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Sat Shri Akal ji,
First of all veerji I feel sorry that i ask you a lot of questions, but at the same time i thanks you for giving me the right answer.
I want to share one thing with you. About a month ago i feel like singing and get to know god a lot and that was the reason i use to hear and sing shabads whenever i get time at home and at work.but slowly and slowly my interest got lesser and know i dont feel and believing in the guru, with questions in my mind does god really exist.I dont know what going wrong with me.
now the thing that is going in my mind all the time is how the people belonging to the religion other than our religion achieve salvation because there is no naam and they haven't even heard of it.
my mind now always says to me if way to salvation is same for the people all around the world only then remember god because god is one and therefore way to the salvation should be one and if it is not then there is no god
Please help
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SatNaam veer ji,
dandauth bandhna ji, please do not feel sorry to ask all these questions. Ask as many as you need to, no problem with us.
Its only the mind that is weighing you down. When your mind is free , your heart sings and you feel happy and light - just look at a child - they skip and run, laugh and cry all with passion. But as we get older we think too much, we get weighed down by our worldy thoughts. It then takes a lot of time to become weight-free, light again, to sing again to be free and happy.
God is Infinite, his ways are infinite. You are getting confused because you are thinking in words like salvation, different relgions and so on. You are seeing things from the outside, you are seeing all the differences and getting confused (=maya). Start seeing things from the inside. How? Just change the word God to Love. So salvation actually means to fall completely in love. Then ask yourself can a person called a Muslim fall completely in love, can a hindu, can a sikh? Every single heart is capable of love. How each person expresses their love is upto them - some sing kirtan, some pray five times a day, some go on pilgrimages , some speak in arabaic, some speak in punjabi, some speak in hindi - the languages and ways to express love are endless, but the love that we are all capable of experiencing and merging into is the ONE and the SAME.
All the ones who have completely fallen in love with God have expressed the same basic Truths - that there is a higher consciousness, that we have to do good deeds, that we have to help others, that we have to be devoted, that we need Grace / Eternal Blessings/ GurParsaad. You only get conused by the external means and ways and words people use to describe these basic things.
Of course there are many, many millions who have no idea that love is the key, and are lost in rituals, regulations, pilgrimages, bad deeds in the name of God, tribal gorupings (me and my religion) and so on.
Just think that NAAM means LOVE.
And LOVE is universal but explained in millions of ways.
Above all, you have to keep telling your mind that its not about what other people do. It is too complicated to understand all the means and ways of millions and billions of people from the past and present from all cultures and countries. Only God , the inner-know (anterjami) knows each and every heart, only he knows how much anyone truly loves Him, only he is the true force, the true power (JOR), that is keeping us alive, pumping our heart, regulating our breath. So that is the only One you have to fall in love with. You have to look at your own destiny, where has God placed you? Who has god given you sangat of to help you? Look right infront of you and see where you are and stop worrying about where and what other people are doing and where they are. Everyone's destiny is their own, everyone's karma is their own, and their path to LOVE is also unique for them.
Ask yourself how come you are talking to us on this forum? How come Dassan Dass Ji is the nrearest BrahmGyani to you? There are many millions of others who also have the same questions as you, but they are not here asking us, but they are elsewhere finding their own answers from whatever is the destiny for them.
Not to believe in God is not to believe in love. Because of love people write poetry, people sing , people dance and only because of love is life worth living. Not to love is to not believe in your own heart and the Infinite Divine Power that is sitting dormant right in there.
Whenever you read anything, or meet anyone you need to be able to assess is this helping me to get closer to god or is it taking me further away. And the best way to do that, is to ask yourself, "having heard what they have said, do i feel more love, or do i feel more confused?" If you feel more love then that is getting you closer to god, if you feel more confused then that is taking you into maya.
You need to start identifying where the thoughts in your mind are being generated from. If they are coming from Maya - rajo and tamo aspects (desires and darkness), then learn to let them go ,rather than believing them and following them. If they are coming from maya sato (goodness) aspect, then follow them and they will take you to SAT consciousness i.e Truth consciousness.
God bless you
dust of your feet
Harjit
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