Guest guest Posted February 8, 2009 Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Sat Nam! Last year, on my birthday, I sent out a poem to celebrate the occasion. You might have received it. This year I am sending out some thoughts, a kind of meditation I have been having. I welcome you to share my little inspiration. If you don't have time, you can easily enough ignore it. The latest episode of Messenger from the Guru's House will hopefully come out in three days. This is not that story. Thoughts are free. They are easy to share, sometimes absurd, sometimes meaningful, occasionally precious. They cross boundaries effortlessly. This train of thought began the other day when a yoga student asked me a question. In all earnestness, she wanted to know my real name. Looking back, the answer was simple enough. Back in 1973, I had wanted a name that would resonate with my new life as a yogi. I had just moved into Toronto's Guru Ram Das Ashram the previous fall. When Yogi Bhajan came to visit in February, he gave me that name. Yogiji wrote it on a little slip of paper. I still have that paper. It says, " Gur Fatha Singh " . The Ashram head and I were the second and third members of our community to receive a name from our teacher. Yogi Bhajan must have had a revelation later on, because after three months I received a letter from his executive secretary. Shakti Parwha Kaur wrote to say anyone given a name beginning with " Gur " should use the spelling " Guru " because " Gur means technical know-how, and Guru means one who imparts the technical know-how " ... To read on, go to: http://gurufathasingh.com/myweblog/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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