This time of year I get to talk to you personally and that means a lot to me.
Many people may be curious to know what will happen to them in the future. "What will happen to me?" "Is my marriage going to be successful?" "Will I be successful in business?" "Will I find happiness in my life?"
Pratiyahar is the practice of cutting a negative thought with a positive one. This is how to control the mind. It is the same thing with a habit.
First of all, if you are established in your grace, no one can compromise it. As people grow they might grow away from each other. This is a natural process. We all have discrimination. Discrimination is just our ability to make choices.
Follow along with this guided meditation. This meditation is for cutting through 'haunting thoughts'. Haunting thoughts are thoughts that keep revisiting you and causing you ongoing pain and grief.
Grief happens to all of us. Guruka Singh explains that it comes from pain. Pain comes from a thought, and the thought comes from a memory. So get rid of the grief, you have to root it out from the original pain. You need to be able to release the thoughts that keep coming back that create the pain. And it's easier to take care of this before it grows over time like a tree. Take the grief, bless it, and let go of it so you can live in your natural state of happiness.
Guruka Singh describes that there are 3 different kinds or levels of truth. There is conditional truth, personal truth, and universal truth.
The way in which they destroy themselves, is when poison comes out of you, you immerse yourself in poison. Your thoughts are poison, your words are poisoned. Your presense is filled with poison, and over time you poison yourself. You can't live in poison and not absorb it. If you are always trashing someone, you are living in trash, you eat trash.
Everyone wants to be happy. Many people talk about it. But do you know where true happiness comes from? Guruka Singh explains each of the following steps: commitment, character, dignity, divinity, grace, and power to sacrifice which all lead to inner happiness.
Should Sikhs be environmentally conscious? The answer is as human beings we should be environmentally conscious. We are polluting our home, and no animal does that. For now we only have one planet so we have to start taking care of it.