Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offense, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
Category: Meditations
Ra Ma Da Sa Healing Meditation
Ra Ma Da Sa Healing Meditation
Certain mantras are to be cherished like a beautiful gem. The Siri Gaitri Mantra is just such a jewel. It is unique, and it captures the radiant healing energy of the Cosmos as a gem captures the light of the Sun. Like a gem it can be put into many settings for different purposes and occasions.
The Teacher
Dear Blessed Healers,
It is a good time to assess and tune our 
relationship with our teacher. However you perceive that relationship personally, there is only the question of identity that seems to matter. Guru Dev Singh identifies as a teacher, as did Yogi Bhajan before him and so on through the lineage. It is a commitment of love, sacrifice and endless service. In order to hold a proper relation with him, Yogi Bhajan and the Guru, it is important to clarify that aspect of identity in our awareness.
The Guru is not inherently our friend, nor is any teacher. The teacher has delightful personality, which we love. That is not the basis for the relation. It is an attraction that gets our attention.
Neither will the Guru, nor any teacher, save us directly. Only indirectly. That obligation is on us. It is our duty, upon receiving the grace of God through the Guru and through the teacher, that we apply the teachings to our personal circumstance. We must focus beyond all distraction, including our own and our teacher’s personality, to the source of grace. Then we must commit to keeping it up, beyond all circumstance. That is how we are saved. If we identify as a teacher, then we can also promote the flow of grace to others through the teachings. Rather than our friend, the teacher is our benefactor who facilitates our salvation by enlightening our ignorance.
It is a time for healing. Our teacher, and ourselves. We are healers. Rather than objectively “healing” our teacher, we should go to the core of the relation where we all can merge with our common intent and so heal all.
Here is a meditation that I suggest will help in that endeavor.
Meditation: NM0380 Ecstasy and Joy
Don’t worry about the future
Last night my wife and I watched an interesting movie that has a resonance with what is happening.
In class last night we did a meditation about this.
Meditation: 881026 Removing Fear of the Future
The meditation removes fear of the future by freeing us of the endless mental contrivances we construct in order to avoid fear and pain.
The movie is The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.
The man is portrayed in various stages of a very colorful and eventful life. He lives by his mother’s dying admonition not to worry about the future. She said that worry will always make things worse. She suffered greatly, even in dying, but knew the secret of happiness, even if she never realized it in her life. She said to Allan, her son (the now 100 year old man) it always is what it is, and will always be what it will be. He took her up on that, which made all the difference. He led a happy and charmed life. Even at 100, he wasn’t finished.
The story is similar to Forrest Gump. He also led a charmed life. Forrest’s secret was innocence. Allan’s was living in the moment, flowing like water. Both were lucky, seemingly making their own luck. Both were free of fear of the future.
Meditation: For contemplating what comes next after the Women’s March
Meditations:
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“You know each other, because you were all born in the same time and space as a batch of the third millennium. No matter where we live—we have all come to the planet Earth. You know that you are here. Do you accept that everyone knows everyone? Do you ever go up to someone and say “Hi, you are here, I am here!” without knowing the person’s name? Whenever dealing with people, remember you are here along with everyone else all of the time.” – Yogi Bhajan
Balancing projection with intention
Yogic scriptures tell us of the four stages of the mind: normal awareness, the dream state, total mental rest, and total awareness. Mastery of this meditation enables the practitioner to master these four levels of the mind. It can create a mental equilibrium so that our expression will be consistent with our intention.
Contemplating our intention will align our intention with our identity.
Living above denial and the faculty of self engagement
When we feel badly about what is going on around us, and feel helpless to do anything about it, we are denying who we are and separating ourselves from it. Rather, we should know the self that is equal to the challenge and engage it rather than separate or shrink from it.
Increase the flow of spirit in you
When everything is upside down and stagnation and chaos prevail, it is time to be and not do. There is nothing to do personally but peacefully participate in the divine flow. That flow is present even in chaos and will emerge as the way everything will eventually right itself. The situation is too complex to force any single remedy successfully. Relying on your inner worth with perseverance and being in the flow will allow divine wisdom to take its course.
From “It is time to be and not do”.
Develop patience and intuition
You must consciously breathe the breath of life. Give yourself a chance to wait, and the patience to understand. When you meet and talk with somebody, or think about somebody, you cannot even think of that person’s condition if you do not use patience and intuition. If you do not use patience and intuition you will do a lot of wrong. Patience and intuition are essential in order to meditatively assess what is going on.
About this page
After the women’s march, it is useful to contemplate what comes next. As individuals, a community and a nation, men and women, we can look first within ourselves to know our light, find our strengths, and gather the means for making an effective impact that will heal our communities and bring them together, local and global. Then we can reach out and join with others communicating our ideas and plans.
I have begun this page as a means of reminding us of the motivations that brought everyone together and as a means of sustaining the internal space that it opened in us through that experience. It is a collection of meditations that I feel will contribute to that intention. All the meditations were given to us by my teacher, Yogi Bhajan. They come from the tradition of Kundalini Yoga, which is simply a technology that gives us tools for living a happy life. Continue reading “Meditation: For contemplating what comes next after the Women’s March”
Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision
Yogi Bhajan – NM091 – November 10, 1992
And put this straight and look at the tip of your nose please and then you will find a Blue Lagoon underneath, hold that please, very dearly.
Left Jupiter (index) finger touches forehead. Right Jupiter,Saturn fingers up at sides. Tongue at upper palate. Molars tight. Eyes 9/10 closed, looking at the tip of the nose. Pump the navel.
Listen to every heartbeat (Nirinjian Kaur)
This meditations increases flow in the brain, self emboldment, vision.
When you react, you stop seeing. Helps involve you with what’s going on. Continue reading “Meditation: NM091 – 19921110 – Self Emboldenment, Engagement, Vision”
A Recipe for living in interesting times – a meditation and healing class at Yoga West (review)
On 02/01/2017, we held a meditation and healing class at Yoga West:
A recipe for living in interesting times
When we are anxious, at odds or even depressed with the way external events are going, often we are unsure that we can contain or meet the challenges that are presented to us. This can come from self denial. We doubt our strength, endurance, wherewithal to keep up and our ability to lead. Self denial can also cause chronic insecurity and crushing self doubt. We worked on mitigating that with the meditation https://www.harinam.com/meditation-nm0394-live-above-denial/.
If we can repair our inner projection and feel comfortable in our skin we can then modify how we are trained to relate with externals. Where we have withdrawn or checked out from what is going on around us and separated from other people we can reengage and participate again in reality. For that we performed the meditation
https://www.harinam.com/meditation-for-faculty-of-self-engagement/
When the circulation between our self and the outer world is reestablished and flowing, then we can ask the universe for good things to happen. This meditation addresses that.
https://www.harinam.com/meditation-for-prosperity/
We performed healing exercises that reestablish the flow of prana between the hara and the heart chakra. Prana from the earth enters the hara. The flow through the heart supports our intentions and stamina. This can resolve obstacles in our life. Balancing the hemispheres of the brain also supports this.
Meditation: For Prosperity
Place hands on knees with the thumbs touching the Mercury fingers (pinkies). Balance the weight of the body. Place eyes at the tip of the nose. Chant the mantra Har Har Har Har Gobinde…
. Har Har Har Har Gobinde
31 Min.
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Meditation: NM374 – 20001128 – Patience and Intuition
Yogi Bhajan – Espanola January 28, 2000
1. Sit straight in a cross-legged position. Hold your hands in Sarab Gyan Mudra in front of the heart—fingers interlocked with the index fingers extended pointing up and thumbs crossed. Eyes are closed. Chant along with Nirinjan Kaur’s Ong Namo Guroo Dayv Namo mantra. Continue for 11 minutes
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Meditation: LA792 931214 – Experience and Ecstasy
Hold index (Jupiter) fingers straight up at the sides, near the ears. Hold the other fingers with the thumbs. Jupiter fingers are straight and stiff. Sit straight, chin in, chest out. Eyes are closed, looking at the chin from the inside. Breathe long and deep. 27 min.
Raise arms up straight, holding mudra with Jupiter fingers. Stretch arms straight, stretch the whole body. Hold 1 1/2 min.
Cross arms, above head, keeping straight. Arms do not touch. 1 min. Switch arms, crossing for 1 min.
Meditation: LA950 A00214 20000214 Develop Self-Reliance
Yogi Bhajan Los Angeles, February 14, 2000
Sit straight in a cross-legged p
osition. Extend the arms forward at shoulder level parallel to the floor, with elbows slightly bent. Palms are face down, with fingers spread, tough and tight like nails—these are your five antennae. Eyes are closed. Move the arms rhythmically straight back and forward about 5 inches. Reach from the shoulders, affect your chest and spine. Chant the Prosperity Mantra Har Har Har Har Gobinday by Niranjan Kaur. Continue for 11 minutes.
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Meditation: LA692-781102 – Experience Tremendous Strength
Sit easy pose with a straight spine. Relax the arms down with the elbows bent. Draw the forearms up and in toward each other until the hands meet at the level of the throat. Separate the fingers
and thumb of each hand and point the palms at each other with the fingers pointing up toward the ceiling. Press the corresponding fingertip of the opposite hands together forming a teepee-like structure. The thumbs do not touch at all and the middle and index fingers maintain only light contact. Apply maximum pressure on the little and ring fingers. Close the eyes. Continue reading “Meditation: LA692-781102 – Experience Tremendous Strength”
Meditation: LA010 – 19780210 – Gobinda – Project to the Infinite
Yogi Bhajan Los Angeles, February 10, 1978
Sit in easy pose with a straight spine.
Interlock the thumbs with the right thumb crossed over the left (women oppo¬ site). Fold the fingers of both hands into fists. Hold the hand position at the heart center.
Extend the arms straight out in front of the body parallel to the ground. Bend at the elbows and draw the forearms in until the hands meet at heart level.
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Meditation: Contemplate in Shuniya from the Spine
Yogi Bhajan – date unknown
“V” Shuniya
Hands are up at sides, elbows down. Jupiter & Saturn fingers are in “V” mudra. Pull shoulders back, put pressure on shoulder blades. Eyes are closed, looking at the tip of the chin from the inside. Breathe long and deep. Contemplate the mind. 11 min.
Inhale, hold, squeeze, exhale. 3x
This meditation will calm the mind, bring it to Shuniya. Sensation of breathing through the spine.
Meditation: Listening to Angelic Whispers – from the Mind
This meditation will refine the sattvic guna of your mind. Sit down very calmly and quietly. Make your spine straight Put your hands on opposite shoulders. Your arms must cross, Hold your shoulders well, the arms relaxed on the chest. Close your eyes. Listen to the mantra.
Ardaas bhayee, amar daas guroo, Amar daas guroo, ardaas bhayee, Raam daas guroo, raam daas guroo, Raam daas guroo, sachee sahee.
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