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    ragnarok got a reaction from Daas_ in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Would jus tlike to point out that i'ts not possible to use naam for ego. We shouldn't confuse gyaan and ridh-sidh with naam.
     
    Haumai naavay naal virodh hai. Doay na vasai khataey.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Lucky in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Would jus tlike to point out that i'ts not possible to use naam for ego. We shouldn't confuse gyaan and ridh-sidh with naam.
     
    Haumai naavay naal virodh hai. Doay na vasai khataey.
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    ragnarok reacted to Sikhilove in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Well, you’re on the right path. Experiences like that propel you forward, giving you encouragement.
     
    Regarding the Love, you’ll experience it for yourself. The more you practice Gurbani in your life, including daily life, the more you’ll recognize the love. It’s always there, we just often don’t see/acknowledge or accept it. 
     
    Do naam simran from 12.30am. 2.5 hours is recommended...you’ll go into deep samadhi and knock out while doing it. But do at least half an hour. Relax and hear the ringing sound (Anhad Naad), and let the samadhi/deep meditation take you. Read Guru Granth Sahib, and understand it... it’s there for your taking, it’s all you need, esp mool mantar.
     
    Practice Truth/gyan of gurbani during your daily life.. be good to others, kind, compassionate, forgiving without enmity, strong willed, fight until you win when you should, be a Warrior Spirit and a Good Soul. 
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Sikhilove in What's at the forehead   
    Read the 3 pinned threads.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Sikhilove in Amritvela, And Nitnem?   
    Sant Isher Singh Bachans, I think it was on youtube or gurbaniupdesh. 
     
    12-2am is the most beneficial
    2-4am is slightly less
    4-6am slightly less again
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Jageera in The Ringing Sound (Anhad Shabad; Sound Current)   
    I'm not sure how to describe this more than a 'feeling'. While meditating you should start differentiating between your mind (manmat) and Gurmat. 
    Thoughts that arise themselves (not out of logic) and that are absent of any aspect of the five thieves is what I would consider hukam. 
    People often make excuses that they can do something wrong because it's for a good cause, this is manmat, noble as it may be.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Jageera in Abhyaas and Simran   
    sorry I didn't have time to expand on this when I wrote it.
     
    Kirtan is Gurbani. Even if it's Dharna kirtan a la Rara Sahib, the message is that you should jap naam. If someone has that opinion I would get as far as possible.
     
    One of the most confusing things about finding a murshid is that so many of the techniques of Gurmat overlap with techniques used for bad intent. People can dress themselves up like a Gursikh, and pretend like they are the real deal but underneath they can be, basically, spiritual thieves stealing your kamai. They will dress up their message with lots of truth but stick in a little grain of falsehood that enable them to harm you. Even if some of them are legit to begin with they can fall into the trap of maya on the way and get attracted to Sidhi etc.
     
    My take is that if I were to look for a murshid I'd go to places where there is a long lineage, such as Bhai Daya Singh Samparda, for example
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    ragnarok reacted to Jageera in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Found this while reading a biography of a Thai Buddhist Monk.
    "Meditation is a good means for making a clean break with the unseemly business of the kilesas. Meditation techniques are arguably somewhat difficult to practice, but that’s because they are designed to put pressure on the mind and bring it under control, much like trying to bring a monkey under control in order to tame it. Meditation techniques are actually methods for developing self-awareness. This means observing the mind which is not content to just remain still but tends instead to jump about like someone who’s been scalded with hot water. Observing the mind requires mindfulness to keep us aware of its movement. This is aided by using one of a number of Dhamma themes as an object of attention to keep the mind stable and calm during meditation. A very popular method and one that gives good results is mindfulness of breathing. Other popular themes include the use of a word such as “buddho”, “dhammo”, “sangho”,or kesã, lomã, nakhã, dantã, taco in forward and reverse order, or meditation on death, or whatever theme seems most suitable. The mind must be forced to stay exclusively with that object during meditation. Calm and happiness are bound to arise when the mind depends on a particular Dhamma theme as a good and safe object of attention.
    What is commonly referred to as a ‘calm citta’ or a ‘citta integrated in samãdhi’ is a state of inner stability that is no longer associated with the initial object of attention, which merely prepared the citta by holding it steady. Once the citta has entered into samãdhi, there exists enough momentum for the citta to remain in this state of calm, independent of the preparatory object, whose function is temporarily discontinued while the citta rests peacefully. Later when the citta withdraws from samãdhi, if time permits, attention is refocused on the initial Dhamma theme. When this is practiced consistently with dedication and sustained effort, a mind long steeped in dukkha will gradually awaken to its own potential and abandon its unskillful ways. The struggle to control the mind, which one experiences in the beginning stages of training, will be replaced by a keen interest in the task at hand. The citta becomes unforgettably calm and peaceful once it enters samãdhi. Even if this happens only once, it will be an invigorating and indelible experience. Should it fail to occur again in subsequent attempts at meditation, an indescribable sense of loss and longing will linger in the citta for a long time. Only with further progress, as one becomes more and more absorbed in increasingly subtler states of calm, will the frustration of losing the initial state of calm be forgotten."
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Lucky in The Ringing Sound (Anhad Shabad; Sound Current)   
    The way people treat you changes as you progress. 
    Act in hukam, there's no need for these things to take you away from naad unless your reaction is not according to hukam. 
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Soulfinder in Amritvela, And Nitnem?   
    Sant Isher Singh Bachans, I think it was on youtube or gurbaniupdesh. 
     
    12-2am is the most beneficial
    2-4am is slightly less
    4-6am slightly less again
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    ragnarok got a reaction from mahanpaapi in Amritvela, And Nitnem?   
    Amrit Vela doesn't imply that you shouldn't do simran 24/7 or that there is anything wrong with doing it at a different time or that you need to wait for that time.
    It starts at around midnight until 6am, being most beneficial from midnight to 2am.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from harsharan000 in A very worrying and disturbing situation... need help   
    This thread is 5 years old. Posts can be as long as you want as long the content is good. 
    RE fits, shaking, squirming, rolling around while doing simran. This is caused by negative energy/karam/presences being pushed away by Gurbani. Once they're gone the experience develops into anand.
    The Gurus and Bhramgianis probably never went through this process because it is caused by the presence of negative energy or bad karma which is something a Pavitar Pursh would not have in the first place.
     
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    ragnarok reacted to HisServant in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Blessings to everyone. 
    I am writing this today in a bit of shock and disbelieve but at the same time a lot of peace and satisfaction. 
    These past few weeks/months had been a bit of a rough sail for me. I had lost a lot of faith in spiritual teachers. I had been hearing and seeing a lot of drama that didn't sit well with me. So part of me fell off the boat a bit. I was still listening to shabad and looking at parkash. But I wasn't putting effort in to try and move further. I was sitting still. 
    Something even worse happened in my personal life a few days ago. A very subtle but very strong attachment got pulled away from me. An attachment I didn't realize was there but was really consuming my mind. I'm not going to lie, I lost my stability. I was upset. Angry. Lost. Confused. And it had been a very long time since I experienced a pain that made me upset like that. 
    I began isolating myself and really letting my mind be consumed by shabad and parkash because I knew that was the only way out of the trap I had fallen into. I had to work extremely hard. But just now I was laying on the floor looking at parkash internally. I opened my eyes to look at the parkash that exists externally. Mind was clear, no thoughts. And I had a realization. "This parkash exists both outside and inside... Are my physical eyes the one seeing them?..... And then all of a sudden I felt this third area of space. A place that wasn't the internal body, nor the external world. It was this place in the middle. I think it was beyond the mind or some extension of the mind. And sitting in that space there was just parkash. It was like looking at a new world with a new set of eyes. The best way I can describe this is by using the term "non-physical" eyes. 
    It's as if the parkash outside and inside had become one. I cannot describe the amount of peace and contentment the mind and body feels sitting in that area. I don't know if it's correct for me to stay in that space. But I just wanted to write this out with the hopes that maybe someone knows what this is. 
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Mbad in The Ringing Sound (Anhad Shabad; Sound Current)   
    Having everyone home and pushing your buttons is a great opportunity to put things into practice.
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    ragnarok reacted to Sat1176 in The Ringing Sound (Anhad Shabad; Sound Current)   
    Just be careful what you say or think when your listening to anhad. That is why it is advised to only start listening to it when your have done loads of gurmantar abhyas. Mind has achieved some control over rogue thoughts.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from harsharan000 in Getting Darshan of a Brahmgyani.   
    in human form or a vision?
    in terms of difficulty past karam is a factor. What may seem easy for one person would be due to past kamai.
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    ragnarok reacted to Lucky in Sounds/Tones/ Noise   
    Good. As Sat says above, these are correct.
    The jerk/jhatka is from your surti try to leave and connect into sunn. Sometimes, you may get a sudden feel as if you were "falling" downwards or may sense that you kind of tripped to a descent or fell.  <<- This is when surti has risen upwards to akash tat or above and wasn't able to get further. It descends back down all of a sudden.   
    There are physiological explanations for all of these on basis of muscle contractions(troponin & tropomysin), movement of ions like Ca and Mg at muscle level and Na, K at neurological ...as you will be aware in medical field.... but the truth is that Sukham actions/subtle behavior ----> leads to physiological changes AND vice versa. 
    Do more saas saas and antarghat simran. The faint sound you hear will start opening up
    LIsten to this inner voice. Try to identify it. It doesn't come by thinking. It comes from letting go and not using the mann. The mann always calculates to reach a solution for ego. When you step out of this network you can connect to the "aatmic' voice. It takes practice but you begin to understand if decisions/choices are hukam or manmat(mind calculated).
     
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Jageera in Coronavirus - Covid 19   
    The UK is beyond a joke. The response in most African countries has been decent, let alone Asia, putting the west to shame.
     
    All these epidemics come from animal exploitation. The vast majority of new diseases are zoonotic. 
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Jageera in Suggestions for Meditation Techniques   
    Those are quotes from Lucky.
    You can also read this:
     
     
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    ragnarok reacted to Kaur10 in Suggestions for Meditation Techniques   
    @ragnarok superb reply. Thanks
    Actually don't have right words to say how thankful I am to read this.
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Kaur10 in Suggestions for Meditation Techniques   
    Those are quotes from Lucky.
    You can also read this:
     
     
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Kaur10 in Demotivated   
    imo it is disrespectful to play gurbani without the mureed there to listen.
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    ragnarok reacted to HisServant in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    It's a technique called advaita vedanta. I aim to stay with my own "awareness". When I started years ago, I would ask myself a series of questions:
    "who am I"
    "Am I this body?.... If I lost my arm, am I still me?.... If I'm still me, how does this body define who I am?.... Am I these thoughts?.... These thoughts come and go and are eventually forgotten... how could I be these thoughts?"
    I would go as deep as I could go. And eventually I'd get to a point where there would be just pure awareness, thoughtless and just observing any sensory information that came in, no judgement or interpretation. Current day, I typically don't need to start with those questions. I can jump straight into the awareness and stay with it day and night. But this has taken years to develop. I do the same with shabad and parkash as well. I observe the experiences that arise and it helps me merge into them. 
    I get rid of all attachments to theories and techniques by forcing the mind to stay unbiased and non-judgemental. 
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    ragnarok got a reaction from Jageera in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    @HisServant could you tell us more about the technique of just observing yourself?
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    ragnarok reacted to HisServant in Meditation - My Experiance, Am I Allowed To Share?   
    Thank you @Ragmaala. Applications are going well. Just playing the waiting game to see what happens. In the meantime, I have launched a charity project to help people within the south asian community. So that's the seva for now. One thing that really hit me during that major experience, was to take care of people who are suffering from mental health illnesses, such as depression, anxiety and anything else that leads to mental suffering. So there's been a big drive to help out people who are in these types of situations. Much of the people I'm working with are youth. I've noticed our people do have a lot of bad habits and traumas that have been passed down from generation to generation. And they project those traumas onto their kids who later carry the same issues as their parents when they grow older. Not everyone wants to do bhagti/meditation, but I've just been trying to help people as best as I can using other methods. It's taught me a lot and really opened my eyes to how much suffering there is in this world (Nanak dukhia sabh sansar). Also gives a boost to your own bhagti when you hold out a loving and compassionate hand to someone who needs. 
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