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ragnarok

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  1. Yes it will. Be honest and follow hukam even if you get bad grades.
  2. Thank you both. I'm guessing the Sant Teja Singh author is not Sant Teja Singh from Rara Sahib is it? Is the Sant Attar Singh he mentions from Mastuana?
  3. Where can I get a copy? Are there different versions?
  4. Just observe it as it happens. Gurbani will never hurt you, only heal you, so think of any experience while doing simran as a cleansing.
  5. Lights out or dim is best. Ignore the watching, don't pay it any mind. It's ok to be aware of it but keep your focus on Waheguru. These things take notice when you start doing bhagti, the simran will flush them away. It's important to be both fearless and and bear no ill will to them as per mool mantar. Turning on the light or the fact that you are not aware of it during your day to day does not mean it's not there. Better to be fearless and embrace what comes, as Sikhilove stated. I would recommend mool mantar and jap ji sahib as well, they are the explanation behind gurmantar and can help set your mind. Which country are you in?
  6. Sants' job is to join Sikhs to Guru Granth Sahib, not to come up with their own lineages. There is no tradition on Sikhi to choose a leader based on reincarnation or rebirth and the custom of going to an astrologer to trace your past life, future fortune etc is considered a waste of time and a maya trap. Guru Sahib repeats again and again that our job in this life is to Jap Naam and not be concerned about the past or future. You denigrate oral tradition. Oral tradition is part of our culture, not everything is written. Part of the issue here is that you want something that you consider to be evidence based on a different culture. You're projecting British ideas on to Sikh culture. If you want documentary evidence of reincarnation in general then refer to this long standing project at Vriginia Tech that documents statistically siginificant instances of reincarnation, i.e. cases that are mathematically impossible to have been faked. Children Who Report Memories of Previous Lives | Division of Perceptual Studies (virginia.edu) From a Sikh perspective there is the Suleman tape documenting his journey from one human birth, to a non human birth and back to a human birth. The child that was born could remember his previous incarnation similar to the VT link above. You claim not to understand English well and cannot read punjabi either. What is your background?
  7. Sehaj means stability. Sehaj shun means stability in shabad. Sunn is not sleep, it is a place before sleep. Saying that sleep is sehaj doesn't any sense. I haven't watched the video and I don't intend to, however the only benefit of the doubt I can give the author based on what I've read from you is that sunn can be mistaken for sleep by the uninitiated, which may be what he meant.
  8. I don't agree with this message people are getting from somewhere that you should fall asleep. Sunn is the space between sleep and wake, it's not the same as sleep.
  9. Either can be done. Mool mantar should be done only when you can sit and focus on all the words. Waheguru can be done any time. Mool mantar is an explanation of Waheguru. Jap Ji Sahib is an explanation of Mool Mantar. They all go hand in hand. From rara sahib recordings I vaguely remember something like 40 Waheguru mala = 6 Mool Mantar mala = 5 Jap Ji Sahib paath, but not 100% sure.
  10. I thought nij ghar is through the crown, above dasam duar?
  11. I think it was your thread form 17 years ago lol! But agreed.
  12. Bad energies trying to trigger a response. Dhoop won't stop that, just observe without trying to stop it.
  13. It's more for cleansing the space rather than for stopping thoughts. Nor is the aim of meditation to stop thoughts. Thoughts will continue in your lower mine, eventually you will separate from it and won't be conscious of the nonsense but it will still be there.
  14. I heard a native american refer to smudging as 'spiritual hand sanitiser'. I think our tradition of incense is the same concept?
  15. You are making an offering to Guru Sahib, so imo the Golak should be exactly where it is - at Guru Sahib's charan.
  16. That process is internal and a bit different to the process of breaking ties to external entities.
  17. It's not that you didn't have the problem. They were there in the background happy that you were stagnating. When you started doing paat they resist because it threatens their control of you. Also light ghee jot. Personally I like mool mantar and jap ji sahib because they're easier for me, but if you have understanding of the other banis it's fine. Do you mind my asking what dumb stuff you did?
  18. Let's put instructional videos in this thread to avoid clutter on the other threads: I'll start.
  19. Shall we start another thread for all these videos? I feel like the 'personal experience' factor of this thread is being overshadowed. Maybe a 'Meditation instructional videos' thread?
  20. In terms of doing good deeds alone, would like to add that without naam the fruit of these can be stolen or lost: Whereas with naam: and also Simran isn't something you just 'sit at home' and do, when you walk in hukam everything is simran, every thought and deed. If it's your hukam to sit in a cave and meditate that's fine, and if it's your hukam to be a householder and gregarious that's also fine. Everyon'es path is different, Guru Nanak's way has no dogma because once the Sikh discovers hukam they learn to follow their unique path.
  21. You can achieve power by practicing mantras. In english you could say that you 'sidh a mantra'. As I mentioned above: Haumai naavay naal virodh hai. Doay na vasai khataey. If you practice a mantra, any mantra, with the aim of getting power, anger or anything related to the five thieves or ego then it is not naam. Naam is your 'true self', the Satnaam. Man tu jot swaroop hai, aapna mool pachaan. The examples of abuse Sikhilove is making above refer to people who get some amount of power and use it for personal gain of some sort. Not all of them do so overtly, there are gupt ones who are potentially more dangerous. By definition this is not naam even though it may involve mantra simran. Not all mantra simran is naam simran. I would say Sidhi refers to the power, which may or may not be used selflessly. In general Sikhs are not supposed to use these at all even though a Sikh will gain the ability to access them along the path (ridh sidh nav nidh) but should leave everything to Hukam, and approach Maharaj with Ardas in case there is any issue bothering the Sikh.
  22. Condensed Quote from Raymond Kinman who had a near death experience : Brother, life is VERY realistic... but it ain’t real. None of this is real. I don’t put much stock in the idea that this world is all there is. This is a very, very small part of the infinite whole. I like to think of myself as an actor in a play. I am playing a very small, but very important part in this play. This is not real, it is just a very realistic drama. A play. A movie. This movie is a place where God can pretend that he is not God. God isn’t a person. God is everything and everyone who has ever been. Every tse-tse fly and bacteria. Every stone and all the cosmos. We are all God. You have forgotten who you really are. You are an infinitely powerful being. You have a purpose in life but you have forgotten what it is. You are here to Love. Peace, Raymond
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