By Nelly Coneway (Dayaal Kaur)
Reprinted from LA YOGA magazine September 2006 Vol. 5/ Num. 6
Her spiritual name, Tej, means radiance and perfectly fits the warm heart and soul of one of the great teachers of Kundalini Yoga. Her smile is an open door to infinity and her warm eyes penetrate deeply, reading all like an open book. Tej has an energy field and knowledge that illuminates, comforts and helps those around her. (more…)
All yoga is designed to raise the kundalini energy. What's that saying, "All rivers lead to the ocean?" Yoga gives you an activity, which stops the mind and allows your…
Got this from Tej Kaur Khalsa last year 3/8/2006. Many people suffer from depression these days. It's a sign of the times. Our fast paced world actually gives us a…
So I was re-reading some of these posts and I realized they’re really long and quite a bit heavy. Not to mention they’re two months old. (I can mention it, you probably shouldn’t) So I thought I would put some things down in more raw form as they come to me. For example, this morning during Sadhana-meditation some stuff occurred to me. Yogi Bhajan saying (and I can’t reference the quote directly but…) basically when you serve others, The Creator serves you. I understood it as it came to me in meditation, but explaining what I think it is, is a whole other thing. (more…)
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? —Woody Allen,
The soul comes through the human to experience duality, the world of good and evil, opposites. If God is so great, how can there be so much suffering?
One of my yoga teachers was telling a story about someone in their family who, while meditating went to the place beyond time and space where souls decide to come into this life. She related that these souls are fighting for a chance at human life. Being human is so great that souls fight to come here to earth and angels are jealous of humans because of all they are able to experience. Yet, when we get here, each of us suffers. That makes no sense. Life is cloaked in suffering. Out in the world of duality, the world of opposites, we bounce between good and evil and we suffer. Why on earth would a soul want to come into that? Perhaps it is to become more powerful than God. (more…)
When you worship, when you bow, you’re bowing to your own soul potential within. This is why idols and graven images are so dangerous. The ego wants to classify and…
A Word About The Common Soul We live in a dual world. Everywhere you look outside there are opposites and polarity. Up and down, hot and cold, in and out,…