大師的回家之旅
Yogi Bhajan，後來成為Siri Singh Sahib，他與聚集在荒野中迎接夏至的幾百名學生相遇。 「 我走在最後一英里，」他告訴我們，向西方一群最早的昆達里尼瑜伽老師談話。 我們嚴肅地坐在他身邊，安靜而直挺挺地坐著，我們中的許多人眼中含著淚水或從臉頰流下。 「 當我離開時，就由你來舉旗幟了。」 這是1972年6月在加利福尼亞州門多西諾。 接著他經過32年，並沒有離開。 顯然，Siri Singh Sahib 在開始訓練我們成為老師後不久，就開始為我們準備他未來必然的離世。 在這樣做時，他教導了五條原則：
☀️ 相信我們知道未知。
☀️ 我們有能力在面對挑戰時保持冷靜、清晰和勇敢。
☀️ 無論遇到什麼障礙，都要團結一致。
☀️ 死亡是不可畏懼的；雖然靈魂確實離開了身體，但我們不會死。
☀️ 老師的精微能量體和學生的精微能量體處於持續性的關係中，因此我們不需要在死亡時感到分離或失落。
Akal Dayal是對我們的靈性老師的224頁致敬。 這是關於當 Yogi Bhajan 離開他的身體時，我們如何作為一個全球同修一起實現這些原則的故事。 這本書的心跳是 Siri Guru Granth Sahib 的 Hukams 合集。 Hukams 的收藏來自他去世前一週，2004年10月6日去世之日，火化日，追悼會前的17天，以及隨後的40天。 這些Hukams來自Siri Singh Sahib的兩個家，印度阿姆利則的 Hari Mandir Sahib（金廟）和新墨西哥州埃斯帕諾拉的Hacienda de Guru Ram Das。 來自金廟的 Hukams 首先由阿姆利則Miri Piri學院的學生與他們的繪畫一起收集，並贈送給 Siri Sikdar Sahiba Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa。 來自 Hacienda de Guru Ram Das的Hukams，以及來自遠近愛的學生的藝術品，是來自金廟的同伴。
在Siri Singh Sahib去世之前的一段時間裡，以及隨後嚴峻的日子裡，正是Siri Guru Granth Sahib、Shabd Guru 的 Naad 發出的聲流 — 無論我們在全球何處 — 給了我們安慰、支援、清晰、團結，並不斷提醒我們靈魂、地球上每一個有限的一生和神的無限神聖之光之間的真正關係。 現在，和那時一樣，這個 Hukams 的集合，為心靈提供了一條與靈魂融合的途徑，並允許我們的整個生命與永恆善良的真理產生共鳴。 正如 Guru Gobind Singh 在 Jaap Sahib、Akal Dayal中發言的那樣：不死、慈悲、良善。
當你唱誦和沉思 Hukam 時，請注意構成它的藝術品。 每個人都來自我們卡沙Khalsa家族的一名成員，其中許多人來自 Miri Piri學 院的孩子，以愛和冥想的奉獻精神完成。 幾個人援引了金廟的大理石鑲嵌。 其他反映了Hukam的基調，心靈或心靈的運動，或藝術家靈魂的深度和純真。 1985年4月，一名學生來到 Yogi Bhajan 前，要求著：「 請教我如何生活。」Siri Singh Sahib 回答說：「 如果你想知道如何生活，你最好先問我如何死去。 我們在生活中唯一做錯事的時候就是忘記了我們要死的時候。 當我們記住生命是神聖的禮物時，我們不會搞砸。」那天晚上晚些時候，他做了一個關於死亡的演講，結果是歌曲《爬上山 Walking up the Mountain 》。 在這首歌中，講座的歌詞成為學生和老師之間的對話，以 Ram Das Puri 為背景。 「 你不會幫我找到路嗎......你轉身走開......唯一重要的是你的記憶。Won’t you help me find the way…You turn and walk away…the only thing that matters is the memory of you.」
這些 Hukam 在靈魂和心愛的人之間提供了類似的對話。 每個 Hukam都是對無聲問題、祈禱或心靈問題的回答。 這本書的天賦之一是，它提供了一個大師在生與死之間的典範。 這是一個教我們如何死亡的榜樣，從而以活力、精神、服務和中性來擁抱生命。 來自 Siri Guru Granth Sahib 的 Hukam 在 Siri Singh Sahib 去世的過程中，收集了17天的靈魂之旅，以及隨後的40天 — 也繪製了我們的旅程。 背誦這些Hukam 的 Naad 可以清除任何心碎、憤怒、內疚、遺憾、悲傷或對未來的恐懼。 你可以用 Naam simran 作為你自己的治療藥物。 Siri Singh Sahib 曾經說過：「 只有當我們忘記神時，我們才會悲傷。」那是1998年10月，他坐在一家飯店餐廳的桌子旁，喝著熱茶，等待輪到他其後要出席輔導員和心理學家的會議前。
「 當我們記住神時，」他繼續說，「 我們感到無限。 無限知道沒有什麼所謂的任何損失或收益，所以有什麼可悲哀的呢？ 記住神，你就能體驗無限。 體驗到無限，你就會體驗到狂喜、快樂。」 體驗這本書。 透過你的感知系統，感受每個單詞和每個影像的力量，進入你的十個能量身體，讓振動穿透並把你過去的任何痛苦轉化為你廣闊的、無畏的自我。 大聲朗誦 Hukam。 複製那些特別與你交談的 Hukam，為他們繪製你自己的藝術品，並把它們放在你的聖壇上。 讓這些Hukams成為你快樂、廣闊、服務和豐富的生活的指引，當你的靈魂得到滿足，並面臨每個挑戰時，引導你度過一個和平、勝利和完整的經歷。
不死、 慈悲和 善良。 Akal，Dayal。
Sardarni Sahiba Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa 博士
錫克法國際宗教部助理部長
用上述話語，作者分享了她對 Siri Singh Sahib 所說的話的個人記憶。 它們銘刻在她的心中，也銘刻在他在美國任教的早期有幸聽到他的人的心中。
The Master’s Journey Home
Yogi Bhajan, who later became the Siri Singh Sahib, met with a few dozen students from among the several hundred who had gathered in the wilderness for Summer Solstice. “I am on my last mile,” he told us, addressing a group of the earliest teachers of Kundalini Yoga in the West. We sat solemnly around him, quiet and still, many of us with tears in our eyes or streaming down our cheeks. “When I am gone, it is up to you to carry the banner.”
This was in Mendocino, California, June 1972. He did not leave his body for another 32 years.
Clearly, the Siri Singh Sahib began preparing us for his passing shortly after he began training us to be teachers. In doing so, he taught five principles:
- Trust that we know the unknown.
- We have within us the capacity to be calm, clear, and courageous in the face of
challenge. - Stay together in unity and community, no matter what the obstacles.
- Death is not to be feared; although the soul does leave the body, we do not die.
- The subtle body of the teacher and the subtle body of the student are in continuous relationship so that we need not feel separation or loss at the time of death.
Akal Dayal is a 224-page tribute to our Spiritual Teacher. It is the story of how we fulfilled these principles together as a global sangat when Yogi Bhajan left his physical body. The heartbeat of this book is the collection of Hukams from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
The collection of Hukams is from the week before his passing, the day of his passing on October 6, 2004, the cremation day, the 17 days leading to the memorial service, and the 40 days following. These Hukams come from the Siri Singh Sahib’s two homes, the Hari Mandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) in Amritsar, India and Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, in Espanola, New Mexico.
The Hukams from the Golden Temple were first gathered by the students of Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar, together with their drawings, and presented to Siri Sikdar Sahiba Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa. The Hukams from Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, with artwork from loving students near and far, are companions to those from the Golden Temple.
During the time leading up to the Siri Singh Sahib’s passing and the demanding days following, it was the sound current through the Naad of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, the Shabd Guru—no matter where we were across the globe—that gave us comfort, support, clarity, unity, and a constant reminder of the true relationship between the soul, each finite lifetime on the planet, and the Infinite Divine Light of God.
Now, as then, this collection of Hukams provides a pathway for the mind to merge with the soul and allows our whole being to resonate with the kindness and truth that we are undying. As Guru Gobind Singh speaks in Jaap Sahib, Akal Dayal: Undying, Merciful, Kind.
As you recite and contemplate a Hukam, notice the artwork that frames it. Each is from the hands of a member of our Khalsa family, many by our children from the Miri Piri Academy, done with love and a meditative devotion. Several invoke the marble inlay at the Golden Temple. Others reflect the tone of the Hukam, the movement of the psyche, or of the heart, or the depth and innocence of the soul of the artist.
In April 1985, a student came to Yogi Bhajan with a request, “Please teach me how to live.” The Siri Singh Sahib responded, “If you want to know how to live, you’d better ask me how to die. The only time we do wrong in life is when we forget that we are to die. When we remember that life is a sacred gift, we don’t mess up.” Later that evening, he gave a lecture on death that resulted in the song, Walking up the Mountain. In this song, the words of the lecture are rendered into a dialogue between a student and a teacher and set at Ram Das Puri. “Won’t you help me find the way…You turn and walk away…the only thing that matters is the memory of you.”
These Hukams offer a similar dialogue between the soul and the Beloved. Each Hukam is the answer to an unvoiced question, a prayer or a problem of the heart.
One of the gifts of this book is that it offers an example of a Master in life and in death. It is a model to teach us how to die and thus to embrace life with vitality, spirit, service, and
neutrality. The Hukams from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib collected over the course of the Siri Singh Sahib’s passing, the 17-day journey of the soul, and the 40 days following—map our journey, too. Recitation of the Naad of these Hukams clears any heartbreak, anger, guilt, regrets, grief, or fear of the future. You can use naam simran as your own healing medicine.
“We only grieve when we forget God,” the Siri Singh Sahib once said. It was October 1998, and he was sitting at a table in a hotel restaurant sipping hot tea, waiting for his turn to present at a conference for counselors and psychologists.
“When we remember God,” he continued, “we feel Infinity. Infinity knows no loss or gain, so what is there to grieve? Remember God and you experience Infinity. Experience Infinity and you experience ecstasy, joy.”
Experience this book. Feel the strength of each word and each image through your Sensory System into each of your Ten Bodies and allow the vibrations to penetrate and transform any pain of your past into your vast, fearless Self. Recite the Hukams aloud. Photocopy those Hukams that particularly speak to you, draw your own artwork for them and keep them on your altar. Let these Hukams be your guidance to a joyful, expansive, serviceful, and rich life, leading—when your soul is fulfilled, and each challenge faced—to a passing that is peaceful, victorious and complete.
Undying. Merciful. Kind. Akal, Dayal.
Sardarni Sahiba Shanti Shanti Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary of Religion for Sikh Dharma International
With the above words, the writer shares her personal memories of words spoken by the Siri Singh Sahib. They were engraved in her heart and on the hearts of those who were privileged to hear him during the earliest days of his teaching in America.
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