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Summary of Question:	Fame Is All I Want
Category:	Other
Date Posted:	Thursday, 10/17/2002 12:30 PM MDT

Hi there

I have looked at the other letters and could not find one that was like mine. I would firstly like to thank you all for setting up this site.
Basically i am 20 years old. My 20 years on this earth i have been very stressful i was bullied for years and my mother has been through depression all her life and i am being treated for it now( i am on anti depressants) so i have not lived a very normal life. At the present i am in my final year of study at University and i am finding it very hard to study and fear of failing is making me upset.I cut my hair but i feel like i am getting closer to God however i do not know Punjabi too well and how can i learn it?


But the question i want ask is that all my life i have wanted to be famous from watchin Michael Jackson to Shahrukh Khan i think of it all day "when i come famous i will do so and so" and so on so i never really live for the day just the future. I want to be famous i feel like my life is not worth living unless i become famous see i want to be an actor i have never acted in my life because i had to concentrate on my studies but when i finish i will start. But i feel that God would help me so if i have not acted before it doesnt matter. See i am lost i dont know what to do when i graduate in 2003 june. I feel if i am famous life has been worth living cause my name will carry on and people will remember me and i dont want to live a normal life cause its boring so when i go to weddings and places people will say woh its that Superstar. So i have to decide cause i live in England and i might after graduation move to LA (usa)and try to be an actor. Or i could stay in england and live a quite normal life. Cause LA might make me depressed.

However if i believe in God and pray and really commit myself to him that life is more than fame? I just feel after i become more religious i might think back and say just if i had tried to be an actor.
God bless you all i wish u could help this lost soul
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Greetings and blesssings to you in the Name of God the light of every soul and in the Name of Guru the life of evedry Sikh.

Your concern with fame is a fantasy. These thoughts of glory are an addictive way that you avoid yourself. Those famous people that you idealize have no more happiness than you do. Thay might even be more depressed than you.

All the time you spend your consciousness on someone else, you are avoiding the beauty and glory of your being and the radiance of the soul that you are. You are a part of God, Infinty. You can apply your mind to appreciating the joy and wonder of each small moment of YOUR life. Love each one of your breaths and savor the flow of the prana in and out of your lungs.

This life of yours is a gift to be enjoyed from start to finish. You can adjust your mind and flip from sadness to happiness. This is the habit that you want to train your mind to do amidst all highs and lows.

Take the time to tune in deeply inside yourself and feel your body, your feet, feel the floor underneath you, and feel the protection and presence of Guru and Infinite God.

Then, there are small things to do all day: Like, carrying a bottle of water and drinking 8 glasses of water a day. Cut out caffine and white sugar from your diet because they stress your nervous system.

But bottom line is...to develop a trust within yourself, a trust in your goodness and an experience of the power that Gurbani brings to your life.

There is a shabd on Page 1106 of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib(Jai Dev) that has a very great meditation for cutting though the confusion and strengthening your internal resolve. "Chand sat bhedai-aa, Naam sat pure-aa" or "Man Aad Gun aad vakhani-aa". It is also printed on Sikhnet in Shabd Sheets: Man Aad Gun Aad Vakhanee-aa.

Sit in a quiet place that is clean and meditative. Close your eyes and meditate at the tip of your nose with your eyes.(drunk stare...eyes 9/10 closed).

Place your thumb over your right nostril and inhale deeply through the left nostril.

Hold this breath in as you pump your naval center 16x....each time you mentally chant "Wahe guru"(you must hold the breath and chant mentally as your pump your diaphram).

Then exhale... totally and slowly and completely... through the right nostril, by placing the fingers over the left nostril. Then again, block off the right nostril with the thumb and inhale through the left nostril. Repeat the "wahe Guru" and naval pump 16 times on the held in breath....repeat the exhales through the right nostril.Continue this process for 11-31 minutes daily.

Start doing this meditation 11 minutes a day. You can work up to 31 minute or 62 minutes. You can do this 11 or 31 minutes a day for the next 90 days without break. If your miss a day, start again and that day is day #1.

This meditation stabilizes the mind. Puts you in touch with your own intuitive power and reveals your oneness with the Infinite God. It also releases anger.
Go for it and God bless you for asking!

SKKK



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