14. THE POWER OF NAAM

14.22 AmritVela

Pyareoooooo,  drop ****all**** tasks and start amrit vela

Dhan Dhan Guru Ram Das jee:

"gur satguru ka jo sikh aakhaey

so bhal ke uT har naam dhia-veh"

Bhai Randhir Singh jee on Amrit Vela:

"jeRa gursikh amrit vela samalda hai,

oa-de ooper satguru ji kalaa jaruur vartande hain"

(loose translation)

"The gursikh that does naam simran at amrit vela,

is *assured* of satguru's kalaa (rang, love, intoxication, kripa etc)"

Baba Nand Singh jee:

(Upon finding out that someone will be writing his (Baba jee's) biography)

Laughing, "gursikho, imagine an almond.  It has the outer shell, the brown part we all see. Then it has a white inner part that is not seen.  My life is like that almond.  The biographer will be writing about that brown outer part - what I did, what I said - but gursikho, my *real* life, the inner white, is from 1 am till 6 am.  Nobody can possibly even imagine that life, let alone write about it. Only I know that real life."

Baba Attar Singh jee

"A sikh should drop 10 other tasks to eat on time,

a sikh should drop 100 other tasks to do nitnem on time and a sikh should drop 1,000 other tasks to do simran on time."

A Gursikh

"I wait desperately for amrit vela all day."

Perfect Puran Sant, Sant number 420, Baba Daloooogney Singh jee Naam Net de sache-suche jathedar:

(At 2am):

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

(At 4 am):

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

(At 6 am):

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ <Hit Snooze> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"

(At 8 am):

"zzz, did you pack my lunch, honey?  I am running late.... what? yeah, yeah,

sure kid sure, I love you too..."

Pyareooooooooooooooooooooooo,

As you can see, amrit vela is *most* important aspect of sikhi.  Indeed, many an aware gursikh will tell you,

"Sikhi without amrit vela naam simran *is* not possible".

And daas would wholeheartedly agree with that.

 


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