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Summary of Question: | How To Lead A Truthful Life |
Category: | Meditation |
Date Posted: | Monday, 4/30/2001 6:46 PM MDT |
Could you please direct me to some kind of meditation where I can be honest with myself about myself? I realize that so many of my interactions are false; I'm simply so intent on pleasing others that I end up living a life of a lie where I am neither honest with my self, and this hinders my spiritual "progress". I don't know what to do. I have the typical Punjabi girl problem of wanting to please others so badly that I don't see how I may be hurting myself in the process. And I know the foundations of such thinking lies in lies, falsehood and the pretense of needing to satisfy others so that I can get some kind of approval. I know this is inherently wrong and I have decided to finally work on forming some kind of discipline so that I can see Guruji's message and Guruji's Truth which is implanted within me. I was hoping you could help me by letting me know which shabad I could meditate on to gain the strength to stop the deception. I really appreciate your help. I hope I don't fall off the path this time because I have so many times before (due to laziness and my mind's stubornness).
thank you.
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.
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Great request.
The Shabd that will help you is "Bhand jamee-ay bandh nimee-eh, bhand manganaa-vee-aaho". You will find it in the end of Asa Divar.
If you recite this Shabd, either verbalize it 11 times a day, or sing it for 31 minutes, Do this for the next 90 days. Do not miss a day. If you do miss, then start over at day one again until you finish.
Guru promised that the woman who recites or sings this Shabd will have grace. It is a promise. When you recite this Shabd it will stop the indignity and bestow the dignity. It gives you the grace. A woman who sings this shall have a perfect own God's shield around her.
Also, through this Shabd one develops reverence and sacredness in relationships. It takes away mother phobia and anger.
I will give you the English translation, while you can look up the Gurmukhi to recite daily.
Guru Nanak:
"Within a woman man is concieved, within a woman man is born.
With a woman man is engaged and married,
With a woman man enjoys friendship,
through a woman the generations of life continues.
When a man's wife dies, he seeks out another.
To a woman, man is bound.
Why call her bad to whom kings are born?
From a woman a woman is born.
Without a woman, there would be no one.
O Nanak, the only one without a woman
is the One True Lord.
The mouth which ever praises the Lord
is very blessed and beautiful.
O Nanak, their faces will be radiantly bright
in the Court of the True God."
God bless you, SKKK