A student asked Yogi Bhajan about the
relationship between Kundalini Yoga and the Sikh Gurus. This
was his reply:
The Guru, the vibratory
impact of the word, unites you with the Infinite through the sound
current.Kundalini Yoga prepares you and
enhances your capacity so you can hear that sound current.You are a physical, mental, and spiritual
being.I have shared techniques that
allow you to care for and develop all the parts of your structure.When I started teaching Kundalini Yoga, I
also began to give people Sikh Dharma.I
didn’t want people to be misled.I did
not want to be a Sat Guru:neither am I,
nor was I, nor shall I ever be.Many
people grow in stature and then want to be worshipped in their personal
identity rather than taking people to their own Infinite identity.Values must be taught with Kundalini Yoga.
Sikh Dharma is called the “path of the
student.”“Sikh” actually means
student.The path is to become pure,
filled with integrity, truth, and consciousness.This is the state of being Khalsa.As Khalsa, you are whole, purified, and you
have a sense of higher priority or mission.There are three things I especially like in Sikh Dharma: no
proselytization is allowed; there is no forced conversion; and there is nothing
which is not complete as God made it.I
have studied many religions, and I like many of them, but the energy of Raj
Yoga has come through the House of Guru Ram Das.It is to be open to all and to serve
everyone.
Householders Path
I taught this yoga because it helps the
householder who must live in and build a better life.You can find the Heavens here within our
life; you do not need to wait for a later Heaven.During this lifetime you must penetrate to
the core and build yourself to go home.
When you grow and become nucleus or hub of
energy within your life, then everything comes to you.You have a hypnotic, electromagnetic psyche
which can attract everything.Your very
presence can work and have an impact.In
all the years I have taught, I have not asked a single person to become a
Sikh.It is true that as a person grows
naturally and organically, they will end with the consciousness of a Sikh – a
student of Infinity who is humble, serves all, and brings consciousness into
committed action.Kundalini Yoga is a
householder’s yoga.It is a yoga which
allows an ordinary person to live in this world, experience the ecstasy of
consciousness, then use this consciousness to serve humanity.This is the same as Sikh consciousness, just
as it is not necessary to be a Christian to have Christ consciousness.
I have no intention of telling anybody what
to do, but you have to tell yourself what to do.Kundalini Yoga does tell you one thing: one
day you will stand before your consciousness and God, face to face.Your eyes will totally lock in the Eyes.Your breath will become one with the Great
Breath.At that moment you will answer
to how truthful you were, and how much you accomplished.The counterfeit currency of emotions and
personality will have no worth at that time.If you can collect heavenly currency here through doing heavenly
service, good.
The Kundalini Yoga teacher’s personality
A Teacher’s personality is
based on pure service. It is your
service to elevate, keep up the other person’s spirit, keep the candle burning,
and pass on knowledge.It is the
highest respect and honor to become a teacher.It is your choice to become real or false.All great men, all their great sacrifice –
personal and impersonal – leave behind a legacy and a legend that the future
enjoys.They become immortal.
I did break a few rules to bring you these
teachings.The first rule was about
teaching openly.The old scripture was
very explicit:“Whoever teaches this
science openly shall die within the next sun.”That means that to teach this openly would bring death within a
year.But I taught out of compassion for
the Time.One year passed, and I was
fine.I thought, “This doesn’t seem to
apply to me.”I continued to investigate
this old rule.I asked many wise people
and sages.They said, “That rule does
not apply to Masters; it is for the people of ego.People who teach with ego become empty within
the year.”I watched people practice. They became great and then thought they are
perfect and exalted.They didn’t make it
through even one year.They disappeared
and could not contain their ego.
The combination of the knowledge of
Kundalini Yoga and the values and humility of Sikh Dharma creates a good
combination of balance.It is up to
you.How much do you want to excel?With your own ego and definitions, you won’t
last.Minus your ego, nothing can
destroy you.When a saintly person dies,
people drop flowers all around.When an earthly
King dies, the pigeons leave their droppings on his statue.It is your choice.That is the idea or your Oath.Eliminate all your biases and work with a
concentrated strength and direction of service.
The humility that is in
Kundalini Yoga and in the Sikh consciousness is the same.It is a habit to present yourself before the
Teacher and your higher consciousness and then to obey it.
Students of Elegant Action
Kundalini Yoga’s origins come from the
beginning of time and seem to have roots in the wisdom and traditions of every
culture in which a spark of consciousness has been lit.Sikh Dharma originates from the heart of the
spirit, and is part of the energy of the great teachers, the ten Gurus of Sikh
Dharma and confirmed by the spirit of Guru Ram Das, and served a key function to open
the practices of Raj Yoga to all people regardless of caste, creed, color,
gender, or age.
Formerly, through thousands of years, the
techniques of individual dignity, self-divinity, and worship of the Word – the vibration of the subtle self – were restricted
to only a few kings, mystics, and people in the heights.But today in the spirit of
the Sikh way, these techniques have been opened up to all people, just as the
central temple in Sikh Dharma, the GoldenTemple or Harimandir
Sahib, has doors open to all four directions.So there has been a primary shift in access to the knowledge of the
tools of consciousness.These tools were
recorded, and infused with heart through the poetry and inspiration of the Sikh
Gurus, as well as others who wrote in that tradition, including Muslims and
Hindus.It was a time in which there was
a remixing, a re-inspiration of the spirit and technology.
Kundalini Yoga gives the tools, the
technology, the sadhana, the personal
discipline, to awaken awareness. Sikh Dharma and 3HO give an example of living
that consciousness in an Aquarian manner.Sikh means “a student” and dharma means “elegant and selfless
action.”Kundalini is awareness.So with our full awareness we live a dharma,
as people who are students of elegant action and life.That’s the relationship.It’s about living synchronized with spirit
and not about religion at all.
Religions were originally the organized
result of codifying an experience of ecstasy.The leader-teacher had an experience and accessed a template of
Infinity.Often, guilt and fear were
used to maintain the power of the elite.The
Aquarian Age is about giving back to the people, the ability to access the
Truth themselves.With power and humility,
shakti and bhakti, everyone grows in consciousness.