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I've had this on repeat. I love it aahhhhhhhh. Waheguru :) No words
 
It is great for calming down before simran and it keeps your body at a very calm state throughout the day.

I've had this on repeat. I love it aahhhhhhhh. Waheguru :) No words
 
It is great for calming down before simran and it keeps your body at a very calm state throughout the day.

That was beautiful. Wow. Thank you so much. 
 
Do you have any background? What's being sung and why is it so powerful?

List of ways you can meditate-
Sitting in one posture Sitting in different postures Sitting in a bus Sitting in a car Sitting while driving a car Sitting while eating Sitting straight up Leaning back in a chair Leaning forward in a chair Standing still in one posture Standing still in different postures Walking around town Pacing back and forth Running around Lying down in bed Lying down in a couch SO MANY OPTIONS!

There is one very common trait amongst everyone here. Everyone here is a spiritual seeker. Everyone has wahegurus jot inside them. Everyone has the aim of inner self realization. If you take a drop of water and combine it with another drop of water, you don't get two different things. Just more of the same thing. We are all one. 
 
Discussions are good because you learn from them. But step away if someone begins to create tension. It no longer remains a discussion.
 
Spread love and positivity.  
 
ਗਰਬੁ ਨ ਕੀਜੈ ਰੇਣ ਹੋਵੀਜੈ ਤਾ ਗਤਿ ਜੀਅਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
O soul, don't be so arrogant - become the dust of all, and you shall be saved.

There is one very common trait amongst everyone here. Everyone here is a spiritual seeker. Everyone has wahegurus jot inside them. Everyone has the aim of inner self realization. If you take a drop of water and combine it with another drop of water, you don't get two different things. Just more of the same thing. We are all one. 
 
Discussions are good because you learn from them. But step away if someone begins to create tension. It no longer remains a discussion.
 
Spread love and positivity.  
 
ਗਰਬੁ ਨ ਕੀਜੈ ਰੇਣ ਹੋਵੀਜੈ ਤਾ ਗਤਿ ਜੀਅਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
O soul, don't be so arrogant - become the dust of all, and you shall be saved.

There is one very common trait amongst everyone here. Everyone here is a spiritual seeker. Everyone has wahegurus jot inside them. Everyone has the aim of inner self realization. If you take a drop of water and combine it with another drop of water, you don't get two different things. Just more of the same thing. We are all one. 
 
Discussions are good because you learn from them. But step away if someone begins to create tension. It no longer remains a discussion.
 
Spread love and positivity.  
 
ਗਰਬੁ ਨ ਕੀਜੈ ਰੇਣ ਹੋਵੀਜੈ ਤਾ ਗਤਿ ਜੀਅਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
O soul, don't be so arrogant - become the dust of all, and you shall be saved.

There is one very common trait amongst everyone here. Everyone here is a spiritual seeker. Everyone has wahegurus jot inside them. Everyone has the aim of inner self realization. If you take a drop of water and combine it with another drop of water, you don't get two different things. Just more of the same thing. We are all one. 
 
Discussions are good because you learn from them. But step away if someone begins to create tension. It no longer remains a discussion.
 
Spread love and positivity.  
 
ਗਰਬੁ ਨ ਕੀਜੈ ਰੇਣ ਹੋਵੀਜੈ ਤਾ ਗਤਿ ਜੀਅਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
O soul, don't be so arrogant - become the dust of all, and you shall be saved.

There is one very common trait amongst everyone here. Everyone here is a spiritual seeker. Everyone has wahegurus jot inside them. Everyone has the aim of inner self realization. If you take a drop of water and combine it with another drop of water, you don't get two different things. Just more of the same thing. We are all one. 
 
Discussions are good because you learn from them. But step away if someone begins to create tension. It no longer remains a discussion.
 
Spread love and positivity.  
 
ਗਰਬੁ ਨ ਕੀਜੈ ਰੇਣ ਹੋਵੀਜੈ ਤਾ ਗਤਿ ਜੀਅਰੇ ਤੇਰੀ ॥
O soul, don't be so arrogant - become the dust of all, and you shall be saved.

Hey young bro- well done!
I didn't see this thread until now, but I see you've been given plenty of responses.  I too, see the aura's that you are mentioning, though I've never spoken about them too much because most people don't understand and think your nuts!
I know it really gets you when you first begin to notice it and then out of curiosity you start looking around everywhere. You start to notice the different shades and colours and then it can shock you when something like a banana emits a completely unpredictable colour. After a while, I interpreted these aura visions as something where you inner sight is opening up to the outside.
Nowadays, I don't pay attention to it but I know it's there and I know I can. You may slowly develop your own kind of method whereby you will associate it with energies. I know I'm always blabbing about energies, but it is something much bigger than we think.  In relation to this thread, you can or  you will begin to develop a method to associate the auras with energies. I find this more informative because you can sense good and bad energies. This can be very useful if you are into self-healing because you are able to see and feel darker energy areas around your own body. This makes it easier to self heal as you can concentrate your dhyian on that area and using techniques, can start removing the negative and darker auras. You can also use this same ability to see darker energies in others but I tend to stay away from going in that direction. I can tell you that about a year ago I could see and sense a darker aura around someone's head that was visiting us. A few months later she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Maybe that was coincidental or just something else, but I don't go around trying to feel peoples energies any more because I need the energies to be fixing myself and continuing my own journey. At the gurdwara, I have on occasions been able to pick up and sense members of sangat with high spiritual avasthas, and that's the only time when I genuinely feel that I'm not intruding into another persons privacy zone.
With what people say about focusing on this stuff or not, I can say that Yes, you shouldn't let it distract you from your own simran. Coming back to energies, I find that the personal inner energy that one may use for this or other riddi siddis, leaves you drained and losing your own inner light. I think the most positive result of auras and few other siddis that followed was the recognition and connection with everything around us as ONE. You become more reassured and convinced about this after you may realise how you can connect your own aura energy with another energy, ...and that's when some heavy distractions can begin that may defy some universal laws that we openly accept.
 
Title of this thread is "seeing auras"". I would suggest that you start "feeling auras" and then move on and focus dhyian on what you started initially. You will know that you are back on track because the next intriguing event should most probably be something personally spiritual.

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Recently something new has been happening. I've been seeing a light type radiance around people. It has been strongest during/after simran in sangat and is usually very noticeable around the person doing katha/leading simran. My question is whether this has to do with spirituality. Is this mentioned in bani? What does it mean and why do people have it?

Gyani Thakur Singh jee might have talked about this in Katha. If Daas finds something, Gurparsaad will post it.
 
Bhul chuk maaf

Brilliant points brother. Keep the final goal in mind and don't focus much on other things.
 
Bhul chuk maaf

It's not that sharing makes you spiritually "dumber", it's that when you share the other person might start to develop an expectation of that same experience.
The key is not to expect what the other person experienced in your own journey, rather trust God and remember he has a unique experience that is only for you, unique to your journey.

Recently something new has been happening. I've been seeing a light type radiance around people. It has been strongest during/after simran in sangat and is usually very noticeable around the person doing katha/leading simran. My question is whether this has to do with spirituality. Is this mentioned in bani? What does it mean and why do people have it?

Recently something new has been happening. I've been seeing a light type radiance around people. It has been strongest during/after simran in sangat and is usually very noticeable around the person doing katha/leading simran. My question is whether this has to do with spirituality. Is this mentioned in bani? What does it mean and why do people have it?

Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh

ay naytarahu mayriho har tum meh jot Dharee har bin avar na daykhhu ko-ee.

O my eyes, the Lord has infused His Light into you; do not look upon any other than the Lord.
(In everything you should see God).

har bin avar na daykhhu ko-ee nadree har nihaali-aa.
Do not look upon any other than the Lord; the Lord alone is worthy of beholding.

ayhu vis sansaar tum daykh-day ayhu har kaa roop hai har roop nadree aa-i-aa.
This whole world which you see is the image of the Lord; only the image of the Lord is seen.
 

gur parsaadee bujhi-aa jaa vaykhaa har ik hai har bin avar na ko-ee.
By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I see only the One Lord; there is no one except the Lord.

kahai naanak ayhi naytar anDh say satgur mili-ai dib darisat ho-ee. ||36||
Says Nanak, these eyes were blind; but meeting the True Guru, they became all-seeing. ||36||

I was doing saas-giras one day and this's what happened. I didn't go all the way because I got really scared and didn't let it happen. During the time I didn't even know what an OBE was, I had never heard of one before.
1. Everything went cold (It was a cold day as well)
2. My abihas kept going and I slowly lost feeling in my legs, then slowly everywhere else. It would go away and come back. I was aware of everything around me though
3. Vibrations were going off really fast, from my head to toes, they've never been that strong
4. It started to feel like I was being pulled up and out of my body
5. I started freaking out a bit, and trying to pull myself in, but I was being pulled hard
6. I could feel myself floating
7. Eventually the pulling stopped and I was back in my body
8. After that I couldn't move out of my bed, but I was still aware of everything (still in sleep paralysis)

This was not too long ago. (I'm 16 years old if that makes a difference).

Yes there is a gurdwara in Kitchener area. Punjabi population has become heavy but Sikh population is still very slowly growing. We've tried Simran in the past but no one really came. It's mainly just Sunday morning diwan. There's almost no youth Sikhi though. 

Yeah... as soon as debates start it's game over.

Mysimran.info does have the conference call system. They do it 6 am/pm to 6:45am/pm. But nobody ever join them, I tried three times I was the only one in room lol. But feature here is a good suggestion, unless people start using it for debate lol .

Some have mentioned wanting access to online simran etc. And we rely on ones from gurdwaras etc. But I know there is online streaming audio kind of like the gamers use... That can be used for online conferences. 
Why not have a time (make it weekends so more could attend) and have some take initiative to start simran for Sikh Awareness, and we could all join in since it's streaming??  
Each weekend maybe a different person could initiate and we could have different styles, I might even initiate sometime if I'm brave enough and do it with guitar... Someone else might start it with harmonium etc but since we could all hear each other we could interact live and do this together.
of course we are in different time zones so it wouldn't be Amrit vela everywhere but I think it would work really well!!! Then we could share our different techniques and ways to do it and take turns participating in each other's simran. 

Yes lohe da bata, bowl made of iron is mainly a way for vegetarians to get iron. Make sure to wash it and dry it after use. You don't want to consume rust and you don't want the bowl to get destroyed via rusting process.
In order to do bhagti well, you must try to avoid foods with tamasic properties, that is, food that make you sleepy, tired, lazy, overall unhealthy. Try to avoid sugars and starch, that's teh main culprit in the west.
 
Your spice tolerance is going down because you are becoming more sensitive. You are picking up more information from the nerves. You are eating the same amount of spice as before but you are experiencing it more fully. You are more aware of it.

This is a good thing and means that you are well on your way. Any sensory clarity is a good thing, and I would explore those tastes to bring more clarity into it.
If those spices take you out of the moment, then you just have to reduce their intake.
 
Also problems with higher sensitivity arises when you become sensitive to other people's thoughts and feelings and language, then you might need to find ways to deal with that. So be aware of this and take note if that happens, so you can look for techniques to minimize conflict.

ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ।। ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਹਿ ।। 
 
Sangat ji, I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. I wasn't able to find a discussion related to this. What are your views when it comes to what types of food to eat. One thing that I wonder is why does spice tolerance go down a lot of the time when your bhagti is going well.
 
ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ ਮਹਲਾ ੧ ॥ 
Siree Raag, First Mehl:
ਸਭਿ ਰਸ ਮਿਠੇ ਮੰਨਿਐ ਸੁਣਿਐ ਸਾਲੋਣੇ ॥ 
Believing, all tastes are sweet. Hearing, the salty flavors are tasted;
ਖਟ ਤੁਰਸੀ ਮੁਖਿ ਬੋਲਣਾ ਮਾਰਣ ਨਾਦ ਕੀਏ ॥ 
chanting with one's mouth, the spicy flavors are savored. All these spices have been made from the Sound-current of the Naad.
ਛਤੀਹ ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਭਾਉ ਏਕੁ ਜਾ ਕਉ ਨਦਰਿ ਕਰੇਇ ॥੧॥ 
The thirty-six flavors of ambrosial nectar are in the Love of the One Lord; they are tasted only by one who is blessed by His Glance of Grace. ||1||
ਬਾਬਾ ਹੋਰੁ ਖਾਣਾ ਖੁਸੀ ਖੁਆਰੁ ॥ 
O Baba, the pleasures of other foods are false.
ਜਿਤੁ ਖਾਧੈ ਤਨੁ ਪੀੜੀਐ ਮਨ ਮਹਿ ਚਲਹਿ ਵਿਕਾਰ ॥੧॥ ਰਹਾਉ ॥ 
Eating them, the body is ruined, and wickedness and corruption enter into the mind. ||1||Pause||
 
To add to that, a lot of people eat mainly from sarbloh is there any spiritual benefit from this or is it primarily just an iron booster?