Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Phoenix rises from the ashes...

On the other side of my first KRI Teacher Training weekend, with a hellacious moontime for the third time this month, and serious issues with my lower chakras, I have a headache. When I opened up Yogi Bhajan's "Master's Touch" after Sadhana this morning I saw this and it made me smile:

"The purpose of visiting Earth and being a human is to unload your karma here, not to carry it to the next life. That's the purpose. That's why you serve the Master. You don't love the Master, you don't learn from the Master. Learn what you can learn. You have everything in you. Youcan learn from books from the library, but you learn from the Master how to surrender. You do not understand that there is a catch-22. When you surrender, the karma surrenders too. You rise like a phoenix rises from the ashes, and the karma remains behind. Then it's the Master's headache." (p. 168)

That made me laugh!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Aadays Tisai Aadays Meditation

This one, from p. 176 of "The Master's Touch", I have been doing as well as Bound Lotus for 1'000 days...I began it later and never missed a day, so I am farther along with it now. Yogi B says this mudra helps to release fear which is the cause of all Emotional Compensation, which he discusses in Class 16. He states:

"Fear is the cause of all emotional compensation ~ which is the cause of many personality imbalances and behavioral problems. A normal person has anywhere from sixteen to twenty split personalities. These are personalities we have created to deal with life. When you are speaking with a person, you don't know just who you are really talking to. This meditation will help to correct this problem.

This mantra is a salutation to the Infinite God. Its meaning is:

Aadays tisai aadays. Aad aneel anaad anaahat jug jug ayko vays. (30th pauree of Japji Sahib)
I salute God again and again. God is primal and pure, with unknown beginning, Who cannot be destroyed, and who remains the same through all the ages.

"With practice, this mantra can give you siddhis, spiritual powers. A secondary effect of this meditation is that by sitting on your heels, you can help to clear away any digestive problems."

Also he says about the whole pauree:

"If you just learn this pauree of japji, make it as a routine, the entire knowledge of the entire universe and beyond the universe will come to you without reading a book. In this sutra is initiation of that knowledge which is in all of you...This meditation gives the siddhis, the occult powers we talk about?"

I'm not sure after what else I've read that I want them, but I like what the meditation does for me otherwise.