Browsing Tag: Naam

Once upon a time a long time ago there lived a Muslim child in India named Farid. Like most children Farid loved eating sweets. His mother always knew this about him, and one day she told him, "Son, the Lord created everything and is the Giver. Meditating on Him is the best." Farid replied, "Mama, if I meditate on The Almightly, will I get something in return?" She explained, "Well my son, when we meditate, we look very sweet to the Merciful Lord. So God gives us sweets to eat". "Oh!!! I love sweets!!!!!", he declared joyfully.

Amrit Vela Sadhana (Naam Japna) has always been one of the three cores of Sikhi along with right livelihood (Kirat Karni) and sharing with everyone (Vand Chakna.) All three are required for us to live a balanced life.

[VIDEO] There is one man (Nanak) who gave Naam to the whole world. Everything else is a mantra. Naam is only one. What it does is takes away the limit of a man and his own insecurity to God.

Siri Sevak Kaur highlights some concepts from pauris 1-6 of Japji Sahib.

I no longer look for the truth or for God. The real and factual truth is: I am alive. The purpose of life is to identify that we are alive. Take Nam to heart, identify that you are alive by living truthfully, Sat. Truth is high but higher still is truthful living!

So, if we want to be proud of being Sikh, feel passionate about it, let us strive to work on the understanding of Naam. As we understand what Guru Ji is trying to give us, there will be a paradigm shift in our lives and with that understanding we will be creating a new state of mind.

Sikh meditations blend spirituality with the person’s daily life. The two aspects of the meditation are jap and simran.

He wore a long light-brown garment that draped down to his knees fastened with what looked like gold buttons. In the background stood a large mango tree bathed in raindrops. Three musicians–a tanpura and tabla player, and a male vocalist performed a raag. Rain, music and mangoes.

Bhai Sahib stressed that just doing Naam Simran and Paath and focusing on our own personal life alone is not good enough. Neither is focusing on seva of the Panth whilst ignoring and not putting in practice Rehat (discipline), Amrit-Vela and Naam Simran.

She said that Sikhs need to tell the world that the Gurbani and Naam is the cure for all diseases and that it has power to heal the mind, body and soul. She smiled and said "You have the cure, you have the medicine - and you need to share it with the world!"

The Song of Bliss is the seal of all the previous meditations and prayers and is crystallizes the mind's learning and explodes a person into the totality of bliss of their own soul.

I cannot teach you how to pray in words. Prayer comes only from the heart. It is your mouth and your ears. God is the speaker and God the listener.

"I am not good, no one is bad," is a shabad found on ang 728 in Guru Granth Sahib Ji that every Sikh should chant each morning for a half hour before beginning their day. Over time that line will become so engraved in your mind you won’t have to chant it no more.

The Guru lies within each of us. It is the compass needle that always points true north – the touchstone of Truth – the conscience of every individual.

With progression of Simran, we soon attain a state of peace, balance and bliss. The first stage is the audible repetition of the Divine Naam. This is called Jaapa.

Simran: The constant inner awareness of the Infinite...