Valentine’s Day Aquarian Alignment!
February 14, 2009
God just popped this one on us! Only two days ago I received an email from Chindoa Tree ji inviting me to meditate with him during the dawning of the Age of Aquarius—today!
Guru Simran Kaur, who lives at the Ranch, alerted our sangat when she wondered at what point there would be a thousand days up the the new millennium. The answer came from a 1970’s lecture where Yogi Bhajan gave the year, date and time, making the Aquarian Age from today, February 14th exactly 1000 days away.
It was decided that we commemorate the transistional dawning of the Age of Aquarius with meditation and prayer.
I rose early to do Sat Kriya then headed over to the Saturday morning Bhog ceremony, as our weekly Akand Path came to an end, to join the sangat. Many of us stayed on to chant two and a half hours of Long Ek Ong Kars with folks from teachers training. That was the most blissful part of my day. Wahe Guru!
Long Ek Ong Kars, “Ek Ong Kaar, Sat Naam, Siri, Wah Hay Gurooo,” is chanted every morning for seven minutes during sadhana chanting to open our chakras to God. When focused on each chakra it is even more powerful, especially when chanted in a large group, which magnifies its effects. Add to that two and a half hours, the optimim length of time to absorb all its blessings, and you feel as clear as crystal. Or so has been my experience in the past.
But today, as announced in the email flyer sent to me, there is also an incredible concentration of cosmic influences affecting us, blending with the energies of Aquarius in the twelfth house—just as in the intuitive words of the song called Aquarius: “When the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.”
It sounded amazing in the email, and community interest peaked because of Yogiji’s predictions. I chose to move beyond all words and do two and a half hours of long Ek Ong Kaars so I might deeply experience and know these energies of transformation within my self.
Sitting in our Langar Hall with the teachers in training, I chanted “Ek” at my first chakra; “Ong” (“The Creator”) resonated like a conch at my second chakra and twisted into “Kaar” (“God’s Creation”), softening the “k” in “Kaar” to a gutteral sound, deeply vibrating my navel, to sense the creation of planets and stars; “Sat” (pronounced “sut”) (“Truth”), penetrated my diaphragm to allow “Naam” (“God’s Identity”) to flood my heart, the universe; Siri (“Great, exalted”) lifted that energy to my throat chakra in a slight neck lock, which directed it up to my third eye on “Wah” (WOW!), my crown on “Hay,” to the top inside of my skull on Gu (the darkness of my body cave!) and beamed out my crown charkra onto infinity via “Roo”—light! So sublime, so powerful! Such bliss!
Gurus rejoiced in the day’s energies. It was a moment in the vast spread of time all saintly souls must have prayed for since the beginning of existence. They filled the heavens with their joy and God’s exaltation. On each long deeply resonated Naam from my heart I felt all the Gurus, all saints, filling the room, filling the heavens with their presence, flowing on the sound. It is their essence, the Nam. Pure Truth!
Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru, Wahe Guru!
Afterwards everyone headed over to join the sangat at the Ranch. We came together in front of Yogi Bhajan's dome to do the Aquarian mantra, “Sat Siri Siri Akal Siri Siri Akal Maha Akal Maha Akal Sat Nam Akal Moorat, Wahe Guru!” while staring intently down our noses at the words of the mantra on a sheet of paper. Reading along as we chanted kept me in my body. It made it quick and easy to notice when my mind drifted so as to be present in real time. The march-style music Yogi Bhajan chose for this mantra and the consciousness transition made it feel as though we were all joyously marching into the Aquarian Age.
It was a sunny windy winter day that turned cold and cloudy by the end. Warm, tasty langar, a welcome treat, was served in the Pool House afterwards, where everyone regrouped to socialize and enjoy.
Nirvair Singh, now head of KRI, guardian of Yogi Bhajan’s teachings, sat across from me; Ek Ong Kar Kaur, who is translating the Siri Guru Granth Sahib per Siri Singh Sahib’s orders (note how I refer to “him”, his secretaries way of reference, as Yogi Bhajan yogically and Siri Singh Sahib dharmically) sat beside me.
Today’s world sangat Hukam from the Golden Temple has reminded me what was said between us that seemed so important:
The Hukam, Raag Soohee, Fourth Guru, First House (SGGS pp 731-6), rejoices in revelations made within the Sat Sangat, the True Congregation of the True Guru, which sum up the essence of Aquarian Age consciousness:
All desires of the mind are fulfilled, the fear of death is removed, we joyfully drink the subtle essence of the Lord; together we are sublime and exalted; we sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord God—whose Name is the essence of the Guru’s Teachings, the sweetness of it. We have quenched our spiritual thirst with this nectar!
What was said in conversation, and deeply understood through our mutual experience, is that as Sikhs living Guru's teachings, we are securely encampsulated in the Aquarian Age, within a divine consciousness, during a transition that much of the world will experience as unprecendented upheaval and turmoil.
May all be blessed to find such a Guru!
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