Jaap Sahib: " The Naad of Jaap Shaib rouses the soul and the self of the Being. 'Sahib' means grace. Recite it when your position is endangered, or when your authoratative personality is weak. This Bani brings grace and greatness. It will also give you the ability, that whatever people say, you will automatically be able to compute what they are actually saying. And, once you are able to recite it correctly, it will give you the power, the Siddhi, that whatever you say, must happen. Man can direct God and God can direct man. Guru Gobind Singh recited Jaap Sahib so that we would not become beggars at the doors of others....This Bani brings rulership, self-command and self-grace. It brings royalty, divinity, ecstacy, bliss, bountifulness, beauty and grace. It takes away fear and brings vitality, courage, power, strength and self-esteem." taken from Psyche of the Soul by Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan
It's amazing, in the last couple of months a lot of the kriyas I have been choosing to teach have either the last four lines of the Jaap Saahib in them, either to chant, to listen to or bow in rhythm to or include the full Jaap Saahib, mostly to bow in rhythm to.
What a huge Bani this is, so powerful and rhythmical. Like with Japji Sahib when you listen to it or chant it, the sounds feel so familiar, it is said that your soul remembers the sacred sounds, Jaap Sahib feels the same. As you move to the pulsing, deep rhythm of the chant you deepen and deepen and deepen into the healing POWER of the sacred sound currents. You become the sound current.
At this time on the planet there is so much duality as the excruciating growing pains of ALL of us reverberate and penetrate the cosmos. The growing pains of our souls urging, nudging, encouraging us to expand, elevate and grow. This of course can never be a comfortable process. We are all challenged and stretched to our absolute limits, faced with the darkest shadows of ourselves and others as we continually trigger, mirror and heal ourselves and each other, one precious breath at a time. It feels like a great time of healing. Being comfortable with the discomfort is a beautiful aim and a beautiful way of being. Yoga poses like stretch pose or the kriays that ask us to do 108 of everything help greatly with becoming comfortable with discomfort!!!!
I always remind myself that I have chosen to be here, in this incarnation, holding within me the most exquisitely profound purpose. WE ALL DO. I found Gurmukh Kaur Khalsas words she spoke in a workshop a couple of years ago so powerful..... I am para phrasing, the essence of what she was saying was this.....The Age of Aquarius is like a river, nothing can stop its flow! So if our hands are bleeding and our fingers raw from hanging onto broken branches, breakable reeds, movable rocks and unsteady mud....we need to let go. Flow with the river. It is the only way. That image is strong.
Let Go!
The last four lines of the Jaap Sahib:
"Chattar chakkar vartee, chattar chakkar bhugatay
suyambhav subhan, sarab daa sarab jugatay
Dukaalang parnaasee, dayaalang saroopay
Sadaa ang sangay, abhangang bibhootay"
You are pervading in all 4 corners of the universe.
You are the enjoyer in all 4 corners of the univers
You are self-illumined and united with all
Destroyer of bad times, embodiment of mercy
You are ever within us
You are the everlasting giver of undestroyable power.
My two most favourite musical mantra versions of this are Snatam Kaurs version from her album 'Ras'. It is so movingingly beautiful and truely does feel like your soul is being roused out of a deep slumber. Her voice purely angelic and the words reach into the widest, highest and deepest parts of your soul. Pracitically I also find that this version is a really beautiful version to learn the mantra to, as it is clear, with a slower rhythm.
And then the amazing Chardi Kala version is also powerfully rhythmic and strong. Their version instantly takes me straight to the Golden Temple in Amritsar! Actually all their music does! You are there bowing on the soothing cool marble floor or on the red carpeted roof of the actual Temple as the mantra echoes around you and pulses below you, as live musicians chant in the Gurdwara below.... truely chanting your soul beyond bliss!
I never doubt the kriyas THAT CHOOSE ME to be taught. I have realised that as Kundalini Yoga teachers there is without a doubt something way bigger than us, our Golden Chain of connection that chooses the kriyas for us! How many times have you been to a Kundalini Yoga class and it feels like the class is just for you. How many times have I been to a class where it feels like that? All of them! We can only smile with relief and trust that CLEARLY whatever we need on all levels and layers of our beings will be provided in accordance with what our soul needs to receive and learn.
Phew!
Sat Nam
xx
It's amazing, in the last couple of months a lot of the kriyas I have been choosing to teach have either the last four lines of the Jaap Saahib in them, either to chant, to listen to or bow in rhythm to or include the full Jaap Saahib, mostly to bow in rhythm to.
What a huge Bani this is, so powerful and rhythmical. Like with Japji Sahib when you listen to it or chant it, the sounds feel so familiar, it is said that your soul remembers the sacred sounds, Jaap Sahib feels the same. As you move to the pulsing, deep rhythm of the chant you deepen and deepen and deepen into the healing POWER of the sacred sound currents. You become the sound current.
At this time on the planet there is so much duality as the excruciating growing pains of ALL of us reverberate and penetrate the cosmos. The growing pains of our souls urging, nudging, encouraging us to expand, elevate and grow. This of course can never be a comfortable process. We are all challenged and stretched to our absolute limits, faced with the darkest shadows of ourselves and others as we continually trigger, mirror and heal ourselves and each other, one precious breath at a time. It feels like a great time of healing. Being comfortable with the discomfort is a beautiful aim and a beautiful way of being. Yoga poses like stretch pose or the kriays that ask us to do 108 of everything help greatly with becoming comfortable with discomfort!!!!
I always remind myself that I have chosen to be here, in this incarnation, holding within me the most exquisitely profound purpose. WE ALL DO. I found Gurmukh Kaur Khalsas words she spoke in a workshop a couple of years ago so powerful..... I am para phrasing, the essence of what she was saying was this.....The Age of Aquarius is like a river, nothing can stop its flow! So if our hands are bleeding and our fingers raw from hanging onto broken branches, breakable reeds, movable rocks and unsteady mud....we need to let go. Flow with the river. It is the only way. That image is strong.
Let Go!
The last four lines of the Jaap Sahib:
"Chattar chakkar vartee, chattar chakkar bhugatay
suyambhav subhan, sarab daa sarab jugatay
Dukaalang parnaasee, dayaalang saroopay
Sadaa ang sangay, abhangang bibhootay"
You are pervading in all 4 corners of the universe.
You are the enjoyer in all 4 corners of the univers
You are self-illumined and united with all
Destroyer of bad times, embodiment of mercy
You are ever within us
You are the everlasting giver of undestroyable power.
My two most favourite musical mantra versions of this are Snatam Kaurs version from her album 'Ras'. It is so movingingly beautiful and truely does feel like your soul is being roused out of a deep slumber. Her voice purely angelic and the words reach into the widest, highest and deepest parts of your soul. Pracitically I also find that this version is a really beautiful version to learn the mantra to, as it is clear, with a slower rhythm.
And then the amazing Chardi Kala version is also powerfully rhythmic and strong. Their version instantly takes me straight to the Golden Temple in Amritsar! Actually all their music does! You are there bowing on the soothing cool marble floor or on the red carpeted roof of the actual Temple as the mantra echoes around you and pulses below you, as live musicians chant in the Gurdwara below.... truely chanting your soul beyond bliss!
I never doubt the kriyas THAT CHOOSE ME to be taught. I have realised that as Kundalini Yoga teachers there is without a doubt something way bigger than us, our Golden Chain of connection that chooses the kriyas for us! How many times have you been to a Kundalini Yoga class and it feels like the class is just for you. How many times have I been to a class where it feels like that? All of them! We can only smile with relief and trust that CLEARLY whatever we need on all levels and layers of our beings will be provided in accordance with what our soul needs to receive and learn.
Phew!
Sat Nam
xx
No comments:
Post a Comment