A Couple of Gems from the Siri Singh Sahib
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Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa
May 3, 2016, 12:42:55 PM5/3/16
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Dear patient reader,
Sat Nam. Everything takes its time and this collection of stories is no exception. I am still collecting stories and material. Apparently the archive is more accessible now than it was a year ago. This is good news. I am also working with Hari Singh Bird who has a wonderful collection of stories and photos online. If you would like to explore his work, here is a good place to start: http://www.harisingh.com/HariSinghKhalsa.htm. I am grateful to Hari Singh for his years of dedication to this work.
Today's Gem #1: Video - "Obtaining the Kriya from Tibet" (5 minutes)
This gem is thanks to Siri Ved Singh for recording, KRI for compiling, and Hari Jiwan Singh in Los Angeles for posting online. Over the course of five minutes, the Siri Singh Sahib tells the gripping and amazing story of how he together with his orderly and a Sherpa guide secretly entered Tibet to learn a sacred kriya and their dangerous return to India. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. It is delightful knowing that new gems are still coming to light. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaw-XHWrWRA
In case you would like to access the kriya yourself, you can watch the video of the entire November 13, 1991 class here thanks to the Library of the Teachings: http://www.libraryofteachings.com/lecture.xqy?q=%28tibet%20sort:titleAscending%29%20AND%20decade:%221990s%22%20%20sort:titleAscending&id=724555e8-aec7-7f28-6ebb-1f7a784e6348&title=Santa-Fe-Class
Today's Gem #2: Transcript - The Mool Mantra Personified
One of the great treasures the Siri Singh Sahib gave us was his straight talk on religion and spirituality. I recall specifically how one day at a Summer Solstice he lambasted us for the shoddy condition of the outhouses - and in so doing, brilliantly laid out the Mool Mantra as the foundation of his teachings. Here is the transcript:
It is totally wrong that God is God and God is plus. When I say "God is God, but plus" that only indicates that God is what you represent. You are not trained mentally to take this responsibility, therefore you are not mentally trained to relate to God. It is that simple.
God created you to represent God. Now tell me, is it true or not? Then represent God! God created you to represent God. You created God to represent yourself!
You and I can never meet. You love to give an excuse! I have been trained never to excuse. I have never excused myself! I don't know how to do it because the first step toward God and Infinity and consciousness is never to ask for forgiveness. Don't be sorry!
Has God ever spoken to you and said, "Folks, I am sorry"? Has he ever said to you, "My Lucifer has done wrong. I will regret. I will change it"? Is there any record of written history where God has come down and said, "Folks, it was to rain yesterday. I freaked out. Sorry, I will do it tomorrow"?
Don't you understand that as people of God you have no chance of forming or situating an excuse? You are not living by the spirit of God. You are living by the spirit of excusing yourself! When I have to penetrate through a crowd, I never say "Excuse me." I say "Kindly give the way." That's it! That's what I need. That's what I want. That's the fact.
You have to learn to be learned. Every wrong done in life is a wrong done to yourself and it is totally a perpetuated, pre-planned, meditative, self-murderous excuse. God is perfect. God made you perfect. God believes in perfection. There cannot be a lie! And lies are being lived every day!
You are the creation of God. And God is Omnipresent. God is Omniscient. God is beautiful. God is everywhere. And you are nowhere?!! What are you talking about? Are you really serious to know anything about love, about kindness, about God, about cleanliness, about radiance?
We know the secret. We are not going to go to the heavens and sit down and Lord Shiva is going to appear before us and we are going to say "Lord, make us happy!" and he will say "So be it!" That's difficult to digest! Ridiculous! There is no Shiva Shiva business! There is no God even! You are totally lying to yourself! God is what you represent!
Are you going to build tomorrow by the scientific laboratory in Knoxville a huge telescope through which you can see God? What are you going to do? What are the possibilities? What is your imagination about God? It doesn't work that way! People have tried for centuries and it doesn't work.
Guru Nanak said in a very simple way "Ek Ong Kaar Sat Naam Kartaa Purkh." Just understand that: Ek Ong Kaar Sat Naam Kartaa Purkh. You are the One - Ek. One. Ong Kaar - You are the creation of the One. Sat Naam - Your identity is Truth. Kartaa Purkh - You are the Doer of everything. These are the faculties of God. Nirbhao, Nirvair - You are fearless and you are revengeless. Why? You are Akaal Moorat. That is because you are a personified God - Akaal Moorat. And when you reach the faculty of realization, then comes the other sentence - Ajoonee Saibhang Gur Prasaad. You are self-born because you are the product of the karma. Ajoonee - You didn't come. You didn't go. You are here. Here and now. You always talk about "here and now." Ajoonee means which does not come, which does not go. That is you. This identity is here. Soul came. Soul will go. Subtle body came. Subtle body will go. You won't. Your identity is here... now! Saibhang - by your own grace, by your own karma, by your own individuality, by your own essence, by your own consciousness, by your own corruption, by your own honesty. You are, you are! Nobody will tell you who you are. Nobody can tell you who you are. People can only help you.
Therefore just remember, in the end it is said that if you do not know all that, then you know by one virtue and that virtue is Gur Prasaad. Identify with the identity of the acknowledged learned. You will become learned. In simple Western English, you say "Pick somebody's brain." Guru Nanak said in a simple Gurmukhee "Gur Prasaad" - Gur means formula.
There is no place in life for emotions, commotions, sentiments and rituals and all that stuff. They are just to pass time. You play cards. There is nothing in cards! Passing of the time. You want to earn and lose, then you start betting with playing of cards: a dollar a point, because you want to make something or lose something with it.
So long as you make something, lose something, you are an idiot! When you can learn to be learned, you lose nothing, you gain nothing. You become you.
The proposition of life is not to gain, not to lose. To be, to be. And what is the formula to be to be? Jap. Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhee Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhee Sach. It requires an essential truth, acknowledged truth in your own calibre.
(Original source: Summer Solstice Sadhana 1983, Ram Das Puri, New Mexico, GTE tape #2, side 1; transcript: by the author, The Essential Gursikh Yogi: The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma, self-published, KRI approved)
Love to all! Peace to all! Life to all!
In the Name of the Cosmos that prevails through everyBody and the Holy Nam which holds the world,
Humbly yours,
Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa
www.gurufathasingh.com
Sat Nam. Everything takes its time and this collection of stories is no exception. I am still collecting stories and material. Apparently the archive is more accessible now than it was a year ago. This is good news. I am also working with Hari Singh Bird who has a wonderful collection of stories and photos online. If you would like to explore his work, here is a good place to start: http://www.harisingh.com/HariSinghKhalsa.htm. I am grateful to Hari Singh for his years of dedication to this work.
Today's Gem #1: Video - "Obtaining the Kriya from Tibet" (5 minutes)
This gem is thanks to Siri Ved Singh for recording, KRI for compiling, and Hari Jiwan Singh in Los Angeles for posting online. Over the course of five minutes, the Siri Singh Sahib tells the gripping and amazing story of how he together with his orderly and a Sherpa guide secretly entered Tibet to learn a sacred kriya and their dangerous return to India. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have. It is delightful knowing that new gems are still coming to light. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaw-XHWrWRA
In case you would like to access the kriya yourself, you can watch the video of the entire November 13, 1991 class here thanks to the Library of the Teachings: http://www.libraryofteachings.com/lecture.xqy?q=%28tibet%20sort:titleAscending%29%20AND%20decade:%221990s%22%20%20sort:titleAscending&id=724555e8-aec7-7f28-6ebb-1f7a784e6348&title=Santa-Fe-Class
Today's Gem #2: Transcript - The Mool Mantra Personified
One of the great treasures the Siri Singh Sahib gave us was his straight talk on religion and spirituality. I recall specifically how one day at a Summer Solstice he lambasted us for the shoddy condition of the outhouses - and in so doing, brilliantly laid out the Mool Mantra as the foundation of his teachings. Here is the transcript:
It is totally wrong that God is God and God is plus. When I say "God is God, but plus" that only indicates that God is what you represent. You are not trained mentally to take this responsibility, therefore you are not mentally trained to relate to God. It is that simple.
God created you to represent God. Now tell me, is it true or not? Then represent God! God created you to represent God. You created God to represent yourself!
You and I can never meet. You love to give an excuse! I have been trained never to excuse. I have never excused myself! I don't know how to do it because the first step toward God and Infinity and consciousness is never to ask for forgiveness. Don't be sorry!
Has God ever spoken to you and said, "Folks, I am sorry"? Has he ever said to you, "My Lucifer has done wrong. I will regret. I will change it"? Is there any record of written history where God has come down and said, "Folks, it was to rain yesterday. I freaked out. Sorry, I will do it tomorrow"?
Don't you understand that as people of God you have no chance of forming or situating an excuse? You are not living by the spirit of God. You are living by the spirit of excusing yourself! When I have to penetrate through a crowd, I never say "Excuse me." I say "Kindly give the way." That's it! That's what I need. That's what I want. That's the fact.
You have to learn to be learned. Every wrong done in life is a wrong done to yourself and it is totally a perpetuated, pre-planned, meditative, self-murderous excuse. God is perfect. God made you perfect. God believes in perfection. There cannot be a lie! And lies are being lived every day!
You are the creation of God. And God is Omnipresent. God is Omniscient. God is beautiful. God is everywhere. And you are nowhere?!! What are you talking about? Are you really serious to know anything about love, about kindness, about God, about cleanliness, about radiance?
We know the secret. We are not going to go to the heavens and sit down and Lord Shiva is going to appear before us and we are going to say "Lord, make us happy!" and he will say "So be it!" That's difficult to digest! Ridiculous! There is no Shiva Shiva business! There is no God even! You are totally lying to yourself! God is what you represent!
Are you going to build tomorrow by the scientific laboratory in Knoxville a huge telescope through which you can see God? What are you going to do? What are the possibilities? What is your imagination about God? It doesn't work that way! People have tried for centuries and it doesn't work.
Guru Nanak said in a very simple way "Ek Ong Kaar Sat Naam Kartaa Purkh." Just understand that: Ek Ong Kaar Sat Naam Kartaa Purkh. You are the One - Ek. One. Ong Kaar - You are the creation of the One. Sat Naam - Your identity is Truth. Kartaa Purkh - You are the Doer of everything. These are the faculties of God. Nirbhao, Nirvair - You are fearless and you are revengeless. Why? You are Akaal Moorat. That is because you are a personified God - Akaal Moorat. And when you reach the faculty of realization, then comes the other sentence - Ajoonee Saibhang Gur Prasaad. You are self-born because you are the product of the karma. Ajoonee - You didn't come. You didn't go. You are here. Here and now. You always talk about "here and now." Ajoonee means which does not come, which does not go. That is you. This identity is here. Soul came. Soul will go. Subtle body came. Subtle body will go. You won't. Your identity is here... now! Saibhang - by your own grace, by your own karma, by your own individuality, by your own essence, by your own consciousness, by your own corruption, by your own honesty. You are, you are! Nobody will tell you who you are. Nobody can tell you who you are. People can only help you.
Therefore just remember, in the end it is said that if you do not know all that, then you know by one virtue and that virtue is Gur Prasaad. Identify with the identity of the acknowledged learned. You will become learned. In simple Western English, you say "Pick somebody's brain." Guru Nanak said in a simple Gurmukhee "Gur Prasaad" - Gur means formula.
There is no place in life for emotions, commotions, sentiments and rituals and all that stuff. They are just to pass time. You play cards. There is nothing in cards! Passing of the time. You want to earn and lose, then you start betting with playing of cards: a dollar a point, because you want to make something or lose something with it.
So long as you make something, lose something, you are an idiot! When you can learn to be learned, you lose nothing, you gain nothing. You become you.
The proposition of life is not to gain, not to lose. To be, to be. And what is the formula to be to be? Jap. Aad Sach, Jugaad Sach, Hai Bhee Sach, Naanak Hosee Bhee Sach. It requires an essential truth, acknowledged truth in your own calibre.
(Original source: Summer Solstice Sadhana 1983, Ram Das Puri, New Mexico, GTE tape #2, side 1; transcript: by the author, The Essential Gursikh Yogi: The Yoga and Yogis in the Past, Present and Future of Sikh Dharma, self-published, KRI approved)
Love to all! Peace to all! Life to all!
In the Name of the Cosmos that prevails through everyBody and the Holy Nam which holds the world,
Humbly yours,
Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa
www.gurufathasingh.com
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