Nam simran is remembrance of the Name, practiced alone in the pre-dawn hours or communally in kirtan, and Sikhism places it at the center in a way that makes the rest of the ethic possible: the working, earning householder cannot retreat to a cave, so the practice has to be portable. The described result is sahaj — a settled, unforced equipoise — rather than ecstasy, and the tradition is explicit that the goal is union while living an ordinary life, not after it.