by SS Hari Kaur Khalsa, Espanola, NM Winter 2010 Fall/Winter has always been such a deeply fulfilling time of year for me. The cottonwood leaves are turning golden, and I am drying chamomile and learning to make calendula oil from yellow and orange calendula flowers. This is also the time of celebrating Guru Ram Das’ birthday. For 11 nights, the Espanola sangat gathers at different people’s homes and we chant Dhan Dhan Ram Das Gur for 31 minutes together and hear a story about our beloved Guru Ram Das and then eat a delicious dinner together. One night, we had
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by SS Guruka Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Winter 2010 About eight years ago, a team of people were working together to build our relationships with the Global Community. We called ourselves the “Core Team.” Our team included SS Amrit Singh from Management, SS Panch Nishan Kaur from Sikh Dharma International, SS Guruka Singh from SikhNet, and myself from 3HO® IKYTA. My focus was our relationship with the Association/Community of Kundalini Yoga Teachers. At first, we spoke informally with Kundalini Yoga teachers around the world, and then we began formal interviews. We spoke with many teachers and we were amazed to
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by SS Hari Charn Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Winter 2010 As with most of my life lessons, this experience of Sahej was personally delivered by the Siri Singh Sahib. This moment of being in concert with God’s will, where I could recognize what I needed, was provided with grace. In February of 2001, I traveled to India to complete the 84 steps at Goindwal. My sister, Maggie, had breast cancer and I knew that she was in her last months of life. Interestingly, I had planned to go to Goindwal the year before and the Siri Singh Sahib had requested that
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by SS Dev Suroop Kaur Khalsa, Espanola NM Winter 2010 Throughout 2010, a common reflection for me has been the concept of Sahej. With all the considerable challenges and ups and downs of the year, I’ve often wondered what this state of “peaceful acceptance” really means in my life. When do I experience ease and elegance? When do I not? And when I don’t, why not? A key point in this discovery process occurred in March while teaching at a Level 1 Kundalini Yoga teacher training in Ottawa, Canada. One of the topics I was asked to present was the
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by MSS Livtar Singh Khalsa, Atlanta GA Winter 2010 “Sahej.The easy acceptance of your own spiritual radiance.”—The Siri Singh Sahib  My own journey to Sahej began at the beginning of creation, where all journeys began. No, I’m not trying to be a wise guy. Every experience in every incarnation, in every moment we spent as stardust spiraling through the galaxies has brought us to this moment. If my experiences had been any different, the outcome would be different. So the question is, did I ever have a choice in where I end up? All is God’s play. All is the
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by SS Siri Sevak Kaur Khalsa, Millis MA Winter 2010 Sahej has been translated as “intuitive ease,” the opposite of which would be doubt, fear, anxiety, and stress. We all know that our culture is specializing in stress as we make the transition into the Aquarian Age. It becomes our gift and responsibility as those who have been given more tools to bring out the sahej in our own lives and help others to do it too. Bringing out sahej has been at the forefront of my life. My mother had a good bit of anxiety and insecurity in her
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excerpted from a lecture by the Siri Singh Sahib on November 19, 1989 “Anand bhe-aa mere maahe satiguroo meh paaiaa. Satigur taa paaiaa sahej setee man vajiaa vadaaeea.” I have found it in an easy way. Sahej means very easy, very smooth, very harmonious way. And my mind is in bliss. Why? Because within myself, within my psyche, within my being, within my radiant body, I have my own nectar within me. I have created that. I have stimulated my tattwas. I have resolved the unity of my gunas. I have resounded and I have really reprocessed my chakras, and
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