how do you know its your inner voice?

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From: Harjit <satsatsat@gmail.com>
Date: 2009/10/21
Subject: Re: Death and Michael Jackson
To: deeparagu <deepa@waheguru.com>

Sat Naam ji

 

the voice in your Hirda is never selfish.

It doesnt think of how you will gain advantage over others.
If you follow it , it will benefit you and everyone around you.  Although at the time it may cause many arguments or

problems for you.  Eg you maybe living a nice cosy life, but actually under fear and control of the family.  but the inner

voice may want you to go and do something truthful which the family will not like, so it will cause problems.

If you ignore the inner command you will feel uncomfortable with yourself , it will keep bugging you day after day.

If you follow it it will cause arguments with the people who will lose control over you.  but in the end they benefit because

your relationships are reformed on an equal basis.

 

The inner voice is not to be confused with desire, when you get excited about doing something which is just really fulfilling your own deep down desires.  You know its desires because each desire has dukh (pain) attached to it as well.  so close your eyes, notice how you are feeling.  If your mind is excited to chaase after maya then its desire.  If your mind is troubled and unsettled about a situation then it is maya.  Compare your state of mind to a time when you were operating under the grace of Naam (GurParsaadi Naam) then your mind was peaceful, then it felt like all your taks were being fulfilled but without you getting overexcited or frustrated by hopes and wishes.

 

So always look within and notice your state of mind, that tells you the Truth.

 

And as time goes on you will recognise the difference between intuition - the voice of your Inner Eternal Guru, and the voice of Maya and desires.   You will make the wrong choices but that also is part of the leanring process to fine tune your ability to hone into the inner voice.

 

 

Thanks for asking.

Dust of your feet

Harjit

 

2009/10/21 deeparagu <deepa@waheguru.com>

Good day Harjit Ji,

I was just reading your article below and would like to humbly ask a question

I have just started doing Naam Simran in the last couple of months and following your instructions.

Now I hear a voice in my Hirda which sometimes guides me. How do you know that the advice that comes from your intuition is really your intuition or something surrounding you that is influencing your thoughts?

Please help as I do not want to make any mistake and sometimes unsure whether it is my intuition or my surrounding thoughts that is guiding me

--- In Gurmukhs@yahoogroups.com, Harjit <satsatsat@...> wrote:
>
> Satnaam Ji, Dandauth Bandhana Jj,
>
>
> a guru Pyare asked us yesterday how to get up early, he said he does ardas
> before going ot sleep and wakes up at 3am, but then cant get out of bed.
> All we said to him was Guru Pyare ji if you knew that you were going to die
> in a year, or in a month or in a weeks time, would you have any trouble
> getting up to do Simran?  At that God in him started laughin, laughing and
> laughing so loud, he said we had put him into Anand!  We replied, that when
> we forget death and start thinking we are going to be around for along time,
> we struggle to do simran.   We were actually thinking of R jis email 19
> months ago when he was asking about praying for worldy wants , he said "if
> we cant pray to God to fulfill our desires who do we ask" -- which showed he
> didnt want to give up asking for wants to be fullfilled.  But if he had
> known 19 months ago that he only had a short time left (he passed away a few
> weeks ago), his wants for worldy things would have been killed instantly and
> his priorities would have changed to surrendering to God-Guru with mind,
> body and wealth.
>
> Actually today's news of Michael Jackson has also brought home the reality
> of death for many people, they were all planning and promoting his comeback
> tour in a few weeks time- where is all that now?  The  only reality is we
> are gong to leave this body sooner or later, just like the BILLIONS AND
> BILLIONS AND BILLIONS who have done so before us and the BILLIONS who will
> do so after us.  No one will remember our name or our existance or our
> stories in the long run, just as we dont remember the ones who have gone
> before us, the ones who dust our houses our built on.  Its very simple, when
> we forget Death we forget God.  So let our ego die before our body dies,
> before our time runs out.
>
> Love and blessings to all the friends and family and fans of Michael Jackson
> and millions of others who have also died today but we never hear about.
> Baba Ji said once that
> Michael Jackson as with all talented people actually listened to their inner
> intuition, their inner feelings which is god within them and they lived by
> that and it made them successful.  Wereas others are living by their head
> and logic and never following their intuition - ignoreing their heart ,
> their inner Guru.  Plus Baba Ji said whatever skill or talent god has given
> us, it is for us to use that to liv ein the world by serving others with
> it.  So Michael Jackson had the gift of music and dance and shared tht with
> the world, others can write , others can cook , others can heal - whatever
> it is listen to your inner voice, develop your talent and serve others with
> it.  Then the material and spiritual rewards come back to you multiplied.
>
> Dust of your feet
>
> Harjit
>
>

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