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Summary of Question:	Life And Its Adversities...
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Thursday, 6/13/2002 7:43 PM MDT

WJKK WJKF......i want to pay my regards to everyone who is helping out in this forum and i want to thank you again and again for the great service that you are doing for many sikhs around the world....i think...that it means more to us then anyone can even imagine.

My question is going to seem probaby, very odd.

I dont know where to start actually....I just feel really lost in the world....and just very confused. I have been trying to do paath as much as i can and do remember almighty in everything i do...i try my best to realize that he has divine intervention in every act and every turn of our lives...but i keep thinking that i am falling off course, off of the path that i should be on(whether it be sikhi, my career, my family..everything).....I feel that something is truly missing in my life and i dont know how to achieve it.
In terms of career, I know what i want..but have had so many challenges to overcome..that at this point in time..i feel so helpless and just lonely.
Is there any paath or any particular pauri/section of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib that i can read that may help me overcome my fears, my insecurities and move myself along to a better path in life. Every time i feel myself changing and getting tottaly insync with waheguru and just everything around me...i feel like something else goes wrong in my life...I know im placing the wrong price tags on things and at times i do look at others for my happiness. Do you know what i should do to regain some control of my life and to be happy...without the support of others(knowing that noone will be around forever) and just to be strong and regain some faith in myself as well as my ablities.
Sorry this question is so long and so full of problems.....I really dont know where to turn..i know satguru is my only support and my only anchor....i just feel like whenever i get closer to him...i keep slipping away.
Any suggestion will be welcome.
I thank you for listening, from the bottom of my heart.
May god bless you all, RABB RAKHA

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Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa,
Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh.

Well-let me share a funny story. When I made the commitment to read Japji every morning (like clock-work) - the funniest thing began to happen. All of my scariest "stuff" started coming up more and more, faster and faster. And then-after a year or so-I noticed that it all started to simply clear away. So there's a process in the spiritual discipline of Gurbani. Guru Nanaak says that Meditating on the Naam cleanses the mind-and it is a real cleansing. It lifts the darkness from the depth of your psyche to the top and then washes it away.

So it doesn't surprise me that when you are doing Paath and everything is strong, all of the suddent something goes "wrong." This is the Guru bringing you through your karma faster, and it isn't a bad thing. Just trust the process and keep chanting no matter what. Just keep at it-keep up-and you'll find that the dark clouds will, in time, begin to fade away for good.

In terms of meditating on something that will help heal insecurity: it is in the very vibration of the Naad to penetrate into our cells and change the vibration of fear and insecurity into one of love and fearlessness. But if you want to try something, meditate on the 28th Pauree of Japji: sing or recite it 11 times a day for 40 days and see what it gives you.

All love.

GPK