AKAL! AKAL! AKAL! AKAL! AKAL! (Bye! Nita and George)

[Guest guest]

Hello Christa and the rest of ya'll,

Thank you all for your prayers.

It's been a wild few weeks for me. I lost two very important elders in my

life. George Craig and my Aunt Juanita Jackson.

We lost George Craig at 88. He was my oldest buddy's Godfather. He had

decided that he didn't want to spend his last weeks or months on life

support. He preferred to stay home and leave this plane on his own terms. On 2/4

he stopped taking food and water. We figured he would go into a

coma within 3 days. On the fifth day he muttered to my buddy John "this is

taking so long".

He wanted to be alone and requested that he not be disturbed/distracted by

his many well wishers. We played Bach and Beethoven for him per his

request. By the evening of day six, he was on the verge of slipping away. We

changed the music to a Tibetan singing bowl Cd and I believe this

helped him relax into the frequency he needed....a certain "I AM"-ness. He

slipped into a coma, with his heart still beating very strongly. An

hour later he was liberated. His courage and resolve was awesome. John, his wife

Laura and I cried in each others arms.

We washed his body and anointed him with mildly scented oil. I then

introduced my friends to the concept of chanting Akal. Akal being

"immortal" and that our intention is to manifest his arrival at the highest

levels of heaven. We chanted five strong Akals. My friends were proud

to have been able to support his release in such a formal way. The following day

John described the chant as sounding like trumpets. It was my

privilege to be there and I was glad I could offer something.

George loved the Yanks, was a season ticket holder for the NY Giants, rarely

missed reading the NY Daily News, and was a tremendous

philanthropist and historian. A student of Lincoln and the Civil War, he was

three times President of the NY Civil War Roundtable and the

recipient of the prestigious Barondess/Lincoln Award. He raised funds to

restore Grant’s Tomb and General George Thomas’ gravesite in Troy, NY,

as well as founded the Thomas / Longstreet Trust at the Chickamauga National

Military Park in Georgia. He loved trains and some of his ashes will

be placed on an Amtrak train. God Bless George M. Craig 2/19/1915 - 2/09/2003

 

The following morning I left Cambridge, NY and was on the road again to

Virginia to attend my Aunts funeral. She passed away 3 days before.

My Aunt Juanita was/is a woman of tremendous faith, steadiness and compassion.

She left her physical body a little sooner than the doctors had

predicted, but she was in hospice so it was really only a matter of time. She

was 83.

At her funeral, the pastor acknowledge that she was a pillar of her church

and this was true....and she loved her pastor like many of us love

Yogi Bhajan. She raised some good children, with them embracing the humbler

aspects of Christianity....it's power to truly transform and bring in

the Holy Spirit, and not the zeolotry. I loved her strength. This is family.

Kind of hard to talk about in objective terms. I will say there is a

lot of love that is unmentioned and assumed.

God bless Juanita Jackson

 

Days after the funeral I had an experience of my own of what and who Jesus

is.

While doing "The Last Meditation" (Waheguru, Waheguru, Waheguru, Wahejeeo 16x on

a breath...see Transitions....) I thought that maybe I'd see Guru

as being Jesus. You know, with Guru being Gu being darkness, Ru being light.

Together it means from darkness to light. I allowed a visual and an

ideological sense of Jesus to happen while I chanted. In a few moments I began

to feel this tremendous heaviness in my heart and then tears of

love just flowed from me. I was actually completely blown away. The deep sense

that Jesus was/is a Personal FRIEND really hit me. That is

something that makes a meditation so much more powerful...that we can have an up

close and personal knowledge and understanding of a great soul (a

Maha Purush) rather than it being something abstract and exotic. That the way

OUT is through it. "We fall down, and then we get up". I had always

done my deepest emotional clearing with Tratakam, the Tantric photo of

Yogiji..... why not Jesus?

On another level, I feel I was experiencing my Aunt's love for Jesus, a love

of Jesus that goes way back into my lineage as it was my Great

Grandfather who established the first Black Baptist Church in Martinsville, Va.

in 1900.

It's been said that the most positive and compassionate manifestation of the

Kundalini is Christ Consciousness. A humbleness, and connectedness

to all others an attitude that what I do effects others and vice versa,

everything others do in this world is felt by me, and the

opportunity/responsibility is to remember that and to "bow down" often to keep

that perspective fresh in my mind and heart. All ground is holy

ground, if I make it so. Yogiji has said that Jesus became "the Christ" when

while on the cross, when he uttered the words "Forgive them, for they

know not what they do".

Remember that moment within your own consciousness.

Bless and be blissed,

Dharam

 

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Mosaicart2 wrote:

 

> At about 1:30 A.M. Feb 6, I had just waken up, but was still sitting in bed.

>

> You know, words can never truly describe...

>

> I experienced what was happening to Dharam's aunt.

>

> This FEAR and EVERYTHING was lifted up to the heavens, and all was

> transmuted. The depth of her soul was touched with such LOVE, and so was

> mine, we both knew with such a knowingness that all was going to be alright.

>

> To know that such love exists is one of the greatest gifts a human can

> experience.

>

> A word just came to mind Raptures...

>

> I'm thankful to everyone on the list,

> Namaste to all ~

> and to you and yours Dharam,

> Stephanie

[Guest guest]

Dharam,

 

What a time you've had ! Thank you for sharing this with us. I have

always loved Jesus, to me it He always maifested as the Sacred Heart,

filled with love and compassion for the human race. And don't we need it

!

 

Blessings,

Avtar

 

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[Guest guest]

Wow Dharam. I can't even begin to put into words what struck me in

your post.

 

I could feel your pain in your words, and yet at the same time I

couldn't help but be inspired by your feelings and introspection

about Jesus.

 

> It's been said that the most positive and compassionate

manifestation of the Kundalini is Christ Consciousness. A humbleness,

and connectedness

> to all others an attitude that what I do effects others and vice

versa, everything others do in this world is felt by me, and the

> opportunity/responsibility is to remember that and to "bow down"

often to keep that perspective fresh in my mind and heart.

 

And just remember, you may have lost your family/friend from their

physical bodies, but you will always be connected to them and to all

of us. You will always be part of a very big family!

 

Christa

[Guest guest]

Yes, Dharam, thank you for sharing. I still take Holy Communion in my local

church and truly feel that I am taking in the living spirit of Christ. I use

to worry about doing it because not all my beliefs are in accord with the

church. One day while sitting in church, with my racing mind worrying over

whether I should take communion, another voice popped up, as though my heart

spoke, and said: "shut up, you're supposed to be here." I've never doubted it

since. I feel very fortunate to have this spiritual experience in addition to

that I have in my practice of yoga and meditation.

 

2 questions about Christ and Kundalini:

Is Jesus considered a part of the Golden Chain of teachers?

Is he considered to be an incarnation of God on Earth?

 

peace and prosperity, love and light, sukhmani

-

Avtar Kaur

Kundaliniyoga

Friday, February 28, 2003 3:33 PM

Re: Kundalini Yoga Re: AKAL! AKAL! AKAL! AKAL!

AKAL! (Bye! Nita and George)

 

 

Dharam,

 

What a time you've had ! Thank you for sharing this with us. I have

always loved Jesus, to me it He always maifested as the Sacred Heart,

filled with love and compassion for the human race. And don't we need it

!

 

Blessings,

Avtar

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Dharam,

It is good to have you back. You seem to have been through some very strong

experiences...it sounds like they moved you deep into your heart...SAT NAM!

Love and Light

Marily Sat Atma

 

 

 

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