sukrit kaur

I mean a person-Guru. But really anyone, any place and anything can be a guru if it takes you deeper within your consciousness.

What do you mean you get scared while meditating. Scared of what?

It's a very different kind of fear.I mean whenever i try to meditate i feel like my body is going to vibrate.I know it's the fear of mind, but it's still here.

Nice, being awake in dreams, ie remembering that you are sleeping during the dream is a great sign.

Really?It is a good sign??

I thought it's a kind of insomnia.This is the problem that I cant understand whether i am on right track or not.

I know there are so many questions.

My easiest piece of advice would be to start doing regular simran with waheguru jap.

Ideally most of us that speak on here have started with the saas graas and saas saas jugtees(techniques)

It really doesn't matter what technique you use as long as you get to that internal discipline of steadying your mind(from jumping to thoughts) and japping internally with the mind.

Eventually;-(if you already haven't)..you will begin to fall in love with the waheguru gurmantar.

Whilst doing this it is important to be listening, listening and listening...to just listen to yourself inside doing the jap.

It is when you start listening to your sukham(subtle) self whilst doing jap...that waheguru begins to manifest within.

Yes,i appreciate what you adviced..I hope waheguru ji will show his kirpa..

If Lord Krishna comes to meet you in a dream and hugs you very tightly, it means your are very special and your spiritual journey ahead will be very interesting.

I had a similar experience of getting scared and resisting His hug.

I was kayaking with my friends, down this really dangerous river, with rapid, chaotic waters. It was surrounded by beautiful brown cliffs, where the sunlight hit the tops of the cliffs and lit them up with beautiful warm colours. Below that was this dark, cold, blue river, in the shade, with greenery around it and rocks everywhere.

I am not sure why we went on this river but that's all I remember.

So while kayaking down I saw an opening in part of the cliff to my left that we wanted to check out, and there was a flat rock in front of it to the side. We used the rock to stop ourselves and entered the opening.

Now it was just me by myself.

The water was rushing into the opening very hard, but I wanted to explore anyway. The water spiraled around deeper into the cave, and as I went in deeper I noticed that it formed a whirlpool.

I was looking down at the water so far, when I looked up, at the center of that whirlpool there was a figure seated atop Sheshnaag, His form was dark, beautiful and awe-inspiring! And the five-headed Sheshnaag was terrifying! At this point I realized this was no longer a dream. My mind was beginning to wake up as I began to get sucked into the dark form, the deep void.

The pull into the darkness was so strong that I got frightened that I might die, that I might disappear. I was scared and tried to free myself and woke up fully.

I later fell asleep thinking that was not physical death but death of the ego, which the ego was resisting. During that pull into the darkness the sense of I, haumai, was threatened and it resisted.

Let's see what He does next. He keeps chipping away at my haumai, little by little. Even though I haven't meditated in formal sittings in a while, He still comes to meet me in my dreams.

I hope waheguru ji accept me as his child and show his kirpa.Now a days, I usually see very strange dreams amd while dreaming, I remember I am sleeping. After a while, I forget everything.I know it's my ego which is restricing me.I hope it'll be allright.

The shabad (word) is His name 'Waheguru', into which you are supposed to focus on with your whole mind.

If you can find a physical guru, that's awesome too because they can give advice for your particular case. They can tell you what you need to hear. So how do you recognize a guru? Anyone to whom you listen to, who takes you deeper into your consciousness, is a guru.

This is the point where i get confused."physical guru" means other than guru granth sahib ji?I know there are answers of all questions in guru granth sahib ji,but without his bliss it's very difficult to understand all.So,there are lot of questions in my mind.I try to meditate,but such queries are restricting me.I mean I get scared while meditating.So,should i focus on waheguru? It will happen on it's own?In gurbani there is lot of stress at many places about NAAM.I know it's hard to say anything unless experienced. I hope waheguru ji will make my doubts clear ..

For the past many days, I've been trying very hard for Out-Of-Body experiences; but it seems like some Spiritual energy is blocking me for those experiences. Obviously, I was not happy and was complaining to my Guru in my mind.

And then since yesterday, I started seeing answers to my questions/frustrations via some Spiritual Kathas I was listening to. You can call it coincidences but in my understanding, there are no coincidences, it's someone (God's forces) helping you to understand something by placing you at the right time and right place and then offering you the understanding.

So, I understood that what I had already experienced twice is NOT the same what I'm trying to experience for the past couple of days. There's a big difference in those.

What I was trying now is to be out-of-body and travel places, but in this technique a silver cord (or some thread) is attached between the physical body and the body which is outside; it means that one has to take care of that cord as it should not break otherwise I can't get back to body. Secondly, I need to understand that the physical body needs to be protected from negative forces while I'm away on my travels.

But there is another out-of-body experience which does not involve the silver cord and there is no fear of losing the thread and/or body. But it is possible NOT with the force or hard-work, it is the raising of the consciousness and is dependent on the Guru's Kirpa/Grace.

Now, it finally made sense to me why I was blocked from my experiments. So, the lesson learnt is: There is 2 out-of-body experiences: One is real out-of-body where we actually come out-of-physical body but still attached to it via some cord/thread; Another is where we (may be Soul or may be some astral body or may be mind) actually travels to some other place but here there is no physical connection between the body who travelled with the physical body.

It has happened in the past also. There were many times in the past, when I try some risky/dangerous techniques/knowledge but I was always either blocked and then taught the right OR simply got instructions to stop. I love to take risks because I believe that the Guru is watching over me and will stop me going to wrong direction. But it seems like I should be careful because Guru's main concern is our Spiritual progress and if we always chose risk, Guru might choose to end our current life and give us another life where we would not do risky things as a habit, but in the process the current family member suffers.

Just sharing something that came to my mind.

I read all.It seems very interesting.I have never experienced like this.I usually experience somethings which are very strange.I feel as it is happening and at same other time i realise no it's only a dream.Then i say in my mind that no!,nothing happened..i dont know anything about it.anyways..

In 1st para you wrote ,"i was not happy and complaining to my guru in mind".Here i got excited.what did you mean as guru there?I mean really you have such approach.i know it's not right to question this.But i want to know about it..

To put it in simple small words...............

We don't need no master or physical guide to help,hold and guide us at further stages..

ALL we need and should be looking for is the SHABAD.

The Shabad IS the Guru.

Guru Nanak ji told the yogis 'shabad guru surat dhun chela'....when they asked young guruji who his master guru was.

However, if we are blessed with his kirpa and baksh...and may need a guide to hold our hands across the turbulent world ocean, then Nanak ji himself will give you his darshan.

Yes,Nanak ji can give us darshan.I know it sounds easy but..Can you please add more about shabad..I do know little about it,but hard to say unless it's experienced.Shabad starts listening at it's own after an appropriate stage or waheguru is the shabad??

I know my question makes no sense ,but i need views to make my doubts clear.

I just want to add some words in this disscussion.i really know nothing and have not experienced this yet.but i read somewhere that a stage comes where you need a guru to hold you and to reach where you want to go.i am highly confused here.i mean there we'll meet that purkh?? Please do help me in this??as it's said little knowledge is dangerous..so i want to get familiar with it..

I have experienced many dreams.it's weird.l am sharing one as it's a very interesting topic ..last 2 years back i saw a very strange dream..i thought it was happening in reality.but when i woke up i realised it was only a dream.

I experienced:

There was someone standing there.i couldnt see his face.a sound was coming like he is lord krishna. I usually feel that i am a very bad person and god takes me as nothing.he does not love me or consider me special.the dream was about this..my classmate was standing near that person..my classmate does a lot of meditation or naam jaap..the person standing there was praising her a lot like whatever u want,tell me..you will definitely get what u want..you r a true person and a lot.your life will succeed.i was standing beside her with an angry face as he didnt even look towards me..then i moved on from there.as i was moving through a very strange place.suddenly a huge bright light came ,very bright hugged me so tight.i felt like really someone hold me.i was shedding tears of happiness and i was saying in mind why dont u accept me as your child.suddenly,i scared and tried to let myself free..as i tried to let the light go away, it moved away very rapidly..i saw the light moving away.i could see no one in light..then immediately i woke up..i could not differentiate whether it was a dream or reality.it seems like it really happened to me.my body was shivering ..tell me what was this.what does it mean?

I was in the same situation last year. I was at the top in all my classes but then my grades dropped and I almost started failing. A Singh sat down with me and explained that your education is extremely important and it's all about striking a balance. If you don't work hard in school now, for the rest of your life you're going to have it hard and might have to work in a situation where you'll constantly be too tired for bhagti. And it also come down to giving daswand, you can't really give daswand of money when you barely have enough to pay bills/take care of kids etc.

Another good point is that you should try to get into such a good position that you can take off days or weeks without it being a problem. That will come in handy especially when it comes to going to Sikhi based kamai camps. Many jobs won't even give you a day off to go to a nagar kirtan.

Try and look at school as your kirat for the time being. Work hard now so you don't have to work as hard later and you can spend as much time as possible doing meditation/reading bani/japping naam.

Yes,you understood my situation.thanks a lot.i am glad and i'll try to put concentration on my studies.i know balance is very important.i hope waheguru ji help me in this.i am extremely glad i am part of this as you all are person's of almighty and i can discuss what i could never share with any one.

I think it's Waheguru ji's kirpa that i found you all.i believe company of good people,saints is very important to make your doubts clear as it's mentioned in gurbani at many sites.i hope i'll Make full benefit of it.

Waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh!

I am posting here for the first time.i need someone's views as i am getting in different state of mind.as i m growing up all my interests are gone..i love my studies as i take it holy vidya.i am eager to attain the purpose of life.my interest is rising to an extent.i want to sit day long in the name of almighty.i keep reciting lord in my mind the while day.the problem is i am not putting any time to my studies which i think is very important right now.sometime i think it's not right time for what i want.is this right to continue as i m proceeding .i have lot of queries im my mind like how will i reach the final state and a lot..not getting words to explain

I am going to write this for the first time here.my ultimate goal is quite difficult to express in words.but i'll try .so here i go:

I want to be there from where i am.i want to make full benefit of this life and want to get rid from this circle forever.i want to be in deep sleep where there is almighty..where i have not to feel like i am feeling right now.no more thirst,no more wishes,not desire to meet lord.i should be there,he should be there,no more thoughts,nothing..i really dont know what to write more.