Sat Nam Rasayan® Newsletter

 

Volume 3  Issue 3                                  Sat Nam Rasayan®                            December 2002

Published by the Center for Contemplative Awareness

 

This Newsletter was edited by Hargopal Kaur Khalsa for the Center for Contemplative Awareness, 370 ½ N. La Cienega Blvd.; Los Angeles, CA 90048. Please send articles, photos, news items, and suggestions to Hargopal at 1752 Preuss Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA or, via email, to hargopal@snrbliss.com.

 


Contents

 

July 6th–7th 2002 Immersion Synopsis - by Hargopal Kaur Khalsa

 

Calling All Sat Nam Rasayan® Students & Healers - by Satya Kaur LA/Team Solstice Leader

 

5 Day Retreat in California! - By Sat Deva Kaur LA/ SNR Secretary

 

4th of July Immersion - By Sat Deva Kaur LA/ SNR Secretary

 

New Moon/Full Moon Remote Treatments with Guru Dev Singh Khalsa - by Hari Das Kaur, La Jolla, CA

 

 

July 6th–7th 2002 Immersion Synopsis

by Hargopal Kaur Khalsa

 

Introduction

In Sat Nam Rasayan® we have always related to the client as an individual. In this course Guru Dev Singh taught us to relate to the client as a complex structure of families and relationships. Each person is tied to the program of their family or “tribe” which somehow appears as the structure of the resistance.

 

Guru Dev proposed that we can conceive of specific sensations/events/resistance of a person like complex relationships. We can modify the behavior of the person, breaking the conditions that hold the person in some tendency, by modifying that structure of the resistance. This leads to a deeper understanding of how the client is happening.

 

The following sections present some of the key elements which Guru Dev taught on our path to achieving the above awareness in an amazing 2-day course.

 

“We are experiencing the part of the awareness that allows us to be aware of this person [the client] as a member of a group and how this group is ruling his existence. Or part of his existence.”

- Guru Dev Singh

 

Exercise to relate to the person as a complex set of relationships

One exercise Guru Dev gave was to contemplate how the moon and the sun, i.e. the hot and the cold, are relating and how they are operating in the client.  Individualize the interrelationship between the sun and the moon in the system of your partner. We’re interested in how they are relating. We contemplate how this affects the practitioner, how the mind reacts, the sensations (light and dark), how you feel about it.

 

Your client’s enemy is your client

As always, Guru Dev Singh expressed a key concept in a unique funny way. Yes, the enemy of your client is your client. The mother of your client is your client. The wife and the lover of the wife are your clients. This is seeing your client as a complex set of relationships. You don’t concur with or take sides on a feud the client may be having. You include whom they’re feuding with as the clients as well.

 

Subtle Body

We can relate to a person’s relatives through the subtle body. “Anybody who exists or has existed has a subtle body. And by the meditative state you’re able to reach the information of that person. … if we break this point of congestion that we reach by the subtle body, it has an effect on the event.”

 

Meditation to differentiate between the mind and the body

This meditation helps you to differentiate between the mind and the body. Your mind and your body are two different things. However, your consciousness doesn’t differentiate it. It may be that you have a thought and your tummy hurts. Or your intestine locks and you think you’re dying. You don’t distinguish the mind from the body. This meditation will allow the mind to perceive in a different way, which makes it easier to conceive the client in a different way, as a complex.

 

Put the fingertips together with the palms apart at the level of the chest. Apply some pressure. The eyes are closed. Inhale for 5 seconds, hold 5 seconds, and exhale 5 seconds. Keep this rhythm. Let the mind be free, let the body be free, and let the spirit be free. What this does is to clarify how the mind is working and differentiate it from the body. This meditation puts you there. In one moment your mind is free and your body’s very clear what is your body. You can do it for 31 minutes.

 

There is no pressure in the elbows. You hang the elbows and the shoulders. This gives you the capacity, in the moment of separation, to drop the body, because the body and the mind are already separate. If you can do that, you are guaranteed to not have to reincarnate. It may take a long time to master this meditation, but it’s worth it.

 

Once you can relate to the structure of the resistance, it is then possible to work with the vital point. Guru Dev also emphasized that people’s needs have so greatly increased that we need to know what is going wrong and to be able to break the pattern in a few minutes. The vital point is fundamental to doing that.

 

Vital Point

The vital point is one resistance that, when you move it, modifies the condition, the complex of resistance. To do this, you relate to the complex structure of the resistance and then find a resistance that is in alignment with the intention. This may not be the main or most intense resistance. You just release that one resistance and see how it modifies the structure of the resistance. Go so deep that your preconceptions disappear.

 

“If you are working with somebody and in that moment appeared this soap opera you saw last week, that’s what appears and that’s what you need to deal with. You cannot discriminate against any sensation.”

- Guru Dev Singh

 

Exercise

One exercise we did involved individualizing the structure of the client, their father and their mother at the same time. You relate to the sensations as a group. The client is not placed in a different position from the others. You relate to them all in the same way. It doesn’t matter if you know which person affects which resistance or vice versa. We worked with the flow of the sensations. Once we were finally able to conceive the client as a group, we researched relating to each member of the group and recognized how that felt.

 

Conflict

Guru Dev then applied this process to conflict, having us relate to the client and someone they’re in conflict with. He pointed out that it’s important to not have opinions.

 

“When you have a client, everybody in the relation is your client.”

- Guru Dev Singh

 

Guru Dev had us contemplate without changing anything, without producing opinions. We researched the conflict and the sensations of the conflict.

 

“Let the dynamic of the sensation take it’s own path.”

- Guru Dev Singh

 

Guru Dev advised us to not proclaim that we were going to heal the family and ancestors. Not to say that we're contacting their great aunt twice removed or that we’d be healing the family’s neurosis. That would create expectations.

 

The exercise was to contemplate the conflict. This does not mean defining the conflict. If you  define the conflict, you’ve taken a stand. 

 

The last step is to practice and research what Guru Dev has taught. A very incredible new approach for us.

 

Upcoming 2003 Sat Nam Rasayan® Events

With Guru Dev Singh Khalsa

Post-Solstice Intensive- Española, NM

Independence Day Weekend Immersion

Labor Day Weekend Retreat- California

SPECIAL EURO PRICES AVAILABLE

March 1 – June 21, 2003 ONLY

Contact: kirpal@gurudevsnr.com

310-289-1312

 

 

 

Calling All Sat Nam Rasayan® Students & Healers

YOU

Are Summoned to Become a Radiant Jewel in the Vast Net of Healing

Join the Few, the Fearless—TEAM SOLSTICE!!

By Satya Kaur LA/Team Solstice Leader

 

As you well know, the rigorous Solstice experience brings dramatic changes in us all and that’s one reason why we gather under the hot New Mexico sun each summer.  As you also know, the intense effects upon the body/mind/spirit can sometimes trigger a temporary crisis that requires swift and effective healing intervention.  That’s where YOU come in:  We invite you to join Team Solstice and, in partnership with medical professionals, be on hand to be of service to the thousands who will come together next June in Espanola.  This is a rare opportunity to test your skills and stretch yourself in the service to our community and to our fellow human beings—under the protective umbrella of our lineage—the lineage that links each of us to Guru Dev Singh, the Siri Singh Sahib, Guru Ram Das and straight on through to the Infinite Source of All Healing!

 

What?  You say, “How could I pass up an opportunity like this???”  But wait, there’s even more!!!  The miracle of it all is this:  The benefits to you are as vast as the healing blessings that will flow from and through you into our community.  They include:

 

·            The thrill of opening the sacred space within a sacred space

·            The camaraderie of fellow SNR students & healers

·            The joy of incredible team spirit

·            An opportunity to improve your healing skills

·            A chance to learn and teach as you heal with other SNR students and healers

·            Increase your confidence about your healing skills, as you witness yourself working on the front lines

·            The opportunity to test your mettle

·            The grace that comes from working with the Holy Wind always at your back!

 

Take this opportunity to allow all our teachers to see the fruits of their long labors.  This is the best gift you could ever give to those who have given of themselves without qualification, judgment or hesitation.

So come.  Join us.  Join Team Solstice.

 

5 Day Retreat in California!

By Sat Deva Kaur LA/ SNR Secretary

 

Summer 2003 will be the first time since 1996 that a five day retreat with Guru Dev Singh will be offered in the Americas.  Excitement is building as the details of the event are coming into focus.  The cool ocean breezes, wide open spaces and clear blue skies of California's vast landscape

will be an inspiring way to end the summer!  Please join us in this incredible opportunity  to be in the extended presence of our beloved teacher Guru Dev Singh, and to unite and exchange with the global community of Sat Nam Rasayan® healers.

The retreat will be held over Labor Day Weekend--the end of August, beginning of September.  Keep checking the website, www.gurudevsnr.com, for more details.  Prices for the event may be available as soon as February. If you are coming from Europe, make sure to look for the special reduced European rate available from March 1 to June 21 for the Retreat, the Immersion and the Post Solstice Class in Espanola.

 

4th of July Immersion

 

This event is a perfect opportunity to continue the growth and bliss of Summer Solstice, make sure to include it in your summer plans for expansion and renewal!  This 2 day event, over the 4th of July Weekend will allow a complete immersion in the meditative space of Sat Nam Rasayan®.  Refresh your body, mind and soul while deepening your experience of this incredible healing practice.  Best of all, is the two days spent in the presence of Guru Dev Singh, world renowned and preeminent healer of Sat Nam Rasayan®. Please continue to check the website for details.

 

 

New Moon/Full Moon Remote Treatments with Guru Dev Singh Khalsa

 by Hari Das Kaur, La Jolla, CA

 

Once in a “blue moon” a soul has the opportunity to be in the presence and holy vibration of a healer such as Guru Dev Singh. To have the rare good fortune to experience a private healing appointment is even better.

 

One memorable summer at ladies camp in Espanola, N.M. over eighteen years ago I had my first private appointment with Guru Dev. I remember waiting to go in to see him, being offered yogi tea and thinking it was hot chocolate. I somehow knew I would probably never be the same again.

 

I have never forgotten that day, how descriptively and with immense compassion he was able to explain to me how I was looking at “my” version of existence, rather than what was true reality. It was like looking at the world through smudged spectacles.

 

He then pointed up to the rain spattered window of the trailer that he was working in -- smiled and said “See?!!” I didn’t quite understand of course, but I felt better, happier, and with each treatment throughout the years even better.

 

Life can be unpredictable, and at times can catch us off guard, and at the least, very challenging. However, with his healings, we can come to know ourselves better, master our dilemmas, and come to realize that we don’t have to suffer.

 

Remote treatments are made available to us and arranged through CCA: kirpal@gurudevsnr.com. phone: 310-289-1312 or fax: 310-289-1340. Checks, money orders, and credit cards payable to the Center for Contemplative Awareness; 370 ½ N. La Cienega Blvd.; Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA

 

Every month I have a pre-arranged new moon remote treatment with Guru Dev and I look forward to it immensely. Sometimes there is a need for an immediate treatment because of circumstances. This is when you call CCA and the arrangement with Guru Dev will be made. The remote treatments are $135 and if you wish to personally speak with Guru Dev about your treatment, the cost is $175.

 

There are specific qualities to the new moon and full moon, and Guru Dev will determine which phase is most suited to your healing. These two phases are the times that the psyche is most receptive to healing awareness. For release New Year’s Eve remotes are great! For renewal New Year’s Day remotes are just the thing for bringing this remarkable graceful energy into your life you will be creating a more uplifting and happier existence.