Guest guest Posted January 13, 2003 Report Share Posted January 13, 2003 Originally posted by SIR Khalsa Satnam ji's, I could not help laughing at the heading for cold showers. I use to tell people the only thing about my "religion" is the cold showers that we have to take. In Sikhism we are told to take a cold shower for it's spiritual cleansing of the soul. I didn't care for this and I resented this for a long time. I figured I could get away by not doing it if I chanted or did more seva or something. Well after many years of this, I read somewhere that Yogi Bhajan said when asked what has made him the man he was and what has given him strength was his " cold showers". Cold showers in the ambrosial hours are not to just wake you up but to cleanse your soul and make you spiritually strong. It puts you through a process of surrender and reliance on God and you have no choice but to call on God when you do it! For a while I decided to only take a cold shower in the morning and only do 11 mins. of yoga and that was it! The cold shower was a meditation in itself and I was going to treat myself to a sleep after that. Well It worked. I showered and slept and then I could not sleep because the cold shower was so energizing it was hard to go back to sleep! The cold shower awakens us spiritually and gets rid of a lot of garbage and anger that we have stored inside ourselves. YB said that if you can take the coldness of the water you can take the coldness of the world and face it. I had to con myself into doing it but it was the best con ever! Try it . s.i.r.khalsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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