Yoga Blog 8/6/06
Sat Nam,
Starting this coming Wednesday morning we will be learning a new mantra and/or meditation from the science of Kundalini Yoga that you can take with you into your life and use it. I am feeling inspired to offer you the very practical and very powerful tools of Kundalini Yoga so that you may experience greater harmony in your life and simply have a deeper and grounded experience of this life we live in. I hope many of you are planning on joining us at Snatam Kaur's workshop and concert this coming Tuesday and Thursday at ST. Joseph's. Last I checked the ticket sales for the workshop were quite low. Don't miss it, opportunities like this don't happen all the time, so take the time to join us as a community, as a sadh sangat, the community of truth. I've been feeling that I would like to share more of my thoughts and contemplations with all of you (or at these those of you who will take the time to listen/read, and perhaps even respond), and perhaps you may be moved to make it to class more often or strengthen your home practice or even become a teacher yourself and start your own class (teacher training in SF starting in the fall, one weekend per month). You see, the yogic path is inherently HARD. So to the yogi whatever help we can get to stay motivated is very much welcomed. This is why community is Sooooo important to the yogi on the spiritual path, cus its damn near impossible to keep steady and strong in our society without the sadh sangat (the Company of the True). Even if its just one yoga class per week, well ok thats a great start. You see, these are not MY classes, their OUR classes, and they couldn't happen without YOU. I may be the one at the front acting like I know what I'm talking about, but its really all of us that make the magic happen, that create the bliss we all experience when the little hour and a half is all said and done. You with me? So the almighty great God has me sitting there and with His Grace I am able to hold the space for you to have an experience of your self. If not during any other time during the whole week, hopefully between 8:30-10am on Wednesdays you may for a moment understand your greatness, understand your potential. We don't even know our power, we don't even realize how simple and easy the creation has been created for us and how difficult we make it. So with that in mind I believe that we can each come to a place with in ourselve where we realize our worth, where we realize our potential, where we realize our truth, and where we truthfully Love ourselves. And it is only from that place that we may truly begin to love others, that we are truly happy to see others and can truly talk to each other straight, simply and with a smile. When it is no longer a chore to go about our lives, but a joy and an excitement that is sustained infinitely. Yogi Bhajan says that 50% of your nueroses would be gone if you only trusted that the one who created you, the one who turns the earth for you, will also take care of your routine. 50% just from truly trusting. Trusting that everything is taking care of every day, all day. Money, relationships, drama, all of it. The other 50% comes from simply looking within yourself for truth and not looking outside. He said the ugliest thing that has happened in the last 2,000 years is that we have been trying to find God outside of ourselves. When drama and discontent arise we tend to look to the other person. Don't we? They did this, or they really pissed me off, if you just would't do that then I would be happier.......It doesn't work, it has never worked and it never will work. The ultimate truth and happiness does not have to be looked for, its right within you. Sounds easy right? Unfortunately we're so confused and acculturated into modern society that we don't even know where to start. We don't have the context, the know how, or the strength to even begin to look to ourselves for love, for truth, joy and happiness.
This is where the science of Kundalini Yoga is invaluable. It is a time tested tool. Is Kundalini Yoga dangerous? Yes. With Kundalini Yoga you cannot be an idiot, you cannot act ignorant and cannot be lied to. Its incredibly dangerous isn't it.
So this week we will work with the mantra: Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru
Perhaps the greatest blessing in my life is this mantra. It has never failed me. This isn't any kind of secret mantra or initiation. There is no initiation in Kundalini Yoga. Yogiji always said if you can't initiate yourself, than initiation is worth nothing. IThere are lots of mantras and techniques in yoga that work, this is one of them. And it REALLY works. I'll tell you all about it on Wednesday, God willing. The following Wednesday I will teach the Guru Gayatri Mantra of Guru Gobind Singh, the Warrior Saint of the Sikhs. The topic of next weeks verse. Until then, see you at Snatam Kaur's Workshop Tuesday!!
Your Brother in Divine,
Jai Dev Singh
Lion of God's Victory
Starting this coming Wednesday morning we will be learning a new mantra and/or meditation from the science of Kundalini Yoga that you can take with you into your life and use it. I am feeling inspired to offer you the very practical and very powerful tools of Kundalini Yoga so that you may experience greater harmony in your life and simply have a deeper and grounded experience of this life we live in. I hope many of you are planning on joining us at Snatam Kaur's workshop and concert this coming Tuesday and Thursday at ST. Joseph's. Last I checked the ticket sales for the workshop were quite low. Don't miss it, opportunities like this don't happen all the time, so take the time to join us as a community, as a sadh sangat, the community of truth. I've been feeling that I would like to share more of my thoughts and contemplations with all of you (or at these those of you who will take the time to listen/read, and perhaps even respond), and perhaps you may be moved to make it to class more often or strengthen your home practice or even become a teacher yourself and start your own class (teacher training in SF starting in the fall, one weekend per month). You see, the yogic path is inherently HARD. So to the yogi whatever help we can get to stay motivated is very much welcomed. This is why community is Sooooo important to the yogi on the spiritual path, cus its damn near impossible to keep steady and strong in our society without the sadh sangat (the Company of the True). Even if its just one yoga class per week, well ok thats a great start. You see, these are not MY classes, their OUR classes, and they couldn't happen without YOU. I may be the one at the front acting like I know what I'm talking about, but its really all of us that make the magic happen, that create the bliss we all experience when the little hour and a half is all said and done. You with me? So the almighty great God has me sitting there and with His Grace I am able to hold the space for you to have an experience of your self. If not during any other time during the whole week, hopefully between 8:30-10am on Wednesdays you may for a moment understand your greatness, understand your potential. We don't even know our power, we don't even realize how simple and easy the creation has been created for us and how difficult we make it. So with that in mind I believe that we can each come to a place with in ourselve where we realize our worth, where we realize our potential, where we realize our truth, and where we truthfully Love ourselves. And it is only from that place that we may truly begin to love others, that we are truly happy to see others and can truly talk to each other straight, simply and with a smile. When it is no longer a chore to go about our lives, but a joy and an excitement that is sustained infinitely. Yogi Bhajan says that 50% of your nueroses would be gone if you only trusted that the one who created you, the one who turns the earth for you, will also take care of your routine. 50% just from truly trusting. Trusting that everything is taking care of every day, all day. Money, relationships, drama, all of it. The other 50% comes from simply looking within yourself for truth and not looking outside. He said the ugliest thing that has happened in the last 2,000 years is that we have been trying to find God outside of ourselves. When drama and discontent arise we tend to look to the other person. Don't we? They did this, or they really pissed me off, if you just would't do that then I would be happier.......It doesn't work, it has never worked and it never will work. The ultimate truth and happiness does not have to be looked for, its right within you. Sounds easy right? Unfortunately we're so confused and acculturated into modern society that we don't even know where to start. We don't have the context, the know how, or the strength to even begin to look to ourselves for love, for truth, joy and happiness.
This is where the science of Kundalini Yoga is invaluable. It is a time tested tool. Is Kundalini Yoga dangerous? Yes. With Kundalini Yoga you cannot be an idiot, you cannot act ignorant and cannot be lied to. Its incredibly dangerous isn't it.
So this week we will work with the mantra: Guru Guru Wahe Guru, Guru Ram Das Guru
Perhaps the greatest blessing in my life is this mantra. It has never failed me. This isn't any kind of secret mantra or initiation. There is no initiation in Kundalini Yoga. Yogiji always said if you can't initiate yourself, than initiation is worth nothing. IThere are lots of mantras and techniques in yoga that work, this is one of them. And it REALLY works. I'll tell you all about it on Wednesday, God willing. The following Wednesday I will teach the Guru Gayatri Mantra of Guru Gobind Singh, the Warrior Saint of the Sikhs. The topic of next weeks verse. Until then, see you at Snatam Kaur's Workshop Tuesday!!
Your Brother in Divine,
Jai Dev Singh
Lion of God's Victory
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