How Many Students Does It Take To Make A Teacher?

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam,

Do you understand how many students are necessary in order to create a teacher?

 

Do you know how many students attended the very first class that Yogi Bhajan

taught on January 5th, 1969, at the East West Cultural Center in Los Angeles?

The answer to both of these questions is the same. Only " One " is required. And

if you are going to become an authentic spiritual teacher, that student is

" yourself. " When Yogiji arrived to teach that class there was only one person

in the room, and that was Yogi Bhajan. No one else. And he taught that class

nonetheless, with the same integrity and intensity as he would have if there had

been a thousand students in the room.

 

He told us repeatedly " in the early days " that to be a Spiritual Teacher is the

highest incarnation possible for a human being, that we were being given the

most precious knowledge that humanity can experience, and that if we were not

willing to become teachers to uplift others, we were not worthy to receive those

same teachings ourselves. And then he would say, " Before you have students you

can teach these teachings to yourself. " In fact, teaching to ourselves is the

only way we can actually learn the teachings, in the most practical, useful

sense. Otherwise, learning is useless.

 

Teach yourself to discover, perceive and experience the most subtle and the most

powerful nuances of every teaching you practice. Meditate. Meditate. Meditate.

Imagine, and extend yourself into the heart of every being. And this is how we

master ourselves in order to serve the others, flawlessly. If we don't play ego

games on ourselves we'll have learned how to deliver a pure experience to

others, and THAT is a Spiritual Teacher. This is what Yogi Bhajan did, what he

exemplified, and what he taught and expected from each one of us. If we are our

own inner, harshest critics, then we can master in order to win the love and

respect of that inner critic, Saturn Teacher (like Yogi Bhajan). There's no

rose garden without climbing a pillar of thorns. But at the top there's a rose,

which throne of meditation, Raja Yoga. Guru Ram Das is sitting, guiding, and

waiting for us to join him. This is the crown of Kundalini Yoga.

 

I've been learning from myself recently, by video. What an irony!

 

I had an experience of being interviewed here in my hometown of Eugene, Oregon.

It was a VERY hot afternoon for an interview, in the summer of 2008 and at the

end of the day WHAT I COULD REMEMBER WAS AN INTENSE MIGRAINE and not much else.

Whatever it was I said, and how I felt while saying it, I could not remember.

It was time for rest and sleep.

 

But a few weeks ago, almost 2 years later, Janaia Donaldson sent me the link for

our interview. I found it very interesting, what had came through. I'm still

learning from it and thought you might be interested. At the time of the

Harmonic Convergence in 1987, Yogi Bhajan said he could learn from the whipped

cream of a decaff latte, and related to how whipped by Time he sometimes felt.

He being the Saturn Teacher, a master of the Times.

 

How whipped I felt that day by a migaine, and yet what happened in the midst of

that day, who spoke through me to myself today, it demonstrates once again that

dutiful is beautiful, and most importantly we have to Keep Up! in order to reach

the destination ( " destiny nation " ) where we're all headed together.

 

Here's the link I'm currently learning from, in case you might be interested as

well. http://www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/?p=363.

 

First we must become students of the Wahe Guru within us, before we are ready to

escort others to an experience of Wahe Guru.

 

Love and Blessings to everyone,

Krishna Singh