Happy New Year R & B Yogis! This is our first meditation for 2025. I can't believe the genocides in Gaza is still raging and now the fires in LA. It is a lot to deal with! Lately, I ebb and flow between despair and faith. But if I didn't have this practice, I don't know where I would be. I realize it is difficult to stay disciplined with so much turmoil about which is why I am making this as easy as possible. It doesn't get easier than this. I've kept this mantra in my back pocket because it isn't officially a 40 day meditation. But it IS a mantra in the Sikh tradition for prosperity. And it is a powerful one. Just imagine if you remain consistent for 40 days?! Only good things, prosperous things, will come from it. I am also allowing more flexibility with this one: you can make this one as long or as short as you desire. Add or omit the Mangala Charan Mantra (Aad Duray Nameh) and the Warrior Healer's Affirmations if you are crunched for time or the meditation is about to escape you at 11:50 at night. The main thing is listening to the mantra once a day. Get it in. By any means necessary! Lets stay on our practice to remain grounded and keep our hearts open to the blessings God has reserved for us. And help who we can with our reserves.
TO BEGIN: Sit in an Easy Pose, with a light jalandhar bandh, or neck lock. Keep the spine straight. Rub your hands together. Press your thumbs against your sternum holding your hands in prayer pose. Roll your eyes in and up towards your third-eye by crossing your eyes at the bridge of your nose and then lifting your eyes about an inch and a half. If you are unable to sit in "easy pose," you may sit on a hard chair and cross your feet underneath you.
On two breaths, chant the opening mantra ONG NA MA GURU DEV NAMO which means I bow to the infinite wisdom within. Do this 3 times. For the proper cadence and pronunciation, listen here. If you like what you hear, you can purchase my mantra music on Bandcamp.
For seasoned R & B Yogis add this mantra for protection:
AAD GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the Primal Wisdom
JUGAAD GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the wisdom through the Ages
SAT GURAY NAMEH – I bow to the True Wisdom
SIRI GURU DAYVAY NAMEH – I bow to the great, unseen Wisdom.
MUDRA: No specific mudra.
FOCUS: No specified focus.
PRANAYAMA: Normal
TIME: As long as it takes to listen to the prerecorded mantra, I will share with you via email.
The English translation according to Yogi Bhajan is "Take the Name of the Creator God and be healthy. Opportunities will come.”
TO FINISH: Say aloud the Warrior Healer's Affirmations.
TO CLOSE: Rub your hands together and bring them to prayer pose, palms touching thumbs pressed against your sternum. Chant Long SAT NAM on one breath. Repeat this for a total of three times. Bring your hands to your forehead and bow. This seals the work in your frontal lobe. Your center for decision making.
NOTES ON THE MEDITATION:
“Life is to be lived. Life is a given gift. Atma, the soul, takes the body. The distance of life is covered by destiny and challenged by fate. That’s how it goes. There are no two ways about it.
There are some people who live life by making their security just the earth—the here and now. They box themselves in. They feel insecure. They feel irrelevant to the environments if they are not secure. And their security is very important to them. So they box themselves in and it’s kind of a prison.
Whereas atma, the pranic shakti*, is also a prisoner of the ribcage. It breathes in and out. It can go in and out. But when a person with his ego boxes himself in because of his insecurity, then there’s no place to go in and out. Then a person goes deeper and deeper, layer by layer, and enslave’s one’s atma—one’s self. Then that person does not have any sensitivity to feel others. All they want to know is whether or not their security is secure. Now, there are other people who live a life of mission. They live a life to love everybody. They are smiling. They are beautiful. They support everybody.”
You know, you have your life. You can live. You can have all that you need, and that is destined. But if you want more, you can only get it if you open yourself. Open your doors. A person has to open his heart to others. It is not necessary to try to predominate or dominate other people. Your one beautiful smile, and one, “Hello, how are you?” or “Sat Nam,”—there is so much good it can do, even to a person who doesn’t know you. But to do that, you have to put in your investment. You have to move towards the psyche of another person. You have to show that you are the beloved of the Lord and you are here to live a life for everybody. And this is unlimited. Whatever life is given to you by the pranic energy is unlimited.
It is not necessary that you will die and you will be forgotten. There are human examples to show us. Guru Nanak came in the physical body, lived, talked, preached, helped others, elevated everybody. Then he was ever with us, now he is with ever us. Nobody forgot him when he was alive. Nobody forgets him now. In the Sikh way of life, there is no secret.
Well, there it is mi gente. If only those in positions of power knew the meaning of true wealth and power. If only they realized that we are not separate from each other and the earth belongs to us all. We should take care of her, honor her and protect her. Le sigh. At this point in late stage Capitalism, we can only lead by example, burn our own karma and hopefully leave a legacy of hope when we are no longer of this plane.
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