If there was no Hindu, no Muslim, how could there have been a Sikh?

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Sat Nam, Wahe Guru !

Even as I derive great pleasure from reading Guru Fatha Singh's

carefully researched and loving biographical accounts of Siri Singh

Sahib Yogiji, from the root level I must weigh in by saying that

(being faithful to the teachings of Guru Nanak) the very concept,

linguistic, of " Sikh Yoga " is an oxymoron.

 

And, by even getting distracted in the discussion " of this or that "

attribute of yoga, we're missing a deeper and more important point.

Guru Nanak clearly and pointedly said that he did not even see Muslims

or Hindus, he only saw human beings. Now, only if Guru Nanak had an

agenda to convert " human beings " into " being Sikh " would the concept

of Sikh Yoga even arise. Because the primal principal here is " HUMAN "

not " Sikh. " Yogi Bhajan founded the Science of Humanology, as the

core package of all his teachings. He did not call it Sikhology, he

called it Humanology. The only reasonable justification for being

Sikh, according to this conceptuality, would be to become a better

Human Being. And I personally witnessed Siti Singh Sahib Yogiji to

say that THIS was the reason he followed Guru Nanak, and identified

himself authentically with the discipline that Guru Nanak taught.

 

When someone once asked Guru Gobind Singh about " How much did he love

Sikhs? " he is reported to have answered " I don't 'love' Sikhs, I love

the Rehit. " Practice the Rehit, and give up safety in the false

identities and masks that we put on to gild lilies or paint lipstick

on corpses. We don't need to gild the lily, or reduce the pristine

concept of primordial Humanity into various sectarian religious

identities, Sikh identity included. That, ultimately is all nonsense,

and that is what Sat Nam really means: See no separation, see the

same divinity in every One and every person. The sub-separations of

humanity (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, etc. etc.), in

pretending to be " True, " become meaningless.

 

Our capacity to do this, or not, is probably the measure of how near

or far we are from Enlightenment, because the distinctions themselves

were described as dysfunctional by Guru Nanak (per the above discussion).

 

Sikh is the banana peel, human is the banana. We all should know

which is for what.

 

for many Blessings,

Krishna Singh

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " akalsahaisingh "

<akalsahai wrote:

>

> Sat Nam,

>

> I'd just like to remind everyone that although all may not agree on

Guru Fatha Singh Ji's

> choice of words, he has put forth an exceptional effort and a great

deal of time to create a

> Wikipedia bio which presents the Siri Singh Sahib Ji with positivity

and reverence.

>

***************************> >

> > http://www.gurufathasingh.com/myweblog

> >

> > If you are interested, I can tell you I did this research after Yogi

> > Bhajan Ji told me to write his biography. I soon realized that to do

> > that I would need a pretty good understanding of his teachings, his

> > mission and the overall context of his life and relations, including

> > his challenges and opponents. This is where I stumbled across the

> > yoga in the original Sikh tradition.

> >

> > Of course, Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is for everyone,

> > like the Golden Temple is for everyone. There is no point in making

> > artificial distinctions. The term " Sikh Yoga " simply comes from the

> > historic quote of Bhai Gurdas. (The Gursikh Yogis are awake and

> > detached in the maya.) Where there are Gursikh Yogis, there has to be

> > Gursikh Yoga.

> >

> > You may call it anything, and frankly my use of the term is meant to

> > be educational for those Sikhs who have never considered yoga to have

> > anything to do with their tradition, as much as for the yogis who feel

> > the reverse.

> >

> > Thanks for your patience and bearing with what I agree is a difficult

> > subject. I will keep Yogi Bhajan's quotes, which are cleared by KRI

> > for publication in an upcoming book on this subject, on my blog for a

> > couple of weeks. If you would like to research this subject further,

> > contact me and I will let you know when " The Essential Gursikh Yogi:

> > The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma "

> > comes out.

> >

> > Blessings abounding...

> >

> > Guru Fatha Singh

> >

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