GurpreetKaur

No wonder a lot of girls these days are looking for non-drinking guys even though their family members drink.
You and your mom can only pray for your Dad...or if you ever find a powerful real Sant take him there. Meantime, keep praying.

Paapiman ji, you have humility but your thinking is not very right. This thinking will create blockage since you spend most of the time defending Gurmat principles ( which are so many by different sampardas) rather than loving and opening your mind.  When I was around 8, I was eating Langar and being a kid was not able to handle my Chunni, my chunni slipped from head and within a second, a very angry amritdhari man went, kuriyeh ser dhak apna. He said in such an anger, I cried at the spot. He walked away like some emotionless man and mom handled me lol. An image of religious people left a bad mark on my mind and I joined the people saying oh Religion is the reason of war lol. I know stupid example, but develop love for everybody regardless of anything. For a person you seem like a nice guy but your weird ideas for sikhi are something.

Apparently, you are judging people based on whether they have taken Amrit or not. Religious fanaticism is the reason I got away from Sikhi and never had the desire to learn, until my Love increased for this Path. Niguray is such an offensive word lol. I am listening to it and having love for 10th Master and then I read your comments about me being Niguri. Ouch!! Lol. It's all good, in few years, your religion and my Niguri status will just stay here with our dead body.
 

Paapiman ji, you have humility but your thinking is not very right. This thinking will create blockage since you spend most of the time defending Gurmat principles ( which are so many by different sampardas) rather than loving and opening your mind.  When I was around 8, I was eating Langar and being a kid was not able to handle my Chunni, my chunni slipped from head and within a second, a very angry amritdhari man went, kuriyeh ser dhak apna. He said in such an anger, I cried at the spot. He walked away like some emotionless man and mom handled me lol. An image of religious people left a bad mark on my mind and I joined the people saying oh Religion is the reason of war lol. I know stupid example, but develop love for everybody regardless of anything. For a person you seem like a nice guy but your weird ideas for sikhi are something.

Hahahha sorry I did'n know that. Would it be homo also to call him sweet? lol
 
Gurprasaad im not homo.

you know there are many people born in Sikh families who don't drink, eat halal and sleep around, have love for sikhi. Follow everything a good person is supposed to be. Don't call me non sikh just because I am not amritdhari and not Hindu. Umm rude lol

I never use that word so dont have a definition of it.
So you're saying the 18-19th century sewa panthis were not Sikhs?

Paaji, set something realistic.
Maybe for example, 10 Malas of Mool Mantar or even 6 Malas, along with Nitnem, Kirtan (x amount of hours) and Katha (x amount of hours).
 
Bhul chuk maaf

Yeah, I agree with you guys. I am trying to do too much all at once.
Lets start again from the beginning.
Day 1 ( 5 Mar 2016)
- woke up 6:30 am, did 5 Banis, and did 10 malas so far. It was tough to sit down. Mind restless. 32 is a big number. It requires so much mental stamina.
- celibacy: Day 1

Do you mind if I ask how old are you? 

That's great.
10 mala's is an excellent achievement. 

Add Katha and Kirtan to your routine.

And remember to make an effort to do Mental Simran at all times. 

You can't just exclude and marginalize 80-90% of the panth like that. The Sehajdharis are still part of the Sikh panth and follow Sikh rituals and customs.

Sister, will try to find out about the Sakhi above. At this point, I don't know the details.
There is a sakhi, regarding an impostor, who stole Third Master's Simrana.
 
Bhul chuk maaf

Also for those of you who are scared of technology radiation and EMF, putting phone or iPad in an airplane mode helps a lot. I just found out few days ago, now I don't wrap my phone in an aluminum foil .:p

This is soo beautiful, especially when I had a dream of an adorable baby and saw this picture after few hours . It was not mine, I think I was taking care of somebody's chubby cute Jeya baby. His round cheeks and was wearing an orangish patka. He's was being so naughty and someone told me to slap him so he will reform. I did that in automatic suggestion way and he just went quiet. I picked him up and started walking and was feeling horrible so started kissing him to make the pain go away. But he was so quiet :(. I stil feel bad. I need to go back in that dream and tell him to slap me or kick me. :((
Btw just discovered this, used to hear female version. This is good too
 

If you have faith in my words then I would say do 44 paths of Japji sahib in a day and you will be Enlightened. But the trick is do you have 100% faith in my words, do you believe my words will come true? I would say give it a go and see how it goes. 
4 Paaths pf Japji sahib can be done in an hour so 11 hours of Hard work to complete 44. See where it gets you.Good Luck!

Great job for doing sehaj path in 7 days. That's great.

Some of the things are automatic, for me I woke up couple times in the middle of the night by hearing loud noises outside. I wake up and my heart is going crazy and I just rush outside to make sure everything is okay and find bro and dad arguing and talking so loudly since dad is drunk  and bro can't handle his madness. The emotions I go through are hard to express but will try. It's usually a fight or flight response where I rush outside to save both of them so they won't get into physical fight but when my pleading does not make them stop verbal argument then I start shaking like crazy and that shaking gets so hard I don't have enough stamina to stand.  I don't cry at that moment, it's just stupid shaking gets me so weak. I know usually fear of one of my family member getting hurts get so heavy that my body starts shutting down. Man it's crazy, luckily it has been calm since couple few months. Thank vaheguru. I have cried couple times too but it usually because I was like maybe one of them will see the tears and will control the drnk attitde or anger. I guess at that moment, when pleading does not work, I have used tear to make them stop bu oh well men and their ego are barely loosen up with tears :(
My mom freaks out over small stuff and her breathing gets so heavy and then she go around like saying haye rabba haye rabba. We all have different ways to cope with trauma but yea that fake crying is annoying. I onl saw it back in India here people stay calm.
when my dadiI ji passed away, I was 16 I think. I got the news around 4 am and I had no emotions. No pain at all.  Did not spend much time with her so maybe there was no bond and she did not care about me much either. Even though I used to g to her when she was diagnosed with cancer and used to take care of her but I did not do it cuz I wanted too. Dad forced me so needless to say there was no emotional attachment. She passed away and I did not cry, I went to funeral. It was not that much crying. No one did fake crying and even cousins were calm too. I stayed in funeral and was waiting for my tears to show up cuz I did not want people to think I did not care she went away. I was super emotionless that day. I was even the last one to give her the flower and have a last look and as soon as I went near her and tried to put flowers and saw her face that's when I got the shock that shes gone and she's dead. I burst into tears and had a loud cry and being a quiet person that surprised me. So I realized that some time in situations like this you can stay calm until it hits you hard. My bro cousin kept going to restroom to cry since he did not want anyone to see his tears, I wish he would have not care about that men should not cry .
also when she passed away, before dying she always talked about tractors, land back in Punjab. Now I know where her surti was, she did path on and off but was not that good with her heart area. I have way too much attachment with my dada ji, he's healthy and happy but I know one day he will have to go too and that sucks. Like I want him to live 20 more years so he can play with my future kids. But karmi apo apni so I won't think a lot abou this stuff but losing people sucks 

Mala is an ancient device for keeping track of time (amongst other things).
In Guru Granth sahib, you will never hear Guru Sahibs say "meditate for 20 minutes" or "24 hours" or "meditate around the clock".
There were no clocks.
Their unit of measuring time was breath "meditate Shwas Giraas" meditate with every breath and every swallow, which translates to "meditate all the time".
Their unit of measuring time was the positioning of the sun "meditate Atth peher", which translated to "meditate 24 hours" or "meditate around the clock"
This is how tehy said to meditate all the time.
So what about specific amounts of time like "meditate for 20 minutes". Well that is done with a Mala. And it's a rough unit of measurement. It's your own personal unit of measurement.
Suppose - When you count on a mala, you can see that if you do 101 Malas that it goes from afternoon to evening, (roughly 3 hours in modern age).
So when you sit down with your eyes closed and going into a state of being, which is a state where you cannot keep track of time. Then you can rely on your Mala. You can do 101 Malas and you will know only 3 hours will pass by. 
You can focus on maintaining state, instead of worrying about time.
Can you imagine if you sit down to attempt samadhi and the whole day goes by because there are no clocks or alarms to tell you, you've been in smadhi for far too long? You will miss the day's work and all the chores you need to do.

Do you know those saints who went into Samadhi for days? Some even went into samadhi until their death and became fossilized!
Can a Grihasti banda afford to go through that?
That's the functional and practical aspect of having a mala. It acts like a timer, like an alarm clock.

Guru Granth Sahib Ji highly respect Sants. Most Sants use mala for the purpose of teaching to devotees. Sants are the living embodiment of the teachings of Guru Sahib.
Also, there is a shabad in Gurbani by Bhagat Kabir ji  bhookhe bhagat na keeje yeh maala apni leeje  I cannot do your bhagti if I am hungry, here take away your mala..This is an evidence that Bhagat used to do Maalas in his initial stages of Bhagti.
Also, there is a sakhi from the life of Guru Nanak Sahib where a young boy made a mala out of his hair, and Guru Nanak used to keep that Mala on his Turban. This can be seen in the painting that was specifically created by Baba Nand Singh ji. Baba Nand Singh ji used to have pratakh darshan of Guru Nanak Sahib.
You can find Simrana of Baba Deep Singh ji maharaj which was made out of Sarbloh.
You can also find simrana and malas made out of Sarbloh for Mata Sahib Kaur Ji.
Nihangs used malas made out of Sarbloh.
There is plenty of evidence for Mala use.

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.

Must check out paintings!
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True even if they see Jesus or Gurus with their eyes, an image in their mind or a hallucination or whatever, their image will be affected by culture.

The Nanaksar image of Guru Nanak is also a product of modern culture. Puratan artists drew Guru Nanak much differently.

Agree with what you are saying. This area is kind of difficult to explain but from what I believe. Yes Jesus may appear with a longer beard or may be afro- black for some people.  The same goes for those that have darshan of Gurus let say.... each persons will vary but something going thought the filter is what will confirm it and we all have our own filters.
 It is difficult for us to understand the complete illusion whilst we are in it and we have to remember that maya doesn't just finish outside boundaries of life and earth, it is the heavens as well. Only in Sackhand or when inside the true home is the maya illusion left outside.
 
 

Visions doesn't always mean you see it with your eyes like a hallucination or that an image develops in your mind like in a trip.
Sometimes you just know it. Sometimes you have a small inkling of it appear as a thought, which you then develop.
This ties back to what I was saying to Paapiman in the Non-Dual Awareness thread which is that Divya Drishti is not just about seeing spirits, it can manifest in other ways. Images are not the only way God manifests. And it ties back to what I was saying on the Aura thread that you should leave to God what quality of Divya Drishti he gives you. Some people will see auras, others won't.
So it's possible she didn't see an image and still had a vision, and then interpreted that vision through her cultural filters, which depicts Jesus with a trimmed beard and as a white dude with chestnut hair.