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Summary of Question:	Slacking Off From Doing Path And Strictness
Category:	General Sikhism
Date Posted:	Friday, 4/02/2004 11:21 PM MDT

hi, i was just wondering something, lately these days i haven't been doing path,its been nearly a week and a half since i've done path. I still continue to do it but its hard to commit myself to do it daily. One thing i've noticed during the time i've slacked off from not doing path, life seems harder. I feel depressed usually,angry with myself and at others as well as at the world and dont feel as self confident. It's hard for me to smile nowadays since i think negative thoughts alot and i feel as if people are against me alot. It's happened for a while since i stopped doing path during the past week. My question is do you think this negativeness im feeling is Guru jis way of telling me to go back to doing path again and not to stop just because i feel like it? because i noticed that whenever i do manage to commit myself for a while to doing path daily i feel alot better and stronger in a lot of things. Can guru ji be strict in this way by making me feel bad if i dont do path to go back to doing it?

i know the question is probably hard to understand since it seems a bit repetitive but please answer back soon

(REPLY) Sat Nam. Your question is not hard to understand at all. The problem is that you have not understood the reason for doing path. We don't do path to please the Guru, and it has nothing to do with anyone being "strict" (it's not as if there's someone making you do your homework!) We recite the banis to replace the negative thoughts and feelings in our minds with the Guru's words. Guru's words have the power to awaken our higher consciousness, and to give us wisdom to view the events of the day in perspective. (If you go without eating long enough, you'll feel hungry. Similarly, when you go without doing path, you feel empty) When we consistently do path, we allow the vibration of Guru's bani to flow through us, and become part of us. We cheat ourselves of strength and happiness when we don't do Path. SP