A sikh must devote 10% of their time to spiritualism daily and yet ensure to not disrupt the daily life and resposibilities of home, community and humanity. We must not use religion as an escape from reality or responsibility.

Spiritualism calls for the deciple to be aware of his/ her internal feelings and conflicts. Feelings are the language of the soul, just like Words are the language of the Mind. THOUGHT is responsible for every ACTION. Together they become our KARMA. Behind every thought is a feeling. Happy feelings generate good thoughts and vise-versa.

Internal conflicts lead to dis-ease making the body lose control. Normally body run on instinct and automatic systems that are in place by nature and not on Mind. Mind is a great yet the most distructive weapon we possess. It can generate a negative thought pattern that makes our self-created reality a living hell resulting in disease and eventually death.

Therefore, it is imperitive that we stay very aware of our Mind and guard our thoughts before they create havoc in our lives.

Thoughts are directed by our wishes and desires (WaD). WaD are created by our five senses based on our previous experiences and likings. Ears like listening, eyes like viewing, mouth likes uttering, skin likes touching and nose likes smelling. Its easy for the five senses to find things to like in the physical world as they are tangible.

To devote 10% time (2 hours and 40 minutes) in the Spirit world or spiritualism or on devotion of the unknown, unseen and unfathomable is not at easy task for the five senses. Then how must we spend this time?

To successfully and attentively devote our 100% attention to Spiritualism will mean the involvement of all five senses. Therefore, we must have something to Speak, Listen, See, Touch and Smell. God is beyond the reach of all these five senses, and yet we must involve these to achieve our goal.

Generally, Sikhs read their Nitnem - daily prayer from the Gutka - holy booklet which engages our eyes and mouth. Most of us have memorised at least four of the five morning prayers. This means that we have only the Speech engaged and devoted. Then we wonder why it has taken us a lifetime and yet we have not accomplished much spiritually. We can't expect a 100% result by devoting only 20 % of the senses.

To achieve desired result, we must engage all five senses together at the same time. For this, we focus on the WORD that we utter. We must HEAR what we are SPEAKING. Alongwith this, we need to focus on our Breath and FEEL the temprature of our breath, focus our eyes on some point to SEE and try to SMELL the air around us.

There are two ways to do this. First method is to engage the senses in the Physical action - that is looking at a physical object like the holy granth/ book or gutka/ booklet. Similarly, the smell can be physical, like an incence. This is OK in the ealy stage of devotion.

Eventually, one must realise that the purpose is to be in the Spirit world, therefore, this process must be internalised and the five senses must be engaged in non-physical action, that is visualisation.

Visualisation is the vital part missing from our devotion. Very few sikhs achieve results with their Meditation, prayers and kirtan due to this issue. Gurbani has tried to clarify the methods of meditation clearly but we fail to contemplate on the meaning and in understanding it.
About Speech the guru says - Ek akhar jo gurmukh jape ta ki nirmal soi
About Seeing - Gur ki murat man mai dhyan
In Japji sahib the guru says - Sunyai, manyai, man keeta bhao
Speak, Listen and Feel the essence of the message.