Dyed a deep crimson

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Sat nam everyone,

 

I've been journeying down the kundalini yoga path for a while now, and

one of the unexpected joys , has been being exposed to a new branch of

music. Difficult to define but very touching. Singh Kaur and Snatam

Kaur, are particular favourites, and have such a peaceful sound.

When I get home from work with my thoughts scattered and my attention

forced outward, the first thing I do is play Singh Kaur's "Peace

Lagoon" and straight away my attention is turned inwards and I am

ready to sit and just be , enjoying the peaceful sounds they create.

I enjoy meditating at the best of times but I have found this music to

be a beautiful preparation for my yoga practice .

I feel very fortunate to have found Kundalini yoga and the wisdom inherit in

it's teachings, for me personally it has become a source of growing inner

peace that is difficult to put into words.

As soon as I hear the opening bars of "Crimson" , and Singh Kaur sings

" my eyes are damp with the nectar of the lord" it brings a lump to my

throat

and everything seems alright in my world.

 

Best wishes from Australia

Stephen

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stephen707s <stephen707s@n...> wrote:

>

> Sat nam everyone,

>

> ... one of the unexpected joys,

> has been being exposed to a new branch of music.

> .... Singh Kaur and Snatam Kaur, are particular favourites, ....

 

> As soon as I hear the opening bars of "Crimson",

> and Singh Kaur sings

> " my eyes are damp with the nectar of the lord"

> it brings a lump to > my throat and everything seems alright in my

> world.

>

> Best wishes from Australia

> Stephen

>

 

I so enjoyed reading this post, stephen.

I was brought to Sikh Dharma and subsequently to Kundalini Yoga (The

opposite sequence of most people) by hearing the chanting of Snatam

Kaur. When I went to purchase the CD I found out that Snatam Kaur

LIVES in the same town as I do. I literally wanted to fall to the

floor with my hands on my heart.

 

When I went to the local Gurdwara for the first time to speak with

her - with tears of great bliss and compassion and relief flowing

from my eyes because of what simply hearing her "Shanti" Cd had done

to me during a massage - She took me into the Guru's room for the

Hukham. This was at the end of morning Sadhana. The Hukham she took -

being a "random" reading from the Gurus, turned out to be the very

lines that you mention Singh Kaur is chanting in "Crimson." I was

deeply moved at that Hukham because it spoke of the pain of the arrow

of God's love piercing one's heart and having a love of God - such as

I had been enduring since first hearing Snatam's chanting. After the

Hukham Snatam said to me that the Guru was speaking to me in that

Hukham.

 

My life has not been the same since Sikh Chanting came into my life.

I have never experienced more tranquility, more bliss, and gratitude

in my life than I do now. All that started in March 2004. I feel

truly blessed to have had Snatam Kaur right here at the Gurdwara I go

to.

 

 

My best Sikh friend, Gobind Kaur was brought into Sikh Dharma by the

playing of tapes of Singh Kaur 25 years ago at the health food store

in St. Louis run by the Sikhs there. This was before Singh Kaur had

released anything commercially. As in my case with Snatam being here

in my town, Singh Kaur was living at the Ashram where my friend first

heard her chanting and she had been enticed to enter the Ashram, and

never left Sikhi after that first day. It was a joyful moment to

discover this parallel between her and my beginnings with Sikhi.

 

It was months after my first visit and Hukham that I discovered the

Peace Lagoon CD by Singh Kaur and while meditating and listening to

it, the "Crimson" chant came on and I realized I was again hearing my

first Hukham. Indeed, my eyes are (still and again and again) wet

with the nectar of the Lord!