Give as Dasvandh
The Sikh tradition calls it Dasvandh — literally “the tenth.” From the time of the Gurus, Sikhs have set aside a tenth of their earnings for the community’s work: feeding the hungry through langar, sheltering the traveler, defending the vulnerable, spreading the teaching. It is not a tax and not a donation. It is the recognition that what you earn was never entirely yours.
Dasvandh is given without the modern apparatus of donor recognition. The tradition is explicit: give humbly, give quietly, and consider the privilege yours — that you get to contribute to the sangat’s work. The third pillar, Vand Chakna (sharing), makes generosity not an occasional virtue but a structural feature of the disciplined life.
The order’s giving page carries the full teaching, the free workbook of dasvandh practices, and the way to give financially — including the order’s giving product in the shop. Ten percent, given gladly, has built free kitchens that feed millions. Imagine what it builds next.
Earn honestly. Share freely. The tenth was never yours — it was always theirs.