正如帕坦伽利所描述的那樣，圍繞瑜伽的教導和技術得到了錫克大師的尊重。然而，瑜伽士的文化是 Guru Nanak 挑戰的。
Yogi Bhajan 是這樣描述的：
「 你說，好吧，我被創造出來了，然後我必須思考我被創造的原因。所以你跑到叢林和山頂去冥想。假設你跑到山頂，並在山洞裡生活，你意識到神創造你是有充分理由的— 行善事？假設你意識到這一點時已經八十六歲了，你不能再走下那座山了？你能做什麼好事呢？
這就是為什麼 Guru Nanak 去了大成就者（siddhas）的瑜伽教派。他們問他，『 我們的世界怎麼樣呢？樓下又是如何呢？ 』
Guru Nanak 說：『 如果大師們都已經逃到了山頂。如果沒有嚮導，下面會發生什麼呢？ 』
他說：『 你們所有人都應該指導那些生活在黑暗時代的人。但相反的，你正坐在山頂上，從空中創造食物。所以實際上，你不在乎他們發生了什麼事。 』
當部門負責人不在乎分支機構發生了什麼事時，無論如何，你可以想像分支機構會發生什麼。
Guru Nanak 說：『 黑暗就在這裡。你應該把神的意識賦予人們。你太有神性意識了，以至於你逃避了責任，躲在了這些巨大的山洞裡。當你們這些開悟的人不面對黑暗時，黑暗怎麼面對黑暗呢？』
Guru Nanak 說：『 瘋狂的傢伙呀，聽我說。逃避生活不是你被賦予生命的原因。生活著就是你被賦予生命的原因。知道真理，然後住在山洞裡，對你來說沒有任何意義。在我們正常的生活方式中，瞭解真理並活出世界上的真理，這就是真理所在以此為名原因。 』」
— Yogi Bhajan，1973 年 4 月 30 日
在 Guru Nanak 開悟前的經歷，他和他的妻子有了孩子。他的一個兒子叫 Siri Chand。一些古老的故事表明，Guru Nanak 知道他的兒子註定要成為一名偉大的瑜伽士。Yogi Bhajan 談到了 Guru Nanak 如何指導他的兒子與瑜伽士一起工作，以幫助徹底改變他們的意識。
「 如果你必須活下去，一百年是徹頭徹尾的業力。唯一超過這個年齡組的人是 Baba Siri Chand，這是出於特殊原因。那麼發生了什麼事呢？為什麼 Baba Siri Chand 活了 150 年，152 年，然後他的身體就 alope 了？elope 意味著逃跑。但 alope 也是一個旁遮普語單詞，意思是完全與元素分離。
在 Baba Siri Chand 時代，有 Riddhee Siddhee Yogis（ 擁有神秘力量的瑜伽師 ），他們老把居家人嚇死。他們會來對居家人、村民和普通人做奇怪的事情。因此，Guru Nanak 將這份工作派給他的兒子 Baba Siri Chand，在 Baba Siri Chand 離開地球之前，讓所有的瑜伽士，都獲的了校正。Baba Siri Chand 為了做那件事不得不活了 150 多年。
Guru Nanak 所開創的第一個宗教傳統，是 Udhaasee Panth（烏達西道路 / 派）。之後，在 Guru Nanak 有生之年，他任命 Baba Siri Chand 為 Udhaasee Panth 的領袖。
從 Guru Nanak 一直到 Guru Gobind Singh 時期，追隨 Guru Nanak 的人都被稱為 Nanak Panthee，也就是「追隨 Nanak 道路的人」。
— Yogi Bhajan，1978 年 7 月 24 日
「Guru Nanak 將 Udhaasee（烏達西）一脈的古魯傳承之位（Guruship）授予了 Baba Siri Chand。這就是為什麼我們有 3HO — 肩負著教導昆達里尼瑜伽的責任，直到人們親身獲得體驗。」
— Yogi Bhajan，2002 年 10 月 3 日
我們喜歡認為，宗教是以一種線性的方式發展的。但事實並非如此。每一位偉大的靈性領袖，都會留下多樣的經驗與思想。當你深入探究錫克傳統的歷史時，會發現其中有許多彼此交錯、相互交會的脈絡。
Guru Nanak 多年來徒步旅行，過著棄世修行者（renunciate）的生活。他的同行夥伴是一位名叫 Mardana 的穆斯林音樂家。他們一起唱誦那些經由 Guru Nanak 傳出的神聖 Shabads。這些歌詠幫助人們得到療癒，並提升他們的意識。
當 Guru Nanak 從旅行中退休時，他派他的長子 Baba Siri Chand 去「糾正」瑜伽士。然後，Guru Nanak 拿起犁，繼續教學，並作為一個農民和在家居士。
當 Guru Nanak 結束他的旅行後，他派遣長子 Baba Siri Chand 去「導正」那些瑜伽士。之後，Guru Nanak 拿起犁，一面繼續教導，一面以農夫與在家居士（householder）的身分生活。
當 Guru Nanak 即將離開人世之際，每個人都想知道誰將繼承他。由於 Baba Siri Chand 對瑜伽有著深厚的掌握，許多人認為他將會接替父親的位置。然而，Guru Nanak 的體驗既涵蓋了瑜伽科學，也超越了瑜伽科學。他需要一位能夠理解 Shabad Guru 的神聖音流的繼承者。
「Guru Nanak 自己的兩個兒子 Baba Siri Chand 和 Baba Lakshmi Chand 都是圓滿的。不要以為他們有任何不足。然而，Guru Nanak 希望將這份恩典賦予在家居士（householder）。
一個 gadee，也就是靈性寶座（throne of spirituality），被授予 Baba Siri Chand，讓他承接 Udhaasee mat（烏達西思想流派）—也就是當時的不執著不依附／出離派別（unattached sect）。因此，另一個寶座則要授予一位弟子，而這位弟子就是 Lehna，後來成為 Guru Angad。」
——Yogi Bhajan，1982 年 7 月 5 日
Baba Siri Chand 繼續保有 Udhaasee Panth（烏達西派）領袖的地位，但他並未被選為 Guru Nanak 所有學生的下一任 Guru。因此，Baba Siri Chand 繼續與瑜伽士們在一起。
相反地，Guru Nanak 指定了侍奉他的弟子作為繼承者。Lehna — 後來被稱為 Guru Angad — 在奉獻、愛、服務與臣服上，已達到一種境界，使他的意識能夠透過 Shabad 與 Guru Nanak 融合。這就是 Guru Nanak 所決定的傳承繼承方式。
在之後的數十年間，那些修習 Shabad 的人，以及那些在 Baba Siri Chand 指導下修習瑜伽科學（yogic sciences）的人，各自發展出自己的修習風格。然而，這兩條道路都源自 Guru Nanak。。
Baba Siri Chand & the Yogic Culture
The teachings and technology surrounding yoga, as described by Patanjali, were honored by the Sikh Masters. Yet, the culture of the yogis was something Guru Nanak challenged. Yogi Bhajan described it this way:
“You say, ‘Well, I have been created and I have to think about why I have been created.’ So you run to the jungle and to the top of the mountains to meditate on it. Suppose by going on the top of a mountain and living your life in a cave, you realize God created you for a good reason—to do good deeds? Suppose you are eighty-six by the time you realize it and you can’t walk down that mountain anymore? What good deeds are you going to do?
That’s why Guru Nanak went to the sect of yogis who were siddhas. They asked him, ‘How is it going with this world of ours? What is happening downstairs?’
Guru Nanak said, ‘The Gurus have run away to the top of the mountains. What will happen down there when there is no guide?” He said, ‘All of you folks were supposed to guide those people living in the dark ages. Instead, you are sitting here on the top of the mountain, creating food from the air. So practically speaking, you do not care what is happening.’
When the head of the department does not care what is happening in the branches, you can imagine what is happening in the branches, anyway. Guru Nanak said, ‘There is darkness. You were supposed to give God consciousness to people. You are so God conscious that you have run away from your responsibility and have taken shelter in these huge mountain caves. When you, the enlightened ones, are unable to face the darkness, how can the darkness face the darkness?’
Guru Nanak said, ‘Crazy guys, listen to me. Running away from life is not what you are given life for. Living life is what you are given life for. Knowing the truth and living in a cave does not mean a thing to you. Knowing the truth and living the truth in the world, in our normal way of life, is what truth is to be known for.’” ~ Yogi Bhajan, April, 30, 1973
Before Guru Nanak’s enlightenment experience, he and his wife had children. One of his sons was named Siri Chand. Some of the old stories indicate that Guru Nanak knew his son had a destiny to become a great yogi. Yogi Bhajan talked about how Guru Nanak directed his son to work with the yogis to help shift their consciousness.
“One hundred-years is a total karma, if you have to live. The only body which surpassed that age group was Baba Siri Chand, and that was for a special reason. What happened? Why did Baba Siri Chand live 150, 152 years and then his body aloped? Elope means to run away. But alope is also a Punjabi word and means to totally get disintegrated into the tattvas.
At the time of Baba Siri Chand, there were Riddhee Siddhee Yogis (yogis with occult powers) who would scare the householders to death. They would come and do weird things to the householders, the villagers and the common folks. So Guru Nanak assigned the job to Baba Siri Chand, his son, to see that all yogis were straightened out before he, Baba Siri Chand, left the planet Earth. Baba Siri Chand had to live for 150 plus years to do that stuff.
The first religion that Guru Nanak started was the Udhaasee Panth. Then Guru Nanak made Baba Siri Chand the head of the Udhaasee Panth in his lifetime. People who followed Guru Nanak up to the time of Guru Gobind Singh were all called by the name of Nanak Panthee, those who followed Nanak’s path.”
– Yogi Bhajan, 7/24/78.
“Guru Nanak bestowed on Baba Siri Chand the Guruship of the Udhaasee side. That is why we have 3HO, the responsibility to teach Kundalini Yoga to the point of experience.”
-Yogi Bhajan, 10/3/02.
We like to think that religions develop in a linear way. But that is not the case. Every great spiritual leader leaves behind a diversity of experience and thought. When you go deeply into the history of the Sikh tradition, there are many threads that cross and intersect with each other.
Guru Nanak traveled on foot for years, living the life of a renunciate. His companion was a Muslim musician named Mardana. Together they would sing the sacred Shabads that came through Guru Nanak. These songs helped heal people and raise their consciousness.
When Guru Nanak retired from his travels, he sent his eldest son, Baba Siri Chand, to “straighten out” the yogis. Guru Nanak then picked up the plow and continued teaching, but as a farmer and a householder.
As the time for Guru Nanak’s earthly departure arrived, everyone wondered who would succeed him. Because of Baba Siri Chand’s profound mastery of yoga, many assumed that he would take his father’s place. But Guru Nanak’s experience both contained and surpassed the yogic sciences. He needed a successor who understood the Sound Current of the Shabad Guru.
“Guru Nanak’s own sons, Baba Siri Chand and Baba Lakshmi Chand, were perfect. Don’t think that there was anything less in them. But Guru Nanak wanted to give the grace to the householder. One gadee or throne of spirituality was given to Baba Siri Chand for the Udhaasee mat (school of thought), the unattached sect of that time. Therefore the other throne was to be given to a disciple, and that was Lehna who became Guru Angad.”
-Yogi Bhajan, 7/5/82 .
Baba Siri Chand retained his position as head of the Udhaasee Panth, but was passed over to become the next Guru for all of Guru Nanak’s students. So Baba Siri Chand stayed with the yogis.
Instead, Guru Nanak named his servant as the successor. Lehna, who came to be known as Guru Angad, had attained a level of devotion, love, service and surrender that allowed his consciousness to merge with Guru Nanak, through the Shabad. This was the succession that Guru Nanak decided upon. For many decades, those who practiced the Shabad, and those who practiced the yogic sciences under Baba Siri Chand, developed in their own style. But both paths originated with Guru Nanak.
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