Passing on the Directorship of Spiritual Trust

[Guest guest]

2010 is a funny year. 2 years before the dawn of the Aquarian Age, we've been

told. The darkest hour before the dawn. By now, we've seen enough predawn

hours to know.

 

There are turbans fighting ex-turbans in the courts. We have Yogi Tea minus

Yogiji. And there are ex-turbans putting up turbaned front people as a screen

for public consumption. And of course, sadhana long gone, long time my Son.

 

From my point of view, 3HO as a ground-breaking Aquarian organization has gone

soft and the appointed Director of Spiritual Trust, who ought to be outspoken on

these things, has gone mum. We haven't had an official word from the director

in 6 years. It is a crisis that has reached crisis proportions. It is our

Hurricane Katrina, our Haitian earthquake.

 

Yogi Bhajan set out a tough and powerful spiritual vision in 1969. Then he

built on it. That vision was the foundation of what he was to call the

" Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization. " Its hallmarks were inclusivity and

personal empowerment.

 

Yogi Bhajan told us early on there were 3 kinds of teachers: the " nice " kind

that caters to their students, the detached type that cares little for their

students, and the " knock-em-dead " kind that inspires and hammers their students

to excellence. I would suggest that in 3HO today the first 2 kinds predominate

and that KRI, the teacher training arm, hardly has a notion of the third kind,

other than in professions of " what a great and dynamic teacher Yogi Bhajan was. "

The world does not need its great and dynamic teachers on our altars. It needs

them on its streets.

 

It is telling how senior teachers nowadays are saying Yogi Bhajan never wanted

us to be " ten times greater " than him, although the Master said it more than

once. It is the Sikh standard, after all, that the devoted disciple should

match the calibre of their teacher, as Lehna succeeded Guru Nanak, and the Five

Beloveds matched Guru Gobind Rai.

 

If, as an experienced marksman, if Yogi Bhajan knew he had to aim a little

high, saying " ten times greater " when he really just wanted us just to meet him

as equals, that would be understandable. But to say that we can wallow in

mediocrity, and so long as we in the thousands collectively approximate ten

times our teacher in greatness, it is okay – that is too much to say. And it is

a serious and abject watering down of the standards and ideals of Yogi Bhajan,

that discerning crafter of diamonds.

 

To put this in perspective, I think we can say today that Gurmukh Kaur – with

her popular books and dvds and workshops – is better known in our time than

Yogiji was in his. Of course, yoga is much, much more widely accepted today

than it was in the early days of 3HO. And being widely recognized is just one

measure of greatness, probably not a very good one.

 

Through the years, Yogi Bhajan gave many, many talks. Many were largely

technical, and it is these technical teachings upon which KRI today is based.

But Yogi Bhajan also gave heart-centered messages where he laid out the

parameters of the human soul and the destiny he forsaw for us, his students,

where he said we were " God " , if only we would accept it.

 

Twice in 1969, Yogi Bhajan gave these kinds of visionary talks, once for Guru

Nanak's birthday and once for Christmas Day. These are priceless tapes and it

would appear that Yogiji made a point of seeing they were taped for posterity,

for us. They are long, beautiful talks. If you love these teachings and would

like to lend a hand, I would appreciate some volunteers to transcribe sections

of those long lectures so everyone can have them.

 

Under the pressure of the times, Yogi Bhajan also gave entire teacher training

courses compacted into the short space of 6 days back then. In chapter 44 of

the biography I broadcast on-line last month, I included a few cogent excerpts

from the transcripts of the course held in Santa Cruz early in 1972.

Afterwards, I returned to those original notes and saw all the material I had

left out. There was so much wisdom, so many teachings – too much for a brief,

condensed life story where each chapter covers about 3 months.

 

I feel we should not and cannot move onward until the full transcripts from the

" Santa Cruz Intensive " are out there in the public domain where they belong. I

would be most grateful if anyone would care to type a share – a few pages - of

those transcripts into a digital format so that others can enjoy them in their

entirety on-line.

 

As far as I am concerned, we are all Directors of Spiritual Trust now. Our

credo shall be simple: Take nothing for granted. Do your sadhana. Inspire

others. And teach and serve others wherever you are in the name of Guru Ram

Das, with love for all and enmity toward none

 

Blessings abounding...

 

Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam and thank you Guru Fatha Singh,

Your explanations are well said. We are all Spiritual Directors now.

 

Yogiji told us many times to merge with the Gurus, and once said that

the Gurus want us to merge with them, but we care not to. But think of

it, Yogiji's beloved was Guru Ram Das. To be ten times greater is

easy--merge with all ten Gurus.

 

He also said that in the New Age everyone will have Christ

Consciousness. The huge energy shifts coming are way are in the process

of transmuting our consciousness whether we welcome the sublime changes

of the Age or not.

 

Loving Blessings,

Guru Prem Kaur

http://www.yogagems.com