Bed sadhana on the morning of February 7th, 2007, was immersion in Peace. So much so that I did not wish to get out of bed! Guru bathed me in all-encompassing bliss. At 7:00am I realized there was only half an hour to get dressed and ready before starting Sat Kriya if I were to fit it in before children arrived.By Guru's grace there was time for bed yoga, a shower, dressing and a complete Japji. I even cleaned an indoor baby rabbit cage. At 7:30am, deeply calm, I began doing my beloved Sat Kriya to wash my affairs.My calmness gave profound awareness. I marveled how, on calling upon the Adi Shakti, the primal female power, I found myself curled on the lap of the Divine Mother like a newborn
child, as in a 1990's upper world shamanic vision, suckling the sweet Amrit of Cosmic Wisdom to my heart's content, drawing it in on Sat and swallowing on Nam during the entire Bhujang Pryaat Chand of Guru Gobind Singh's Jaap Sahib. With each Pauri of Jaap Sahib I moved on to a Guru, beginning with the first Guru, Guru Nanak, to be blessed with his love of Oneness. I then lovingly emulated Lahena's selfless obedience, who passed Guru Nanak's tests of Maya to merge with Guru Nanak's Light beyond personality and form to become Guru Angad, and was swept up with Guru Angad's love for the Divine. With the next Pauri I was under Guru Amar Das's beard, absorbing love of God from the cosmic beat of his heart. Of Guru Ram Das I requested neutrality of mind so as to transmute all remnants of worldly love into pure love of God."Ek Ong Kaar, Sat Gur Prasaad, Sat Gur Prasaad, Ek Ong Kaar"—my personal mantra, reverberated in my mind while I was doing Sat Kriya, blending silently with Sat Nams, going deep into my subconscious to carry out darkness, doubt and confusion evoked by confrontation with Truth, Gur Prasaad--by Guru’s Grace, merging me in divine Oneness.With Guru Arjan, my focus re-entered the Sat Kriya mudra, reaching with him as One into the heavens of consciousness, clearing the cause of karmas. It was brief, power-packed and egoless--Guru Gaytree Mantra sounding in the background--Chacharee Chhand, Twv Prasaad.Guru Hargobind danced eloquently with two swirling Siri Sahib Swords, merging realms of heaven and earth with the circling chakars of Bhujang Pryaat Chand.Merciful, humble Guru Har Rai drenched me in beauty. I remembered how Shanti Kaur's words had evoked Guru Har Rai during the Akal Takht Gurdwara the night before, and felt his worldly pain as it was given back to God, God's sweetness permeating his life, my life, through Jaap Sahib's Chacharee Chhand.When Guru Har Krishan came to support my prayers with the pure power of love, I welcomed him io heal a kink in my neck, residual infection in my sinuses and to invigorate my entire being to meet the challenge of my destiny--Bhagavatee Chand, Twv Prasaad Kathatay.Sublime Guru of the Gurus, Guru Teg Bahadur, raised me to a rarefied realm where waves of miracles form to bless Mother Earth--Chacharee Chhand.Guru Gobind Singh, whom I had seen inexplicably balancing the earth on the tip of a Khanda, a double-edged sword, in a vision, confounded me again by balancing an image of the earth upon my raised fingertips! Realizing my raised arms, palms together, resemble a Khanda, I lovingly reached to spiritual heights with Sat Kriya--Charpat Chhand, Twv Prasaad in obedience to his Hukam and began to wash the world.Following Guru Gobind Singh I normally move on to the saints within the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, but this day thought to do differently, and applied Sat Kriya and phrases from the next Pauri of Jaap Sahib to evoke the healing blessings of the Golden Temple's healing Saffron--the earth upon which the Golden Temple rests, the lovely bricks of which the Golden Temple was first constructed, and its moon-like Marble and sun-like Gold--Rasaaval Chhand, Twv Prasaad. With these elements, the wash water was complete, full of blessed vibrations for healing consciousness. I called upon the saints to join me with the motion of Sat Kriya to wash away all cares. Saints and Gurus came, to my surprise, surrounding the Earth on my fingertips, joyfully swishing wash water around the planet, cleansing away surface debris, fears and lies and illusions, through the Golden Temple's blissful healing elements--with Jaap Sahib's Bhagavatee Chhand, Twv Prasaad.My meditative wash usually goes to a rinse cycle, where I dip my affairs up and down in the Amrit Sarovar, the tank of healing waters that surround the Golden Temple. But on this day, with Madhu Bhaar Chhand, Twv Prasaad, the Gurus and saints put the earth through a powerful wringing-out phase. A flood of black goop began seeping out of the earth and sweeping me away with it! Begging to be pulled free, Guru told me to use the silent mantra, "Ek Ong Kaar Sat Gur Prasaad Sat Gur Prasaad Ek Ong Kaar", that Yogiji had given me to chant twenty-four hours a day. The very moment I began consciously chanting this mantra, the blackness was instantly dispelled.On Har Bol Manaa Chand, Twv Prasaad, we bathed the earth in the Amrit Sarovar for the rinse cycle, which cleared away smoggy thought forms rinsed out from its depths. It was a blissful phase, bobbing in and out of the Nectar Waters, breaking through the surface with the same joyful exuberance I feel diving through an ocean wave, the Earth immersed in and out Nectar! Climbing high into the etheric realm above the Golden Temple with the Namos of Bhujang Pryaat Chhand, the Earth was blessed with a final rinse of Gurbani Kirtan-filled skies, and set out to dry with Ayk Achharee Chhand, the Earth radiating, spinning distilled Amrit in every direction into the heavens. On the final rung of Jaap Saahib, the last Bhujang Pryaat Chhand, I gave everything to God, and saw the earth high in the heavens bathed in Cosmic Light as Akaal Moorat, undying being. With the last "Sat Nam" of Sat Kriya and final "bhootay!" of Jaap Sahib, I inhaled, held my breath and stretched up for seven seconds to bless the earth with the silent mantra, "VI--C--TO--RY, to sustain the cleansing of our planet's psyche.So began another day of serving precious souls of the Lord.
Sat Nam
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