Doing Path In Amritvela Empty Stomach

[jasdeepsingh2k125]

waheguru ji ka khalsa waheguru ji ki fateh

sadh sangat ji these days daas had summer holidays and so with maharaj's kirpa thought of doing simran and path in amritvela...daas is able to wake up on time at almost 3 and able to sit for path at 3:30 with blessings but when he starts to do path he is able to finish sri japji sahib and in between sri jaap sahib till harbolmana chand he is fully exhausted and his stomach starts to growl and he feels that if he would continues then he is gonna get fainted...he feels very bad about it.... plz bless him that how he can do path in morning empty stomach....

[Jonny101]

Get pesh and ask Panj Pyaras this question. What ever they say, say Sat Bachan and follow.

[Guest]

When you get fully exhasted just splash your face with water.

[jasdeepsingh2k125]

When you get fully exhasted just splash your face with water.

veerji i dont feel sleepy but due to hunger i feel blown away

[navsangeet]

drink a glass of water veer, it helped me..like the stomach cools down for sometime..

[jasdeepsingh2k125]

drink a glass of water veer, it helped me..like the stomach cools down for sometime..

thanks penji will try tomorrow....

[MKaur89]

Of course we all know that in both the morning and evening, it is best to eat after doing nitnem. There is no question about this. Some people just naturally don’t feel that hungry around amritvela time, whereas some people do and we all know that it’s hard to concentrate on anything on an empty stomach, especially path. It’s even harder to do path on a full stomach, which is why we are encouraged to eat less.

You have just two options. You can continue doing path without eating anything in the morning, and just push yourself and hopefully as the days go by you will build up your routine and you will find it easier to finish your morning nitnem on an empty stomach. This will require you to push yourself both mentally and physically, and you will find it very hard initially, but it is not impossible.

Or your second option is to have something light to eat and drink before beginning your morning path, like tea, coffee, juice, cereal, toast, yoghurt, fruit or a cereal bar. Just a little something that is enough to satisfy your hunger but nothing that is too heavy that will make it hard for you to do path. And then as your morning amritvela nitnem routine becomes more solid, you can begin eating less and less before you start path until you are able to do it on an empty stomach.

Sikhi is all about discipline- spiritual, physical and mental. When you first start following this path, and along the way, you will always encounter obstacles that try to throw you off the path or set you back a few steps. Our mind can be both our best friend on the path of Sikhi and also our own worst enemy. Guru Nanak Dev Ji says in Jap Ji Sahib ‘conquer your own mind, and conquer the world’.

ਆਈ ਪੰਥੀ ਸਗਲ ਜਮਾਤੀ ਮਨਿ ਜੀਤੈ ਜਗੁ ਜੀਤੁ ॥

Aaee Panthhee Sagal Jamaathee Man Jeethai Jag Jeeth ||

See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

That doesn’t mean that overnight we will be able to conquer our minds, but it’s all about building self-discipline and slowly learning to control our mind’s desires. When you initially start doing nitnem, you will feel hungry, you will feel tired, you will start yawning, your legs will get restless, your back will hurt, your mind will wander and so on. The mind is a fickle thing. The powers of maya and kaljug are so great that many forces will try to put us off doing path. But slowly we can learn to ignore these things and attune our minds to the one and only shabad and learn to focus during path. Then you may realise that you no longer feel hungry or tired or restless.

Also, to have a solid amritvela nitnem routine is a huge blessing and if you want it enough then Guru Ji will surely at some point grant you it by his grace. Some people have to set a million alarms to ensure that they are up by 3am, and then they still may just hit the snooze button and go back to sleep. With Guru Ji’s kirpa, some people don’t even have to set a single alarm to wake up on time, as Guru Ji himself wakes up that person as he knows they have an internal yearning for amritvela.

Do ardas before you start your nitnem (and also after) and ask Guru Ji to bless you with the kirpa to focus on your path with pyar and sharda. If a Sikh is hungry for a Gursikhi jeevan, amrit, nitnem and amritvela di daat, and does ardas from the bottom of his/her heart, then surely one day Guru Ji’s blessings will rain down on that person.

Have a light, early dinner and sleep early enough so that you will feel well rested by the time you want to wake up at amritvela, then when awake get out of bed straight away, have a shower (start off with warm showers and then gradually switch to cold showers if you can’t handle them straight away- a cold shower will wake you up and help you focus) and then find a nice, quiet spot to sit down and begin with simran and jaap of mool mantar before moving on to nitnem. I wish you the best of luck.

[sat]

Sri jaap sahib ji is a very powerful/beautiful bani it is over whelming if recited/listened to with dyaan so may be thats why you feel faint/exhausted, i have experienced something similiar but not the hunger just a shaky feeling like a hypo from listening to banis. :respect:

[N30S1NGH]

We were just talking about this on Ramadan thread as well. This issue appearing to be more common than I intially thought.