8/20/06: The Aquarian Teacher
Sat Nam Friends,
Each year Sat Santokh Singh holds the Aquarian Teacher Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in the bay area. This year it begins in early November and meets one weekend per month in to the early summer. Yogi Bhajan said that if you want to learn something then you read about it, if you want to understand it then you write about it, if you want to master it then you teach it. To be a teacher is to acknowledge the divinity within you and to utilize your most sacred human faculty, your creativity. To be a teacher is to simply empty yourself of your own personal agendas and allow God to work through you. Pushing your beliefs on someone is not teaching. A teacher is only effective when he/she has the intention to elevate and evolve the student and does so through the neutral mind. Yogi Bhajan called it the fork lift principle: you lower yourself down, put your forks under them, and lift them to your level—and eventually even higher than you. The formula Yogiji taught for being an effective teacher is—Poke, Provoke, Elevate. Many people have got the poke and provoke part down but fail to inspire. Others go for the inspiration without stirring anything up first. All are essential for an effective teacher. A teacher does not argue about right and wrong. A teacher is there with a teaching and allows God to take care of the rest. We are all teachers in our own right, and as far as Kundalini Yoga goes, many of you I believe have dharmas as teachers and will realize that within yourself when the time is right. Sometimes it just takes acknowledging it.
Teaching is not about being perfect, its about being. Like I said, to acknowledge yourself as a teacher is to acknowledge the most creative and divine essence of the universe existing right within you and allowing it to speak and move through you. This is why we chant Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo before any Kundalini Yoga class. By this you are saying, “Oh Lord Creator, Infinite Teacher, who is transparent and unseen, I bow to you”. With this mantra we empty ourselves of all our personal dramas and thinkings and we tune into the cosmic flow and the Golden Chain, the chain of teachers over thousands of years that has led to you! So we do not need to be perfect to teach, but we are truly perfect when we truly teach.
“Some people say it is wrong to teach when you are not perfect. But history has recorded again and again “perfect” teachers who have fallen. They begin to think they are great. Their ego grows and breaks the link to the Golden Chain. The reason you teach is to be an instrument of the cosmic flow. Anyone who teaches to be a teacher rather than to serve, will fall. To be a teacher is the ultimate human end…The problem is that Truth is infinite and cannot be captured in any mental or emotional imagination. Teaching is infinity. It is a flow of the same energy and reality. Therefore, no finite man can teach the truth. Through God’s Grace you may meet someone whom will love beyond emotion, beyond dedication, whom you love for the sake of love, You are inspired to obey him, and this opens true selflessness in you.” Yogi Bhajan
The Spiritual Teacher is the most royal job on the planet because it demands that you own up to your own excellence; not only when you’re teaching, but all the time. You can no longer be cheap with yourself, exploit yourself sexually, or represent your animal nature. All that is left for the teacher is their Human and Divine Potentials.
A Teachers Identity
--A Teacher gives you experience. A preacher gives you philosophy
--A teacher is the personal honor of God Himself.
--A teacher is an institution for help, service, and raising people’s consciousness, no an individual.
--A teacher must go through calamity with a radiant smile.
--A teacher deals with another person with a humble imperial majesty.
--A teacher appears in utmost grace. She or he doesn’t try to appeal to the Earth.
--A teacher is straight, talks straight, and lives straight.
--A teacher has a width of heart and deep understanding.
--A teacher answers the call of duty with grace and compassion.
--As a teacher you must look smart, be smart, talk straight; never be right or wrong; always be neutral. Speak through your neutral mind.
--You can learn from a teacher by questioning, or you can learn from a teacher by blessing.
--Serve all, and all shall serve you.
--When confronted by negativity, take altitude, then change attitutude.
Visit www.satsantokh.com for more info on teachers training, or get the brochure from me.
Please email me if you are interested in attending a meeting on building our Kundalini Community. See ya Wedneday,
Your Brother in Divine,
Jai Dev Singh
Each year Sat Santokh Singh holds the Aquarian Teacher Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in the bay area. This year it begins in early November and meets one weekend per month in to the early summer. Yogi Bhajan said that if you want to learn something then you read about it, if you want to understand it then you write about it, if you want to master it then you teach it. To be a teacher is to acknowledge the divinity within you and to utilize your most sacred human faculty, your creativity. To be a teacher is to simply empty yourself of your own personal agendas and allow God to work through you. Pushing your beliefs on someone is not teaching. A teacher is only effective when he/she has the intention to elevate and evolve the student and does so through the neutral mind. Yogi Bhajan called it the fork lift principle: you lower yourself down, put your forks under them, and lift them to your level—and eventually even higher than you. The formula Yogiji taught for being an effective teacher is—Poke, Provoke, Elevate. Many people have got the poke and provoke part down but fail to inspire. Others go for the inspiration without stirring anything up first. All are essential for an effective teacher. A teacher does not argue about right and wrong. A teacher is there with a teaching and allows God to take care of the rest. We are all teachers in our own right, and as far as Kundalini Yoga goes, many of you I believe have dharmas as teachers and will realize that within yourself when the time is right. Sometimes it just takes acknowledging it.
Teaching is not about being perfect, its about being. Like I said, to acknowledge yourself as a teacher is to acknowledge the most creative and divine essence of the universe existing right within you and allowing it to speak and move through you. This is why we chant Ong Namo Guru Dev Namo before any Kundalini Yoga class. By this you are saying, “Oh Lord Creator, Infinite Teacher, who is transparent and unseen, I bow to you”. With this mantra we empty ourselves of all our personal dramas and thinkings and we tune into the cosmic flow and the Golden Chain, the chain of teachers over thousands of years that has led to you! So we do not need to be perfect to teach, but we are truly perfect when we truly teach.
“Some people say it is wrong to teach when you are not perfect. But history has recorded again and again “perfect” teachers who have fallen. They begin to think they are great. Their ego grows and breaks the link to the Golden Chain. The reason you teach is to be an instrument of the cosmic flow. Anyone who teaches to be a teacher rather than to serve, will fall. To be a teacher is the ultimate human end…The problem is that Truth is infinite and cannot be captured in any mental or emotional imagination. Teaching is infinity. It is a flow of the same energy and reality. Therefore, no finite man can teach the truth. Through God’s Grace you may meet someone whom will love beyond emotion, beyond dedication, whom you love for the sake of love, You are inspired to obey him, and this opens true selflessness in you.” Yogi Bhajan
The Spiritual Teacher is the most royal job on the planet because it demands that you own up to your own excellence; not only when you’re teaching, but all the time. You can no longer be cheap with yourself, exploit yourself sexually, or represent your animal nature. All that is left for the teacher is their Human and Divine Potentials.
A Teachers Identity
--A Teacher gives you experience. A preacher gives you philosophy
--A teacher is the personal honor of God Himself.
--A teacher is an institution for help, service, and raising people’s consciousness, no an individual.
--A teacher must go through calamity with a radiant smile.
--A teacher deals with another person with a humble imperial majesty.
--A teacher appears in utmost grace. She or he doesn’t try to appeal to the Earth.
--A teacher is straight, talks straight, and lives straight.
--A teacher has a width of heart and deep understanding.
--A teacher answers the call of duty with grace and compassion.
--As a teacher you must look smart, be smart, talk straight; never be right or wrong; always be neutral. Speak through your neutral mind.
--You can learn from a teacher by questioning, or you can learn from a teacher by blessing.
--Serve all, and all shall serve you.
--When confronted by negativity, take altitude, then change attitutude.
Visit www.satsantokh.com for more info on teachers training, or get the brochure from me.
Please email me if you are interested in attending a meeting on building our Kundalini Community. See ya Wedneday,
Your Brother in Divine,
Jai Dev Singh
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