Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ke Fateh!
WOW!!! Guy's you lot are the greatest, everyone clap for yourself, i've never felt so cared for. mundahug
Well at this current moment my mind is happly listening to Waheguru simran, and my doubts are faiding away as we speak.
Ji, if you love Sikhi so much, why do you sometimes wonder if you're a Sikh or not?
Is it that you sometimes don't feel a 'connection' to Guruji, or that practice of your religion is sometimes not 'satisfying'?
Ishna Ji, Yes sometimes i do feel as if i can not connect to Guru Ji, but to be honest that is my fault, how can i connect when i do not concentrate on the Guru, this is not the fault of the Guru but mine.
This is an article by a Christian pastsor who talks about doubt. He's a PASTOR and sometimes feels doubt in the midst of his ministry. I know he's Christian but I figure we're all human and have similar feelings right in there on the inside.
Perhaps substitute the word 'Sikh' in place of 'Christian' as you read it, hehe:
http://www.brianmclaren.net/emc/archives/resources/doubt-the-tides-of-faith-written.html
Not sure if this actually addresses anything you're feeling though.
Ishna Ji, like always you are there to the rescue, i read the site and it was what i felt, this really backs up my concept that what i am going through is a journey of a manmukh with doubts and confusion, that fact is i am not applying nor doing futher research in to sikhi, rather i am just taking bits by bits and going on with my life. So thank you for the post
Yeh, I think that with some people it actually helps them if they doubt.
To be doubting and questioning helps them to find the hidden strengths and connections that may not seem apparent .
We all have our own personal development strategies.
Some find it easier to compare and contrast by finding whether the for or against reasons outweigh one another.
I agree with you Luckysingh Ji, some easily dive into Sikhi where as some we have question the dive before we dive.
[/B]Anyways; I have had my doubts a long time ago, but none ever I made the decision to stick to this religion. You wouldn't have doubts if you do what you are supposed to as a Sikh.
Kamala Ji, May you tell me the doubts that you used to have? i would be ever so greatfull to hear what your experience was like, if you want to tell though, no force
For spiritual growth the one attitude which is very important is to
ask questions so as to know How . Answers to these questions be sought through contemplation and acquisition of more knowledge. The answers always come. This develops faith. And faith is important to understand and follow the direction spelled out by gurbani.
The easiest way to remain stuck is to be in doubt. One doubts every thing even the Guru.
We bow before the Guru not simply because of respect but also to as a token of our willingness to shed the doubtful mind which keeps us rooted in our own "mat"- thoughts and beliefs . We bow to accept the Guru's words.
So the answer to come out of any phase of doubt is to bow before the guru and do ardas. The mind would shift to the new mode.
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gur_meet ji, i agree, to me this is just a journey of a manmukh, and for me doubts and confusion are the obsticle that i must go over in order to become one with Waheguru Ji.
I do not think you are confused, perhaps it would be easier to label what you feel as confusion.What you are feeling is difficulty in meeting your own standards that you have set yourself. In your mind if you meet these standards you are a Sikh, if you don't then you are not.
Different people have different standards, some feel they are Sikhs because they meet the standards that they practice, prayers, readings, attending Gurdwara etc.
You are a Sikh if you believe and attempt to stick to the moral and ethical way of life that a Sikh should live. I say attempt, as it is not easy to be 100%, but then maybe none of us will ever reach 100% so it is folly to focus on all or nothing.
Be the best Sikh you can be today, and when you have done that, try and be a better Sikh tommorow.If you do that, you are a Sikh.
Mr Harry Haller Ji, thank you your post sumed up the root of why i am going through these time, the fact for me doubt started as a whether i am sikh or not, then it grew to whether sikhi is the religion for me or not . I tried to hard, i expected sikhi to be a thing where i read a couple of books and BAM! i am spritually lifted to Waheguru Ji, but it is more than that. It's like excersing the more i keep at it the more i feel great, the less i keep at it the less great i'll feel.
Thanks guys this helped me alot, i just hope after today, this experience becomes nothing but a nightmare.
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ke Fateh!
