Our subconscious minds are very receptive
and I have been training mine to repeat the Naam.

When music plays,
and catches my attention,
I take some time and listen.
Each instrument I hear as singing praise, "Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru".
And I sing the Guru's Mantra over the top of,
or as backup to,
every popular singer and song I hear.
When outside, when I stop and listen to the sounds,
each bird sings out the mantra to me,
and the cars and crowds,
and the city noise
drone and roar "Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru".
Walking through nature's beauty,
each drop of water in the stream or river
is chanting the mantra out.
The leaves in the breeze are telling me about the Naam.

I practice hearing all the sounds in my world
as the endless song of "Vaheguru, Vaheguru".

Whenever, during the day, I remember to listen, that is....

But as soon as I remember to practice,
I start
and I practice until I forget again;
until immediate concerns
and conversations
and distracting duties return.

And with daily practice
I AM training my mind,
even if only slowly.
And the more I make this practice an easy habit,
the more I know that my subconscious mind
is busy repeating "Vaheguru, Vaheguru"
to every piece of music
to every bird and bug song,
to every sound in my world,
even when I am not listening.
Even when I have forgotten the Naam again,
the sound of All Creation is THERE
and my subconscious mind
knows
that that means;
"Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru, Vaheguru"

Kamalla Rose Kaur is a professional writer, theater director, workshop and seminar leader, publicist, events planner and singer.

USA born of Irish descent, Kamalla Rose Kaur embraced Sikhism in 1972 at age 18. She tried everything for over twenty years, including frantic practice of Yoga, until she learned "why Sikhs are so adament about having the Sri Guru Granth Sahib as their only Guru."

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