GurSikhs, chant the Naam, the Name of the Lord, night and day; through the True Guru, the Creator Lord will come to dwell within the home of your inner being.

With this line of Chauthvee Patshahee, importance of Nam Simran as the only method to realize Wahiguru is given in.
Any other activity apart from this will not take us to His Darbar. In our comunities we may perform outer customs and traditions, to show them that I am like one of you, this is a human to human relation, though we may think, we are performing something good …… sorry to dissapoint….but in the eyes of Akal Purukh, nothing of this has any value. Becasuse with any outer activity, we may become better citizens, better warriors, better scholars, better nationals, better in every field, but not in spirituality or ruhaniyat.

Rather our ego gets inflated, as if we have done something valuable, but the fact is we are totally empty. In the eyes of the people we may look spiritualy inclined, but that is only a dream.

Truth can be realized and experienced by attaching ourselves to it, and so what is that truth?

That truth is only one, and that is Satnam. So how do we attach ourselves to it? Guru Sahiban clearly states: Chant the Name day and night, means do Nam Simran while drinking, eating, sleeping, walking……. it should be that important for us, just as breathing.

Then He says :through the True Guru. Means, get the updesh or Gurprasad from a Gurmukh, and do it´s kamaee as mentioned in the previous line …..by chanting it day and night, but also taking out time through the day, and regularly and punctually dedicating it to meditate on that Name or Nam, so that our soul can ascend and penetrate into the spiritual realms and have His darshan.

Then He says what ocurrs, if we do Nam Simran according to the instructions given by the Gurmukh; well He says the Lord Har, will come to dwell in our chit, in our innermost being, means we shall have His constant and permanent Darshan.

And once having achieved this……. nothing else is left to be done.

That is why the Bani very clearly says:

PRABH KA SIMRAN SABH TE OOCHA
PRABH KA SIMRAN DARGEH MANEH
PRABH KA SIMRAN, SADH KEE SANGAT

This means: Anything which exists, is created by Nam or Shabad. Without Nam or Shabad there is no shore.

From these beautiful and full of wisdom words, what Guru Sahiban wants to tell us, is that, Nam or Shabad is the real form of Wahiguru Akal Purukh, even the form of Wahiguru or Satnam, emanated from Shabad.

So Shabad is the begining of everything. In our physical world, we need a body to be seen, and express ourselves. But Shabad has no roop nor rang, so is Wahiguru.

This Shabad is to be only experienced, by the seeing faculty and hearing faculty of the soul. The seeing faculty is called “Nirat” and the hearing faculty is called ” Surat”.

That is why referring to this Shabad is said in the Bani: Anter Jot Niranter Bani. Means this inner Shabad has light and the sound of divine melody. This Shabd when experienced by the soul, has an purifying effect on the soul, it is like the Amrit reffered by our Gurus´in the Bani.

Also in the Anand Sahib, reference is given to this Shabad: Nam jinke man vaseh, vaajeh Shabad ganereh.

Means, those who meditate on the Gurparsad received as bakshish, and still their minds, listen to these divine melodies within, thus cleanse their minds and karmas, become pure paviter, and become fit to merge their consciousness in Wahiguru Akal Purukh, and become one with Him.

This is the only way, to meet and become one with Satpurukh, and this is what our Guru Sahibans have stressed upon always. That is why as seen in the beginning, it said Bin Naavai nahin kou thao, means without Nam Bhakti, all else is futile. These words are of Guru Sahibans themselves, are not of any scholar or board member, neither any professor or Phd or doctorate in religion or theology.

All the world may mislead us with their misinterpretations or other reasons, but in the end after all, is only ignorance.

On the other hand, the Bani of our Guru Sahibans, is clear, simple and direct to the point always.
Apart from Nam Bhakti, they will never tell us to engage in, or bind us in outer things.