We've all got this preconceived notion of what a religious person must be like, that we can't see people for who they are. Which is pretty much the same with any label we put on a person.
Being asleep doesn’t mean you are not aware. When you sleep, your brain is processing things.
Today, this is not an exercise on deconstructing God or is it? Surely God is in his heaven and all’s right with the world.
No matter how much you try to conceptualize God, you can't. No amount of philosophizing, reasoning, thinking, rationalizing will give you one taste of it. So what can you say to a skeptic? Just say bless you. I love you.
What I figured over time is that if you are truly listening you are not thinking. If you start to think, you’re not listening. You can’t do both at the same time. So the power of listening to your own voice while you are chanting, the power of listening to your beloved friend, rather than thinking about the next thing you are going to try to say is an incredibly healing way to move through the world.
Guru is the one who gives you the key. Guru could be a corrupt person. This person doesn't have to be perfect. He/she is just the person who gives you the key
[VIDEO] Amritvela is not for anybody. It is a very personal thing. The rule of thumb is when the sun is 60 degrees to the earth, it is a twilight zone. It is from 4 am to 7 am and 4 pm to 7 pm.
The way in which they destroy themselves, is when poison comes out of you, you immerse yourself in poison. Your thoughts are poison, your words are poisoned. Your presense is filled with poison, and over time you poison yourself. You can't live in poison and not absorb it. If you are always trashing someone, you are living in trash, you eat trash.
The Khalsa Panth has a Mother, her name is Mata Sahib Kaur. The love she gave her child Khalsa cannot be captured into words, however as good children of that mother we should sit and listen to her story.
What is karma? Guruka Singh describes how people think about karma in a linear way.