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In gurbani in japji sahib it says that to clean your mind of sins use the love of naam. 

My questions about this true love are 

1. Where does this love well up from? Is vaheguru ji generating this love through jap of their naam, or is their name this  love itself and is their form this love?

Within this past week while doing simran and focusing on the gurmantar this love springs up. Sometimes a little bit sometimes a little more but not enough where that love floods the mind and the mind absorbs itself in that love and cleans itself, which leads to the next question.

2.How do I increase this love for waheguru ji?

Sometimes when doing simran I feel like I am just mechanically chanting this mantar and am not really remembering vaheguru ji from the inside with love. I cant evoke this love from inside myself sometimes for all the sessions throughout the day and I get sad sometimes and cry and just ask waheguru ji to increase this love because theres nothing I can do get this love, its only their grace.If theres no love inside, how can I say I am a sikh of the guru. I feel so dead inside. If theres no love then nothing changes, the mind isnt getting cleaner and then it can never get closer to vaheguru. Only recently this last week after 2 months of doing 2-4 hours of simran a day am i starting to feel this love. How do I keep this love from disappearing and how do I keep growing this love as fast as I can. I finally feel some hope.I am trying to interact with more love towards everyone in my family in this lockdown and at the same time trying to ask inside if this pleasing to you waheguru ji at every interaction.

Please sangat ji help this broken paapi on this path.

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Read Guru Granth Sahib ji brother. Try and understand the meanings - deeper meanings. It will give you the necessary boost. I am myself astonished as to how a pankti that i have been reading since childhood can have such different meanings for instance, Gopal tera Aarta did u know what this shabad actually mean

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"  Prema Bhakti 

 

Types of Bhagats 

 

One is Maryada Bhagat

One is Prem Bhagat

And one like Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, is he who, having merged with the Lord through Prema Bhagti becomes Maryada Himself. Having struck the climax of spiritual glory through Prema Bhagti, one starts blazing like a spiritual sun, a Sun of Maryada himself. 

 

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj 

Baba Nand Singh Ji's intense divine love of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib and Sri Guru Granth Sahib from His very infancy, acquired the eternal glow of a unique Maryada of adoration, love, devotion, worship and total surrender at the lotus feet of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. From this unique Maryada radiates the flavour and fragrance of Prema Bhagti of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. One starts basking in the grace of Mahan Babaji and the Supreme Lord Guru Nanak. 

Holy Maryada fashioned and designed by Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is no empty ritual. It transports one into the living presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. Every moment, every breath spent in the service, adoration, devotion and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib is most rewarding. My humble experience is that the blessed time so spent does not remain unresponded and unacknowledged for long by our beloved Lord Guru Nanak.

Tyag De Badley Prem Milda Hai

Prem De Naal Sachi Bhagti Shuroo Hundi Hai

Baba Narinder Singh Ji 

Renunciation and tyag attracts the blessing of divine love and with divine love commences the true and real Bhagti. 

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj once explained that there are nine types of bhakti such as hearing the glories of the divine, singing His glories (Kirtan), sewa (service), Nam Simran and so on, but every type of bhakti blossoms to perfection only if done and performed with total love. Without true Prema Bhagti, without intense devotion and yearning, it is difficult to attain God.

Immaculate Purity 

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience. 

External and internal purity was immaculately observed in the service, adoration and worship of Holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib. As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was Himself Truth and purity Incarnate, He stressed and insisted upon meticulous observance of these divine virtues and permitted no deviation. 

His unique Maryada, tradition and culture breathes in and breathes out purity. No worldliness or impurity dare enter His dwelling place. 

As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was a mass of purity, thousands of devotees attending congregations in His holy presence felt as if they had taken a dip in this Ocean of purity. Minds would be cleansed of all accumulated impurities of past sins and Karmas in His holy presence. 

From this Ocean of purity which Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was and is, beams out to the whole world all the blessings and bliss of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

There was no trace of ego, worldliness or materialism in His dwelling places. Purity was the keynote, main-stay, life-force in His congregations. 

The very name of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is a symbol of love and purity. His holy and pure name blooms large on the spiritual horizon like the full moon on the day of poornima. 

With a pure heart, one can feel the intoxication of divine love in which the whole life and Maryada of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj vibrates in the real soul enchanting luminous form of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience. Pure love of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was the unique holy transmission to all alike from this great Divine Source, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. 

This wonderful Maryada, practical and intense worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, sprang from the depths of His very soul based on His personal and direct experiences with Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

His Maryada was highly disciplined as it was cast and moulded in pure labour of love. 

Pioneer and founder of this unique Maryada, culture, way of worship is no other Divinity than the Almighty Sage of Kaleran, now internationally known as Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. What a unique introduction and presentation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib to mankind as living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. He blessed congregations to experience the holy presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib face to face.

Dargahi Ticket 

In the possession of this unique Parshad, Divine Ticket, thousands of His disciples including Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims migrated from far off places to the other side during partition of 1947 but not even a single one of them suffered even a slightest bruise 

Divinely commissioned and appointed by His great Master to spread the gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, He set out to scatter that unique flavour far and wide, the like of which has not been seen so far, and is far beyond the limits of human endeavour. 

He unfolded the Supreme grandeur of Sri Guru Granth Sahib splendidly and glorified the eternal Sri Guru Granth Sahib as the living Guru Nanak magnificently. Blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was supreme and He advised everyone to invoke that blessing by completing one path of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month in the following manner:

Complete recitation of the whole of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month. 

Complete 50 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib in a month; recite 2 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib daily. 

Complete 250 paths of Jap Ji Sahib in a month; recite 10 paths of Jap Ji Sahib daily. 

Complete 180 Malas (Rosary Mala of 108 beads) of Mool Mantra (from Ekonkar to Nanak Hosi Bhi Such) in a month; do six malas daily. 

Complete 80 Malas daily of Gur Mantar 'Waheguru'; 20 Malas of Waheguru if the Nam is recited four times on each bead. 

Complete 160 Malas daily of Ram (Nam); 40 Malas if Ram is recited four times on each bead 

A Mohammedan was advised to practice and recite the name of Allah on each bead as above. 

Hundreds of crores of Sri Guru Granth Sahib's paths were thus distributed as the most blessed Parshad to millions of devotees in His life time and are continuing uninterrupted since then. 

He, thus, brought the supreme blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib within easy comprehension, reach and grasp of everyone, educated, uneducated, lettered, unlettered, literate, illiterate and simple village folks. Every one recited Amrit Nam and sang the glory of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib in this simple and easy way. 

That was the grand purpose behind His holy advent. Uniqueness and greatness of the Eternal Glory of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was unveiled in its totality. The precious treasure of Lord's Name was thrown open to all. It was so simple, easily understandable within the grasp and practice of simple village folk. He freely distributed this Dargahi ticket destined for Sach Khand. 

Though He physically disappeared in August 1943 from this earthly scene, He perennially flows as Eternal presence in this very Dargahi Ticket given as Prashad by Him. Lakhs of refugees from either side during the partition of 1947 experienced the miraculous power of this Dargahi ticket, Dargahi Name with the Eternal presence of the Saviour Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, and were saved. Such was the unique power of Nam He distributed. 

In possession of this unique Prashad, Divine Ticket, they passed through the most dreaded naked dance of death, but not a single person blessed with this celestial ticket could be injured or harmed or died an unnatural death. 

All Glory to Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. 

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj thus blessed millions with unique Prashad of the Lord. Unique Prashad of redeeming Gur Mantar, Mul Mantar, Japji, Sukhmani Sahib, Ram Nam and in addition the paths of Bhagwat Gita and Holy Quran Sharif were distributed as Parshad to Hindus and Muslims in same congregations. 

Nam was not the privilege of a selected few. It was open to all It was distributed freely to everyone without any consideration of caste, religion and creed. 

By thus propagating the Gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Lakhs of illiterate, simple and plain-hearted villagers were able to feel and experience the spiritual satisfaction of attaining the Grace of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Babaji had thus brought lofty ideals of personal service and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and resultant spiritual attainment within the immediate reach and grasp of millions of completely illiterate folk. Only those who practice, know how wonderful and rewarding this spiritual Sadhana is!"

- posted by Karmjeet Singh. in one of the threads here.

 

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"  Prema Bhakti 

 

Types of Bhagats 

 

One is Maryada Bhagat

One is Prem Bhagat

And one like Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, is he who, having merged with the Lord through Prema Bhagti becomes Maryada Himself. Having struck the climax of spiritual glory through Prema Bhagti, one starts blazing like a spiritual sun, a Sun of Maryada himself. 

 

Baba Harnam Singh Ji Maharaj 

Baba Nand Singh Ji's intense divine love of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib and Sri Guru Granth Sahib from His very infancy, acquired the eternal glow of a unique Maryada of adoration, love, devotion, worship and total surrender at the lotus feet of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. From this unique Maryada radiates the flavour and fragrance of Prema Bhagti of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. One starts basking in the grace of Mahan Babaji and the Supreme Lord Guru Nanak. 

Holy Maryada fashioned and designed by Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is no empty ritual. It transports one into the living presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. Every moment, every breath spent in the service, adoration, devotion and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib is most rewarding. My humble experience is that the blessed time so spent does not remain unresponded and unacknowledged for long by our beloved Lord Guru Nanak.

Tyag De Badley Prem Milda Hai

Prem De Naal Sachi Bhagti Shuroo Hundi Hai

Baba Narinder Singh Ji 

Renunciation and tyag attracts the blessing of divine love and with divine love commences the true and real Bhagti. 

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj once explained that there are nine types of bhakti such as hearing the glories of the divine, singing His glories (Kirtan), sewa (service), Nam Simran and so on, but every type of bhakti blossoms to perfection only if done and performed with total love. Without true Prema Bhagti, without intense devotion and yearning, it is difficult to attain God.

Immaculate Purity 

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience. 

External and internal purity was immaculately observed in the service, adoration and worship of Holy Sri Guru Granth Sahib. As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was Himself Truth and purity Incarnate, He stressed and insisted upon meticulous observance of these divine virtues and permitted no deviation. 

His unique Maryada, tradition and culture breathes in and breathes out purity. No worldliness or impurity dare enter His dwelling place. 

As Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was a mass of purity, thousands of devotees attending congregations in His holy presence felt as if they had taken a dip in this Ocean of purity. Minds would be cleansed of all accumulated impurities of past sins and Karmas in His holy presence. 

From this Ocean of purity which Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj was and is, beams out to the whole world all the blessings and bliss of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

There was no trace of ego, worldliness or materialism in His dwelling places. Purity was the keynote, main-stay, life-force in His congregations. 

The very name of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj is a symbol of love and purity. His holy and pure name blooms large on the spiritual horizon like the full moon on the day of poornima. 

With a pure heart, one can feel the intoxication of divine love in which the whole life and Maryada of Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj vibrates in the real soul enchanting luminous form of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

With minds purified in the holy presence of this Ocean of purity, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, automatic transmission of divine love of the most lovable Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak sahib was another common universal experience. Pure love of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was the unique holy transmission to all alike from this great Divine Source, Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. 

This wonderful Maryada, practical and intense worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, sprang from the depths of His very soul based on His personal and direct experiences with Sri Guru Granth Sahib. 

His Maryada was highly disciplined as it was cast and moulded in pure labour of love. 

Pioneer and founder of this unique Maryada, culture, way of worship is no other Divinity than the Almighty Sage of Kaleran, now internationally known as Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. What a unique introduction and presentation of Sri Guru Granth Sahib to mankind as living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib. He blessed congregations to experience the holy presence of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib face to face.

Dargahi Ticket 

In the possession of this unique Parshad, Divine Ticket, thousands of His disciples including Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims migrated from far off places to the other side during partition of 1947 but not even a single one of them suffered even a slightest bruise 

Divinely commissioned and appointed by His great Master to spread the gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, He set out to scatter that unique flavour far and wide, the like of which has not been seen so far, and is far beyond the limits of human endeavour. 

He unfolded the Supreme grandeur of Sri Guru Granth Sahib splendidly and glorified the eternal Sri Guru Granth Sahib as the living Guru Nanak magnificently. Blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was supreme and He advised everyone to invoke that blessing by completing one path of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month in the following manner:

Complete recitation of the whole of Sri Guru Granth Sahib in a month. 

Complete 50 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib in a month; recite 2 paths of Sri Sukhmani Sahib daily. 

Complete 250 paths of Jap Ji Sahib in a month; recite 10 paths of Jap Ji Sahib daily. 

Complete 180 Malas (Rosary Mala of 108 beads) of Mool Mantra (from Ekonkar to Nanak Hosi Bhi Such) in a month; do six malas daily. 

Complete 80 Malas daily of Gur Mantar 'Waheguru'; 20 Malas of Waheguru if the Nam is recited four times on each bead. 

Complete 160 Malas daily of Ram (Nam); 40 Malas if Ram is recited four times on each bead 

A Mohammedan was advised to practice and recite the name of Allah on each bead as above. 

Hundreds of crores of Sri Guru Granth Sahib's paths were thus distributed as the most blessed Parshad to millions of devotees in His life time and are continuing uninterrupted since then. 

He, thus, brought the supreme blessing of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the living Sri Guru Nanak Sahib within easy comprehension, reach and grasp of everyone, educated, uneducated, lettered, unlettered, literate, illiterate and simple village folks. Every one recited Amrit Nam and sang the glory of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib in this simple and easy way. 

That was the grand purpose behind His holy advent. Uniqueness and greatness of the Eternal Glory of Sri Guru Granth Sahib was unveiled in its totality. The precious treasure of Lord's Name was thrown open to all. It was so simple, easily understandable within the grasp and practice of simple village folk. He freely distributed this Dargahi ticket destined for Sach Khand. 

Though He physically disappeared in August 1943 from this earthly scene, He perennially flows as Eternal presence in this very Dargahi Ticket given as Prashad by Him. Lakhs of refugees from either side during the partition of 1947 experienced the miraculous power of this Dargahi ticket, Dargahi Name with the Eternal presence of the Saviour Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj, and were saved. Such was the unique power of Nam He distributed. 

In possession of this unique Prashad, Divine Ticket, they passed through the most dreaded naked dance of death, but not a single person blessed with this celestial ticket could be injured or harmed or died an unnatural death. 

All Glory to Mahan Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj. 

Baba Nand Singh Ji Maharaj thus blessed millions with unique Prashad of the Lord. Unique Prashad of redeeming Gur Mantar, Mul Mantar, Japji, Sukhmani Sahib, Ram Nam and in addition the paths of Bhagwat Gita and Holy Quran Sharif were distributed as Parshad to Hindus and Muslims in same congregations. 

Nam was not the privilege of a selected few. It was open to all It was distributed freely to everyone without any consideration of caste, religion and creed. 

By thus propagating the Gospel of Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Lakhs of illiterate, simple and plain-hearted villagers were able to feel and experience the spiritual satisfaction of attaining the Grace of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. Babaji had thus brought lofty ideals of personal service and worship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and resultant spiritual attainment within the immediate reach and grasp of millions of completely illiterate folk. Only those who practice, know how wonderful and rewarding this spiritual Sadhana is!"

- posted by Karmjeet Singh. in one of the threads here.

 

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Complete 160 Malas daily of Ram (Nam); 40 Malas if Ram is recited four times on each bead 

Can I jap gurmantar here instead of ram. So 240 malas of gurmantar daily?

 

 

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We have all heard, God is Love and Love is God.

It is by the link of Love, by which we attach ourselves with Him, and finally merge in Him.

Dasvee Patshahee says :  Saach keho suun laeho sabhay, jin praem keeo tin hee prabh paaeyo.

I speak the truth, listen everyone: Only the one who is lovingly absorbed in True Love shall attain the Lord.

Now, the question is how to Love Waheguru.

Do we need to say or repeat Him constantly : Waheguru I love You, I love You ..... ?

That is not the right attitude.

Even at our worldly level, when we love someone, we try not to do anything which may  cause hurt or displease our beloved ones, and also the main thing is to spend as much time as possible in the company of the Beloved.

So then, how can we express our love to our Beloved Waheguru Akal Purukh?

And as we saw above,  Tenth Patshahee says, whosoever loveth Him, shall merge in Him.

Here, He is revealing us the secret of spirituality, that merging in Him, is only possible by loving Him.

And we all know, that only by His Simran, His Dhyan, can we realize Him and merge in Him.

It has to be so, as we do His  simran, we spend  a part of our time in His presence , this is in reality singing His praises, and telling Him in His own langauge, the language of love, Waheguru Sachay Patshah, I love You alone.

Waheguru does not want any words from us, He wants our intentions to be expressed through action, and these can can only be possible through the channel of bhakti of His Nam Simran.

Gurmukhs, Sant Janas, come for the only purpose of making us aware of our spiritual nature, and at the same time infuse a bit of His love in us, by singing His infinite glory, then they plead us, to make grow that love in us for Him through His Simran, till the day comes, when we find ourselves totally filled with His Divine Love in all our being, then only, our tiny self of Love(soul/jeeva) can merge in that Satnam Samundar of Love.

Thus, the beautiful words of Dasam Pitah, become true in terms of realization for us: Jin prem kiyo, tinhee Prabh paayo.

Sat Sree Akal.

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It's been a month now, and I'd like to share some things I noticed because of the advice of the sangat in the hopes that it may help someone who felt like I did at the time of writing the original post

Simran is being aware of waheguru ji that they are here right now and staying in this awareness of truly feeling their presence and remembering their qualities is to do their simran. Through doing the effort of jap, awareness of waheguru ji arises and you begin to feel waheguru ji is here right now. 

 

Or what also works is reading,doing vichar,listening and Singing waheguru ji's praises/qualities.It starts to bring some papi filled guy like me who's totally forgetten waheguru ji into their rememberance and the mind becomes aware of waheguru ji. Listening to the praises of Waheguru while feeling their presence, how could it be that by consciously remembering their praises/qualities that love for waheguru ji won't arise. Remembering Waheguru ji's praises are so great that it will melt this stone heart and love will begin to seap through.Actually the reason it's so hard to feel this love is because there's so much poison within from the sins committed that the mind totally forgets waheguru ji. Without any awareness of waheguru ji's presence how can one expect to feel love. How can you love something you can't even remember. Well, the first step is to begin to remember, through jap and singing praises. Slowly and steadily, singing their praises with their grace, love will sprout and will burn away the weight of many sins from the mind, making it more pure, making it easier to find this love and easier to connect to waheguru ji. In Bani, it is emphasized so much to sing the gun of vaheguru ji and gurbani itself is full of praises of waheguru ji and is the praise of waheguru ji aswell. Every name used for waheguru ji is their quality/praise it's amazing.How do you even begin to remember the infinite one with infinite qualities and infinite praises,the one without any form and yet infinite forms? It's through their praise/gun. There is no beginning or end to their qualities and to their praise but I never understood most of the meanings of these qualities  and virtues in gurbani until I started reading english translations alongside bani. Even if I did,the feeling of presence that waheguru ji is infront me and everywhere wouldnt be there. 

I noticed a huge difference especially with Jaap sahib, it is so amazing when you take some time to understand and do vichar of the meaning and it becomes simran. For so long,I'd be just reading nitnem banis without much understanding. Now, I sometimes I feel lightweight when reading bani/gurmantar jap in this way. I also feel something down near the center my chest, like something is going up and down.Any idea of what this might be,should I try doing anything with it or just leave it be and observe next time?Listening to ragis who do kirtan with love like bhai harjinder singh srinagar wale,bhai lakhwinder singh etc helps so much and I notice these things happen more when listening to kirtan and doing vichar of the shabad together.  I also don't feel miserable and frustrated like how I used to feel near the time of writing this post.  Things are better since then thanks to the grace of the sangat.I honestly would've never discovered any of this in the past month without the guidance from sangat here. I am so grateful for this virtual sangat.

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4 hours ago, Singh1213 said:

It's been a month now, and I'd like to share some things I noticed because of the advice of the sangat in the hopes that it may help someone who felt like I did at the time of writing the original post

Simran is being aware of waheguru ji that they are here right now and staying in this awareness of truly feeling their presence and remembering their qualities is to do their simran. Through doing the effort of jap, awareness of waheguru ji arises and you begin to feel waheguru ji is here right now. 

 

Or what also works is reading,doing vichar,listening and Singing waheguru ji's praises/qualities.It starts to bring some papi filled guy like me who's totally forgetten waheguru ji into their rememberance and the mind becomes aware of waheguru ji. Listening to the praises of Waheguru while feeling their presence, how could it be that by consciously remembering their praises/qualities that love for waheguru ji won't arise. Remembering Waheguru ji's praises are so great that it will melt this stone heart and love will begin to seap through.Actually the reason it's so hard to feel this love is because there's so much poison within from the sins committed that the mind totally forgets waheguru ji. Without any awareness of waheguru ji's presence how can one expect to feel love. How can you love something you can't even remember. Well, the first step is to begin to remember, through jap and singing praises. Slowly and steadily, singing their praises with their grace, love will sprout and will burn away the weight of many sins from the mind, making it more pure, making it easier to find this love and easier to connect to waheguru ji. In Bani, it is emphasized so much to sing the gun of vaheguru ji and gurbani itself is full of praises of waheguru ji and is the praise of waheguru ji aswell. Every name used for waheguru ji is their quality/praise it's amazing.How do you even begin to remember the infinite one with infinite qualities and infinite praises,the one without any form and yet infinite forms? It's through their praise/gun. There is no beginning or end to their qualities and to their praise but I never understood most of the meanings of these qualities  and virtues in gurbani until I started reading english translations alongside bani. Even if I did,the feeling of presence that waheguru ji is infront me and everywhere wouldnt be there. 

I noticed a huge difference especially with Jaap sahib, it is so amazing when you take some time to understand and do vichar of the meaning and it becomes simran. For so long,I'd be just reading nitnem banis without much understanding. Now, I sometimes I feel lightweight when reading bani/gurmantar jap in this way. I also feel something down near the center my chest, like something is going up and down.Any idea of what this might be,should I try doing anything with it or just leave it be and observe next time?Listening to ragis who do kirtan with love like bhai harjinder singh srinagar wale,bhai lakhwinder singh etc helps so much and I notice these things happen more when listening to kirtan and doing vichar of the shabad together.  I also don't feel miserable and frustrated like how I used to feel near the time of writing this post.  Things are better since then thanks to the grace of the sangat.I honestly would've never discovered any of this in the past month without the guidance from sangat here. I am so grateful for this virtual sangat.

Brother Singh1213,

Congrats.

Actually what you have written above, is all what Gurbani is about, to create and develope love within us for the most beloved, Waheguru Akal Purukh.

Then also it helps us to follow Gurmat implicitly, by understanding what it says, that also for the unique purpose of merging in Him, by loving Him with all our mind and heart.

Stay blessed.

SSA

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On 6/9/2020 at 5:02 AM, Singh1213 said:

It's been a month now, and I'd like to share some things I noticed because of the advice of the sangat in the hopes that it may help someone who felt like I did at the time of writing the original post

Simran is being aware of waheguru ji that they are here right now and staying in this awareness of truly feeling their presence and remembering their qualities is to do their simran. Through doing the effort of jap, awareness of waheguru ji arises and you begin to feel waheguru ji is here right now. 

 

Or what also works is reading,doing vichar,listening and Singing waheguru ji's praises/qualities.It starts to bring some papi filled guy like me who's totally forgetten waheguru ji into their rememberance and the mind becomes aware of waheguru ji. Listening to the praises of Waheguru while feeling their presence, how could it be that by consciously remembering their praises/qualities that love for waheguru ji won't arise. Remembering Waheguru ji's praises are so great that it will melt this stone heart and love will begin to seap through.Actually the reason it's so hard to feel this love is because there's so much poison within from the sins committed that the mind totally forgets waheguru ji. Without any awareness of waheguru ji's presence how can one expect to feel love. How can you love something you can't even remember. Well, the first step is to begin to remember, through jap and singing praises. Slowly and steadily, singing their praises with their grace, love will sprout and will burn away the weight of many sins from the mind, making it more pure, making it easier to find this love and easier to connect to waheguru ji. In Bani, it is emphasized so much to sing the gun of vaheguru ji and gurbani itself is full of praises of waheguru ji and is the praise of waheguru ji aswell. Every name used for waheguru ji is their quality/praise it's amazing.How do you even begin to remember the infinite one with infinite qualities and infinite praises,the one without any form and yet infinite forms? It's through their praise/gun. There is no beginning or end to their qualities and to their praise but I never understood most of the meanings of these qualities  and virtues in gurbani until I started reading english translations alongside bani. Even if I did,the feeling of presence that waheguru ji is infront me and everywhere wouldnt be there. 

I noticed a huge difference especially with Jaap sahib, it is so amazing when you take some time to understand and do vichar of the meaning and it becomes simran. For so long,I'd be just reading nitnem banis without much understanding. Now, I sometimes I feel lightweight when reading bani/gurmantar jap in this way. I also feel something down near the center my chest, like something is going up and down.Any idea of what this might be,should I try doing anything with it or just leave it be and observe next time?Listening to ragis who do kirtan with love like bhai harjinder singh srinagar wale,bhai lakhwinder singh etc helps so much and I notice these things happen more when listening to kirtan and doing vichar of the shabad together.  I also don't feel miserable and frustrated like how I used to feel near the time of writing this post.  Things are better since then thanks to the grace of the sangat.I honestly would've never discovered any of this in the past month without the guidance from sangat here. I am so grateful for this virtual sangat.

Taking this a step further. I experienced this love as the pain and the pleasure. In great pain, I recognized Him. As feeding me that pain out of the purest, most unconditional love for me, his daughter. Paying off my karams as deserved, leading me to discover reality. And I realized that the beauty, just the sukh, isn’t the reality. Love is. Love in Dukh and Sukh. It’s all Him.
 

Love is All. He’s All. 

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