Amrit - Gift of Immortality

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GuruFatehJi.

one would wonder what penalties lie for those sikhs who break the amrit vows. we are all subject to making mistakes and get easily tempted by the worldly attractions. weak willpowers will always be overwhelmed by maya. and that weakness destroys the spiritual link to the guru.

amrit vows are taken by those who have a sound mind and an unshaken faith in the guru. amrit is on official surrender to the will of WAHEGURU and the guru then takes over your life's responsibility. when you take amrit, the guru tells you that from that day onwards, you are his responsibility. that surrender is the ultimate display of love for guru and GOD. submission to the will of GOD is the highest sacrifice we can ever make to GOD.

amrit shakna is a sacrifice that few can make. every amritdhari has the power of the guru in him and equals him to 125,000 men. spiritually speaking, amrit enjoins you to the world of nanak.

when one is not an amritdhari, that sikh is required to do the best he can to live according to the sikh rehat maryada. he/she is adviced to earn an honest livelihood, share his/her hard earnings with the needy and meditate on WAHEGURU. the quest and thirst for amrit comes naturally to any sikh that adheres to the sikh code of conduct and lives a pure life amidst the world's impurities.

one who takes amrit and then breaks the vows must repeat the amrit advocation. by taking amrit, one's past misdeeds and sins are washed away. an person who disrespects the amrit by breaking its vows becomes a creditor to the guru. it amounts to the greatest wrong done to the guru and also, GOD. we do not know the depth of the love of the guru and WAHEGURU, so

we cannot imagine what our punishments could be for that injustice done. but one thing for sure is that the penalty could be [or most likely is] punishing yourself to the endless cycle of births and deaths from which no one is salvaged unless the grace of WAHEGURU is upon that person. it is this life where we can find GOD. there is no second time.

if one is a bad sikh, you can very well say goodbye to your chances of being born as another in the next life. gurbani speaks of this human life as being temporary and a precious one. we do not know what good deeds we may have done in our past lives that we were blessed with a human birth, or even as a sikh. a sikh is like one pollen grain of a sunflower. if you can count the number of pollens in one sunflower, you can be sure that it takes that number of births for one to be born a sikh. sikhi is a blessing. amrit is a gift. life is precious.

do yourself a favour: think before you take amrit. you must live by it. it is not easy. if on earth a bad soldier can be shamed and excommunicated from the forces, do you also realise that religion and faith also have their own rules and discipline? it is not easy to meet the guru and WAHEGURU. amrit ensures your link to GOD. amrit is the guru's promise that through it, your reincarnations have ended and you will meet and merge with WAHEGURU. the guru is the spiritual chain that links you to GOD. it is up to you to hold the chain and make it to the other side because apart from that, nothing else will help you.

before taking amrit, pray to WAHEGURU. ask HIM to bless you with the wisdom of understanding what plans HE has for you when you take amrit. what GOD is waiting to give you is far out of our own imagination. whatever GOD has planned for you is better than what we dream about because GOD's gifts don't die, our dreams do and we do.

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