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The bhagti that is totally acceptable Waheguru instantly is the one full of pure love and innocence like Naamdev ji, Dhanna bhagat etc. 

Jin mun hor mukh hor se kadhe kacheya, from sukhmani sahib tells us more about naam jap. 

Those with something else on their minds while reciting naam will not be accepted in the court of God.

A person who is in love with God will not think about other things.  This love can be created through regular reading Gurbani and katha to understand the bani hence better concentration and love too for Akaal Purakh.

Nothing specific about techniques of naam jap are mentioned.  We can do it while sitting standing eating walking etc. 

Reading from gutka however is better performed while sitting down.  Repeating waheguru can be done while going about normal duties.  

1 hour ago, Singh2017 said:

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Thank you for that, Penji. That was beautiful. So is meditating and walking around and japping naam the same, with the same lahaa? 

Vaheguru Ji.

It depends on the individual. Some people are able to sit and jap without interruptions and can focus their mind. Others are very fidgety so better to move around and naam jap. However stillness indicates a better focused mind. So the more you can sit without getting distracted the better it is believed to be.  Any technique of the two which you use require practice though. Practice makes perfect.

Eating a medicine does not mean that it will work immediately.  You need to keep taking it and have full faith that it is working. 

Naam is a medicine.  It will take time to work.  However we are also told... kahu ful ki isha nahi basche in sukhmani sahib. Do not desire for the fruits of your naam jap. Keep doing it. Keval bhagat kirtan sang rache.... keep doing your kirtan and bhajan.

A beautiful shabad about darshan 

https://www.sikhnet.com/gurbani/audio/supan-charitar-chitar-banak-banai-bachitar

Simran345, here is a pangti on SGGS 558, it seems to be talking about darshan which happened in a dream. Now sleep is being called as blessed so that the darshan of God can happen again.

Sometimes we forget to place the blame of bad dreams on our late night desserts. I noticed a significant improvement when I stopped eating chocolate late evening.  Sugar sort of activates our mind to work faster when asleep.  So anyone having bad dreams will want to get rid of extra sugary meals first.

However I have experienced alot of what that guy talks about. So I am still exploring my dreams.  But yes dreams change when you miss your daily path and improve when you increase simran. 

Our spirit is awake and in danger, why else would we want rakheya dhe shabad. We should pray to God for protection many times a day I believe. 

The dark areas in your life or rather dark thoughts do reflect back in dreams.  The pure you try to keep your thoughts,  the better the dreams get.  It is only naam that purifies thoughts.

I was reading another article which was saying that we can be building houses in our dreams.  Whatever we get on earth we have to obtain it spiritually first. Performing path enables us to build a better life. 

I remember a time when I was able to perform lots of simran and had dreams of houses.  Its the same house most of the time.  There were dark forces lingering around at the start of the dream.  However that same house changes quite a lot. It became cleaner, brighter and full of more beautiful things with added simran and path.

One of my colleagues once just walked up to me and said Hey there Ihad a dream of yyou having built a big fenced house with a swimming pool in it. My jaws dropped wide open and I wondered how she knew. 

Yes, so path is powerful and is our guide and protector when we are asleep.  The punj baniya, rehras and Kirtan sohila are there for a very important reason. 

It all depends on what you are dreaming about. If it is about mahapurash then its fine. Other dreams like your former home, snakes, other people in your house, eating food are not very good. 

Keep up the simran as your spiritual state is changing so you have to battle many things in the spirit. Pray to Guru Ji to give you understanding about your dreams and to unlock the goodness which Guru Ji wants to bring to you.

Barhu sahib take many poor Sikh children and turn them into Gurmukhs.

Beautiful katha on the birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Must listen.

See how easy maharaj has made things these days.  Warm water at the touch of a button. .. lights too and all makes having a bath at amrit vela so easy yet we still can't do it. No motivation.  Compare that to having to travel to a river in the dark. Or was it the excitement of that danger that triggered naam jap?

Bani at the touch of a button wherever you may be- however we have no time.  Self illuminated phones making reading in the dark possible too. Compare this yo reading from the saroop under candle light. So easy but still we have no time to devote to it. 

Start devoting time for simran. That is the medicine - don't stop and remember it will take time to reap some type of reward. 

On Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Guest Kaur 2 said:

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She lives in India and the next time we go to India would probably be in 2-3 years time. I will tell you how she had darshan of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Well, she was doing her nitnem but she was really tired and couldn't concentrate so she fell asleep. In her dream Guru Nanak Dev Ji came to her and said to her (in Punjabi): What are you doing sleeping there is Sukhmani Sahib going on outside. So she woke up and she looked out the window and indeed there was Sukhmani Sahib going on outside. This actually happened to my nani. She is such a nice person and she has no ego, greed, anger, lust, attachment and this year was my first time meeting her and even though I had never met her before she was so nice and I wanted to spend more time with her. So I used to wake up at the same time as her and I used to sit next to her whilst she was doing her paath. I honestly wish that I could be more like her... She is so down to earth and she never complains or moans no matter how bad things go for her. Thanks for your jaap I will try to do it as much as I can. The only thing that I can't do a sehaj paath because I am only 13 and I have no access to Maharaaj. Can you help?

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Sehaj path has now been recorded on many websites. You can listen to It too.

Watch it live on sangat TV at the moment

Herbert art gallery and museum in Coventry are having an exhibition showing the heritage of Punjab and the throne of Maharaja Ranjit Singh ji. It will be on upto the 18th of January next year.

https://www.justgiving.com/campaigns/charity/culturecoventry/craftsofthepunjab

6 hours ago, Guest Reply said:

 

@Kira your ansiters are really dumb.

bhai lena was a Hindu guru angad was not .oo.. what stupid logic - he was thue same person regardless of name change 

gurus allowed themselves 2 to be killed - lol - so they commited suicide ?

guru harikrishan finished his mission. And what was that exactly? If he was God then obviously he hasn't as there were 2 more gurus after him. Might I add the kalsa was formed after him. Huru harkrishan didn't leave any  sayings or works ... what kind of God allows himself to die from a desease humans can cure?

And you didn't answer my question about their children - are they demigods? How can God have sex with mortals? 

Why did guru gobind Singh need binding from Mughal army if he was God ? Guru gobind also never entered Amritsar because of rival gurus? How can that be if he was God? 

I can go on all day - none of this makes sense - gurus were human beings ... anyone with half a brain  can see - keep imur Hindu beliefs to your self ...

 

 

The Gurus did not allow themselves to be killed- they gave shahidhi. The Gurus obeyed ythe will of God.

So you think giving shahidhi Is a joke!!!!! Only the most pious souls can do It. The hukam of God Is supreme and giving It more Importance than ones own life would not be right at all.

If you cannot accept that the Gurus were divine, then you cannot understand the basics of sikhi at all!!!!

How can you even join the name suicide to the Gurus. You obviously have a great amount of reading to do and sort out facts In your mind many religious facts!!!!!!

7 hours ago, S4NGH said:

I agree with you. I also didn't say that ji I was quoting "Guest Guest". 

Sorry about that. I did quote guestguest from your quote,  however the system decided that If you quote a quote then the quote starts to belong to you!

Sorry once again.

3 hours ago, kcmidlands said:

Read the book years ago and remember meeting Satnam, I've stayed in touch with him over the years and am glad he's getting some recognition, he a good author, as far as the book having anything to do with Sikhi, is doesn't so don't watch the tv adaptation thinking it has, it's more about Punjabi culture and his own perspective on it.

We are highly critical of people when we look at them from the religious perspective. If a turbaned Sikh walked up to a girl and chatted, others will start to say - Oh God , Whats wrong with him? I thought he is a decent fellow. 

If a mona did the same thing, no one bats an eye, coz it is the normal thing for normal people to do.

The moment you hear that a Sikh wrote his story about a white girl, we get all judgemental in the name of religion. Whereas if a Hindu wrote the same story we would watch his drama without batting an eyelid. It does not unduly affect us.

We should learn to distinguish between normal life and religious life. Yes, there are many relationships that go on between sikhs and whites - which people never mention coz they see them as a disgrace.

13 minutes ago, S4NGH said:

if the gurus were Gods - why did they die ?

I think it is offensive to say the Gurus died. They did not die. People die. We say joti jot samaa gae with great respect for the Gurus for their spirits went to meet with the spirit of God. 

Janam maran dhoho mae nahi ... jan par upkari aaye.

The Gurus are above birth and death. They did not have themselves in mind when they came on earth. God our faether sent them to us - just like if you want to get across to a baby you say goo goo gaa gaa and smile and wave your hand and hold their hands. We are in the flesh and blood and we can only understand a language given to us by someone in flesh and blood. The Gurus and God are above this. They are in a spirit form. We while on earth are separated from our souls. We are lost in maya and cannot understand many things. 

Tu samrath vadh meri mat thori Raam. We simply do not have the understanding to understand fully what God really is. 

Why did they take birth on earth? They all came as messengers from God to deliver to us the message. 

One thing is though, they did not speak in parables like Jesus did. After reading the Guru Granth Sahib, you will get a better understanding of the Bible. Jesus was not able to deliver the message as clearly as Guru Nanak Dev Ji.

Perhaps humanity was simply not that evolved at that time to be able to interpret the message and understand it. 

3 hours ago, BhForce said:

Quite astounding that you've nev nr heard anyone say that Guru is God. S dnkhs have always believed that until the new crop of 20th century "professors" came along to deny that fact in order to please their foreign masters.

I didn't watch the whole video, but props to Bhai Jugraj Singh for stating basic Sikh theology, which is that Guru is God.

If the Gurus were human beings (don't say "are"), then they are dead. Why follow what they say? They have no more authority than the average Joe.

It certainly seems a Christian belief as they believe only In God. They believe Jesus to be his son, not his spirit or jot. However we believe all the Gurus had his jot. Not only that, but also Ram, Krishna etc were a roop of God, however In different yugs.

The whites have generally been more of a pagan worshipping people whereas India has generally had a long history of rishis and munis performing bhagti from quite a long while back. 

You are confusing sikhi with other religions.  Sikhi only shows the way to follow in order to re-unite with the creator. It does not give a fixed set of rules to live by. Any roop of anything if it asks for help from God even crocodiles,  stones etc, will get delivered. 

So far only 2 states have been mentioned, one is udasi and one is gristi. None is favoured however both are acceptable to God if you absorb yourself in his name.  Thus the in between state can be seen as a sickness which you sort out either by udasi... abstinence because there are no guides on homesexual marriages. 

In my opinion, it is lust which is spoken against strongly.  A study stated that 20 % of any population including animals can be born gay.  

At the end of the day, Guru Ji came to re unite us with God. It is an individual choice how you choose to leash your sexuality. Self control of lust is mentioned.  Lusty people go to hell. Some state of the mind which you have no control over I e being gay is a sickness which can be treated through naam simran. There is mention that Guru ji can change a man to become a woman in next janam and vice versa... depending on who you worship. If you worship the  goddess - you get janam as a lady if you were a man before. 

Guruji guides us as to what to pray for in another shabad... maan magau, taan magau, dhan, lakhmi, sut dhe. There are shabads for prayers requesting the birth of a child - and a wife too. So this clearly states to us what Guru Ji requires of us.

So there are only two states mentioned- celibate and married. After marriage there are prayers asking for children. So you can makeyyour conclusion as to how this is possible in same sex marriage.