Combining 'I am' and Guru Nanak's 'Moolmantra'

God is one
I am God

God is truth
I am truth

God is the creator
I am a creator

God is fearless
I am fearless

God has no animosity
I have no animosity

God is timeless
I am timeless ( soul is timeless)

God does not come in the cycle of birth and death
I am beyond birth and death cycle. I can choose birth and death as I please?

God is continuous.
I am forever?

God is found with the grace of a spiritual guide
I follow the inner guidance?

Try living the above and see how much you succeed.

Prison of beliefs

Our parents try to install their beliefs into us. They create an image of God for us to keep us from being naughty. Monster God is a useful tool to curb our desires to acquire things that belong to others. Parents have authority over us and God has authority over everything else. Same way the poor are controlled by the belief that one day they will be rewarded for not revolting against their poverty created by the rich who control the worlds resources. Some prisoners escape these beliefs and engage in anti-social ways to acquire the means to get their way. These are the only people the rich are scared of that leads to the existence of police, law and justice system. They are all created to protect the rich from loosing their wealth. Then some clever mind thought of the word charity and welfare. These are also but ways to keep people from revolting against the rich occupying all the wealth and natural resources of the earth. Since God is the creation of rich to control poor, they don't want to tax their own Churches etc because that's where they hide their black money. Churches and temples are just meeting places for recreation purposes.God has no real place in the materialistic world.

These were my thoughts until one day I heard the news that my father died. I cried uncontrolably, I screamed, I ran like a mad person. I felt my tummy churn. I didn't want to see anyone, didn't want to talk to anyone. He was only 62 and I was 26 with a one year old baby. I didn't know what else to do, so I took out my prayer book and did some prayers for my dead father. I didn't know how else to connect with him and send him love. As per my father's desire which he had shared with me when I was in college, I called some religious brothers from the community to do a singing session for his soul. I sat in the back of the prayer hall at the gurdwara / temple. With my eyes closed, I remembered my father and complained with a heavy heart, " You died without giving any notice to me, so I couldn't visit you in the last moments of your life. Come now, attend this prayer that I have organised for your soul." To my surprise, he came within a few minutes. With my eyes closed, I saw his smiley face and head only, flying through the air. He was so happy. He bowed to the scriptures, as per the gurdwara rules, turned around and said, "You called me, so I have come, but I can't stay any longer. There is a very important function happening for me elsewhere and I have to be there." He rolled away.

Three years went past, it felt like my shield had been lost and I was being attacked from every direction. The relationships with in-laws fell apart, who in turn tried to reck my relationship with the only man that could be my support, my husband. My little child was my only light in life who came one day demanding that he wanted his own brother because the Aunty next door didn't let this 3 and half year old child pick up her new born baby. He was furious, "Mum, I want my own baby brother to pick up." I fell pregnant but relationship didn't improve. I was on one side and the rest of the family on the other. So alone, one day I walked under the mango trees in the backyard and cried so hard. "I will leave them all and go somewhere else to live. So what if they won't let me take my son with me, I will go while I am pregnant and I will have this baby." I convinced myself. "Don't go, you won't be able to look after this baby alone.", said this invisible male voice, so close to my ear. Why not, I wondered but no reply came. I suspected something wasn't right with the baby that will be born. Deep down, I didn't want to leave my husband because he was the only person I still loved and wished this baby could do the magic of bringing my husband closer to me again.

The baby was born. " Why don't any of my children have your eyes?, I said in frustration. I love my husbands eyes. Nonetheless, I was happy my family was complete. "Can you believe we have two boys now!" Said my husband while taking me out of the birthing room. "It would have been a balanced family if this child was a girl but anyway it's a boy now", I thought.

A few hours later the doctor came and threw her bomb of words. "Your baby is Down syndrome", she said. She kept talking, probably trying o console me but I had turned deaf after hearing those words, even thought I didn't know exactly what they meant. That must mean he is severely mentally challenged, I had assumed. My husband had gone home by then. I cried alone. Why me? I have never done anything wrong to anyone, then why me. My husband came and we cried together again and again. The specialist came later and threw another bomb, "The baby has a hole in the heart." He must have his open heart surgery within four months or he will die before he turns one.

The day came for his operation. They took the baby for anaesthetics and we were left standing in a room with lots of cards from parents hanging on the walls thanking the doctors for trying to save their baby. Some successful stories and others where the baby didn't survive the operation. Oh God, I hadn't even contemplated about the second option before. I was thinking it was a great day for my baby..... Oh, I couldn't bare the thought that the baby might not survive the operation.
I went in my room, opened my prayer book and started praying. I didn't know what else to do. The operation was six hours long and I had fallen asleep within first hour.
In my sleep, I heard a voice, not my voice, saying if this child dies on the operation theatre, you will not be blamed for his death and then you can have another child that will be normal and you can live a normal life. It was a proposal, needing my consent. A proposal that shocked me. Such a  lowly proposal in bargain for a normal life? How can I get an innocent life loose his right to live, in exchange for my luxury of a 'normal' life. With tears rolling down my eyes, I begged, "Give this child his life back, and I promise to never complain about him not being normal."

Three days later, when they reduced the amount of morphene and other medications being given though the big machines, the tiny body covered with pipes started to come alive. We had just returned from a trip in the open air and as I entered the room, my baby saw me coming in the room and looked straight into my eyes and took his arm out of the white sheet covering his bare body, and threw it towards me. It shook us all. Never before had this child made eye contact with anyone, he didn't know how to and he didn't have so much control on his muscles to pull his hand out so straight but today he had accepted me as his mother and he was showing that it's not me accepting him as his son as he is, it's him accepting me as his mother for the first time.

Eight months gone past since the operation, I was too busy with the two children, one in kindergarten and the other receiving physiotherapist services to help him learn to roll over and sit down. He had little muscle control to eat or drink, hold his head or sit properly but he was a happy baby without any complaints. He was a delight of our life. Only occasionally when the boy wanted to play with his little sibling, he would say, "I wish he was a normal baby", only out of love and only to play better with him but I would thank God again that the baby is alive.

One day, I had enough time to sit for 10 minutes to properly thank God for giving the child's life back and for listening to me that day. I closed my eyes and tried to be one with him in gratitude without any expectation. I started imagining a shower if rainbow colours over me. I was at peace when I saw a river of colourless pure water started flowing from above inside my body. It was so serene. suddenly my body started shaking really hard. I remembered that I was sitting I the gurdwara and people were sitting around me. I didn't want to look silly for they wouldn't know what I am seeing and feeling. With reluctance, I opened my eyes to stop my body shaking. To my surprise I noticed that I was actually sitting so still and straight as a rock and nobody had noticed anything weird about me. I regretted opening my eyes so soon but cherished the memory of the fountain and peace that flowed with it ever since. That day I knew, there was something within me that I need to connect to, to find peace. God or not, this was something special, more special than the beliefs given to me by the parents and the society and this experience was dearer than the rebellious beliefs I had about God and society.
I have to free myself of all beliefs in favour or against God and just learn to sit in gratitude to experience that magic again. Now I would follow anyone that will help me get more of that experience without their religious background because I am not attached to religion but am interested in achieving my new goal. Is this spirituality?

For many years afterwards, I kept asking question to holy looking men without any satisfactory answers. Infant I puzzled them with my questions and by sharing my experience. Only then I realised that I had experienced something very special and now the only guidance I can trust is my inner guidance that showed me the path in the first place.

How can bad intent work faster than good intent!

I was telling a spiritual friend about my experience when my father who had passed away, some years ago appeared in my meditation. I heard his voice saying why aren't you helping him? I knew he was talking about my sibling that was very very sick and couldn't get better and yet the doctors couldn't pin point what was wrong with him. All medical results were fine and yet he was so sick, he expressed fear that he was going to die if a solution wasn't found soon. His marital life wasn't so happy at the time.
My immediate reply to my fathers request was that it's his life and his problems and therefore he needs to fix it, I shouldn't interfere. I believed that people choose their life and it's circumstances including the dramas and all based on their need for attention etc and there are lessons in all life situations for the person to learn. Some lessons are hard or painful to learn but very important. People shouldn't be healed without having them learn their lesson as that would be depriving them of their opportunity.
While this sounds good in theory, my father didn't like my indifferent attitude to his problems and instructed me to help him. The next thing I saw that he created a spiral of purple energy around me anticlockwise. Then he placed a garland of white flowers on me. I had never healed anyone before this time but somehow intuitively I was ready to heal him. I sent the healing light to him and saw a brick wall. This was the actual brick wall outside his house. Then I noticed a very nasty biggest suitcase size black energy placed outside his bedroom wall. Without thinking I acted fast and tried to blast that black energy with white light that I was sending. I noticed that black energy was too strong. I prayed that I be given all energy that my father collected during his lifetime doing meditation to heal his son. I received so much powerful white light that I used with full force for a while to get rid of that black energy that didn't go away easy. Then I shown the light all around his house all the way to the outskirts of his front and backyard.
I was surprised that I had access to so much white light and when I was in astonishment at what I had just fought with that white light, I heard that I have access to that much energy everyday, if I wish to use it and that the white light and the access to it is never ending. I was truly surprised. Then I rung him and hour later to ask him to accept the healing energy I have sent him as I was worried that the brick wall could mean that he is not accepting the energy as I wasn't able to go inside his house while sending the energy. I was surprised when I told him what I did as instructed by dad, he said casually, "oh, so that's what that light was. I was laying in bed doing meditation and I saw the white light just above me. I didn't know what that was." I didn't think that he would actually see the light. I was only expecting him to feel better but not see anything.
In the next few days, I sought more answers in relation to the black energy that I had seen. I understood that it was someone's bad intent that was making him sick and that's why the doctors and their X-ray machines couldn't pick that energy problem.
I recently had a friend's husband die if some mystery disease and as I was talking about my experience to this spiritual friend, I suddenly stopped as I understood that this friends husband also died of this bad intent energy and that's why doctors couldn't pin point why he was loosing wait for no apparent reason. For ove a year, the doctors tried all tests and failed to find a reason for his sickness.
So beware of people who have bad intent as it does make you unwell. It depends on the health of your third chakra how much their intent can hurt you. Keep your Willpower chakra strong. When you do selfless service, you receive blessings from others and they help to keep you strong and healthy with their good intentions. So keep a group of well intended friends to surround you with their protective energy. Don't isolate yourself from others unless you are actually seeking God energy, in which case you will be protected by the God energy.
On the contrary know that sending bad intentions also takes away a lot of energy from you and will harm you three folds but in time. You won't see the immediate effect but slowly are surely universe will get even because balance and justice is its true nature.

Going nowhere Spiritually

Being fortunate enough to have some spiritual experiences changed my view of the world. For a while I wanted answers to why, how and when about the spiritual world. Then I craved the  company of people who has such experiences as myself.

Soon, I gave up telling others to practice meditation as a matter of urgency, so they could experience the real life. I had realised that people aren't interested in finding out about the source of all energy that is running this universe. I realised all people want is someone else to pursue the spiritual and just pass on the benefits to them, heal them and bless them with more money, so they have more material success. Experiencing peace and joy wasn't their goal.

So here I am, trying to balance living between the materialistic and the spiritual. When I practice the spiritual regularly and start having the magnificent experiences, I want to give up the materialistic side. When I do so and I have all the time in the world for the spiritual, then may be due to reduced physical activity I don't focus any better or practice meditation anymore than I would otherwise. So I have realised that a balance of the two is best, just as Guru Nanak recommended.

Now I know that a Guru, spiritual master, and knowing how to seek protection before going into deep meditation is not optional but an essential part of meditation or you could land into deep trouble as the spiritual world is not all goodie goodie world. Then sometimes I think that ignorance is bliss. May be those who never try to enter the spiritual realms and just focus on material success are doing fine.

I do know the reality that all those so called successful people aren't happy inside and I am on the right path of seeking truth. I am more patient now and am happy to wait for the unfolding to happen in its own time and not rush enlightenment as it can be dangerous when one is not ready for it all. I am still wondering when would I become a a truly better person as a result and my nature will change permanently to a more patient, understanding, selfless and beautiful person?

It is not sufficient to set a goal and work towards it. The energy of people connected to you through that aspect of you life also influences your success and failure. So never underestimate the power of other people's thought energy. That's probably why having someone else to do the prayer for you works better as this gives you added energy that you require to succeed and for the universe to conspire your success. Yes, I meant conspire because sometimes you get recognition for little things and sometimes no recognition of even bigger contributions. It's not always what you do that matters but also how others perceive you.
It is unbelievable that I had two opportunities to grab a job I wanted but the events that unfolded the night before the interview jarred my opportunity twice. When the job in question came as an internal recruitment opportunity, I emailed the Humanr Resources / Organisational Development unit and withdrew from the interview because a certain person that thought that the job belongs to them was very apprehensive about me applying for the job and I couldn't accept that this person will die believing that I took her job when I already had a permanent job. Her job had been redesigned along with another supervisory position to create one new position to do both jobs. This led her to believe that she should get the new job only if I didn't apply for it as she would be the only applicant. When I applied, she got very worried that I was a stronger leader than her. She talked to everyone else in the workplace and projected me as a villain because I had applied for her job. This became unbearable for me as I knew that she didn't have the personal traits to manage the new job and that she hadn't demonstrated herself as an efficient leader in the past 10 years. So I pulled out at 3pm, two hours before that painful workday finished when she constantly told people "but...has applied for my job". I just wanted her to know that I am not the cause of her going to be unsuccessful and when I pulled out and yet she being the only applicant didn't get it; it made my point clear.

I also knew that whatever energy you give out, you receive it ten folds. Since I was deprived of my opportunity to sit for the interview because of her constant rant, I unconsciously projected the energy that stopped her from getting the job but now the question was that I have projected the wrong energy, besides her own inabilities. So what will universe give me back!

The night before the inteview for the same job as an external vacancy, I had a call from a homeless girl who requested refuge for a couple of nights from us. I have known this girl from days when she use to have a partner and a house to the days when she had been couch sleeping or sleeping in her car from the past five years. She hadn't asked for help all these years "why tonight?" I thought. There must be a reason and I must help her. So I offered her to stay with me. She said she felt that she was being watched by a group of men and she didn't feel safe. Being a feminist and a humanitarian, I had to help her regardless of the fact that out of all nights, tonight I wanted no distractions. It was 7 pm, I had planned to wash my clothes for the interview and then after dinner, be in bed by 8pm; so I am fresh for the interview at 9 am.
Since, I now accepted her to be my visitor, I had to change my plan and instead get in the kitchen and prepare dinner first and then clear space for her to sleep. While I was doing that she started talking and I felt connected to her thoughts and gave her all the attention she needed to feel at home. Now it was 11.30pm and I hadn't washed by interview clothes. So I quickly put the washing machine on and went to sleep. I got up at 6.30am and was about to go to start the drier for the clothes I washed the night before but she woke up exactly then and came to sit next to me. I was being polite and started a conversation which led to her giving me a very gentle rubbing of hands to giving me a kinesiology type massage on my right side of the body for an hour. Now it was 7.30am and I pulled myself up and said that I really need to get ready for the interview. Now I rushed to put the drier on, have a shower  and have breakfast.

As I was leaving home at 8.35am to be there for the interview at 9am, I would barely arrive there in time if had left straightaway; she says to make sure I drink plenty of water as I will feel very thirsty all day. I had no time to grab a glass of water. I arrived at the I view and they offered water, so I excused myself and took the offer and drank a huge amount of  it before the interview. Little did they know that it wasn't my nervousness but need due to the massage that I will drink another lot in the middle of answering a question latter on. For almost every question they asked, I had to request them to repeat the question. I couldn't comprehend the questions. It was like my nerves were not sharp, like they usually are. I struggled to quickly provide a digested answer. I was a sombe unlike my very impressive interview for another internal position I had given which impressed the judges very much. And it reflected my passion and confidence. This interview portrait me as someone having difficulty with everything. I completely misjudged the last question and by the time I comprehended it, they had already said the last but, " Is there anything you would like to ask us". I bit my toung and knew I had no time to give the right answer even though I now know what the correct answer should have been for the last question. I somehow couldn't say thatI just want to answer the last question again. I knew they had gone overtime and didn't want me t take anymore of their time. I walked out of the interview flabbergasted at my own slow  responses.
I came home and the homeless girl says your nerves will be a bit slow for the first 24 hours after the message. "What the ..." I said to myself. So she knew what the effect of the massage would be and she knew how important my interview is to me and yet she went ahead and massaged me knowing the effect on nerve response! Why did the universe play such a game with me? Why did she have to come the night before the interview and do everything that would ruin the one thing I have been planning for over a month? It's not as if I didn't know the answers to impress the judges, I just couldn't get them out at the right time. I am one person who has absolutely no difficulty with speaking the right answers generally. I knew them at the interview as well but why couldn't I get them out?

Now I remember that even when this position was advertised internally, I applied at the last minute after I had been preoccupied with a tragic death of a community member that affected me and I took lave from work. It feels like the universe conspired for me to not apply everytime.

It is not sufficient to set a goal and work towards it. The energy of people connected to you through that aspect of you life also influences your success and failure. So never underestimate the power of other people's thought energy. That's probably why having someone else to do the prayer for you works better as this gives you added energy that you require to succeed and for the universe to conspire your success. Yes, I meant conspire because sometimes you get recognition for little things and sometimes no recognition of even bigger contributions. It's not always what you do that matters but also how others perceive you.

Scams, fraud, lies and spirituality

I had a customer sitting in front of a computer crying. She was so upset and distort that she couldn't think of her email password. She kept saying that I just want to print out those bills attached to my email and take them to Telstra, a big Internet provider, and make sure that I don't owe them any money. She never had an ADSL broadband account with Telstra but the bills indicated that she owed them money from two years ago and these debt collectors were chasing over $200 because of the three bills from April 2014. Without doubt, the bills looked like they were from Telstra and anyone would have paid thinking they must have slipped up the payment except that she never had a landline (home phone connection) during that time to be able to get broadband internet and she had moved out out of the given address by that date. So she was suspicious. After my investigation on NSW fair trading department website I found out that it was a scam registered in their list Of scams with many new scams since it was first reported.
It begged the question why do people engage in big scams. Do their employees know that they are employed by the scammer or not?
When this customer went out the door asking this question why have they done this to me, my unplanned response was, "because society values money more than anything else" and thought I my head that this is the price we pay for having money as the highest goal. We believe in appearances. When we see a guy in a suit and a tie we naturally give them more respect. More expensive the clothing is, more respect and professionalism is showered. So those who don't succeed in making money the right way, then try to make it the wrong way because ultimately the goal is to make money, no matter how. Why have we come to this low standard of behaviour?

We take selfies, put on best clothes, buy better cars and show ourselfs to the world on social media. We call it style, then we build a reputation of being a celebrity and when we have enough followers we get paid by companies to market their products. All well and good because money is circulating and the economy is working in this model but we forgot to ask the deeper questions. First of those questions is that we forgot that there is half the population somewhere on this planet that doesn't have a mobile phone to take a selfie and share it on the Internet. We forgot that these half brothers and sisters can't even afford today's meal. They are hungry. They have children with expectations and hopes that parents will bring in food and clothing today or the next day. When we forget them altogether and leave them no chance of success what are they going to try as a next step?

If we focus back on the Internet community since we are familiar with it, we again fail to ask the deeper questions like what is the young chick trying to sell when she creates the Facebook page 'sex sells, money talks and drugs work'? Yes, it's the truth but what is she going to get out of wearing clothes that seem to promote all of the facts she's stated?

Is it not true that everyone wants money and then everyone wants to be famous? Once they become a millionaire, then one in a hundred promises to do some charity and give away a couple of dollar. Isn't it saying in other words that I will first take more than a fair share of the wealth and then I will give a little bit back to show that I am a good person? Why not take a fair share in the first place, so you don't have to do charity? Contentment makes you a King not more money, says Guru Nanak. When you are contented, then you rule the world. When you are not contented, you are a beggar. Begged wants and King gives. They are the only two actions. Who do you beg from and who do you give to? What do you beg for and what do you give? If we could only beg for healthy and happy life for all, society wouldn't be so money hungry. Food wouldn't be thrown into bins instead of putting in people's mouth. Our success would 't be judged based I how many investment properties we own. When we stop that judgement, people would feel safe investing in uplifting someone else instead of buying that next investment property. We won't abandon our parents and later take them to nursing homes, never to visit them again. We would value their love and light around our house. Instead of how much I earn, the focus will be on how I treat others.

Rather than how much I make, the focus will be on what do I sell? Is what I sell, good for people's health and wellbeing or just for my pocket? If we ever focused on that our supermarkets would' the full of sugar and no nutrition. We have taken thought out of the process of making a living and re only focused on making a living somehow. That's what's wrong with us. If by lying to the government would give us a pension or bigger welfare cheque, we take it. On the other hand governments make rules to suit big corporations and save their dollars, increase their profits at the expense of lower pay for millions of people and bad health due to their dodgy products. So who is a scammer? The little guy that got caught or the government and big corporations looting people in the broad daylight? Where is fairness, justice and equality?

We work with our heads not with our hearts. This needs to change. Head keeps us in the survival mode and always says get out of trouble even if it is at the expense of putting the other in trouble. The heart wants win-win situation for everyone and welfare of everyone. Guru Nanak teaches the way of the heart. 

Difference in physical life and the afterlife

Do you get upset with life because there is too much to do and not enough time? Do you feel that you don't get enough time for meditation and contemplation? Your feelings are valid because there are reasons for us to feel frustrated.

Before this life, we were a thought form. We had ideas we wanted to express through action but we had no body to help us achieve the goals. We also had emotions then. We were connected to the feelings of others. It's not the words but the emotions expressed through words that are visible to the souls in the other world. That's why its important to add emotion to your prayer, otherwise its meaningless.

A prayer may bring help from the other side but it also instills firmly in our minds what is it that we really want. Half the battle in life is about not being sure of what we want and how we would like to achieve it. It may be because we may have taken birth after being inspired to achieve something specific but after seeing others, we may have diverted from that goal to fit in with the rest of the society. This brings discord within. The soul remembers what it wanted to achieve but the mind wants to fit the image provided by the society as it was programmed early in life to follow the authority or there will be negative consequences.

To achieve harmony between the goals chosen before birth and after birth, we need time with ourselves to negotiate. A quiet time helps us slip into ourselves and recall that void we came from. Once you are connected to your unconscious mind that was your companion before birth, you will recall. Once connected, you will also connect to other thought forms of the same vibration. It's like having a meeting within yourself for collaboration. These meetings give you new ideas and inspirations. Just like they say planning is the key to success, these meditative moments provide you that time to recall, feel inspired and to take action.

The only thing missing in the spirit world is the body, a vehicle to move and take physical action. Now you have that vehicle that you so desired to fulfil your dream to take action and you forgot what that goal for the action was. Isn't that a tragedy. So its clear that we need to be reminded of that goal and nobody can do it for us. We must look inside us in solace and recall.

Once we remember what we wanted to achieve, we must take action as this life is not forever. Each day we are falling short of time to take action.

The big mistake we make is when we forget the balance between planning and action. Similarly, we forget the balance between contemplation and action. Most of us chose the life of action but forget to contemplate on what action we were suppose to take. We end up following the money and wherever we find money, we are attracted to that path. Some choose the religious path and slowly turn that into a way to make money or fame. A few who become spiritual then forget the path of action. They get indulged in meditation and all talk about God, the invisible wise being that we are[ forgetting that when the physical body is gone, all they can do is stay in the higher vibration they have achieved. They won't be able to take any action to improve the physical life then.

One thing is clear to me though, that you can't raise your vibration any further after you leave the physical body. If you die doing mundane jobs and didn't contemplate on higher self, then in your afterlife also your thoughts will stay on the same vibration and you will only be able to connect with others of the same vibration. Like drug addicts seek drug suppliers, a seeker seeks a teacher for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The law of the universe is 'You shall find what you seek'. Note the omissions here, you shall never find what you don't seek. If you are seeking trouble you will find it somewhere close by. If you are seeking peace, you will also find it within the very situation you are in. It's not the situation but what you are looking for within it.

You change your goal and your path will change automatically. This will change your vibration and then you will start meeting a different calibre of people. These are the benefits of physical life only. In afterlife, you are trapped in the same vibration for a long time until you take rebirth and then change your vibration. So Guru Nanak says, "Manas janam dulambh hai, oh na varo var". This human lifetime is precious, you don't get such opportunity everytime. There is no guarantee that your rebirth will be as a human. You might take an animal, bird or plant life form (or any other life form that we humans may not even be aware of).

Making money is only a means to an end while you are a human. This goal is not helping with achieving our pre-birth goals or after-death life. The getting rich goal doesn't help raise your vibration either. Higher vibration comes quickest from soulful music, meditation and contemplation. It also comes from unconditional love and actions that help others with humbleness. Giving raises vibration only when it doesn't expand your ego. Ego keeps us closer to physical life and higher vibration lightens the soul and raises the vibration from earthly bondages. This improves the quality of the afterlife.

Watch your dreams, write them down and work out if you died today what vibration level you will fit in the afterlife. Would you be comfortable and merry? Afterlife and before rebirth can be a very long and painful time, if you do not contemplate on it now. The time for action is now.

Moksha, nirvana is liberation from what?

In my last blog I raised a few questions about society, it's  beliefs about success and our entire life engulfed in living up to society's standard of perceived success. All our actions are geared towards acquiring more wealth.
This morning I came with the insight that may be moksha is this awareness that they are all false goals and the real goal is self- satisfaction and a state of contentment. Contentment can't come if you stay tuned to what society wants of you in terms of their version of progress and success. Contentment can only come with the awareness of one God, a source of universal energy and wisdom that lives within us all. The realisation that we all have same needs and if we just give up greed for more, and be happy with sharing whatever we have for we all have same needs; contentment will come because there is no competition to snatch from one to be gained by the other. This sacrifice of the techniques suggested by the clever mind to get more than others in favour of the heart's desire for equal share for everyone, is moksha and nirvana. The literal translation of Moksha and Nirvana is Liberation. The oneness with God gives us liberation.
The question is liberation from what; societies false ways, beliefs and expectations. Is it that simple? Is finding God the simple realisation to follow your heart and not the society? Is finding God the simple realisation to make your own path and do something for the humanity instead of working for self greed? Wouldn't life become so simple, if we didn't have that care for showing off to society that we are successful as per their definition?
If so, then what is this war of religion? Does religion even matter, if it's about the realisation that contentment is the key and taking the actions based on the realisation of God within us all. If so, then the only gauge for religious success is how humane actions we take in life. It can't be about how many people we converted into our own religion and weather we stood up to fight for our religion. Trying to change people's belief system by force, by war; is that even possible?
Guru Nanak said contemplation on God is the key. What is God to you? How do you satisfy God within you? Do you ever talk to the God within you? Does the God within you approve of your lifestyle and actions? Do you care about his approval? Or societies standards and approvals are more important to you? God is self that has realised the self in the other. Realisation of God builds compassion in the heart. The simple thought - does the other need it more desperately than me and letting go of it without regret, is Godly. It's not the easiest thing to do when the mind constantly fights the heart and brings the societal standards to the forefront.
 It all comes back to what is success in your mind? What does a successful person look like to you? Is it the one in the suit and tie or the one that is above the worries of what I look like and how others perceive me? Is the successful person the one who works to satisfy his own greed or the one that works to make this earth a better place to live for all? What is success to you? Please leave a comment.

Slaves of a system ?

Are we wasting our lives finding jobs to pay our debt, buying properties and getting more deeply into debt? Are we truly victims of a capitalist system? Are we kept so busy buying things small and big and working hard to pay for them, that we are left with no time for contemplation on our actions? Is keeping us busy a deliberate attempt to keep us dumb? Why do fall for it? Is it because we all like to be seen as successful by the society and the society measures success with material wealth? Why do we have to satisfy the society and its standards?

Would the world fall apart if I left my job of last 20 years? Would it be too bad if I refuse to compete with others in the pursuit of finding a better paying job? Why don't we try a different strategy and instead of increasing funds, try to simplify our way of living. Why does the look of disgust on people's face bother me when I don't wear the latest fashion traditional suit to the temple, just because I am in a different state of mind and do not want to wear shiny, attractive or expensive clothes. Has the society been brainwashed so much that we simply can't think past money and fashion? Why are we acquiring more and more wealth and properties year after year? Why can't we start using that money to feed others and be happy and contented with each other? Why are we ignoring the world poverty? 

Wouldn't the world come to a stand still if we suddenly changed our shopping habits? The reduce the hours we work and spend some of that time meditating and singing?

It disgusts me to see that people are using yoga, meditation and singing to make money. Then again every other profession is doing the same. Why the exchange value for everything is money and measure of success is money? What can we replace money with?

Money has only separated brothers from each other. Money has made us loose our hearts and work with our minds. We are getting better at communicating, marketing and understanding human psychology but what are we using those skills for? To sell more material goods? Why not to promote understanding of the value of contentment, meditation and singing?

Money has brought war. We have not developed at all. We are as savage as we were before. We have just developed better weapons to kill ourselves and our environment. What for? How can we call it development when we are heading towards a world where we are buying water and soon be buying clean air. Wasn't it that we were advanced when we had everything for everyone for free? Why aren't we making any effort to free ourselves from our self created misery?

The only things that have ever satisfied me completely are silence, inner journey through meditation or when I am completely lost in the notes of music. When I loose myself that's when I find myself completely. The joy of silence and nothingness and what happens afterwards can't be compared to any amount of wealth and possessions. Just like the experiences of  traveling to places of natural beauty can't be measured in monetary value, the value of non material experiences is priceless.

God is the vibration of love - a solution to depression

What is God? God is the vibration of love within every living thing. God can't be found through religion but only by sharing, caring and unconditional loving service towards another. To feel loved, you need to give love.

The Panjabi community of Woolgoolga is a living example of how happiness can't be found through wealth. Despite abundance of money and the ability to buy anything they wish, these people are complaining that they don't feel loved by the family, just being used to make money. Why? Is it because we work so hard all day that we have no energy left to say 'I love you' to each other? Is it because we don't trust anyone to whom we can share our deeper feelings and expose our vulnerability ?

How can we address this problem of not feeling loved? The apparent problem of alcoholism is closely related to this feeling of not being loved and depression.

If you ever felt like there is a hole inside you. Nothing makes you truly happy, it's because of  the black dog that lives inside you. Read about the black dog, so when someone says I am going to die, don't just advice them to get over it, take them to a psychologist or simply make time immediately to listen to them. Help them open up their bundle of messed up feelings.

People turn to alcohol so they can't hear the black dog that gives that feeling of emptiness in life but Guru Gobind Singh identified alcohol as something that Fuels that issue even further and may lead to domestic violence. Therefore, Guru Gobind Singh's logic of no alcohol and drugs is stipulated.

Focus on deep breathing. Watch this breath go inside the tummy and touch your black hole where you feel that emptiness, hold the breath there and then release it. Next time feel God's love coming inside with the incoming breath and the life demeaning emptiness leaving your body.
Now you are loved and touched by God. To keep this feeling of love, you must go into the community and share the unconditional love with someone by doing something to make someone happy. Something as simple as greeting someone and smiling can be a gesture of unconditional love. Stay in touch with someone that you trust you can talk to without judgement and be that person for someone else. Do little acts of random kindness without commitment to take ownership of their welfare.

Join a group or pursue a hobby. Something as simple and buy a coffee and enjoy chatting or go for long walk on the beach. When was the last time you noticed the stars in the night sky, a full moon, the floating clouds and their changing shapes, the chirping birds, and the waves hitting the shore one after the other. The time wasting activities like read a novel or a poem, write in a diary are also highly useful in keeping us sane. Gaze into nothingness and take long but soft breaths.

Connect to your navel, your centre of power, breath into it again. This is the meditation, naam simran that Sikh religion talks about in the 1430 pages of Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture. This is exactly the same stuff Jesus tried to teach the masses when he said, 'God is love and God is light'. Hinduism and Buddhism also believe in the same meditation. We started stipulating other conditions in the name of religion long after the original messengers passed away. All religions started with this basic message that there is an invisible power within us that needs awakening. When this invisible power unites with the same power that fuels the rest of the visible world, we call it God.

If you simply take away the word religion and just focus on one practical thing they all ask of you, it is meditation which is just a word to say focus on your breathing and you will feel strong and loved. Connect to the vibration of love that is the source of strength that created this universe and holds it together. Just like the internets wifi connection, this waves of love are unseen but powerful source of connection that recharges our battery of life. Let's recharge ourselves and others. Follow the Sikhi of Guru Nanak, the way of Jesus without labelling it. Follow the message not the messenger. In doing so you will make yourself happy and the messenger proud that he succeeded in delivering his message.