Sikhilove

For me it would be for my 15-20 years younger self
1. Start working out since grade 7/8. It would give you the confidence to go through college and uni comfortably.
2. Stay away from a 10 year toxic relation that ate away your spiritual wealth.
3. Never get too excited or too happy
4.  Follow your gurus hukum to the 100% especially control your eyes. 
 
 

1) Don't get involved with intoxicants and make friends that are not involved in it too.
2)Put in much more effort in studies.
3)Start Naam Simran and stick to it no matter what happens.

Spend more time with His bhagat jan.
Have more Gurbani in daily life.
Be aware and thankful at each and every step for His unbound grace.
Understand better His bhaana and remain in His hukum.

I love your posts. They are so full of love and beautiful words. I can’t believe you’re still teaching after so many years. Very blessed 🙏

Excellent stuff. As long as one stays within the realm of ਬੁਧੀ (thinking/judging), he will never attain bliss. Bliss only comes at the level of ਸੁਰਤਿ (spiritual awareness).
 
Bhul chuk maaf

Eckhart Tolle 
Excerpt from: A New Earth 
Awakening
-A MUST READ-
**The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace. You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare yourself for it or accumulate credits toward it.**
Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate. For most people it is not an event but a process they undergo. Even those rare beings who experience a sudden, dramatic, and seemingly irreversible wakening will still go through a process in which the new state of consciousness gradually flows into and transforms everything they do and so becomes integrated into their lives.
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you are awake you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self­serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life. Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge or your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
The initiation of the awakening process is an act of grace. You cannot make it happen nor can you prepare yourself for it or accumulate credits toward it. There isn't a tidy sequence of logical steps that leads toward it, although the mind would love that. You don't have to become worthy first. It may come to the sinner before it comes to the saint, but not necessarily. That's why Jesus associated with all kinds of people, not just the respectable ones. There is nothing you can do about awakening. Whatever you do will be the ego trying to add awakening or enlightenment to itself as its most prized possession and thereby making itself more important and bigger. Instead of awakening, you add the concept of awakening to your mind, or the mental image of what an awakened or enlightened person is like, and then try to live up to that image. Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living – another unconscious role the ego plays.
So if there is nothing you can do about wakening, if it has either already happened or not yet happened, how can it be the primary purpose of your life? Does not purpose imply that you can do something about it?
Only the first awakening, the first glimpse of consciousness without thought, happens by grace, without any doing on your part. If you find this incomprehensible or meaningless, it has not yet happened to you. If something within you responds to it, however, if you somehow recognize the truth in it, it means the process of awakening has begun. Once it has done so, it cannot be reversed, although it can be delayed by the ego. For some people, the reading will initiate the awakening process. For others, the function is to help them recognize that they have already begun to awaken and to intensify and accelerate the process. Another function of this book is to help people recognize the ego within them whenever it tries to regain control and obscure the arising awareness.
For some, the awakening happens as they suddenly become aware of the kinds of thoughts they habitually think, especially persistent negative thoughts that they may have been identified with all of their lives. Suddenly there is an awareness that is aware of thought but is not part of it.
What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind. You can then make a conscious choice to be present rather than to indulge in useless thinking. You can invite Presence into your life, that is to say, make space. With the grace of awakening comes responsibility. You can either try to go on as if nothing has happened, or you can see its significance and recognize the arising of awareness as the most important thing that can happen to you. Opening yourself to the emerging consciousness and bringing this light into this world then becomes the primary purpose of your life.
“I want to know the mind of God,” Einstein said. “The rest are details.” What is the mind of God? Consciousness. What does it mean to know the mind of God? To be aware. What are the details? Your outer purpose, and whatever happens outwardly.
So while you are perhaps still waiting for something significant to happen in your life, you may not realize that the most significant thing that can happen to a human being has already happened within you: the beginning of the separation process of thinking and awareness.
Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they may feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them. Some feel that they inhabit a no­man's land between two worlds. They are no longer run by the ego, yet the arising awareness has not yet become fully integrated into their lives. Inner and outer purpose have not merged.

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SSA Guest Jee, welcome.
A1) The point between the 2 eyes you mention while doing simran, is the door  which allows us to enter the spiritual realms or dimensions. It is also the gateway to reach our Nijh Ghar, there is a lot into it,  unlimited parkash, unlimited dhun, even Waheguru   can  be met by entering into it, but for that purpose simran is the key.  With simran we get our surtee focused at that point, which is very much necessary to pierce the dark veil when we close our eyes.
    And you feeling something while there, is a mark of His apaar kirpa on you, so please continue with this your devotion, it is the least we can do respond to His pull.
A2) Trust Him, if He has allowed you to experience of tasting a sip of that bliss, it means there is much more He wants to give you within, so the best thing is not to analyze, just give your "self" to Him, and He Himself will guide and take you further.   Just enjoy while being there and stay focused in your simran;  with due time and grace, the Shabad Guru within, will Himself guide you within and answer your queries if any, for in the presence of the Shabad Guru, all doubts just vanish away. 
 Trust Him, have faith in Him and love Him, the more simran you do, the more He is pleased, and the more He is pleased, the more He showers His daya meher, and this pleasing Him, is the secret in spirituaility to achieve our goal of merging in Him.
   
   Stay blessed.

SSA Guest Jee,
Apart from one's parents and Guru Jee, nobody is worthy to fall at their feet.
This is your virtue of true humility, which is also liked by Him, it will help you to reach higher levels within also. So keep it up.
If possible,  just send me blessings, much appreciated.
Thank you for being such a  noble nd a beautiful person/human being.
The creation needs many many like you.
Stay blessed.

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

Indeed a very good question. 
And although all the posters above have given very good answers, I would like to also add my 2 cents as per the following sacred bachans of Fifth Patshahee in the  Bani: 
 
ਰੈਣਿ ਦਿਨਸੁ ਤਿਸੁ ਸਦਾ ਧਿਆਈ ਜਿ ਖਿਨ ਮਹਿ ਸਗਲ ਉਧਾਰੇ ਜੀਉ ॥੩॥
Rain Dhinas This Sadhaa Dhhiaaee J Khin Mehi Sagal Oudhhaarae Jeeo ||3||
Night and day, I always meditate on Him; in an instant, He saves all.
 
ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤੁ ਵਰਖੈ ਅਨਹਦ ਬਾਣੀ ॥
Anmrith Varakhai Anehadh Baanee ||
The Ambrosial Nectar, the Unstruck Melody of Gurbani rains down continually.
 
One may ask, why does Guru Jee say that we can meditate on Him anytime be it day and/or  night?
And the answer to this question is given by Guru Jee in the second verse above.
Is it not the ambrosial nectar of Amrit what we  look forward for? In that sense, He says : The Ambrosial Nectar, the Unstruck Melody of Gurbani rains down continually. 
So brother, if that Amrit it rains down continouslly, what wrong is in doing His bandagee or meditation anytime  during the day?
Let us be frank and ask ourselves, are we only going to get it, at midnight, or any other specific time?  
You see, we deliberately limit ourselves, when Guru Sahiban opens His hands wide, and gracefully showers us with this Amrit 24/7. For, if we missed the chance at some time, why not try to get that spiritual wealth as soon as possible again.
Why wait for a specific time? 
Who knows, that by postponing, we may be alive or not by then.
Why to take any risks?
That also when He gives us total freedom to amass the spiritual wealth as much as possible without limitations.
True, ideal, and perfect is that very moment/time,  which we try to meditate on that supreme Truth, all else is time wasted.
Stay blessed.
SSA.
 

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa waheguru ji ki Fateh ji..
I am so glad to write here for I have so many things to tell you. 
I am getting good sleep at night from a couple of weeks and I am very happy for it,though I get dreams at same rate but when I wake up in morning I don't think over it and let all my memory wash off. I also do my nitnem though not in amritvela but I try to do it in ease and not stressing that I have to do it (may waheguruji bless me amritvela soon). For my body aches n body rashes I try do exercise bit, eat healthy and make body relax. I have learnt how to change my potential which I used in stressing, to do Simran or recite any baani. 
At my free time sitting somewhere idle, travelling, cleaning dishes, doing household chores or in all times when I find myself lost in thoughts I try to do Simran so that I dont think anything else n stress. 
Things have not changed but yes my point of view has changed alot. 
I have known what is Hukam and I leave my worries upon Gurusaab saying " Tu mera Pita Tu hai mera Mata Tu mera Bandap Sakha Skhaye". 
And this all has happened because I always had in my mind that I have to write up here n tell you, you might be waiting for it, I always thought. You were all right! Things were getting psychological.. 
I just do my part n leave my desire for results.

I am so thankful to everyone here who replied for my problem and helped me. 
Thank you
Bhull chukk maaf. 

Ji thanks,  
They are my inspiration. Not only mine but many like me. I feel NOw what you people have conversed about 6-7 years ago here and feel I am blessed, on the right track etc.    I am forever thankful to you, sat veerji, his servant ji and Bhagat Singh ji - though he never interacted here after I joined the forum.  
Waheguru ji bless you always 🙏
 
 
 

Glad you paid attention to some older posts.
ਜਬ ਭਗਤਿ ਕਰਹਿ ਸੰਤ ਮੰਡਲੀ ਤਿਨ੍ਹ੍ਹ ਮਿਲਿ ਹਰਿ ਗਾਵਉ ॥ 
Jab bẖagaṯ karahi sanṯ mandlī ṯinĥ mil har gāva▫o. 
When the galaxy of Saints worship the Lord in devotion, I join them, singing the Glorious Praises of the Lord.
  
ਕਰਉ ਨਮਸਕਾਰ ਭਗਤ ਜਨ ਧੂਰਿ ਮੁਖਿ ਲਾਵਉ ॥੩॥ 
Kara▫o namaskār bẖagaṯ jan ḏẖūr mukẖ lāva▫o. ||3|| 
I bow in reverence to the humble devotees, and apply the dust of their feet to my face. ||3||  
 
Here, one is to  walk and tread on the path that the sant's themeselves have walked. This is meaning of pangti "kara-o namashkar bhagat jan, dhur mukh lava-o" . SIt and do bhagti with them, but then you will need to move on and go further. They are there to guide you and know you're the pardesi from dharamsala.. It's an avastha, but at this avastha one also has opportunity to get Aatmic gyan from certain points in deep simran.