Monday, November 9, 2009

Re: [Kundalini Yoga] Sikhism and Kundalini Yoga

 

My girlfriend took a training to become a kundalini yoga teacher and she didn't have to use the garments. But it was in Sweden and they're not very much into religion of any kind....

--- In Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com, mcavila27@... wrote:
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> Why if Kundalini Yoga is separate from Sikhism is it require for a student of Kundalini Yoga Teacher Program to wear the Sikhism garments?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Yoga Jap" <noi@...>
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 09:25:54
> To: <Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Kundalini Yoga] Sikhism and Kundalini Yoga
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> Sat Nam!
>
> The answer is "YES!": people of every religion or atheist can pratice Yoga
> since Yoga never asks to have faith (as religions do) and the pratice,
> contrariwise, can't be seprated from our own experience.
>
> ....but nothing better than the words of Yogi Bhajan :-)
>
> Shakti Parwha Kaur: We do draw so heavily in the Sikh tradition of the
> mantras that we use, the...
>
> Yogi Bhajan: Because they are right mantras, not that it's a Sikh tradition.
> They happen to be available. "God and me, me and God are one" are not
> anywhere, but it works. It is an ashtang mantra. The sound is correct. We
> use it. "I am Thine in mine myself". You know I am Mahan Tantric, I can make
> up the sound current. That doesn't mean that it has to be only in Gurmukhi.
> So I draw it whenever I can. Why not? And those mantras are just mantras
> wich happen to be correct. There are tons of mantras, right? I only use
> those wich I know will be very elementary and will work
>
> Blessings!
>
> Sujan S.
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "veganderson" <veganderson@...>
> To: <Kundaliniyoga@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:00 PM
> Subject: [Kundalini Yoga] Sikhism and Kundalini Yoga
>
> > Is it possible to separate Sikhism and Kundalini Yoga since many
> > mantras used in the meditations come from the Sikhism "bible"?
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> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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