On Nitnem Sahib: Give yourself a beautiful song to sing!

Acharya Prashant
6 min readOct 5, 2020

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

श्री भगवान भजे बिनु भूपतय,एक रात-ई बिनु एक न लेखई।

~ तव प्रसाद सवैए (नितनेम साहिब )

Without reciting the name of God, even though he be a King, any effort to meet Him leads to nowhere.

~ Tav-Prasad Savaiye (Nitnem Sahib)

Question: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! Nitnem praises the Supreme Lord, and Nanak Ji says that remembering God is important. I remember that you have also mentioned the importance of continuous remembrance of Truth.

For me, a stupid song or a catchy tune playing somewhere gets stuck in the brain, and loops for hours. I don’t even like the song necessarily. Some days I have gone to the bed with the tune in my head, and when I wake up the tune resumes again.

How do I make my brain loop with the Truth and the Supreme Lord twenty-four into seven into three-hundred-sixty-five?

Please guide me.

Acharya Prashant: First of all, good. You are already closing in a bit. So what happens is that we hear something, it could…

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