by SS Dr. JivanJoti Kaur Khalsa, Santa Cruz, New Mexico 2023 (Second Quarter) Dear Ministers, I wish to thank the Sikh Dharma Ministry for devoting this newsletter to the Progressive Arc of the Resolution of Trauma. I was grateful to be asked to write an article on this timely and important topic. Even though I am a psychotherapist, Kundalini Yoga teacher and Sat Nam Rasayan healer, I am not writing this article from the perspective of a professional. Rather, my focus here is the vulnerable, intimate and personal journey of healing trauma in my own life. Realizations There are
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The Dharma of Releasing My Trauma
Dharma Kaya to Navigate Times of Change, Loss, Trauma and War in the Aquarian Age
by SS Guru Dharam Singh Khalsa, Stockholm, Sweden 2022 (Second Quarter) In March 2020 I was in Aukland, New Zealand, teaching the Level Two module on Vitality and Stress. This was right at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Kiwi authorities were rolling out severe restrictions. Day one of the course took place as planned. But a directive of closure of yoga studios was issued, with just 12 hours notice. The studio owner and I scrambled to set up Zoom and deliver the remaining five days of the training through the medium of cyber electronics. Come the time
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Honoring the Legacy
by SS Jot Singh Khalsa, Millis MA Fall 2017 It has been 45 years since I embarked on this sacred path of Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma. Along the way there have been many blessings that have helped me understand the concept of sacredness, and to begin to integrate it within my being. I consider myself fortunate to have had the Siri Singh Sahib’s (Yogi Bhajan) regular guidance. Many years ago he told me, “Son, you need to penetrate in your meditation.” It took me nearly ten years to learn to “penetrate or deeply focus’” with one-pointedness of mind during
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Me and Hari Simran Singh—Attuned to the Infinite
by SS GuruSurya Kaur Khalsa, Brooklyn NY When our son Hari Simran Singh was 10 years old, a few weeks before he was to leave for his first year at school in India, I told him that I intended to pray for him every day he was away. We were walking together along the park. I hadn’t settled on the form the prayer would take—perhaps one of the banis or a shabd, a mantra. He answered right away, “Har Har Har Har Gobinday, Har Har Har Har Mukanday.” Of course! The Guru Gaitri Mantra with Four Hars* was a perfect choice.
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Experience vs. Superstition
by Sant SS Guru Dev Singh Khalsa, Rome, Italy Fall 2016 How do we experience the Subtle Body? It is experienced through awareness. Unfortunately, 99.9% of the people are not aware, or not aware enough to recognize their experience. So we meditate and bring stability to our meditation and awareness. If you understand the Subtle Body, imagine it like a radio transmission, like waves. The archetype system we learned from the Siri Singh Sahib of the eleven Light Bodies can be paralleled with the ten Gurus of the Sikhs, the eleventh being the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The ninth body (the Subtle Body), in Sikh
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Compass of the Soul
by SS Gurudev Singh Khalsa, Austin TX Summer 2016 The ability to experience our physical body has served us well throughout our long history of evolution, and has been instrumental to our survival. It tells the story of what we can see, touch and feel with our five senses. Millennia ago, a long lineage of seers—rishis, yogis, saints, philosophers—began exploring the unseen, hidden part of the story, driven by the need to understand why we humans suffer. To “see the unseen,” they did not seek to build a special machine to measure the outside world; rather, they turned inwardly, making the
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Not Affected by Pleasure
by SS Sat Siri Singh Khalsa, UK Spring 2016 There is a shabad by Guru Teg Bahadur in Siri Guru Granth Sahib that might have inspired Yogi Bhajan when he gave us “The Definition of a Yogi” in the 3HO Code of Excellence. This shabad describes a state of being that is victory in the game of life. It is a powerful touchstone of self-reflection. In this article, I will try to elaborate on one small aspect of it. Sorath, Ninth Master: [Ang 633] That man who in the midst of pain does not feel pain, who is not affected by
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Relating to Your Subtle Body
by MSS Nirvair Singh Khalsa, Santa Fe NM Spring 2016 Do you want to come into relationship with your Subtle Body? The Siri Singh Sahib spoke about the Subtle Body in many lectures. A quick search in The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings ® yielded 184 lectures on this topic. Here are three practical ways to come into vital relationship with your Subtle Body, with quotations from the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan): 1) Practice looking deeper, beyond the surface of communications, events, relationships and news. If action or response is required in relation to that information, it should reflect
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Living in the Subtle Body
by SS Siri Narayan Kaur Fuda, Buffalo NY Spring 2016 Yogi Bhajan presented us with the concept of the Ten Light Bodies of Consciousness, each of which represents an aspect of our Self. Through considering various components of each of these Bodies, one can come to a greater understanding of one’s Self and how one can reach fuller development of consciousness. The Subtle Body is listed as the Ninth of Ten. It is concerned with perceptual ability to sense the Infinite and universal reality within the material and physical. It is our connection to the non-physical imprint of all experience
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Chrysalis Raj Yoga – Perfection of the Ninth Body
by SS Krishna Singh Khalsa, Espanola NM Spring 2016 As you may know, chrysalis is the transmutation process by which a voraciously hungry caterpillar that devours every green leaf in sight is transformed into a gracefully flying, spiritually symbolic butterfly. As the caterpillar gorges itself on the most nutritious food to be found on our planet (chlorophyll), it becomes fatter and fatter. Then the caterpillar spins a cocoon around itself and disappears into a deeply dormant trance state, like a meditation. During this phase, the entire physical structure of the caterpillar, including all its high-energy fat, dissolves into a rich,
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