Waheguru and Satnaam are both names of God. By meditating on any name of

God with a true heart and truthful deeds one will ultimately realise the essence of reality - the TRUTH.

WaheGuru is a name of God commonly used by Sikhs in meditation. It is comprised of two words WAHE and GURU. GURU in India means a Master of any subject, eg your music teacher is your Guru. However in divinity GURU comes from GUR, which means God's original spiritual form of Supreme Light Energy. When the Supreme Light manifests inside a pure heart, it is that Light that is called GURU - not the physical person. For example Guru Nanak means "The Guru (God's Supreme Light) resided in Nanak's heart". WAHE is Wondrous. Hence saying WaheGuru is praising God as being "The Wondrous Guru". It is praising God inside every enlightened heart. Repeating it removes the darkness of our ego. By recognising the Lord's Light in every God-conscious being past, present and future regardless of religion, we are truly humbled. Humility paves the way for the Supreme Light to enter our heart too.

SatNaam is also made of two words "SAT" (Truth) and "NAAM" (Name). Humans have giving countless names to God that describe his characteristics eg the Almighty. But according to the Guru the original name God chose for Himself was "SAT" meaning "TRUTH". With the blessings of the Guru, it is the one word that penetrates every heart and pierces through the Universe to take you back to the Source - Truth.

Five hundred years ago, when Guru Nanak went and met the holy men in the mountains tops, they used their supernatural powers to show off how great they were and hoped that the Guru would join them. When Nath, the head man challenged the Guru to show them a miracle too, this is all the Guru said to them:

Guru Nanak said, O respected Nath! Please listen to the truth that I utter.

Without SATNAAM I have no other miracle. I may wear the clothes of fire and build my house in the Himalayas . I may eat the iron and make earth move to my orders. I may expand myself so much that I could push the earth. I may weigh the earth and the sky against few grams of weight. I may have so much power that I push aside anybody just by saying so. But without SATNAAM, all these powers are momentary like the Shadow of the clouds. (Bhai Gurdas)

Then the holy men tried to use their Supernatural powers again but they found they had all been taken away by God. They fell at the Guru's feet in humility and begged to be blessed with the greatest gift of Naam - SatNaam.

"I bow before the Guru who announced the SATNAAM mantra." (Bhai Gurdas)