WakeUp

The only thing you can say for certain is that u have the memory of throwing away the popcorn and the popcorn is in the trash now. Reminds me of the movie total recall. Lol But then are the popcorn and trash can even real or are they just elements of the big dream? If you dream you threw popcorn in the garbage tonight and woke up remembering it tomorrow, did you in fact throw anything in the garbage? The past memory is no different than dream recall. They are engrained the same way in your memory and both reside in quantum state. The only real thing we can grasp on to is now. Future and past are only memories (yes future is also memory). That's why so many spiritual paths say there is only the here and now to work with.

Actually God IS consciousness. Consciousness is not something which is given or created by God. Consciousness just IS. It's the base reality of existence. Consciousness is formless, yet contains all forms within itself (both nirgun and sargun aspect) it creates and yet pervades all of creation (Gurbani says creation is born of the light and the light is in the creation). Have a look at the double slit experiment which illustrates there measurement problem. The mere act of observation by a conscious observer collapses the wave function, forcing an electron to behave as a particle (something solid) instead of a wave (something intangible). It's the mere act of observing of being conscious that creates. Also reference akashic records is not a 'place' so to speak even though the name makes it sound like it is. It's the underlying information contained the entire existence of the universe. It's accessible from any point in the universe at any time. Remember I suggested looking up holographic universe theory? A hologram stores the entire image in any part of the image so that you can break it down into tiny parts and each tiny part contains all of the information. Quantum physicists believe the universe is like a huge hologram.

Exactly time only exists because there is a conscious observer. In fact matter only exists because there is a conscious observer.

You are not getting what I meant I don't think. You can't define now as being a set point in time there is no start or end to it. It's not in and of itself anything tangible. It's only an ever moving wavefront through something else. Like the heads on the hard drive analogy. Past and future are the stored information and now is just the point where the hard drive heads are but it's only perceptible if the heads are constantly moving meaning now is not a set point and cannot be defined at any given moment. It's an illusion. And it's not necessarily linear. Look at theories about what happens to time from perspective of a black hole or even closer to our sun. Gravity affects it. Therefore it's just another aspect of material reality which we can surpass. The feeling of future and past are also illusions as I said they are more like stored information on the disk. And they are not linear they just 'are'. They only become part of the linear experience of time when immersed in the game stored on the disk. A book is another good example sitting on the table in front of you it contains all of the story start to finish. It's only when you read it that you become aware of any timeline but in reality all of the story exists at once. Now would be where in the story you are but since it's ever changing you can never define a set point as being 'now'. Google holographic Universe theory.

I agree much of the Chaupa Singh rhetnama is adulterated. I don't believe Guru Gobind Singh would approve of telling Singhs to never trust any woman even those close to them (even their own wife) and to consider all women the embodiment of deceit. Yet those words almost exact are included in the translated versions of Chaupa Singh Rhetnama available today. I very highly doubt that would have been supported by the Gurus or in any puratan rhetnama. I believe it also states women should not be given Amrit, that Singhs should never eat jooth from women even their own wives, and that women should never read from Guru Granth Sahib in sangat in public. These things are not in line with Sikhi and only degrade the female gender. I agree about keski / turban for including women, because of that sakhi mentioned and my wife ties a dastar of her own volition (I never influenced her decision. The rehetnamas were aimed at both genders because there are only one Khalsa not a male Khalsa and female khalsa(i). I think much of the gendered wording is from translations. Just like English translation reference to Waheguru always says "he" which gives a wrong impression of a masculine deity like Abrahamic religions instead of the all pervading one universal consciousness which is formless.

The above you referenced is not literal. Most every religion speaks of creation of the Universe being initiated by a word. This is true, base of creation is vibration. Sound is only one part of the spectrum of vibration as is heat, radiation, electromagnetic, light, microwave, and... at the far end from sound, thought. Even matter is just energy at a slow rate of vibration so it manifests into something tangible. Where the metaphor comes is, nothing including your own body are real. Scientists say that it's a miracle that every solid thing in existence is 99.9999% empty space so why don't we fall through a chair? The reference to Vishnu etc are not speaking of literal material entities but they represent various aspects of creation. Also remember time is part of the creation and there only exists now. Past and future are illusions. Try to define now. You can't pinpoint an exact 'now' because if you try, you automatically give it a start and finish, but now is not a set point in time. Rather its just the wave front moving through something else. Like a video game saved on a hard drive. You might say the illusion of time is the game start to finish but looking at the hard drive you see it's just a hard drive with everything the entire game sitting there all at once. It's only your perspective of playing it when you live the illusion of time. The 'now' would basically be where the hard drive heads are reading and they are constantly moving so you can't say now is this point to this point. There is no 'now' in reality. There is just 'all'. So evolution is really not the evolution of matter as from Waheguru perspective everything exists all at once. Where evolution comes in is the experience of jumping into the game. The experience of unfolding consciousness and awakening to self. The game itself is becoming self aware. That's why life becomes more complex. As mineral and plant there is a dreamlike state. As animal only instincticual awareness but more aware of surroundings. As human Creator can finally ask the important question of who am I. We are just the costumes. But the awareness behind us all is God. When a human awakens to reality is not a human waking up, it's God waking up in human form. The 'word' is conscious thought, or intent. The evolution is the awakening to self awareness.

Exactly! ਜਹ ਦੇਖਾ ਤਹ ਰਵਿ ਰਹੇ ਸਿਵ ਸਕਤੀ ਕਾ ਮੇਲੁ ॥ Jah ḏekẖā ṯah rav rahe siv sakṯī kā mel. Wherever I look, I see the Lord pervading there, in the union of Shiva and Shakti, of consciousness and matter.

Sin requires intent. Something outside your control makes you a victim not a sinner. Or else should we say that Singh who's turban was recently pulled off and his hair cut off in a hate crime, is he also a sinner who requires to go peshi to Panj Pyaray?

Basically charity starts at home. There are people who do lots of public service for kudos but if they are ignoring their own loved ones (leaving their parents without care) who brought them up and cared for them, then what's the use? It's all for show only? The above shabad makes sense. Everyone should care for their own families. The message is for everyone not just an oldest son. The message is that no parents should be left without care. If parents have only daughters they too should also receive care because the shabad makes it apparent that caring of parents is so important (the message would not be that only parents who have a son deserve this service). Ignore the he in language because Gurbani is directed at all and he is often used to direct he and she in same way as man is used for mankind. The message above is not emphasizing the he but the service to parents. If service of parents is of such importance above all other seva then parents who have no son would not be any less deserving. Or else Gurbani is perpetuating son preference over daughter and is a direct cause of female fetus abortions etc in relentless pursuing for sons over daughters which we know the Gurus were vehemently against.

I don't like signing up places usually because putting your email address opens it to spam. Even on forums where admins swear they don't share but bots can get this info and all of a sudden you start to receive spam from all these places and once it starts even unsubscribing from the places doesn't stop the spams! So I had to create a whole new email address just to sign up here. Forums have been hacked and personal info leaked like email addresses even Sikh sangat it has happened recently. That's why I didn't want to sign up before but it's ok I created a whole new email address for the sign up so my personal email won't be affected.

It is, but it's not going to come out and tell you don't cut it instead it will make you realize why it's important to keep by giving you examples showIng why, and then make you realize and decide on your own that you should not cut it.

But Gurbani is not really explicit is it? What are you trying to say? I agree Jasper Ji with idea of metaphors. You can derive the truth out of it but it's meant for more than point form do this don't do that. It makes you actually think and ponder existence. Things are not as simple as do this don't do that and you will find vaheguru in yourself. It's more complicated a change has to happen in you and you need that deeper thinking and wisdom or else Guru Granth Sahib Jee would be only few pages long saying do this don't do that and you will find God.

Turban is also mentioned in Gurbani, and indirectly kangha and wearing modest clothing which can be suggestion for kachhas. Nothing is really directly mentioned in Guru Granth Sahib as it's not a do this do that rule book. It contains deep Metaphysical content to help us realize god but nothing is step by step instructions. There are spiritual reasons for hair. I remember reading an article about North American natives and why they kept theirs so it also seems to be that this knowledge is found in other cultures history as well. Besides it's supposed to be there. If you cut it, it grows back. Follow natural way the body is supposed to be. That's enough proof right there.

Ok fine so I signed up what's the difference?