Game of love- WEAK MINDS

WEAK MINDS

If you found out there was a package waiting for you at your local train station; It had £200,000 in it for you but part of the deal was you had to be there washed and ready promptly at 2am to receive it. How many of us would be there?

If you say yes to the above analogy and you struggle to wake up at Amritvela (early morning meditation), that means we have more love for money than Sikhi, Guru Ji and Naam.

Our mind is very weak. It tends to sell its self to the mind's desires. It's the desires of the mind, which will halt our progression towards achieving our goal towards liberation and becoming humble, loving, virtuous human beings.

A boy says to a man, he wants happiness. The man replies, "Remove 'I,' that is your ego. Remove 'want,' that is your desire. Then only happiness remains."

'I' is only killed through conquering the mind’s thoughts and desires through Naam meditation.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Says, "They act out their minds desires, but they do not understand the Lord, and so they are ruined."

Vaheguroo!

Game of love- MEDITATION & SCIENCE

MEDITATION & SCIENCE

The beauty is Guru Sahib Ji revealed the below 550 years ago, but we won't listen to Guru Ji. For some reason it makes more sense when it comes from others!

It turns out meditating is good for more than just quiet time: It can actually help us fight the cripplingly high stress levels we experience during our busy lives, in the office or elsewhere.

November 7, 2014: Scientists from Harvard University and the University of Sienna, recently found that meditation is so powerful it can change the physiology of a person's brain, resulting in positive changes like a decrease in anxiety and depression.

The science: Scientists put 24 participants with no history of meditation through an eight-week course on best practices for, "mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR)," fancy science talk for meditation. The course consisted of 2.5 hour sessions each week where participants learned "body scanning, sitting meditation, walking meditation and mindful stretching movements." The scientists also requested each participant perform at least 45 minutes of meditation each day. MRIs were performed before and after the meditation boot camp, and each participant answered a series of psychological evaluations to determine their stress and anxiety levels before and after the MBSR course as well.

The team compared these results to a control group who went through no meditation training at all during the eight weeks.

The comparison demonstrated "an increase of cortical thickness in the right insular lobe and somatosensory cortex" of the meditation group. In layman's terms, meditation made parts of the brain corresponding to emotion and perception thicker. This ultimately resulted in "a significant after-training reduction of several psychological indices related to worry, state anxiety, depression and alexithymia."

So ultimately, meditation made people more emotionally attuned and less depressed — a pretty good argument to spend time solemnly reflecting each day.

The takeaway: We live in a society where depression, anxiety, and stress are increasingly part of our lives. Stress levels among Americans have risen by up to 30%, and it's not much better in Europe or Asia, where anxiety and depression is growing at alarming rates. Instead of solving the root causes of these problems, Westerners are resorting to antidepressants at a higher rate than ever before. One in 10 Americans is now taking a prescription antidepressant.

Meditation, while not a panacea, can help us deal with such a society by decreasing our stress levels and increasing our abilities to emotionally relate to ourselves and others. And with further research, it could provide an alternative to being constantly doped to the gills in order to be happy (or just less sad).

Guru Ji gave us the answer to the above many years ago. If we want to live a depression/stress free life, we have to take to the True Guru. There's no other cure. 🙏

Guru Arjun Dev Ji Says, "The True Guru has inspired me to hear the Treasure of meditation on Gods Naam (name); all my mental & physical illnesses have been dispelled."

Vaheguroo!

Game of love- PLEASING OTHERS

PLEASING OTHERS

Life can be very tricky. We always need someone in our lives to rely on and for them always to be there for us, or even just to talk to. We do everything for those people! We please them as much as we can. We go to any extent and any level of extreme to make them happy.

This is very dangerous for any individual. We should never try and attach ourself to any human being. Doesn't matter who it is. Even if we think the person is very spiritual, we should still not attach ourselves to them. It's ok to take as much inspiration from anyone as possible but attachment to one causes emotional suffering.

Why do we please others? What do we want from them? What can they give us?

All of the above is what we desire. Desire is our ego. This is what our mind wants. Our mind wants this in order to be kept entertained. It thinks, if these people don't give me what I want, I will be miserably upset or others will look down on me.

We spend our entire life pleasing others, forming groups etc and go on upsetting others as we do so. Through all of this, we feel we have gained eternal happiness. We struggle to realise that we have not gained eternal happiness. We have actually loaded our self with more suffering.

What is the reason for this?

In the end no one is going to be there for you. It's just going to be our mind, body and soul. No one will be there to support us in the end. Not many stick and support us in major times of suffering, never mind when we leave this earth. Not many will except our pain and suffering. Most are only there for the happy times. All these wants, desires, pleasing others etc are a massive temporary measure. We create them to pull us through life happily. Even then they don't do the job correctly for us, as we always want more and want to please others further.

Many talk a big talk saying, "We are best friends and we'll be there til the very last breath." These are mere words for most to fill each other's void. When people move on they take their promises with them. This is the nature of the mind.

There are not many people in this world who keep their word and value true friendship in the way it should be valued. People can very easily replace you as a friend and many don't feel bad in doing so either. The reason for this is they have not recognised their own soul to even come anywhere close to recognising and truly loving anyone else's.

Only Naam meditation will truly support us in connecting with our soul and truly recognising all as one. Then we will begin to realise, we don't need to please others, we only need to please God, who will in return keep us loving, happy, content, truthful and ecstatic in this life and the spirit life.

Once the mind is balanced and conquered, emotions are child's play. The mind can live in whichever state it wants when controlled by Naam meditation.

So guys, don't please others, only please your Guru and see how your life changes for the better. Guru Ji will not let his children down.

"If you live for people acceptance, you will die from their rejection." Lecrae.

Guru Arjun Dev Ji Says, "Meeting the True Guru, all my sufferings have ended, and the Peace of the Lord has come to dwell within my mind.

The Divine Light illuminates my inner being, and I am lovingly absorbed in the One."

Vaheguroo!