jyoti Jot - immersed in the eternal light ✨

When it came time to put a name to this idea, I searched and researched for something that could encapsulate / express / embody / signify exactly what this brand means.
More than just candles. More than just me.

The art of Sikhi. The love of Sevak. The light of Ek. All in one.

And then I came across the phrase:
ਜੋਤੀ ਜੋਤਿ | Jyoṯī jot

In it’s original language, Jot comes from word Jyoti, which means light. In this context it refers to Divine light.

This term refers to the joining of an enlightened soul to their creator, and is often used when referring to death of our Sikh Gurus.

The physical death of a respected person.
The journey home for an immortal Soul.

Light merged with light.
Sevak merged with Ek.

Sevak was, is, and always will be the light of my life, heart and soul.
It is my sincerest hope, and honour to continue our dream, and be able to share his light with you all - through these candles.

May His light continue to shine eternally, for Sikhi, Seva and Sangat.

Dhan Waheguru Ji ✨♥️
Dhan Sevak ✨🌻💘
Thank you 🥰

27/01/2022

AARTI CANDLE || 300g Soy Wax || Rose and Sandalwood || Freshwater Pearls and Rose Quartz ||

Hand poured, soy wax. Our Aarti candle is infused with rose petals, rose quartz & freshwater pearls to represent the essence of Ek’s universal Aarti; the lamp lit worship of the cosmos.
Scented with a blend of Rose and Sandalwood to mirror nature’s offering to Ek.

Available to purchase on our website now. Link in bio ✨

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Aarti, the Bani of Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Dhanaasri. [Ang 13 & Ang 663]

Guru Nanak Dev Ji explains how the Aarti of Ek is performed perfectly in nature:
The Divine Creator’s divine creation.

The word Aarti translates to “ceremony of light”, and is derived from the Sanskrit word आरात्रिक (ārātrika) meaning “light that removes darkness”.

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10% of your Aarti Candle purchase will be warmly donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre supports thousands of refugees and asylum seekers, with programs that support and empower people seeking asylum to maximise their own physical, mental and social wellbeing..

More information can be found here:https://asrc.org.au/

27/01/2022

🔈 SOUND ON

A short voice clip of Gur Sevak reflecting on Guru Nanak’s Aarti.

Gur Sevak was telling me about a conversation he had earlier with his father about life | death ✨

He then continued sharing his own thoughts -

“Guru Nanak started it with his talking about like.. the Universe, and the world, and how important it is. And how there’s so much of God in this Universe. And (ummm) like just look at Sohila you know the ਗਗਨ ਮੈ ਥਾਲੁ ਰਵਿ ਚੰਦੁ … | Gagan mai thāl rav cẖanḏ… like all these stars.. that is Your Aarti, you know?” 🥰✨

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ਗਗਨ ਮੈ ਥਾਲੁ ਰਵਿ ਚੰਦੁ ਦੀਪਕ ਬਨੇ ਤਾਰਿਕਾ ਮੰਡਲ ਜਨਕ ਮੋਤੀ ॥ ਧੂਪੁ ਮਲਆਨਲੋ ਪਵਣੁ ਚਵਰੋ ਕਰੇ ਸਗਲ ਬਨਰਾਇ ਫੂਲੰਤ ਜੋਤੀ ॥੧॥

Gagan mai thāl rav cẖanḏ ḏīpak bane ṯārikā mandal janak moṯī. Ḏẖūp mal▫ānlo pavaṇ cẖavro kare sagal banrā▫e fūlanṯ joṯī. ||1||

In doing Aarti of the Almighty, (thaal-u) the salver is (mai) in the form of (gagan) the sky, on which have been placed (rav-i) the sun and (chand-u) moon (baner = become) as (deepak) the lamps; (manddal) the constellation of (taarika) the stars is (janak) like (moti) the pearls.

(Malaanlo) fragrance of the Sandalwood trees is (dhoop) the incense, (pavan) the air (karey = does) moves like (chavro) the swash and (sagal) the entire (banraaey) vegetation is (phoolant) flowers before the (joti = light) the Supreme Spirit. 1.

ਕੈਸੀ ਆਰਤੀ ਹੋਇ ਭਵ ਖੰਡਨਾ ਤੇਰੀ ਆਰਤੀ ॥ ਅਨਹਤਾ ਸਬਦ ਵਾਜੰਤ ਭੇਰੀ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥

Kaisī ārṯī ho▫e bẖav kẖandnā ṯerī ārṯī. Anhaṯā sabaḏ vājanṯ bẖerī. ||1|| rahā▫o.

(Kaisi) how can (teyri) Your Aarti (hoey) be done o Almighty, (khanddna = destroyer) banisher of (bhav = world) births and deaths thus granting emancipation -, because you have no form?

(Sabad = word) sounds in nature represent (anhataa) the ceaseless (vaajant) playing of (bheyri = drums) celestial music. 1.

(Rahaao) dwell on this and contemplate.

Source: https://www.sadhsangat.com/sggs-pp-662-663-dhanaasri-m-1-shabads-6-9-including-aarti/