A CALL FOR PRINCES AND PRINCESSES OF PEACE

Posted by Guru Singh at 4/1/2008 7:58 PM
Categories: English:Inspirational Blessings

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PIONEERS IN THE AGE OF MASTERY




              (Left: Paramahansa Yogananda, Right: my Great Aunt)

When Paramahansa Yogananda came from India to America in 1919 he was accompanied by my Great Aunt. When he traveled across the United States to take up residency in Southern California in 1924 he was accompanied by my Great Aunt. She served him until his passing in 1952 and our family learned a great deal from this experience about the oft-time importance of being 'different'.

This was a time when being a man in America meant conquering imagined enemies, as if in some wild-west time loop, or caught incessantly amongst the forests of prehistoric wildebeests. The movies of the time portrayed this macho male nature and the media supported the portrayal . . . your masculinity was to begin stern, leading to violence. That was the tip top of a man's "game" in those days.

All this time [being my Mother’s God-Mother] this Great Aunt was in constant  communication with my family long before I was born. Her letters and phone calls described a different kind of manliness, a complete variation on the theme that dominated western culture. My Mother and Father were keen on hearing her stories of this deeply conscious teacher and master from India. The message he brought to the West, in a time between two World Wars, was that we have grown beyond the need to settle our differences violently. His best friend Maha’ atma Gandhi was putting this meme into practical use with the British . . . then the World’s most powerful occupation force. When I came along in 1945 our family was steeped in these teachings of non-violent tolerance and Krya Yoga.

We have an eerily similar atmosphere in 2008 with a world relying on war to settle unresolved scores, and the measure of national allegiance determined by the sum of ones martial fervor. Now—once again there are resounding needs for non-violent pioneers, people of consciousness willing to risk ridicule by weathering these storms of faux reality to propose saner methods of resolution. Violence begets violence the ‘Good Book’ says and there are reasons why Jesus is known as the Prince of Peace with his repeated words of turning the other cheek.

Today's Iraq—a very real event, as was India in the 1930’s—is testing our imagination for effective resolutions. Just think of it—there are twenty-four million Iraqi Nationals and only two hundred thousand foreign occupiers, imagine a massive, collective non-violent idea in action [like the genius Gandhi would create]. This could ignite the birth of countless effective methods of resolution.

Men have historically been the providers of food and wellbeing for the family from the time families began. But it is now time for men to step outside these pride-filled linear left-brain’ roles [so now out of date] . . . roles that still attempt to control women and invest in violence . . . producing the foods of poverty, starvation and revenge. It is time to become the investors in our right-brain quantum genius . . . a genius that produces food and wellbeing for the entire planet and in the process loses all bias to find peace.

There can be no peace enforced through violence; only poverty and then its ever-present grandson, "Revenge." Let's be different and everyone take up the new role of being provider/protectors in a twenty-first century. The times have changed and the entire family is waiting for us to wake up, and catch up with time.


 

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  • 4/6/2008 5:14 AM Jasdeep Kaur wrote:
    Princess...reporting for duty!
    How may I help?
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  • 4/6/2008 7:45 AM Laurie Nelson Alexander wrote:
    Bless you Guru Singh, for your words of wisdom, your years of dedication and devotion, and your open arms to spreading love and peace on this planet and in our hearts...I am sending this article to everyone I know.

    Peace,
    Laurie in Seattle
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  • 4/6/2008 3:55 PM Lauren Cresto wrote:
    I had no idea about Guru Singh's Great Aunt and her role in Self Realization Fellowship ... the lake shrine was one of the first places I visited upon moving to L.A., and to this day I attend the enlightening and empowering services on Sunday ... I now wonder if Guru Singh ever considered entering the SRF community back in the day??? But of course both the Kundalini and SRF schools have the same sacred goals in mind. I am so blessed to be a part of this group of forward thinking, beautiful people.
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    1. 4/7/2008 4:29 PM Guru Singh wrote:
      Yes --- Paramahansa Yogananda was my first teacher --- my teacher from the day I was born

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  • 4/6/2008 8:27 PM BONNIE JOHNSTONE wrote:
    TO QUOTE THIS WONDERFUL YOGA TEACHER: "I AM WHO I AM & THAT IS THAT!" ! :>) Love&Hugs from Bonnie Johnstone
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