Acharya Prashant explains that Guru Nanak Sahib does not encourage specific rituals but rather a life of sincerity and careful observation. He clarifies that chanting the name of the Lord is not an affirmative or additional ritualistic act, but an act of negation and rebellion against the millions of worldly names that cloud the mind. These worldly names are hollow and meaningless, yet the mind mistakenly takes them as proxies for reality. By remembering the Lord's name, one keeps the importance of these worldly names in check, preventing them from dominating the mind. This practice is described as a 'non-method' and an exercise in realization and deletion rather than building something new. He further elaborates that the name of the Lord acts like a sword or a fire extinguisher, used only when the 'fire' of worldly illusions or Maya becomes problematic. It is a medicine for the chronic sickness of being caught in time and perception. Acharya Prashant points out that the mind cannot truly know 'things' because what we perceive as stable objects are actually a flux or a succession of static frames, much like a movie reel. Because the mind attaches names and images to these insubstantial processes, it creates imaginary expectations that inevitably clash with facts, leading to human suffering. The remembrance of the Lord's name serves to hack down these unnecessary mental constructs and images.
