24/7
"The true capital and the true way of life come by chanting his glories, twenty four hours a day."
Guru Arjun Dev Ji 1563-1606
In our last post, we mentioned how the naam should stay in our every breath, whilst facing the distractions of laughing, playing, dressing and eating.
It seems quite hard to meditate 24/7. According to Guru sahib, it is quite easy but we are lazy.
When the naam becomes a beautiful ras (taste) in our heart, mind and soul it's very difficult to let go. One would rather die than lose it. It begins to jap (meditate) itself by connecting to our mind and breath. How is this possible?
The key to the days meditation is, when we wake up at Amritvela (ambrosial hours) and meditate for a couple of hours, as this is when single minded meditation can be achieved, without any distraction (pure focus). After this, the naam will come back to us in glimpses throughout the day. We need to make every effort to hear the naam with our inner ears more frequently.
A few ways to do it! Whilst eating, we can crunch and repeat vahi-guroo after each crunch. Whilst walking, we can repeat vahi-guroo after each step. Whilst brushing our teeth, vahi-guroo for up and down. So basically, every chore we do, we should try to form a pattern of vaheguroo simran (remembrance), in our day to day lives.
Once we form this pattern, the mantra will become one with our every breath, mind, body and soul and we will start to experience the ras we talked about.
After a lot of abhiyaas (practice) and blessing, the name will begin to recite itself in ras and we will have to hear it with our inner ears. The more we try to focus and concentrate, the more ras we get.
In some day to day chores like studying, work etc, we might not be able to fully focus but we should try to listen where we can, as naam will subconsciously be there.
It is the command of Guru sahib ji and it is the only way we will find total peace, poise and tranquility (Sehj), when our mind is controlled by vaheguroo with every breath.
From here, we gain all the attributes of god; they build in our character and Guru sahib ji blesses us with his divine wisdom and many states of spirituality, Including the tenth gate opening and access to the spirit world.
It's best to love god, remain humble and accept the gifts/states guru sahib gives us, as many can get trapped in occult powers (ridh sidh), forget the naam and lose the life's battle through ego.
Note! To receive the full benefit of naam meditation, one must beg for it at an Amrit Sanchaar. Any sikh will tell you what this is.
We have to become khalsa (pure) to want khalsa raj (rule of the pure). The above is what every khalsa should be like, or aspire to be. We have to conquer our mind in order to conquer the world.
Vaheguroo!
