SatNaam Dandauth Bandhan To Sangat.
just sharing a reply we sent:
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Why do we need gian? Because without it we cant make sense of anything at all, why were we born, why were we
tormented, why we were so dumb as to do bad deeds, why we cant get rid of negative feelings, why we struggle,
why we are tired all the time.
Gian is a gift of God to Himself. Gian is the highest spiritual experience. Guru Arjun Dev ji says that the shabad i.e. the word,
the Gian, supports the mind like a column supports the roof. So without Gian/shabad/SatNaam/Gurbani our mind is like a collapsed house. We scramble around trying to make sense of things through our own experiences and education, but even that leads to dead ends. So that is why Guru Nanak Dev ji says that without a Guru there is no Gian - the Brahm Gian comes through the Brahm Giani into the world. The BrahmGiani is another word for Guru, or Sant, or Bhagat or Khalsa etc. They spend every second absorbed in Brahm - BrahmGiani ka Brahm Dhian. And what do the deliver to the world - Brahmgiani ka bhojan gian - the Brahm giani's food is Gian.
So Dassan Dass ji has delivered Brahm Gian on the website, for him it is eanred from the highest union with Brahm. For us though it is just knowledge. It helps us to make sense of our mind, but it only supports our mind when we put it into practise. Then it becomes the columns that support our mind. That is your challenge, to go from being an unsupported mind, to a strong mind with the support fo Brahm Gian - Gur Mat and give up our own fake columns of own wisdom - man mat.
We understand much better now that w are 40, than when we were 18 and entered onto a spiritual path - amritdhari. We had great struggles and knew nothing, but God-Guru has helped this far, we even entered the divine Light by His Grace when we got the correct Gian from a sant. We messed up though by going back into maya, and then 8 yrs ago Dassan Dass ji started emailing us and all that Gian is on the website satnaam.info . Getting up at 1 am is the hardest thing to do , we have built up to it only in the last year, and have fallen back many times since then as well. but its by God's grace only. Along the way we have had to learn to deal with family entaglements, slander from sikh community, problems in marriage, kids illnesses, hating my job, almost becoming broke, becoming addicted to bad lust habits, becoming hateful and resentful, you mention it, we seem to have made all the mistakes, but we have leanred from them, got up, found a solution, moved on and somehow have got cleaned up - only by God Gurus grace.
So that is the path - we all are lost and confused to start with, we all face pressured of society and what others think, face bullying and teasing and 101 other problems. some face them worse than others, some deal withthem better than others. We all have different and unique karma that has brought us into this life, so we all have to go through our unique and different journey. No point compalinging or getting upset about what has happened in our life, if we believe in karma, then we only reaped what WE SOWED - we made it happen for ourself. But what saves us is His Kindness, His kirpa. So that is why this journey of life is not to be seen as a struggle and bad, its actually the struggle that is transforming you within - but only if you hold on to the Brahm Gian. Then you defeat each and every negative, destructive thought that is rooted in 5 thieves and desires, due to our past karma.
tormented, why we were so dumb as to do bad deeds, why we cant get rid of negative feelings, why we struggle,
why we are tired all the time.
Gian is a gift of God to Himself. Gian is the highest spiritual experience. Guru Arjun Dev ji says that the shabad i.e. the word,
the Gian, supports the mind like a column supports the roof. So without Gian/shabad/SatNaam/Gurbani our mind is like a collapsed house. We scramble around trying to make sense of things through our own experiences and education, but even that leads to dead ends. So that is why Guru Nanak Dev ji says that without a Guru there is no Gian - the Brahm Gian comes through the Brahm Giani into the world. The BrahmGiani is another word for Guru, or Sant, or Bhagat or Khalsa etc. They spend every second absorbed in Brahm - BrahmGiani ka Brahm Dhian. And what do the deliver to the world - Brahmgiani ka bhojan gian - the Brahm giani's food is Gian.
So Dassan Dass ji has delivered Brahm Gian on the website, for him it is eanred from the highest union with Brahm. For us though it is just knowledge. It helps us to make sense of our mind, but it only supports our mind when we put it into practise. Then it becomes the columns that support our mind. That is your challenge, to go from being an unsupported mind, to a strong mind with the support fo Brahm Gian - Gur Mat and give up our own fake columns of own wisdom - man mat.
We understand much better now that w are 40, than when we were 18 and entered onto a spiritual path - amritdhari. We had great struggles and knew nothing, but God-Guru has helped this far, we even entered the divine Light by His Grace when we got the correct Gian from a sant. We messed up though by going back into maya, and then 8 yrs ago Dassan Dass ji started emailing us and all that Gian is on the website satnaam.info . Getting up at 1 am is the hardest thing to do , we have built up to it only in the last year, and have fallen back many times since then as well. but its by God's grace only. Along the way we have had to learn to deal with family entaglements, slander from sikh community, problems in marriage, kids illnesses, hating my job, almost becoming broke, becoming addicted to bad lust habits, becoming hateful and resentful, you mention it, we seem to have made all the mistakes, but we have leanred from them, got up, found a solution, moved on and somehow have got cleaned up - only by God Gurus grace.
So that is the path - we all are lost and confused to start with, we all face pressured of society and what others think, face bullying and teasing and 101 other problems. some face them worse than others, some deal withthem better than others. We all have different and unique karma that has brought us into this life, so we all have to go through our unique and different journey. No point compalinging or getting upset about what has happened in our life, if we believe in karma, then we only reaped what WE SOWED - we made it happen for ourself. But what saves us is His Kindness, His kirpa. So that is why this journey of life is not to be seen as a struggle and bad, its actually the struggle that is transforming you within - but only if you hold on to the Brahm Gian. Then you defeat each and every negative, destructive thought that is rooted in 5 thieves and desires, due to our past karma.
You have to struggle, just like i do , just like everyone else does. That is what it means to conquor the mind. And you feel tired and weak and low. So pray for strength, "satguru ji, you are the strength of the weak, you are my support, you are my rock." And then keep singing shabad, then go into doing simran.
That's how it is, takes time to build the inner palace, one brick at a time, one moment at a time, one utternace of Gods name at a time, one battle with one negative thought at a time. There are no shortcuts, no one is going to press a magic button to take away all your struggles, because God is the teacher who teaches us to be perfect, so His system is perfect and the process we go through is perfect and takes as long as it takes for us to learn the lesson.
Its His gift to Himself when He wakes himself up inside us at 1 am and remembers Himself for 2.5 hrs. WE CAN NEVER DO IT. But we can pray, we can keep doing benti to Satguru ji to not forget about us, to bless us continuously with gurparsaad fo naam, seva and bandagi. That is why Dassan Dass ji says keep doing the prayer "i am full of five thieves and desires, please forgive me." By doing so you are making new habits and destroying old mental habits.
You asked why those old thoughts keep coming in, because of habit. Its good to understand how the mind works - it is addictive. Whatever thought pattern we get into, it keeps on throwing those thoughts back at us. You have thought negatively for along time, so now you are tryig to break out of it, but those habits keep those thoughts coming back. It takes about 21 days to break old thought patterns/old habits. So for 21 days you are going to have to battle with them as hard as you can. Which means everytime the old thoughts come back, you will find yourself going down that train of thoughts and being tossed into an emotion of sadness/or despair at the end of the line. So what do you do next time, as soon as you notice your mind has gone down that old train of thoughts, you step back and became aware of those thoughts. Name them, eg thoughts of X. Then put it into a bubble, and blow the bubble away. Then do your prayer "I am fulll of 5 thieves and desires, please forgive me." Then start your Satnaam Satnaam simran.
Later on you find yourself down the train of negative thoughts again, and you repeat the cycle to get out of it, put them in abubble, and start your simran.
To start with, depending on how deep those habits are, you may try and limit yourself to only 10 minutes a day of negative thinking. Infact, if you sit down you can work out how much of your day you spend in different types of thoughts. Now your aim is to spend your day in throughts of singing Gods praises (kirtan) and doing satnaam simran and good deeds. Good deeds for others is the best way to stop negative thoughts about yourself. If you want to be happy, make someone else smile, will make you smile.
Its a struggle, its hard, I have been there, some days its harder than others, but we have Guru with us and the struggle is the journey, so is an important part of our bandagi process. Dassan Dass ji says that Bandagi is nothing but waging war on maya.
So you can do it, will do, Guru ji is with you.
IF you like, you may like to do a meditation course we ran at home , it will help you thru alot of your insecurities and stuff and is an easy way to become more positive. Then build up to more simran and 1am for some time in the future. We also leanred yoga and reiki, we go to the gym regularly, running is a great way to free the mind, feel good and do simran afterwards. We had to learn about good diet, changed our ways and it has taken the last 8 years to do so, but its only because we were not content to stay down, depressed, low energy, slave of maya and bad habits and negative thinking.
So same for you when you truly get sick of feeling how you are feeling, then pray for strength, take courage, make the necessary changes, step by step, day by day, thought by thought, start fighting thru the jungle of the mind.
We are here to hold your hand every step of the way.
Some days you will feel like giving up, somedays you will be worse than before, but keep going, never give up, there is Divine Light at the end of this journey, there is Pure divine Love, there is Puran Brahm Gian - the perfect divine wisdom waiting for you.
Dust of your feet
Harjit
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