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Message: <blockquote data-quote="P J Singh" data-source="post: 225777" data-attributes="member: 25524">I see the author of this blog, like many other well-informed Sikhs" express disdain with chanting of Wahe Guru or any other word.  It is viewed as a useless exercise.  Is it truly a useless exercise., I often wonder?The author writes: " The message within a Shabd cannot be chanted. In fact, no message can be understood, accepted, believed, applied, inculcated, realized through chanting. One can never BECOME a virtue – any virtue – merely by chanting the virtue repeatedly."I remember as a child I along with my class fellows chanted almost daily "Times Tables". At that time we did not understand and realized its potential and its potent application in almost all educational endeavors later in life.  Nonetheless we repeated and repeated these Times Tables until they became part of us. Today I am, and many of my colleagues are profoundly benefitting from this experience of "repeating" those fancy tables to the extent that a colleague of mine is currently the President of a leading USA university and one of his students went on to become the founder of Google.  The point is simply this: do not discount the value of repeating something to see it become a part of our psyche. Intense repetition can bring about physiological and psychological transformations and many in the world use these tools to excel in Olympics and in other pursuits - competitive or not.  There is plenty of evidence in neurological sciences what a human can achieve just be repeating and practicing! Yes, the repetition of a single word " Wahe Guru" may not be sufficient but it is necessary for certain pathways to spiritual growth.  These pathways may not be ours  but no matter what pathway we decide to walk along, the destination we are all hoping to get to is the same!.PS: "Times Tables" refer to Multiplication Tables many of us learned growing up.Guru Fetah</blockquote>

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