Beware of EMS!!!
Beware!!!! A deadly drug is on the streets - EMS!
I usually don't write about stuff like this but THIS IS IMPORTANT!!! Please do read.
There is a lethal drug on the streets - it's called EMS (aka AVSN by old users). A friend cried to me about it the other day; said she, "It COMPLETELY changed my life," she told me between tears, "I no longer enjoy anything without a dosage of EMS!!!" she admitted.
It was heartbreaking to see someone so lively BECOME SO STILL!!!
This friend used to love hanging out at the malls for hours - NO MORE!!!
She used to have great arguments with her friends about the latest fads - NO LONGER!!!
She would spend hours on the Internet - YOU GUESSED IT, THE MOUSE SITS IDLE ALL DAY!!!
I'm telling you: do what it takes to avoid this drug. Someone who is beloved to you MIGHT ALREADY be hooked onto this drug. People who take this drug usually do it because of peer pressure - SO PLEASE DON'T HANG OUT WITH PEOPLE ON THIS DRUG!!!
How can you tell who the users are - well, here are some common symptoms:
~ EXCESSIVE stillness
~ IRRATIONAL cheerfulness
~ COMPLETE LACK of gloomy outlook
~ UNCOMMON health, happiness and holiness
~ UNHOLY wholesomeness
~ UNNATURAL love of trees and stars and rivers and lakes
~ NON-ATTACHMENT to monetary things (gasp!)
~ UNGODLY loving and hugging of other humans
~ HIGHLY DISRUPTIVE "enjoy the moment" mindset
This drug, EMS - Early Morning Sadhana (meditation) or AVSN (Amrit Vela Sach Nao, as Guru Nanak calls it) is DANGEROUS!! It has ruined many lives and it will surely ruin yours (as you know it). The whole of civilization (as we know it) is at stake here.
Here are some expert opinions:
~ Guru Nanak (jap ji stanza # 4)
True is the One, True is One's Name - speak it with infinite love. We beg, "Give this to us, give that to us", and the great giver keeps on giving.
So what offering can we (the receivers of gifts) place before the One (giver), by which we might see the One's court? What words can we speak to evoke One's love?
The answer: In the Amrit vela, meditate on the True Name, and contemplate One's glorious greatness (Amrit Vela is the ambrosial hours before dawn - the time when it is hardest to get up, since the blanket is ohhh soooo comfy and the snooze button is ohhh sooo seductive - I am thinking of getting a alarm clock which has snore-recognition - if I'm snoring, it should unplug itself).
By the karma of past actions, the robe of this physical body is obtained, but the gate of liberation is found only by grace.
Nanak says: then (and only then) we realize that the True One is the only one around!
~ Guru Amar Daas jee
If a seeker cries (to the beloved) at amrit vela, those cries are heard in One's court (sggs 1285)
~ Guru Ram Das jee
One who calls herself a seeker of the Guru, shall rise in the early morning hours and meditate on One's Name (sggs 305)
~ Sheikh Fareed Ji
If you do not awaken in the early hours before dawn, you are dead while yet alive [zombies rule!] (sggs 1383)
~ Yogi Bhajan
"SADHANA!!!!"
The only word in Yogi Bhajan's reply-letter to a long, long letter from a seeker who asked for a cure for his fledgling spirituality, lousy prosperity and failing relationships.
~ Bhai Randhir Singh ji, a great Sikh spiritualist
The seeker that does SatNaam at amrit vela, is assured of enlightenment
~ Baba Nand Singh ji, another great Sikh spiritualist
(Upon finding out that someone will be writing his (Baba jee's) biography)
Imagine an almond. It has the outer shell, the brown part we all see. Then it has a white inner part that is not seen. My life is like that almond. The biographer will be writing about that brown outer part - what I did, what I said - but my real life, the inner white, is from 1 am till 6 am. Nobody can possibly even imagine that life, let alone write about it. Only I know that real life.
Sher Singh and the Moghul leader
One morning after EMS Sher Singh was travelling into the forest. He was drowning in the spiritual bliss of SatNaam and walked right into a Mughal soldier's ambush (yet another danger of using the EMS drug - you walk into Mughal soldier's ambushes).
Since he was an adept saint-soldier, he had no problem escaping the trap. The Mughal leader called out to him, "I have heard much about the Khalsa and their Guru - come and show me what your Guru has taught you!"
Listening to the challenge to his Guru - Guru Gobind Singh ji - Sher Singh could not resist the Mughal's call.
So he returned.
The Mughal growled, "We will each show our swordsmanship - the winner will walk free."
Sher Singh agreed. They stood a few feet apart. First, the Mughal took his sharp sword and with "whooshs" filling the air, managed to unhook Sher Singh's battledress clean off.
All the other Mughals soldiers were impressed - they shouted something in ALL CAPS.
Then Sher Singh took out his sword and a few "whooshs" later, re-sheathed it. Apparently no damage had been done to the Mughal leader.
The Mughal smirked, "What good is that?!"
Sher Singh suggested, "Move your head..."
The Mughal leader turned his head and lo and behold, it came clean off his body.
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Yes, there is a spiritual moral in this story. And no, it ain't "The Mughal leader had it coming!" If you can come up with the spiritual moral for this story (I bow to you), please send it to [email protected] - the best one(s) will be published.
- Daljit Singh - http://seekerofone.blogspot.com/
