Kaur Inder

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That’s ok when used as a med.. even nowadays it’s been used as a Med in a limited quantity like when prescribed by a doc.. I’m concerned about those who don’t need any medicine I mean physically healthy but still using it and they do it by taking vaheguru’s name. Like using it in degh and making shardayi and while making it they keep chanting vaheguru.. and I haven’t listened to the link yet.. forgive me for any mistakes 🙏🏻

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh
what is the length and width required for dumalla dastar and for bunga sahib for females and which cloth material is the best to tie the dastar. 
Is their any specific difference between men and women’s dastar. Any difference between length and width or the style of tying the dastar. 
Thanks 🙏🏻 

When I'm doing other works I say it loud and listen to it but when I sit down and eyes closed thn i can do it internally and concentrate easily but yes sometimes mind wavers but thn again I bring my mind to where it should be and continue doing it. But I'm finding it hard to match breath in and out while doing it loud. I don't know I'm confused now. And can't talk to anyone about this because nobody knows these things. I didn't even knw that there are these techniques and one should follow to keep mind stable. The only problem I'm facing is matching my breath but Im able to concentrate my mind while I do Simran. But I'll keep trying to do with inhale and exhale method as well. Hopefully god will help me. Thank u so much for the reply ??

Yes plz. I want to know more about marijuana.. I understand the meat part and thnx for that

But why do they or some other Nihangs use marijuana? And meat too (Jhatka)

Bhen ji i remember the matrix was a film series which i have seen a few times.
 
But recently the Late Bhai Jugraj Singh Ji made a video on the subject.
 
Here is the link
 

Can anyone explain what does matrix mean in terms of spirituality. What does it mean according to gurbani.

I think too much over analyzing happening here. 
Women are allowed initiation into the Khalsa. Khalsa is a saint soldier who is PURE, and can through this purity MERGE with the PURE ONE-->GOD.  Lets all try to become Pure first in all actions and thoughts.
Guru Gobind Singh: Father of the Khalsa...is the NIRGUN ROOP OF AKAL 
Mata Sahib Kaur - MOTHER of the Khalsa --is the SARGUN ROOP OF AKAL or AKAL SHAKTI.  Manifestation of the NIRGUN ROOP.
There is only ONE GOD ==NIRGUN ROOP OR SARGUN ROOP. Lets try to get out of DUALITY, and focus on the "oneness".
The khalsa is equal part female and male. Khalsa is for all genders.  This tradition of women not being in the Panj Pyare. Perhaps because the original Panj Pyare were all men.  It would have been nice if a women had volunteered her HEAD when the KHALSA was originally created in 1699, as that did not happen.  As a women I am very strong and confident in myself, and believe my father, Guru Ji, and don't need to question gender equality. We know our religion is all about Gender Equality, so why keep bringing something up that has no relevance.
 If you feel good if women are part of the 5, than go for it --take amrit there,  However, there is nothing wrong with tradition, and the 5 being men.  Lets become Pure, and uphold the values of the Khalsa.
This questioning is a slippery slope, as so many things don't make sense. However, as you start praying the answers come to you. 
Crsytal - Just pray to Guru Ji, and ask him this question. He will answer...
 

Chandi is the jagatmata, the energy from which the universe was created. Durga is an expansion of chandi, she is present within all. She is the power or shakti of Akal Purakh. Chandi is merely one among her many names. She is the one that helps us move, think, grow, talk, etc. Lakshmi, Sarswati and Parvati are merely representations of her satto, rajo and tamo qualities, respectively. In reality, chandi is the feminine shakti form of Akal Purukh, hence they are the same. Many believe that Chandi di vaar, Shastar naam mala, etc. are about Durga, in reality guru ji is praising the divine shakti, as discussed above, that resides in Durga, Kali, shastar, astar, rakatbeej, etc. not just Durga alone. 
Just like how Lakshmi is the personification of Vishnu ji's shakti, likewise Sarswati and parvati are of Brahma and Mahesh, respectively. Even so is Chandi/ Bhagauti/ Maya the personification of Vaheguru's Shakti. If you read chandi di vaar, it says "Khanda prithmai saaj kai, jin sai(n)saar oopaiya. Brahma bisan saaj(eh) kudrat da khel rachaa(ai) baNaa(ai)aa." This tells that at the beginning of the creation, Vaheguru created the Khanda (referring to Chandi, feminine Shakti form of Akal Purukh), from which shakti the trinity, Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh came into being. Now it makes sense that guru ji wrote such banis so that we could plead the mercy of Chandi so that she may reside in us and shastars so that we may gain victory on the field of battle. Those who are familiar with Chandi di Vaar may understand this, "taitho(n) hi bal raam l(ai) naal baNaa da(h)sir ghaa(ai)yaa, taitho(n) hi bal krisan l(ai) Kans kesi(n) paka(rh) giraa(ai)yaa." this is referring to the shakti of Akal Purukh, Chandi. Bal=shakti, hence Ram and Krishan also took shakti from Akal Purukh in order to defeat Ravan and Kans, respectively. 
Even though no one can describe Chandi as she is beyond description, may this help in getting a vague idea of Jagatmata Chandika.

Major experience this morning. I just wrote down bullet points quickly right after on my phone while the memory was fresh:
First the conch shell started getting loud. 
Then it sounded like an airplane was about to take off
Loud screeching noises started happening 
Then it felt like a rollercoaster. or like I was on a jet, or a rocketship etc
Something happened and then I was somewhere with nothing but blue and white. like looking at a sky
At that moment I started hearing multiple instruments 
 
I don't know what happened, honestly. But this is one of the most intense ones I've had so far. 
 

Veer ji I heard in gyani thakur singh katha that when ladies have their unpleasent days they can listen to Brahm Kavach and do the bani with sucham like keshi ishan etc. So the same rules should apply to Chandi Di Vaar as i usually read them together after ishaan.

Dekh lo movie
 
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1578601608917231&id=100003022208854
 
Recommend you take a copy of the video before it is taken down.
Open the link in a browser
m.facebook.com/harjot.natraj/videos/1578601608917231/
right click on the video and and choose save target as... 🙂

Here is a katha recording i found which is really really good by Sant Jagjit Singh Ji Harkowal Wale and Sant Baba Jarnail Singh Ji Bhindrawale that really made me think what human body is and what time is with really deep veechar.
 

one question I have plz if anyone can answer that is someone told me that females can’t do Chandi Di Vaar da path.. and I just can’t agree with this I mean why.. was this all left now.  Discrimination regarding baniya?? Where does it say that we can’t do Chandi Di Vaar da path. And if it’s true thn really need a valid reason for that.. plz plz if anyone ever heard something like this plz do share ur views. Thanks

Hanji hopefully. Thanks paji

How counting or doing x amount of Jaap leads to ego.. I think ego can still overtake when u do khulla pehra. Why it’s always considered that chalisa is useless and its always said that it’s the ego of a person.. I think it’s the intentions that matters whether if rememberance is done under a specific amount of time or u do it unconditionally.. whatever u said is absolutely correct that it’s not us or me who does the Jaap but it’s the mindset of a person so I think we can’t say everyone who does is egotistic.. I still have ego and ego isn’t something that can be won over night for a sinner like me but These X amount of Jaaps can help in getting over haumai if done with true intentions.

So did I said something else? That’s what I said ego is there doesn’t matter if u do khulla pehra or chalisa. But some people bring ego  within chalisa and says I did this many or he/she did this amount of paths or jaaps and with khulla they don’t judge..  It’s the intentions and how they do it and why they do it and for what they do it. It’s different for everyone. 

I don't want to go off-topic here, but think of simple positive and negative energies.
Our subtle sareer has layers of these energies, and during day to day life we pick up pollution of negative energies from surroundings that cause an imbalance, but we can also pick up much positives as well that help bring down the negative imbalances- this is why gurbani stresses on the company of sadh sangat (where pure positive absorption is obtained)
You can look at some material on 5 koshas(layers of subtle sareer) and energies etc... but I wouldn't worry too much about it.
There are the chakras which all have to balanced and be in positive activations. When this happens, the higher crown chakra/dasam duar opens and kundalini rises to merge the life stream with God stream.... the destination for sachkhand.

But like I said, you don't have to worry and get concerned with what is balanced/activated as per yogic approach, because with the help of shabad and gurmantar..everything aligns itself automatically....Gurmat approach is to focus on shabad and shabad only.

ang 1402
ਕੁੰਡਲਨੀ ਸੁਰਝੀ ਸਤਸੰਗਤਿ ਪਰਮਾਨੰਦ ਗੁਰੂ ਮੁਖਿ ਮਚਾ ॥
The Kundalini rises in the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation; through the Word of the Guru, they enjoy the Lord of Supreme Bliss.
kundlanee surjhee satsangat parmaanand guroo mukh machaa
Sadh sangat promotes positive energies that help the sequence to kundalini rising.

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ਉਲਟਤ ਪਵਨ ਚਕ੍ਰ ਖਟੁ ਭੇਦੇ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਸੁੰਨ ਅਨਰਾਗੀ ॥
I turned my breath inwards, and pierced through the six chakras of the body, and my awareness was centered on the Primal Void of the Absolute Lord.
ultat pavan chakar khat bhayday surat sunn anraagee.
I think the breath inwards is the pavan referring to the waheguru gurmantar in simran technique of breath in/out. Therefore, just the boat of the shabad will ferry us across through whatever chakras need conquering along the turbulent ocean(bhavsagar)
Guru Nanak ji, also mentions this in sidh gosht to the siddas, claiming that he only needs the word of the shabad as his master and boat to get across, whereas they have many other strict regimes.

Rom rom simran instructions:
Be One With the Cosmic Pulse
Day One
Blessings to you!  Welcome to 40 Days to Be One With the Cosmic Pulse.  
Japa is typically thought to mean repetition of a mantra.  But really Japa is the process of awakening a mantra.
Your own pulse should do Japa.  
You should not do Japa.  
Realize that inside you, there is a continual Japa.  The beat in the body continually repeats Sat Naam Sat Naam Sat Naam, without any effort on your part.  
Yogi Bhajan said, “Meditating on your own pulse is the hardest meditation a man can do.  But take the worst criminal on the Earth and make him meditate for 2 ½ hours on his pulse and after ninety days, give him a gun and tell him to shoot you.  If he can handle it, spit in my face.  That much cleansing can happen in consciousness.”  Let meditating on the pulse totally cleanse your consciousness.  Let it bloom you.
Whenever we chant Sat Naam, we always think that we are chanting.  When we think we are chanting, really this is our conditioned superficial “I” that is chanting.  
Realize that we have been chanting in the pulse all along.  Listen to the mantra in the pulse.  Be receptive to Japa.  Allow your witnessing consciousness to contemplate:  who is the one who is beating this heart?  
Meditate on the Japa of the pulse, and may Guru Ram Das always be in your heart!
Yogi Amandeep Singh

London Dha Jatt Jee, were you a Jatt in all your previous lifetimes? can you say for certain that you were even a Punjabi in your previous lifetimes? for all you know, you (like me) could have been a Chura or Chamar or Chandaal or Brahmin or even a Chinese man or woman? This body is very temporary which we(Soul) wear and discards like cloths. The body and the caste associated with the body will eventually become ash. Then your soul (based on it`s karmas) will get another body which for all we know might not even be a body belonging to the Jatt caste. So what use it is being proud of being Jatt? If you need to be proud, then feel proud of our Gurus, Bhagats and Shaheeds and try to emulate their extraordinary Jeevans.

With the exception of Bhagat Dhana Jee, none of the Bhagats were Jats. As a humble Sikh would you not sacrifice yourself just to get a chance to bow to the charan dhoor of Bhagat Kabir Jee (a Julaha) or Bhagat Ravidas Jee (a Chamar) or would your proud Jattness prevent you from doing that?

While everything is Akal Purakh sahib, there is a difference between a deity and a plant.
A deity is a spiritual presence of Akal Purakh sahib. Whereas a plant is a material presence.
 
A deity is the face of Akal Purakh sahib, which you cannot see the way you can see a plant.
When a devotee has a glimpse of Akal Purakh sahib, then he experiences the face of Akal Purakh sahib looking back.
That face is the deity.
Only by his grace, bhagti and becoming truthful, can one see his face.
 
Those Gurmukhs, those Saints who see his face, they talk about it, they sing about, they write hymns on it and they write stories on it.
 
Sant Valmiki ji when he connected to Akal Purakh sahib, he saw his face.
This inspired him!
From this inspiration he wrote the Ramayan whose central character is Akal Purakh sahib.
Valmiki ji even reveals that it is Akal Purakh sahib that he is talking about.
 
Sant Valmiki ji wrote that story so that new generations may take inspiration from the moral lessons presented therein.
Akal Purakh sahib's interactions with the situations he faces in the story, reveals him to be a superior man.
All men can look up to his ideal and implement it into their way of being.
Ramayan is where the name Purakhottam comes from.
 
You know that Akal Purakh sahib is known by different names.
Where did all those names come from?
They came from the Saints like Valmiki ji.
 
In Sant Valmiki ji's story, Akal Purakh sahib takes birth in the Raghu clan.
So he is called the Lord of Raghus or King of Raghus.
Ramayan is where the names Raghupati and Raghu Rai come.
 
The bow that Akal Purakh sahib wields is known as Sharang.
So that's why he is known as Sharangdhar, the Wielder of the Sharang bow.
 
You read these names in Guru Granth Sahib and you don't realize that they are referring to the a deity, a face of Akal Purakh sahib that a Saint, Valmiki ji, saw thousands of years ago.
 
Just like how Valmiki ji talked about Akal Purakh sahib in a story format, in this way, many other Saints from different religions talked about Akal Purakh sahib in in their own way.
 
 
In India, the Saints called Akal Purakh Sahib by different names, such as Shiv ji, Vishnu ji and Mahakal ji.
 
In other countries, the Greek Saints called him Zeus. The Nordic saints called him Wodin.
In this manner, different religions and traditions were born. Some survived others died out.
 
It is the Saints who gave Akal Purakh sahib a variety of names and characters.
 
You can legitimately worship anything and connect to Akal Purakh sahib.
That's what the story of Bhagat Dhanna ji is about! He literally sat there a worshipped a black stone.
 
Akal Purakh sahib can show his face from anywhere!
Just like he showed himself to Dhanna ji, he showed himself from a pillar to Bhagat Prahlaad ji.
 
ਥੰਮ੍ਹੁ ਉਪਾੜਿ ਹਰਿ ਆਪੁ ਦਿਖਾਇਆ ॥
Tearing the pillar, Akal Purakh sahib showed himself!
ਅਹੰਕਾਰੀ ਦੈਤੁ ਮਾਰਿ ਪਚਾਇਆ ॥
He destroyed the ahankari Hiranyakashup.
ਭਗਤਾ ਮਨਿ ਆਨੰਦੁ ਵਜੀ ਵਧਾਈ ॥
The mind of his devotee, Prahlaad, was filled with happiness.
ਅਪਨੇ ਸੇਵਕ ਕਉ ਦੇ ਵਡਿਆਈ ॥੯॥
He blessed his servant with greatness.
 
In Sikh tradition, we worship Akal Purakh through Naam Simran.
What is Naam Simran?
It is essentially 1. making a sound and 2. focusing on it.
But when the intention of making that sound is to connect to Akal Purakh sahib, then it has a sacred effect and the sound becomes sacred. It is becomes Akal Purakh sahib's name.
 
A child cannot speak the language of the mother when he is born. He simply cries and makes noises and the mother comes running.
In this way Akal Purakh sahib comes to those who intend for him to come to them.
 
Without the intention you are just worshipping noises.
With the intention there, you are worshipping Akal Purakh sahib.
 
It comes down to attention and intention.
Focus on the goal and Desire to move towards the goal.
That goal being Akal Purakh sahib.
 
Bhagat Dhanna ji was just worshipping a stone, but his intention was to seek Akal Purakh sahib.
So his worship was approved.
 
Those who do this, to them Akal Purakh sahib reveals his face.
And that face is a deity.
 
Those who become masters at it like Sant Nam Dev ji and Bhagat Dhanna ji, to them Akal Purakh sahib himself comes and helps them out, just like how he helped Prahlaad ji.
Some masters like Sant Valmiki ji, they write stories on Akal Purakh sahib, from which we get all these names of Akal Purakh sahib and from which millions of people today derive inspiration.
 

I'm guessing they don't know any better.