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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A Moment of Sahej
Life Lessons
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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A Year of Sahej
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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Accept Your Radiance
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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Sahej and Its Opposite
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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The Harmonious Way
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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The Habit of Simran
by SS Satsimran Kaur, Los Angeles CA Summer 2010 The good thing about practicing meditation for a long time is that we can see that it works. In the beginning, it feels good. We notice small things like having more energy and, although we might have added time for spiritual practice, the time we have for the rest of the day’s activities actually seems longer instead of shorter. As time goes on our practice of meditation becomes a pleasant habit, which takes us out of our routines and mundane thoughts and connects us to the essence of our being. Then,
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The Guru’s Langar (Free Kitchen)
The tradition of Langar expresses the ideals of equality, sharing, and the oneness of all humankind; an essential part of any Gurdwara is the Langar or free kitchen. Here the food is cooked by sevadars and is served without discrimination to all. After the Sadh Sangat has participated in any ceremony, they are served the Guru’s Langar. The tradition of Langar expresses the ideals of equality, sharing, and the oneness of all humankind. It was inspired by Guru Nanak’s act of serving food to wandering holy men when given money by his father to strike a good bargain. The practice
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The Journey to Sahej
SS Gurprasad Kaur, Los Angeles CA Spring 2010 We are all, each and every one of us on this path, making our journey, collectively and individually, to sahej pad, that place where we experience more and more our alignment and synchronization with Divine Will. I look around at my fellow travelers and feel a greater and greater sense of unity, connectedness, and harmony. We have been incubating in the sacred container of Sikh Dharma for years, which seem like lifetimes; heating and cooking in the teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib ji, which delivered us to the lotus feet of
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Guru’s Wisdom
by SS Sada Anand Singh, Japan Winter 2009 My way of sharing Guru’s wisdom in my daily life is simple. In Japan, we often have holistic fairs where I offer free five-minute yoga counseling sessions as “Yogi Khalsa.” I invite the individual to sit down, relax, close his eyes, take a deep breath, and we tune in. After a few minutes of sitting in this healing space, I ask him to open his eyes. A simple conversation follows: “How are you?” “So-so.” “What’s the difference between “so-so” and great? How do you get beyond the negative self-limiting mental mantras?” Then
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