GurbarAkaal

Hi lostsikh, Big respect for your strength in being honest about the situation, it's not easy seeking help. If you are serious about making progress with Sikhi, make use of the coming days. Go along to an amrit sanchar, as there are many planned, and fold your hands in-front of the panj pyare. Be honest, tell them you are struggling a lot with kaam and wish to work towards taking amrit (in the coming months or year). Their advice, blessings and guidance will be a huge help to you. Forums can give good advice, but in-person support is probably more useful. Panj pyare are the roop of ever compassionate Pita ji Sahib Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj. Having darshan of tyar bar tyar panj Singh will have a big impact on your life. They were beginners too once and will show you a lot of patience and love. Try to get their contact to stay in-touch with them. Attending Vaisakhi divaans will help build inspiration and thirst towards Sikhi. Having darshan of fellow sangat taking amrit will inspire you too. At discretion of the panj singh they may allow you to receive a choola of amrit, which will give you a taste of the amrit ras contained within us Just my 2 cents. Take care, good luck ji

The most supreme spiritual authority, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji already told us the bhram giani can only be recognised by another who is of that avastha also. Bhram giani ki gat bhram giani jaane Daas would like to share with the sangat a story about how hard (impossible) it is to recognise a bhram giani There was a very simple man who got married, had children, raised a family and worked a job. His children got married and he had grandchildren too. Finally when reaching old age the man retired, but his family didn’t bother to look after him. The man’s health became weaker and then a mahapurkh visited that family with a message that “god himself is sitting in your house, do as much seva of him as possible”. That’s when the family came to realise how high that man’s avastha was (albeit it gupat, beyond understanding of us worldly folk). Sangat ji, here onwards with as much respect as possible daas will refer to this person as Pita Ji (respected father). The family with much love and respect started to take care of Pita Ji. As time went on Pita Ji’s health became more weaker that even to sit up in bed he required help. One morning when the family went to Pita Ji’s room, to their surprise they found Pita Ji was sitting cross-legged on his bed in the lotus position, his back arrow straight and his face radiating with parkash. The family sat down on the floor next to Pita Ji and started doing simran. Most dearest and beautiful fellow spiritual seekers, after living his time on earth as told by Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, ‘they are close to the lord, they do not reveal their secret to anyone’, a few hours later Pita Ji’s soul merged forever into Vaheguru ji. The mahapurkh who came to give the message returned to offer their shoulder helping carry the body. Dhan Guru Nanak Dev Ji

A father said to his young son “I need to go somewhere today, so you have to feed God milk”. (The family had a stone idol of God and used to do bhog of milk daily). Once the father left home the son took the milk, ran up to the statue and said “God I brought you milk - please drink it”. The child’s love was so much that God couldn’t withhold himself. When the father returned he asked his son, “where has all the milk gone?” The son replied “God drank it”. The father asked “what do you mean?” “God stepped out the statue and drank the milk, then he said here you drink some too” the son replied. The father started crying and said “I spent my whole life dipping my finger in the milk and touching the lips of the statue. But God gave you his darshan on day one.”

I think this forum has gone way too far now with techniques and over analysing. If you realised there’s more to life than eating, drinking, laughing and sleeping, that already makes you incredibly blessed and lucky. Most people remain blind until the end of their life when it’s too late to jap naam. Whatever technique you follow it should be absolutely drenched in his love, surrendering ourselves to him, trusting in his mercy to take pity on us and pull us towards himself.

I haven’t got time to ponder such questions. I’m hurting so bad from endless dying and rebirth. Now I’m born again but death is chasing me like a hungry wolf. I pray in the feet of sangat here who meditate mool mantar if they could bless me too, to hold onto this mantar to merge back to my true destination where there’s no pain, just bliss.

If one really is hearing anhad shabad NOT A CHANCE WILL THEY BE ON A PUBLIC FORUM After reading entire threads and profiles here over last 2 yrs, humbly daas would say most are hearing noises of body, others are victim of their own overthinking. Anhad shabad is most likely heard towards the end of one’s time on earth, one looses interest completely in life when these heavenly sounds are heard. Mind becomes paralysed because the beauty of those sounds is beyond all comprehension No one should loose faith in anyway. Now’s not your time to enjoy bliss it’s time to work hard and jaap naam. Do it with true love, emotion and feeling. For sure momentary glimpses (lasting minutes or hours) of anhad shabad may be heard by his kirpa and it should encourage us further inwards, but even this will leave one feeling withdrawn from external life for days to come. All of you are on the right path, having found the true guru (shabad guru) after millions upon millions of lifetime of separation, pain and suffering. Now if with patience one attaches with the gur-shabad, from his side there will be no limit to his unconditional blessings. Each of us carry unlimited paap from previous lives, no of us are worthy. The best action from our side is to surrender all thinking and fall in love with the gur-shabad, leave the rest to him

Today is one of those days where I feel so happy but unsure why. Dearest God, I don’t understand anything. I’m always asking you for more and you never stop giving. I forever look at the single thing I don’t have not realising the countless blessings you gave. I will never know how lucky I am. I just want to say thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much God. To the random person reading who I will never meet, I truly hope you find happiness in this lifetime.

All people are welcome on Sikh forums, welcome to visit gurdwaras and equally welcome to read gurbani and receive unconditional blessings from the limitless ocean of treasures. One out of millions are those souls blessed with enlightenment of realising true purpose of their human life as an opportunity to merge back with the Lord. To compare one religion with another is like comparing features of different cars where our real purpose was to simply reach the far destination through use of a vehicle. The point of a religion was only to teach you to live as a good citizen in this world, as a bonus it should teach you spirituality. All religions today have lost spirituality, except for Sikhi which has it but 99.9% of today ‘Sikhs’ haven’t got a clue. Just as the student shouldn’t attempt to explore the origin, extent or limit of their teacher. The good student receives the teaching and puts it to practice through hard work. Gurbani talks repeatedly of ‘Satguru’ meaning true teacher, without who nothing is possible. In the darkest time of Kalyug where all are blind, Guru Nanak Ji are the true Guru (teacher) who enlighten us to our biggest question - ‘who am I?’ Guru Nanak Ji’s main teaching is man tu jot saroop hai apnaa mool paichan - mind you are a soul recognise your true self. The vehicle/method Guru Ji gave for this is Gur-Shabad (word of the Guru) with encouragement to attach our Surat (mental state of being/awareness) with the Shabad. Everything including body remains here when death comes and our soul leaves naked. So the direct liberation path Guru Nanak Ji gave is through meditating on Shabad ‘detach’ our awareness from body completely and ‘attach’ with shabad. With due time the Guru’s shabad will even liberate a soul before their time of death arrives. This is called jeevan mukhti. This is a lifelong journey which Guru Nanak Ji encouraged us to practice while living a householder life. Many Sikhs and sources can tell you about Sikh way of life. But the most incredible inward journey - really only one out of millions witnesses purely on blessings of almighty God. Such people live hidden completely though. Words can’t do justice what Guru Nanak Ji gave or who they are. Incredibly lucky readers will understand because they have experienced it themselves.