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ISSUE 49 - JANUARY 2003 "HOPE"

For Your Enjoyment “Give Hope to Those Who Don't Have Hope” Inside This Issue Blessings from the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan)

Page 2 here is no other source of life - The Virtue of a Meditative Nature through which you can feel happy, Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Class Lecture "T and Meditation unless you give. And what can you give? When you give yourself discipline and Page 3 your discipline gives hope to somebody, - Prosperity Paths Editorials that is what brings happiness.

Page 4 I hope you will continue this as your - Hope and the Five Steps practice so that you may enter the Age of Aquarius peacefully, gracefully, and Page 5 with strength. I hope you do not do what - Lighthouses of Hope - Prosperity Technology most people will be doing: shattering, shivering and sharing their fears and Page 6 nightmares. I want you to be really successful so that you can lift people like - IKYTA's "Moments with the Master" a forklift and hold them up so they can reach their destination. I am asking your spirit to wake up - that is what matters. Page 7 - Amar Infinity Foundation - Estate Plans For that, you have to eat right, speak right, and have manners and mastery of yourself. In next coming years before the Age of Aquarius enters, you will find Page 8 thousands of people with empty hearts, empty minds, and empty selves. You - The New Japji Course, taught by Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) are their hope. This is the time to prove our grit. This is the time to pay our debt by giving hope and showing our character and commitment. It Page 9 will be a sacrifice but that’s what we will do. That is our spirit; that’s our - The Power of Hope character.

Page 10 I want to teach you to be great, so you can make others great. There lies - Prosperity Kids! Hope for Kids in Crises the hope; there lies the mission. Remember God uplifts those who uplift others. Page 11 - Khalsa Youth Camp Everybody is an instrument; everybody is a help to the other. Give hope to Page 12 those who don’t have hope; give love to those who don’t understand; give - Aquarian Times food to those who have not eaten; and give comfort to the uncomfortable. - KRI New Products It’s all divinity. Try to be what you have to be. - Amrit Vela, poem May the Creator give you the strength to commit to yourself, and through that Pages 13 commitment may you elevate yourself to serve all those who need your help. - Sat Nam Rasayan in Assisi 2002 May you help in the Name of the One Who created you and serve others with Page 14 peace, tranquility, love, and affection. May divinity and dignity grow in you, - What is Japji Sahib? and may it attract and serve people as hope. May this hope in humankind bring you to mental, physical and universal peace forever. Sat Nam. Page 15 - Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan), Excerpts - The Effects of the Pauris of Japji The Virtue of a Meditative Nature Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Class Lecture

nation is an embodiment of people who have confrontation. Consequently, by habit, we are liars. Aa grip on their today and their tomorrow, We lie to ourselves to start with, and then to which gives them the capacity to work together for everybody else, because we are non-confronting a common cause. First we were cave people and and non-expressive. That is why our prayer does then we expanded into territories. From kingdoms not work. Our prayer is non-confrontational. If you we became city-states, then nations. Man is a do not confront and make agreements with God, social animal and cannot live alone. We need to you do not have a relationship with Him. live together. To get together we have to have a common cause. We know, feel and understand This meditation creates a magnetic frequency in our common cause. It becomes your body which will make extremely easy to be united, your psyche flow towards if we have a meditative you. You have the mind. mind to project your thoughts. When we act For seeding through our thoughts, you impulse, we need extra are just inner energy two-legged to inspire animals. We your aim. look human With these but we are practices, you impulsive and should have a guided by emotions, clear aim so you can commotions and penetrate a mantra in neuroses. By our meditative your being and in your mind we act through intuition. When surroundings. your nature is not developed into a combination of goodness, Godliness and grace, it is your direct Do not proselytize, do not argue, do not tell people loss. Through your unkindness you are unkind what is good and what is bad. Just uplift them. to yourself. When you are intuitive, you live your Take them one step higher. Let them know there caring, compassionate and kind nature. Through is hope, there is a chance. We are a nation of the virtue of a meditative nature you enjoy your technicians who will be in a position to transmit real nature. You will always be prosperous. You energy to uplift people. No matter what you are cannot be defeated. going through, just consolidate on your breath. In that consolidation you will find the answer to When wrong things happen to us we blame confronting your problem. Hail Guru Ram Das the environments. Environments are not to be and heal people in his name. Let Guru Ram Das blamed! We rely on our easy, impulsive nature. We give the result. Be alert and pray unto him, who is all refuse to confront. We say, “Leave him alone! already in you, to come through. Time will teach him. Let him have his way. Why should we do anything?” Our nature is to avoid (5/15/2000 Synopses, continued page 3)

Page 2 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 Meditation Empower the Psyche's Projection 5/15/2000

1. Sit straight in a cross-legged position. Raise the left arm in parallel equilibrium with the ground and bend the elbow so that the hand is in front of your chest, palm facing down. Extend the right arm straight forward in parallel equilibrium with the heavens, elbow straight, palm facing upwards. Eyes are focused at the tip of the nose. Become calm. Chant Wah-hay Guroo, Wah-hay Jeeo by Sangeet Kaur and Harjinder Singh (from Raga Sadhana). Continue for 22 minutes.

2. Place both hands over the heart center, right over left. Continue chanting for 2 minutes.

3. Same position, whisper the mantra for 2 minutes.

4. Same position, chant in silence for 1 minute.To end, inhale deeply and hold. Stretch the spine and squeeze every fiber of the body to equalize the energy. Exhale. Repeat 2 more times. Relax.

Prosperity Paths Editorial Section

Nov 12, 2002 Dear Friends, I am writing to say thank you for the mailings you send even when you have heard nothing from me. I received the video tape "Living the Legacy" in the mail. I was curious, so I watched it. This tape brought me back to my inner self. I could feel the love of the world as I watched this video. I thank you for making it your mission to reach out to others to make a difference. I have felt your difference. I also now look forward to your mailings and different meditations you send. Thank you very sincerely, Blessings to you and yours. PA (excerpts)

Prosperity Paths ~ PO Box 249 ~ Espanola, NM 87567 dasvandh@sikhdharma.org Tel: (505) 747-0388 Page 3 Hope and the Five Steps Dr. Kartar Singh Khalsa

s we continue to grow through and Dasvandh. These pillars hold all things come from God and all Athe time of the Cusp, the up the structure that houses a things go back to God. And in so overlap of the Piscean and conscious being having a conscious doing, we remind ourselves that the Aquarian Ages, we are faced with lifetime, a structure that gives hope of returning to God is only a the challenges of time and space. the soul hope of evolution on thought away. Often there is not enough of either the physical plane, to become one. This puts pressure on our so radiant that it inspires others Seva is the art of selfless service, psyche, and at those moments to do so. -- the ability to transcend the ego’s we have a choice about how to expectation of a return for services respond. We can choose the path Bana is the art of dressing for God. rendered. Seva is God’s hope that of hope, or we can surrender It magnifies our radiance, expands we may be as serviceful and giving to the insanity of the times. our aura and allows our soul to to the planet as He is to us. And while this may not be express clearly to the outside world one monumental moment, we are our state of grace. Dasvandh is the art of giving back certainly influenced daily by the to Infinity for that which we are continual decisions and responses Bani is the art of chanting given. As Infinity gives to us the we have to make about the the Guru’s word such that the hope of expansion, we too must pressure on our psyche, otherwise combination and permutation of give to Infinity. To trust that what is known as stress. sound vibrates the upper palate freely given, freely returns: that the sending signals to the glandular Infinity of God always supports the The stress of the times today system and balancing the entire hope of endless blessings. continues to push the average eight chakras. Bani is the person to the limit, and over time opportunity to chant poetry to These five pillars are the support can create something our teacher vibrate the naad at the same upon which God’s hope for us has warned us about for a long frequency as it was originally exists. By consciously practicing time: cold depression. This can be chanted by enlightened beings. We these techniques our future is a state of hopelessness and very can hold the same space and in guaranteed and hope is given that tough to break out of without the so doing have hope that we can we may reach our highest destiny proper tools. achieve the same frequency. in this lifetime.

As yogis we know that it is through Simran is a our endurance that we maintain state of being the discipline of our practices in you come to, order to hold our state of grace. In an experience this way we give hope not only to of God's Name our own soul, that we will reach resonating with our highest destiny, but also to every breath. those around us. As a result of chanting God's the blessing of having a teacher, name can bring who has given us such a wealth of you to this teachings and technology, we have experience. This the capacity to endure the times is the and to expand beyond them, as opportunity to well as to carry others along with remember our us as well. Creator at all times. It is a The pillars of our lifestyle as Sikhs way to are Bana, Bani, Simran, Seva remember that

Page 4 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 Lighthouses of Hope Meditation to Darshan Kaur Khalsa Bring Prosperity

he lighthouse has forever Prosperity Technology Revisited Tbeen a strong symbol of hope. It is a light in the darkness, the promise of help, of a foundation beneath our feet. Position: Sit in Easy Pose, with a straight spine, or on a chair with Sadhana, a daily spiritual feet flat on the ground. The hands practice, is in its own sense are resting on the knees in Gyan a lighthouse too. In some Mudra (first fingers and thumb tips inexplicable way we trust that are touching). by giving this time we will experience something like a Eyes: Look at the center of your communion with our very chin, through closed eyes (or look essence, our souls, and our at the tip of your nose through connection with the Infinite. When we are able to let go, to eyes opened 1/10). “allow,” this experience becomes more and more a regular part of our lives, and gives us a strong core to go through Mantra: Inhale deeply and hold the life. breath as you mentally recite: “I am Bountiful, I am Blissful, I am Giving to Dasvandh is like seeing the lighthouse in the Beautiful.” Exhale entirely and hold physical aspects of out lives. We are giving to our Infinity, the breath out as you mentally and from that same place of trust and faith, we experience recite: “Excel, Excel, Fearless.” the connection with the Infinite, we own a foundation and we know we are provided for. We open ourselves to the Time: Practice this 3 minutes at a inherent prosperity and abundance of the Universe and time, 3 or 4 times a day (or more we begin to experience it, until this, too, becomes such a if you want). regular part of our lives that we know we can depend on it.

Hope is an energy source straight from the heart. It’s like the alarm clock urging us to go to Sadhana, a light bulb inside of us that lets us simply be and shine in the world. Trust in that energy source. Know hope and be hope. Allow yourself to be the light of hope that shines in the world. And please give generously to Dasvandh. With the state of the world and the challenges we face in this cusp between the Piscean and Aquarian Ages, we have to deliver! Your Dasvandh contributions help us share light and hope with many others.

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at Nam. Here at IKYTA International Head- teacher wants to have control or aims to get Squarters we are ready for the New Year. We some benefits - sensual, sexual, monetary, politi- decided to test our new 2003 online membership cal, social - whatever you call it; and a teacher benefit, “Moments with the Master.” Yogi Bhajan is mentally dependent not on the teachings pen- will speak, giving us a monthly message for our etrating into the student, but on some other membership which will posted as a sound bite in things, if (for example) the student is rich and the “Members Only” section of our website. We needs to be catered to, then that’s ridiculous. want to share this first message with all of you. I remember myself that when I used to teach in LA a lot of movie stars, directors, and fashion models came; but our policy is not to introduce anybody. Not to draw off of them. Our policy is just to teach, and finish. That purity is essential in order to be a human. I’m not even talking of a teacher. Being a teacher is great, but I’m talking of being simply human. A human must not extend himself or herself to anyone other than for the purpose of giving the other person divinity, dignity, grace and knowledge. That is my day. Sat Nam."

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Page 6 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 Amar Infinity Foundation How to develop YOUR Estate Plan and Help your PARENTS with theirs. Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa

Write a will: the value of your estate significantly death of the first spouse, but this If you do not increases or decreases, or tax laws approach wastes the estate tax credit have a will change, or if you move to another of the ‘first-to-die’. A credit shelter when you die, state, or if your business or career trust can maximize each spouse’s the law of changes. When you are ready to draw credit, thus sheltering more assets your state up your estate planning strategies, from estate tax liabilities. may talk to your financial advisor. Be sure determine to consult your tax and legal advisors Remember what as well before making any investment Time passes; needs change. Those happens to decisions. close to you may have different your estate, financial needs now. Different health your assets, Organize your paperwork and needs. Whole new ways to look and any files: at life. Create or review your minor children. In addition, the If you do not provide your executors plan with your estate planning team state process, usually governed by and beneficiaries with all the of skilled professionals including a probate court, is often slow, paperwork or files pertaining to your an Amar Infinity Foundation sometimes expensive and open to the property, assets, and wishes, improper representative, attorney, and tax public. distribution and management of your adviser. estate may result upon your passing. Re-title ‘JWROS’ property: Make sure your Joint-Tenancy-With-Right of Re-title ownership of life planning takes Survivorship titling of assets may insurance policies: advantage of the result in estate planning headaches. Most life insurance policies are new tax provisions Although probate is avoided at the owned by the insured, causing the and provides first joint owner’s death, it is not policy’s face amount to be included flexibility to avoided upon the death of the in that person’s estate at his accommodate survivor, thus only delaying the estate or her death. Policy owners may additional changes taxes. Re-titling assets to a credit consider giving policies directly to to estate tax code shelter trust can help avoid probate the beneficiary, charity of choice, in the future and and provide estate tax savings. or transferring the policies to an maximum benefits to you, your family, irrevocable life insurance trust. Either and the causes you care about. Fund a living trust: strategy could help reduce estate Follow through if you set up a living taxes. Contact us if we can be of help as trust. Until you transfer ownership you make your plans and secure your of property or assets to it, the trust Choose any appropriate executor: future. is not worth any more to you or Naming an inexperienced family your beneficiaries than the paper it member as executor could is printed on. Unfortunately, many complicate the demanding task of revocable living trusts are set up, but settling your estate. This is especially are never funded. true at a difficult and emotional time following a death. Look into Update your estate plan: the benefits of naming a professional Bringing your estate plan up-to-date organization to follow through with Amar Infinity Foundation from time to time is important so that the duties of an executor. Securing the Future it is implemented exactly according 2313 N Richland Street to your wishes. You will want to Use both spouses’ applicable Phoenix, Arizona 85006 update your estate plan when there exclusion amount: Tel: (602) 407-2880 are changes in your family (births, Leaving all property and assets to a Fax: (602) 254-2232 marriages, divorces, deaths etc.), or spouse may avoid estate taxes at the [email protected]

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Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan ) Special Workshop - 1st Time to be Taught! June 16-June 18, 2003, New Mexico

ome join us in the heart of New Mexico and merge into the frequency Cof your soul. During this Course we will delve into Japji - an ecstatic song sung by Guru Nanak at the moment of his union with the Divine. Guru Nanak’s Japji contains Universal teachings that answer life’s deepest questions and speak to the longing of each soul. Come experience the mysticism of Japji through meditation, chanting, and Naad Yoga. Explore the many facets of Japji and begin to relate it to your own experiences, in the past, present, and future. Your opportunity is here to sit daily at the feet of the Yoga Master, Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan), as he interprets the poetry and teachings of Japji - The Song of the Soul. Whether you are old or new to this technology or if you have an established practice, come join us for this interactive, uplifting, healing experience! Tele-Classes for Self Here is some of what is planned: Mastery - Daily Classes at the feet of the Master of Panch Nishan Kaur Khalsa Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan - Special Group Sadhana ake advantage of this unique - Meditation / Naad Yoga / Shabad Guru Topportunity! Learn with others - Live Music / Chantin / Singing in the comfort of your own home. - Healing Dial the Sikh Dharma conference - Movement line and join a group of like-minded - Sharing people on the telephone. - Writing - Reflection Listen, Discuss and Expand! - Connection with the local Spiritual Community - Team of inspired and expert teachers Find out MORE about our New Tele-Class Series or to Join Our Course Details Mailing List: he Course will begin on Sunday, June 15th in the Tevening with dinner and gathering, and will end in [email protected] the evening on Wednesday, June 18th with dinner. Wholesome, yogic, vegetarian meals will be provided. Accomodation arrangements to be made by participant.

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Page 8 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 The Power of Hope Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa Guru Ram Das Center for Medicine and Humanology, Asst. Sect. of Ministry

would be in more pain if the desired and in the joy of life? result does not come through. Meditation practice helps us become Hope is not a prediction of aware of what beliefs we hold and to the future, “Oh, I will get consciously transform the belief into well.” It is a declaration of the vibration of the vastness of the what is possible, “I can get mantra. well.” It is healthier to Ang Sang, Wahe Gu-roo is an excellent believe that there is a way mantra for engendering the power of through, than to think that hope. The following simple meditation there is no way. So we help reminds us that in our very fiber, the our clients clarify for themselves. bliss of Infinity lives. Which thought leaves you with more One of vitality? Leaves you feeling better Sit in Easy Pose with your hands the Five Sutras of the today? Allows you to take action that in Gian Mudra. Aquarian Age is, “There is a way can lead to a solution? Chant aloud, through every block.” In the moment “Ang Sang of difficulty, we may not know what Our thoughts and beliefs are Wahe Gu-roo,” that way is; in fact, we may not even nourishment to our lives, just as much in a monotone have a clue. Yet simply knowing that as the food we eat. It is important what or any melody a way through the current situation thoughts we hold, because everything for 31 minutes. is possible not only keeps us from we feel and everything we do is based Feel God within despair, it quiets the mind enough to on our beliefs. So, it is important to be and around you. open us to intuition, to possibilities, aware of our foundational beliefs and Relax. to help from others, and gives us the daily thoughts, to sort through them, energy to take the next step. “There is to consciously choose what thoughts a way through every block” is a clear The practical application of Kundalini and beliefs we keep, and which we statement of hope. Yoga and Meditation to these princi- transform. It is important to develop, ples and more is taught in a one day nurture, and protect our hope. Hope It is ancient wisdom: as we think, so course, “Courage for a Different Jour- drives our capacity for self-healing and do we live. Hope is the belief that a ney: Transformation of Self into the change. Hope stimulates our own life positive outcome is possible, no matter Aquarian Age.” Plans are in the force to live through the power of spirit. how unlikely it may seem. Fear is the works to teach this course: by MSS belief that a negative outcome is likely. Tarn Taran Singh Khalsa and SS In yogic science, human is defined as Hope gives us energy, inner support, Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. at the light of the mind: Hu (light) Man and leads us to make decisions and the Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Forum (mind). To be human is to allow the take actions that can bring us a better in Espanola, New Mexico, in June, at light of the soul to come through the tomorrow. Fear keeps us stuck, in pain, the European Yoga Festival in Mur thoughts. And since thoughts give and leads us to make decisions that de Solonge, France, in July, and at way to feeling and action, to live as make our today a misery. the Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Forum human is to have the soul guide all in Mur de Solonge, France in August, thoughts, feelings, and actions. The At the Guru Ram Das Center for 2003. SS Dr. Shanti Shanti Kaur soul’s guidance is the essence of hope. Medicine & Humanology we instruct is instructing the course in Sausalito, Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to California, on March 30th, and an It does not matter if you are an atheist people and their family members with extended version in Espanola, New or are devout in your spiritual practice. chronic or life-threatening illness. The Mexico, February 24th--March 17th. Look at your beliefs and the impact most common difficulty we see in our they have on you. Do they inspire clients is the belief, “I can’t get well.” Or, For more confirmation of the above hope? Do they leave you feeling vital, “I won’t get well.” In such situations, a dates or information: effective, receptive to inner guidance person may not want to have a thought and support and help from others? Do of hope, because they believe that they www.grdcenter.org they help you feel grateful, serviceful, 800-326-1322.

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hildren, being sensitive beings, are scary,” or “You really feel angry at what to the original position. This is a fast, Cespecially aware of the pain and has happened,” can help them feel shaking motion. confusion surrounding them, though and express what they feel. But don’t Breath: Long Deep Breathing. they may not express their feelings expect or try to make anything happen- Time: Continue for 1-3 minutes. directly. When you notice a ripe -remember we are practicing “allowing opportunity to open a space for talking, what is,” to be! It is also important to Pose: Sit in open the space in your heart first, so maintain a sense of normalcy of life. 2.Easy Pose that truth may prevail in your words. Having fun and enjoying life with your and bend the child will go a long way toward creating arms at the Acknowledging Feelings inner and outer peace. elbows. Keep the First of all acknowledge their feelings. In elbows in close to one of my favorite books , Liberated the body, upper Parents, Liberated Children, by Adele Yoga To Release Anxiety arms extend Faber and Elaine Mazlish, the authors The following Kundalini Yoga exercises somewhat beyond stress the importance of accepting were given by Yogi Bhajan to adults, the shoulder, children’s feelings: and children can do them too, starting palms are open with the minimum time (1 minute). and facing the All feelings are Adolescents and teens can eventually body. Begin bringing the hands in permitted, actions are work up to the maximum amount of toward the body (without touching it) limited. We must not time (3 minutes). and then back out again. It is a quick deny a child’s motion, almost like you are fanning perception. Only after These movements are coupled with the yourself. The movement is about 12 a child feels right, can strong breath to work on the nervous inches. he think right. Only system. The rapid arm movements Breath: Form a circle with the mouth after a child feels activate the meridians in the arms and and breath in and out rapidly through right, can she hands, and help to release old thought the mouth. do right. and feeling patterns Time: Continue for 1-3 minutes. that trigger fear and anxiety. The circled Pose: Repeat Allowing What Is mouth breath is 3.number 1. Allowing feelings is a beautiful often used to release Breath: Breathe meditation that brings the person, pent up emotion. rapidly in and out whether adult or child, into a state of through the circled peace. When your child knows that you Pose: Sit in mouth as you did in accept him or her unconditionally, they 1.Easy Pose with number 2. can mirror that quality for themselves. the hands in Prayer Time: Continue for When you accept “what is,” it cannot Pose in front of 1-3 minutes. stay the same. Your acceptance of the chest. Then, it creates a kind of “vibrational hug” keeping the hands around it, and it melts. together, move them Used with kind permission from downward away www.childrensyoga.com Describing what you perceive the child from the body and Copyright, Shakta Kaur Khalsa is feeling, for example, “That can be then back up again

Page 10 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 Khalsa Youth Camp An Essential Experience for Our Future Leaders SiriNam Singh Khasla

iri Singh Sahib Ji said, “KYC is an opportunity for Respect - fun group activities that promote pro-social Sour children to experience the Khalsa spirit and skills, manners, and group communication. Classes values”. This past summer I was fortunate to be cover the various aspects of yoga/chakra awareness, with the group of bright little souls who came to 3HO balanced living, and Spirit in Action through camp and practicing tolerance and service in the community. It enthusias- was inspiring to see the children confront their fears tically par- through challenging activities such as the KYC Ropes/ ticipated Climbing Wall, a Martial Arts course that is both practi- in daily cal and effective, and taking long hikes in the beautiful activities mountains of New Mexico. Our talented teachers facili- that tate these activities in a meaningful and uplifting way, enabled making certain that all children are recognized for their them to efforts with KYC Leadership Certificates. soar with their Khalsa Youth Camp is fun! We have our annual strengths. Fourth of July Pinata Party, overnight camping trips, field trips, sports, birthday celebrations, Community There are a variety of camps and experiences our children can participate in each summer. Why send your child to Khalsa Youth Camp at Ram Das Puri, NM? It truly takes a village to raise a child, and for the past 25 years KYC has been an integral part of our village. KYC is unique in that it reflects and instills the many facets of the teachings of the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan). For our children to be future leaders they need to be strong physically and mentally, and rooted in their spirituality. KYC supports this vision by supporting Sikh identity and the Khalsa spirit through daily age appropriate morning Sadhana, Gurdwara, Carnival, Camp Presentation and end of camp pancake Marching, and Seva activities. As the sun rises so pool party. Classes in Art and Bangara dancing are do their spirits. Each child practices Kundalini Yoga, also favorites. In a relatively short time, KYC can listens to inspiring stories that teach the values of our have a profound, and lasting effect. The campers get Dharma, and chants and sings the mantras, shabds the opportunity to build long-lasting relationships with and songs that cultivate peers and adults from around the world. The individual and group spirit. facilities, which include tents and cabins, create a cozy and safe environment for children For the older campers ages three to twelve. If you can make (8-12) we developed a the commitment to give your child(ren) this dynamic program, “The experience, you’ll be making an investment in Warrior-Saint Course,” their future prosperity. We look forward to which is facilitated by KYC another uplifting summer. Spread the word! staff and guest teachers. The campers begin the KYC- Full three week session day’s program with “CPR,” June 30 to July 21 The Circle of Power and [email protected]

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very Year, at the end of the fifth chakra. We were instructed Our morning Sadhana Har ESat Nam Rasayan Healing how to change the destiny of meditation created such a flow of Retreat in Assisi, communication, that Italy, Guru Dev this body of almost Singh, renowned 200 people, speaking healer and teacher six or seven different of the yogic healing languages, came to a form of Sat Nam state of one mind. Rasayan, says, “Best Despite all our obvious Assisi ever!!” All differences, unity and the participants clap, grace became the whistle, and cheer truth about our their agreement. presence together. In This year was no this state, we exception, but this performed a healing was special, and I meditation for the Siri realized that each Singh Sahib in a people who have no hope, using Assisi will always be the best beautiful spiral configuration, 31 minutes of Bound Lotus ever. The teachings given to us chanting our gratitude to the Kriya and 11-21 minutes of One this year, if we practice them, teacher who gave Sat Nam Minute Breath1. Finally, the Siri will ensure the evolution of our Rasayan to the world by teaching Singh Sahib directed us how to consciousness, and our growth as such a student as Guru Dev use our eyes for healing, which healers and human beings. Singh and made possible these was part of the original work “best ever” experiences Guru Dev Singh had intended uru Dev Singh visited Siri of Assisi 2002. for us. GSingh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) days before coming to Assisi, to he main focus of Sat Nam spend many hours healing our Rasayan teaching is to teacher. At one point the Siri T develop the neutral, projective Singh Sahib awakened and in mind in a state of pure, stable 15 minutes gave Guru Dev Singh contemplation, to use for healing. “homework” for the 2002 Assisi Combining our practice of retreat, for the very first time. contemplation with the amazing Guru Dev Singh, who had of exercises given to us by the Siri course already developed his Singh Sahib created some of “curriculum,” beautifully the most powerful, transformative incorporated these historic gems experiences that we have ever from the Siri Singh Sahib. Our known. Dedicated yogis (our homework consisted of seven brothers and sisters!) practicing statements in the form of poetic Bound Lotus and then One questions that gave us a system Minute Breath1 for people chosen to heal the chakras. In addition, to have their destinies healed we were given a three-part Har 1. The Bound Lotus Kriya is being created events of sacredness in taught at Summer Solstice. The One meditation to do every day in our action that were awe-inspiring. Minute Breath meditation is described in: morning Sadhana, to open the Kundalini Yoga, by Shakta Kaur Khalsa.

Prosperity Paths ~ PO Box 249 ~ Espanola, NM 87567 [email protected] Tel: (505) 747-0388 Page 13 nce a man came to me and said he wanted to be the "Owisest man of the world. I said, 'Read Japji, and you Japji Sahib will.' That’s all it takes. I can give you the word of honor. If any one of you can understand Japji, you can understand the entire wisdom of God. In those forty Pauris the whole thing is contained. The entire Siri Guru Granth is the explanation of that Japji." - Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan)

apji is one of the five daily Sikh prayers. Guru Nanak found the Divine Spirit of God within himself, and when he Jmerged his psyche and understanding into that Spirit, he spoke Japji as a way to guide and enlighten other human beings about the Reality of the Divine within the Creation. Japji is a teacher for anyone seeking Truth. The Sound Current of Japji and the meaning of its words, when meditated upon with openness and love, awakens a soul to its destiny. Step by step, Japji gives you the comprehensive power to know yourself as you are and be with God’s Creation in a spirit of joyful surrender. - Ek Ong Kaar Kaur Khalsa

("Japji" can be found in the Nitnem or a transliterated version can be obtained from Ancient Healing Ways www.a-healing.com )

The Daily Banis All the Bliss your mind desires is yours, when you meditate by Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan on Gobind, the destroyer of cruelty. From Furmaan Khalsa: Poems to Live By The Kingdom of the one who chants the Gurmantra, The Yogi speaks effortlessly. .. Wahe Guru, shall endure forever and ever. From the Love and Light of his Heart, And from the depth of his meditative Wisdom. If you chant Sat Nam, all your affairs are arranged, And all your desires are fulfilled. Oh, Sikhs of the Guru! Oh, Khalsa! Listen to my Prayer! When you sing Sopurkh, the Vision of the The Nitnem is the Command given by the True Guru. Infinite Creator shall come to you. If you recite your Banis consciously, You will gain Divine Knowledge. The entire Universe fills the meditation, Of the one who sings the watch of the So Dar. It is by Guru’s Grace that I tell you this, And it is by God’s Grace that you will be merged with Him. When you sing the praises of Guru Ram Das, God manifests in your Innermost Soul. When your Soul feels sad, recite Japji in the depth of your Inner Self. The Siri Sargam is such a powerful Naad, When your body feels useless, recite Shabd Hazaare. That hearing it, even the homeless shall find a good home. When your Dignity is threatened, meditate on Jaap Sahib. When nothing seems to satisfy you, Hearing and singing the Guru Gayatri, sing Tev Prasaad Swaya each day. Rishi Dusht Daman will be the Protector of your home. When you feel hopeless, unsuccessful, and worthless, That is the time to sing Rehiras. The Paintees Akharee gives the understanding of Yoga. When your lower self confronts you, and you seem to have no money, Benti Chaupee liberates the Soul. When your affairs all seem to fail, and your mind can find no Peace, Whoever listens to, or recites the Bara Maha to others, That is the time to sing Anand Sahib. His home becomes an ocean of Peace and Bliss. When your life seems boring, and you feel uninspired, That’s when you should sing Kirtan Sohila. By eating lightly of healthy food, When the Light of your Soul is dim, One experiences the Bliss of Brahm, and the dark ethers surround you, and complete Liberation. Then recite the Bhagauti Ardas. If you sing Sukhmani from your heart, The Guru’s Lungar is the very best food! You shall be wealthy and exalted, The entire Universe meditates at the Harimandir. beyond your wildest dreams. Whosoever recites his Nitnem daily, Is blessed by Akal with Peace and Bliss

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power to be a perfect sage. all your sins. those who wish to do you The Mool Mantra is a fate [9] [21] harm. killer. It removes the fate The ninth pauri gives The twenty-first pauri will [30] and changes the destiny to expansion maintain your status, grace, The thirtieth pauri places complete prosperity. [10] and position. you upon the throne of [1] The tenth pauri grants grace. [22] divinity. It makes you a sage The second half of the [11] The twenty-second pauri and a saint. first pauri is an antidote to The eleventh pauri gives brings victory in legal battles. [31] depression. It will lift you virtuousness. It gives you the strategy. The thirty-first pauri pulls all from the deepest depression, [12] [23] virtues from the heavens. insecurity, nightmares and When you feel small, the The twenty-third pauri [32] loss. twelfth pauri gives you dispels darkness and The thirty-second pauri pays [2] solidarity of self, self- elevates the self. your debts and completes The second pauri imparts impressiveness and [24] your karma. patience and stability. self-respect. The twenty-fourth pauri [33] [3] [13] breaks through all limitation The thirty-third pauri The third pauri transforms The thirteenth pauri gives with the force of a destroys your ego and brings insufficiency into sufficiency, you the occult knowledge thunderbolt. So powerful home your divinity. It turns depression into of Infinity. It brings deep that it affects generations, removes negativity, elevation and transforms low intuition. it has the power to kill neutralizes your destructive self-esteem into complete [14] misfortune. nature and prevents harm to self-confidence. When you cannot find your [25] others by your hand. [4] path in life; when you When you recite the [34] The fourth pauri blesses cannot see the direction twenty-fifth pauri, all your The thirty-fourth pauri those trapped in feelings of of your destiny; when you needs become pre-fulfilled. brings stability. poverty and lack of means. cannot achieve fulfillment; Prosperity, virtue, estate, and [35] It blasts through the trap the fourteenth pauri will wealth are yours without The thirty-fifth pauri gives of these feelings like a show you the way. asking. you the breadth to do thunderbolt from the blue. [15] [26] your duty and fulfill your [5] The fifteenth pauri brings The twenty-sixth pauri responsibility. The fifth pauri must be salvation. transforms nothing into [36] recited when you feel a [16] everything. In your business The thirty-sixth pauri brings sense of failure within The sixteenth pauri gives it banishes losses, divine realization. It grants yourself. When you feel that knowledge of the structure misfortunes, and miseries. complete understanding of you are not up to the job, of the universe. [27] the heavens and the earth. this pauri will grant you all [17] When you are stuck and you [37] success. The seventeenth pauri cannot see the window of The thirty-seventh pauri cuts [6] brings freedom and opportunity before you, the the karma. It kills the The sixth pauri dispels resurrection. twenty-seventh pauri shows impact of all bad karmas. limitation. Recite it when [18] you the way. It removes [38] you feel limited, cornered, The eighteenth pauri fights obstacles and hurdles. The thirty-eighth pauri gives trapped or coerced. madness, deep feelings of [28] you the power to rewrite [7] inferiority and The twenty-eighth pauri is your own destiny. When you suffer from greed, self-destructive behavior. the strongest permutation madness for power, [19] and combination in the The Shalok brings overbearing expansion and The nineteenth pauri brings world. It unites you with self-satisfaction, elevation, the need to control, when universal knowledge, God. acknowledgement and you become trapped in your inspiration, and revelation. [29] respect. territoriality, the seventh [20] The twenty-ninth pauri is pauri will heal you. When the monsters are a shield of protection. It [8] nipping at your heels, the protects you from your The eighth pauri gives the twentieth pauri wipes away enemies by simply vaporizing

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- "Give Hope to Those Who Don't Have Hope" - Hope and the Five Steps - Lighthouses of Hope - The Power of Hope - ...and much more

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