Eating and Sleeping Less

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Today I went to the Gurdwara Sahib Singh Sabha Surrey. I reached there at about 7:00pm. As I climbed the front steps I could see Bhai Balbir Singh sitting there at the receipts "chonkee." I said fateh to him from a distance and went to take off my shoes in the rack area.

I came out and sat next to Bhai Balbir Singh. We talked about a few things and then the President of the Gurdwara, Joginder Singh came and sat down next to us. He told Balbir Singh that why doesn't this singh do a raul(two hour paath shift). I explained that my legs fall asleep and start to hurt really badly. He asked me if I had become a buda, and old man, already. I told him yes. Jokingly he asked me if I had turned 70 yet. I told him that I only turned 22 a few weeks ago. He asked me to get married. I told him that I don't want to get married. I got a little offended by that and left to sit in the main hall.

In the main hall there were dhadis doing the katha of Mata Ganga Jee and Baba Bhudha Jee. And out of nowhere He said a pangati from Bhai GurDaas Jee's Vars. Hun tis ghool kamayea thoora sovee thoora he khavvaae. That just hit right home and I was submerged into deep thoughts about this. After a few minutes I finished thinking and I made a commitment to not sleep or eat in excess. After that I started to listen to the dhadi vaars and katha and enjoyed it quite a bit. Only until a few years ago I started to understand what the dhadhi's sing. Before that I had no clue what the loud singing with dhad-sarangi was about. So yeah I liked that quite a bit.

Then when they dhadhis were about to finish off their session, a "sant" that was going to do a kacchi bani session next came and as soon as the dhadi guy saw him he said: now sant jee has entered the building and they will enlighten the sangat with priceless "bachans." I didn't like that very much and decided that I should walk out and head home.

Then I made myself sit for another 20-25 minutes. This baba had a huge white instrument that was something like a beefed up version of an electronic keyboard. One of his chele took like 10 minutes to set everything up. So that was a huge distraction. Finally the baba sat on the stage and I was surprised that he looked nothing like a "sant." He looked very "desi."

One thing bugged me, they weren't wearing any Huzooryae, no one except for one chela, who I thought we the "sant", he looked like one. He had good things to say. And he didn't look like a thug to me. He seemed alright. He did some kacchi bani, which by the way was expected of him. It wasn't that bad. I picked up some things about him as well. He was talking about how the human body/soul is like a dirty pot, in which you want to carry milk/gurmanter, and in order to do that you need to really clean that body-roopi pot. He told one or two good sakhis.

My legs went to sleep and they went to hurt and when I was not able to bear the pain I left. On the way out I met an old friend, asked him how he had been, said fateh, got my shoes and walked out the door.

On the way home I kept thinking about how I should eat and sleep less. By the time I reached home, I was certain that I will follow this new eat+sleep less theory.

So day one of this(tonight), coming home from the gurdwara, I did not eat anything but 2 apples. I have made it for day one. And I hope to sleep about 6 hours today. We'll see how it goes....
vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw
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