Guru Singh in Seattle - THE NEXT EVOLUTION - Self Realization, Mastery and Liberation
An excerpt from the opening minutes of a seminar taught by Guru Singh in Seattle July 27th, 2008. The title of the seminar was THE NEXT EVOLUTION — Self-Realization, Mastery and Liberation.
Early in 1969, Yogi Bhajan looked at me and said, "Not every person is a musician." Now this didn't surprise me, but what he said next did.
"I want you to get a job," he continued.
I was astounded, I was a yogi, a musician . . . a recording musician . . . not a worker, but a working musician.
"Not everyone is a musician," he repeated, as if to drive it home, but I couldn't connect these dots at that moment . . . it was more than I could, or more correctly, wanted to hear.
He looked at me with his "absolute" eyes, "Someday you'll be teaching this Kundalini Yoga just like me, and you will need to understand how to explain it to everyone, not just the people who think like you. And you will need to explain it because GOD that can't be experienced, and the experience that can't be understood or explained, are of little value to the human psyche."
He was describing not only my role here, but all our roles. If you are reading this, or in this class you are included. He was telling us that at a certain level of performance, we are all going through the same process, but this planet Earth however is an incubator and we are not all at the same level of evolution. We are a one room schoolhouse here. We do not all have the same brain to hear things in the same way or even understand them. We are at various levels of comprehension as in such a school where there are different grades all in one room. The older more advanced are not better than the young . . . they are simply older and more advanced in their thinking and comprehension skills.
Over the past century we have added five billion people to this planet, but we have not increased the mental-emotional infrastucture. In the year eighteen hundred we had a billion people. In nineteen hundred we had a billion and a half. In two thousand we had six and a half billion. We have added all these people but we have not improved the system that we educate them with. If you were to bring a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer and a teacher from the year 1900 to the planet right now; the only one who would recognize their job would be the teacher . . . we have changed everything except the way we educate our population.
Since you are taking the time to be here in this class you are obviously one of the advanced "students" humans. You are one of the more advanced students in the one room schoolhouse known as the Earth. Don't expect the rest to be like you, and don't try to be like the rest of Earth's population. You are extremely advanced in your thinking, but that doesn't make you better. It makes you more advanced.
But . . . would you give your car keys to a child and tell them to have a good day . . . bring it back at 5:30, the class will be over then? Would you do that? Most certainly not! The rest of the world's population, massive quantities, nearly ninety percent, actually eighty-six percent to be more exact are absolutely childlike in their evolutionary behavior, and they currently have the keys to all the dangerous equipment on Earth. They are scared and completely un-guided . . . read Lord of the Flies and you will get a better picture. You don't want to give them the keys to the Earth, the keys to the guns of the Earth, or control of the future decisions of the Earth.
We are in a precarious position as the elders, the wiser, the "parents" of this planet. Our job is to guide these "children" with love over the next fifty to a hundred years. They have the keys and we as the parents of the planet must re-gain control of this "one-room schoolhouse" known as planet Earth. That's our task.
Always with Sacred Love, Blessings, Prayer and Gratitude . . . Sat Nam,
Guru Singh and Guruperkarma Kaur
This article touched me. I am starting yoga teacher training this fall. Yet it feels strange. You see, I have cerebral palsy... Not exactly your typical guru. I have been practicing yoga for a mere six month, Right from the start, I understood that yoga was not mere technique, but a lifestyle.. I felt like a calling, and I decided to take the plunge. I am not sure if I will ever get an opportunity to teach, in the literal sense of the word. But it matters less and less. Perhaps, the best way to teach is simply to be happy... To be... We'll see...
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I was fortunate to have attended this lecture. Essentially, what we're learning to do is function in the quantum field. The implications of this is almost beyond normal imagination - yet during the session -- with asanas and meditations -- it was clear that we did just that. I've been attending Guru Singh's workshops in Seattle since January 2007 -- there've been 5 I think. In each one, the path becomes clearer -- or at least less ambiguous. The July lecture, however, kind of put everything that we've been talking about together. Actually, what has been happening to me on a personal level is that what I've been trying to understand for the past 20 years is now starting to make sense to where I understand the "why" of what's been happening -- and it's pointing me in a direction that I had no idea that I'd be heading even 2 years ago. In any case, I think I'm starting to "get it." And it's all in the experience....I couldn't have gotten there any other way.
Sat Nam
TIM
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