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‘’Satgur sevn aapna te virle sansar, haumai mmta mar kheh har rakheya urdhar’’ (In this world rare are they who serve their True Guru. Having killed their haumai and wordly love they keep Har clasped to their heart) ( SGGS, Sri Rag, Mahla 3rd, ang 26th) I needed to give you a more detailed explanation concerning post amritdharee haumai feelings so here it is. You mentioned getting lots of gyan and your ego getting puffed. That can happen when we think a) we know more than others, and b) we feel we understand better than others. However when you really do start understanding gurbani, you will realise gurbani is not some religious readings and formulas that place you on a higher pedestal than others. Gurbani is Guru himself through the gyan of gurbani helping you to be transformed from an ego and ‘bikh’ driven manmukh to a humble ‘amrit’ driven gurmukh. Japjee, sukhmani sahib, and any other prayers in gurbani are not there to given you some false psychological satisfaction that you now are a religious person, but rather they help you search out all the hidden viruses and spiritual diseases in your inner that are linked to pride so that ‘i’ in you can decrease and God in you can increase. Likewise doing or listening to kirtan is not about feeling you are holier than others . Rather, the tukhs and shabads being sung are totally oozing and bursting with Gurujee’s sikhiya to help to break your ego, to reduce you and your desires and needs, and to make you realise the real Doer of all is God. The shabads being sung help you to realise how to put right in the eyes of God everything you think, say and do, and how you interact with others, as well as what ought to be the new and real driving forces to help you reform the root of your personality and character in accordance to tat gurmat. Nitnem , kirtan , path are all various means of connecting you to gurbani because gurbani is Guru and Guru wants you to receive His beautiful blessings, plans and designs meant for you, by loving Him and understanding and following His sikhiya. Katha on gurbani meanings, on gurmat philosophy, on Sikh history, on Gursakhiya is all meant to help you realise that humility is the hallmark of being a gurmukh. It is never about ‘I have heard the katha by so and so so now I am learned to debate and impress and am going up in the pack order! ‘. Rather katha is meant to encourage you that you have made the right choice in taking Amrit and that now you can serve God, Guru, Khalsa Panth and humanity in utter humbleness and love, and protect the weak and meek, and stand up against evil. The flip side of taking Amrit is that you are now a humble servant and slave of Gurujee and committed to doing His sewa. The sewa of Satguru including wiping sangat’s shoes, washing juthe dishes after langar, cleaning gurudwara toilets etc etc is all meant to make you humble and give you utter joy. As time goes by, this will extend to more and more sewa for the sangat including helping out the elderly, giving the committee and granthi a helping hand, doing kirtan , and katha, looking after the needs of individual members of the sangat etc. Sewa then extends even further out into society in general, like getting involved in your neighbourhood, getting involved in charity and voluntury groups, so that in the eyes of your neighbours, your community, your town and your country you start standing out as a very humble, loving caring, compassionate, kind, generous person who helps all, protects the vulnerable, speaks out against wrong, and is 100% green and eco friendly and protects the environment. An amritdharee is never meant to be a person who segregates him/herself from society, becomes racist, looks down on others and loathes a hidden hatred for anyone in the name of religion, and indulges in mere surface psychological satisfaction by adhering to a set of dos and donts meticiously without letting the rehat and kehat of Gurujee to revolutionise your life so you become a dynamic, relevant, and indispensable part of the panth and of humanity. The way a real amritdharee’s mind works is almost impossible for me to explain and describe or even understand myself! because it is insanely and incredibly mind blowing and out of this world! It is something like having 2 brains in one place! On one hand is the ‘you’ , the you that is getting retrained, reformed and transformed and beginning to see things from new angles including non physical angles which are beyond time, space and shape. Then there is Gurujee’s activated presence in you! because Amrit has been activated and poured into your inner consciousness and is been daily replenished through nitnem, simran etc. This presence can feel like a second brain within! and sometimes you can differentiate between these two, sometimes you cannot! It can get confusing! Very confusing!! Very very very confusing!!! Utterly confusing!!!! Then suddenly Not confusing! Gurbani says ‘shabad Guru, surat dhun chela’’ The Gurbani you read and sing does not remain a stranger on the outside! Gurbani is Guru and Guru internalises to become the voice of your conscience, guiding you, showing you, quietly talking to you , alerting you, waking you, loving you, Now I am reading Japjee! Now Japjee is being read in me! Now Japjee tukha in me are talking to my brain and showing me the next pauri(next step) I need to take in my life! It starts getting more, and more, and more, and more, infinitely more, interactive! Amritdharee life and thinking is impossible to describe and it is almost a holy grail for the best of our parcharaks past, present, and future including those that get most frequently mentioned ranging from sants to scholars! A small peek into the incredibly exciting writings, (and the mind) of Bhai Gurdas and Bhai Nand Lal, two unparalled and outstanding examples of proper gurmukhs will tell you why. As they say an ideal mind is the devil’s workshop. A true gurmukh is so so so so soooooo busily involved at every level with his Gurudev that he has no time to listen to the voice of haumai! And even if he does accidently Gurujee slaps it off for him!

Anyone know what the full raag is? I'm not really asking for your opinion on shastar puuja, just simply the raag if you know

Dearest Kaljugi jee, I relate to what you are saying very closely because I had 3 operations myself in the last few years where my life was like a yoyo and I experienced such sharp daily excruciating pains in a way I cannot explain ever. I could even sit, sleep, stand or walk because that pain was like a huge demon killing me wherever I turned! I even thought I was being punished and going to die. The pre and post medicines only played more havoc too. However through this, Gurujee has taught me that Sikhi as I have explained just above this to another person on this thread, is a 2 way traffic. As long as our hearts are sincere, Gurujee himself is Master and Commander of our ship whether it is sinking or sailing! Life and Sikhi are like the waves of an oceon where pain and pleasure, anand and vairaag. and highs and lows are like the waves that take turns to rise and fall and yet strangely enough, are the same water! 'I' am going through the motions yes, but maybe thats fine too and part of Gurujee's kautak and choj to show me what it is without Him and to make my anand and sharda even more worth and of value when I hit my next high. If everything went right for me everyday then I could be in danger of slowly taking things for granted and becoming unexcited. However if prem and sharda, my close friends part from me certain days and i start missing them, I value them in my life even more! and work to keep them as my best mates! haha. You cannot 'up ' your sharda because sharda is a gift of God, a best friend given by God to keep you activated and animated. In fact sharda is a very playful hide and seek friend! Now here, now not here, now there, now not there! And why? Because sharda is the one mate that is thrown by God into your life in order to constantly keep you playing the game of prem, and to keep you geologically active in your spiritual life so that your words, actions and thoughts burst out from your activated amrit -inner being like molten lava in a kind of spiritual volcano! Sharda is like the hidden treasure of a tree that suddenly bursts out insanely beautiful flowers and fruits. A Sikh waters the plant of amrit within everyday painstakingly, sowing the seeds of Naam and Gurbanee and in return our Sacha Patshah 'Mali ' Gur Nanak hands him/her the fruit of sharda so you can engage in ''khel khel akhel khele'' as in you is created a 'chao' for prem kheln. I cannot create sharda but i can beg to Gurujee to produce in me sharda, and I can lay such Sikhi foundations in my life which will seduce and induce sharda, not reduce sharda!

Jal Jogan is Crocodile.

Naam Simran, embark on the path of true bhagti(silencing the mind through Samadhi). Think of these thoughts as a gift from god, like a challenge he wants you to overcome, everyone gets bad thoughts, when they get really bad, you know you need to turn to god, we all truly need him 100%. When I used to have really negative thoughts naam simran/bhagti was the only thing that helped them cease. The mind is the cause of all suffering in life, it brings only pain- most think negative thoughts are normal- they are not, we are all mentally diseased until we rid our minds of negativity no matter how normal we think we are. Society has led us to believe bad thoughts are normal and for us to accept them- bad thoughts are the root cause of Kalyug. Satnam Ji.

say "god bless you", each time someone compliments you? if you feel people are flirting with you, its probably best to stay clear of these people if you can. If you have no choice but to talk with them (as they may be work or colleagues), make sure its clear to them that you are a sikh of guru gobind singh ji. ultimately an ardaas to guruji for help is appropriate. just my advice, not sure if it will help