Suman

I think with the concept of yoga, it totally depends on how you use it and what expectations you have of it. If you want to use yoga as an exercise then you'll experience it differently... If you use yoga as a tool to enhance one's consciousness, then you will also experience it differently. Similarly, if you use meditation/naam simeran and have an expectation to reach a higher spiritual level, then your experience of it will be different again. What I believe is that with any of these methods, we should not have any expectations. For example, if we are doing naam simeran, and we only do it because we think we'll reach God, then it's not as effective than if you're doing simeran from your heart and soul without any expectation - but you're doing it from pure love. So basically, my point is that Yoga can either be beneficial or useless to a person, depending on how they use it and how they practice it. If you use yoga as a way to connect to God and to remember our source of existence with every breath that you take in, then I don't think it's a problem, because it's just another method of meditation.

Hello, 3hO is an international organization and you can probably find information at this website for UK: www.kundaliniyoga.org.uk If you have questions you can also e-mail: info@kundaliniyoga.org.uk Hope this helps!! Suman

Hi again... This is a reply to 'daasn daas'... I think that was exactly the point that I wished to make when you said: "Hmmmmm..... i have never seen anyone dance for the sake of dancing. Expecially not in the punjabi culture, where all the songs that r danced on have all wrong meanings to it. Look at what all songs are saying, LOve this guy, Dump This Girl, Look at this girls hips, look at that guys chaal....i mean ok just look, who would be not dancing without any bad intentions involved." We live in a society where everything is really messed up and I don't think anyone actually truly remembers God when dancing to music with lyrics such as "Let's all go get drunk" and crap like that... I guess we gotta really think about why we're dancing to stuff like that and what we're trying to prove (to ourselves and to others)... But what I was saying also was that there are some forms of dancing that does help you remember God (like some forms of classical dancing).... Tha'z why I said that I don't have a problem with all types of dancing.

Personally, I don't have a problem with dancing, but I think what a lot of people are concerned about is what type of dancing is going on... Are people dancing for the sake of dancing or are they dancing so that they can impress people from the other gender? I don't know if our gurus said that all dancing is wrong, but I think that the dancing which is used in a lustful manner IS wrong. Dancing is just another form of expression, and if it is used in a way where one is remembering God at all times - then it isn't a problem. But how many people actually think like this? How many people when dancing stop and think about the complexities that are involved in moving our bodies and the force that is guiding our actions? How many people actually contemplate the source of energy from which we have all been created? I don't know the answer to these questions, and I'm not saying anyone is wrong, but I think maybe it is important for people to question why they are dancing and why it makes them feel good... Is it because they are doing it for themselves or is it to impress other people? Or is it just for the sake of dancing and being present within one's own body and using dance as a form of connecting to one's own being/self? I don't know if this made any sense at all, I hope it did!!

Why don't you get a sri guru granth sahib from a local gurdwara in New Mexico?

OMG!!! I ACTUALLY SAW THE SAME THING IN PERSON WHEN I WAS IN INDIA!! But when I saw it they had all these people who were still sittin on the stuff that had been loaded at the back.. It's kinda crazy how people in India always overload stuff - Especially their trucks and Buses!!!!!!

The most holiest shrine resides within that mind which is dwelling on naam continuously.. that mind where the sarovar of sri guru ram das ji resides - where amrit is the naam which resonates from within. You don't need to go anywhere to find naam, because it lies within. We should see sri harimandar sahib as a physical example of what that naam should be like and create that sarovar of sri guru ram das ji within us. That temple of peace and humility and unconditional love.