Prayer / Simran Space

Ishna · #1 (**permalink**) 01-Jun-2012, 10:55 AM

Gurfatehji

Do you have a special place set up in your home for prayer or simran? Why / why not?
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If you have one, what does it look like? What do you have there? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to share with the crowd.

If you don't, do you at least perform these actions in the same place in your home? Like, sit in the same place on the floor?
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Luckysingh · #2 (**permalink**) 01-Jun-2012, 11:44 AM

[quote=Ishna;165779]Gurfatehji

Do you have a special place set up in your home for prayer or simran? Why / why not?

I think most people like to have an association with a certain room or part of your house to do that. Similar to where most people will get up at amrit vela to do nitnem and do that in a regular place.

If you have one, what does it look like? What do you have there? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to share with the crowd. [/quote]

If you don't, do you at least perform these actions in the same place in your home? Like, sit in the same place on the floor?[/quote]

I think naturally one becomes accustomed to doing this in a repetitive manner, especially if you have at one time experienced more peace and anand.
It's just natural behaviour like I say, similar to when a student is studying.
They will sit and revise in the same area where they feel more comfortable and especially if they have had some positive success with that same manner and approach.

findingmyway · #3 (**permalink**) 04-Jun-2012, 06:26 AM

Remembrance should be 24/7 so how can there be a fixed place? peacesignkaur

Ishna · #4 (**permalink**) 04-Jun-2012, 06:40 AM

For focused meditation and nitnem.

Scarlet Pimpernel · #5 (**permalink**) 05-Jun-2012, 03:28 AM

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Do you have a special place set up in your home for prayer or simran?

Isi The special place in your home, is which ever room your heart is in.Although we do have a formal room for prayer where my wife and mum pray but their heart is in the kitchen

TruthSatnaam · #6 (**permalink**) 09-Jun-2012, 19:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Ishna

For focused meditation and nitnem.

Satnaam Ji

Reading Nitnem is great as long as you take the Guru's(Gurbani) words and apply them throughout your life- including natural daily life.

There is no point in reading the same teachings over and over and not applying them... Once is enough if you Truly respect and have surrendered 100% to the Guru.

You read the gyan and apply it there and then- make it apart of your very being.. We must understand that the Truth reality is the only reality- no matter what others try and bullsh*t us into believing (and as we become real Truth practitioners, they will try and sell us their sh*t every chance they get), we hold onto the Truth until our last breath as the Brahmgyanis before taught us.

Application does indeed need to be 24/7, if we lose sight of Truth for a minute, the maya kicks in again..

God bless you

Ishna · #7 (**permalink**) 09-Jun-2012, 21:06 PM

Thank you all for your comments.
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Yes, being a Sikh and living in truth is a 24/7 duty/blessing. There is no question about that.

However, per the Sikh Rehat Maryada, Sikhs are encouraged to pursue some daily exercises, if I'm not mistaken.

I was curious as to what kind of devotional spaces other Sikhs have arranged since ritualism is a touchy subject.
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On the other hand it's a pretty silly question to ask out loud and most people would keep it private anyway, so that's the end of that!

gingerteakaur

TruthSatnaam · #8 (**permalink**) 09-Jun-2012, 21:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Ishna

Thank you all for your comments.

Yes, being a Sikh and living in truth is a 24/7 duty/blessing. There is no question about that.

However, per the Sikh Rehat Maryada, Sikhs are encouraged to pursue some daily exercises, if I'm not mistaken.

I was curious as to what kind of devotional spaces other Sikhs have arranged since ritualism is a touchy subject.

On the other hand it's a pretty silly question to ask out loud and most people would keep it private anyway, so that's the end of that!

gingerteakaur

Satnaam

As said before, it's fine to read Gurbani, as long as the teachings are accepted and applied 100%. If we cannot accept the teachings and apply them as soon as we get them/register their meanings, then we have not surrendered(given our heads 100%) to them ie. to our Guru(bani is Guru, Guru is bani).

There are sants who have asked people to read gurbani as discipline, there's nothing wrong with this- as the serious Truth practitioner should be able to handle anything- discipline is required for this.
But the reader should fully be able to understand and apply the words being read(the gyan) or it really is just a ritual reading- there is no point in doing this as in ritual- maya takes over.

The fact is and remains that if the Gurus gyan of Truth is accepted and applied when read/ attuned to(Naam is the frequency of a balanced gyan that applies across a universal spectrum that lives to discover whilst being detached from the nasha of the discovery(highs and lows))- this is the Highest discipline.

All Gurus from Guru Nanak Ji to Guru Gobind Singh ji say that Naam(Truth) is the highest seva- above all else.

Quiet time to sit and go into samadhi (to learn)through simran/attunement to Naam(Truth) is great- as long as we do our best to apply Truth throughout the day aswell- or it really is part time love/devotion..

We can sit in a bedroom, lounge room, outside- wherever the Truth seeker feels comfortable- and if a space like this is not available- anywhere will do- simran is to silence the mind (and the 5 thieves that come with it) and go within the heart..

We relax, listen to the symbolic reflection of the Silence/Nothingess/Truth which is Anhad naad-(Primal sound), let go and let the samadh take over.

It is then that we are able to begin to understand the reality of the creation around us.

God bless you

SaintSoldier1699 · #9 (**permalink**) 09-Jun-2012, 22:00 PM

I would love to dedicate a room which prime purpose is a place of quiet which you can use to study/recite Gurbani and also, pursue other studies. For example a library has a function to be a place where you progress your knowledge, this can be the same for spiritual progression.
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In the mean time, everyone has their own preferred place in the house and it just works!