Monday, January 02, 2012

 

Sat Nam. Happy New Year to you! What an incredible time we live in. We are on the brink of either a major global shift in consciousness or a major environmental catastrophe that finally may bring in the shift within each of us. This morning we went to the Guru Ram Das Ashram in San Francisco. In a kind of dream way the weather was sunny. This type of weather never happens in January. In fact this year there has been so much sun in the cloudy city, that I felt prompted to think that it is global warming.

As much of my life seems to be these days, God was giving me this complete beauty of a sunny day in San Francisco... an opportunity to be present. The type of shift in consciousness that it will take to solve global warming is bigger then anything I can do, or even inspire others to do. It will take millions and millions of people.

This is one of the greatest challenges of our day, of this New Year. How do we as meditators, yogis, people of light and love enter into the reality of the times? I do believe that we will find a way, that we will collectively transform, and that it will be a beautiful story in our human history.

This morning as I sat meditating the thought came to mind to share with you the power of the Mul Mantra. This mantra was given to us by Guru Nanak, the first Guru of the Sikhs who walked this earth in the fifteenth century. It is a mantra that gives you the compass so that you may find your true self. This true self sits within the opening of your heart. Some say that the most difficult journey in life is moving from the energy of the navel center to the heart center.

The navel center is very important especially in its balanced state. The navel in a balanced state gives you the fire of courage to stand up for truth. It gives you the capacity to know your center, to be rooted in your inner truth. It gives you the basic energy of digestion... both in how we digest food, but also in how we digest energy. One beautiful teacher, Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati once said to me, "I eat pain for breakfast" referring to the energy that she dealt with after spending time with AIDS patients. Emotional or mental pain is a part of living life, especially for someone on a spiritual path. The drug companies and popular media make you believe that one should not have pain this kind of pain. Take a pill. Do something to shut yourself off. But the moment you go through the pain, the moment you digest it so to speak... you allow it to be... you embrace it... then that pain is healed forever and released. This takes a balanced navel center.

When our navel center is in an imbalanced state we are greedy, looking to acquire things and energy that we don't really need. We look to fill up an abyss within that can never be filled. That abyss comes from all of the pain that we haven't figured out how to digest. This energy I believe is prevalent in the world today. What is the remedy to bring us back into a balanced navel center which allows our heart to open? How can we be fulfilled without needing things from the outside? How can we find a simpler more sustainable way to live on this planet?

There are many tools to do just these things. A very powerful mantra tool is the Mul Mantra.

I invite you to chant it with me and let its energy unfold within you.

Here is the mantra with the translation. The translation is simply a reflection of my experience as a student of Yogi Bhajan, and as a seeker at the feet of Guru Nanak.

Ek ong kaar....
God is One, I am One with all beings

Sat Nam...
Truth is God's Name... The vibration of God's Name is what created all beings.... that vibration is within me.... therefore in my core I am true.

Karta Purkh...
God is the Doer.... God does all things... God works through me.... God works through everyone in my life.

Nirbhao...
God is fearless... I am fearless.

Nirvair...
God has no revenge.... I exist in my heart... I stay present... I don't hold on to the past.... I live in this moment in full compassion and acceptance of what is.

Akal Murat
God exists in the undying form... God is in the purity of our efforts to live in a spiritual way, and these efforts never die... these efforts live on forever.

Adjoonee
God is unborn.... God does not relate to birth and death.... God is beyond the cycles of life.... God is infinite... I am infinite

Saibhang
God is self illumined... I am self illumined. Within me I have the power to find light, to find love, to find joy. I don't need anyone or anything for this.

Guru Prasaad
It is by Guru's Grace.... it is the Grace of the teachings of the Divine One.... the Guru.... Guru Nanak, Jesus, Mohammed, the Masters of all traditions that give us Grace.

Jap
Meditate!

Aad Sach
True in the Beginning

Jugaad Sach
True throughout the ages

Haibhee Sach
True here and now

Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach
Oh Nanak, forever and always true. Spirit, Truth, Love, and Light.... these are the things that are true, that have always been true.


This is the Mul Mantra....

Let us chant it together.

Let us let go of the dream... and find the reality of our truth.

We can be free.

Chant it with me.

Sat Nam.

Love and Blessings,

Snatam Kaur


Here is a link to my CD Anand where we have the Mul Mantra recorded.

Here is a link to the Spirit Voyage website with all of their artists who have recorded the Mul Mantra. Enjoy!

Comments:
Te queremos y te escuchamos todos los días. Tenemos una hija de dos años y medio que conoce y canta tus temas.
Gracias por las canciones que compartes al mundo!!
 
I am grateful to be alive during this transitional period. Also, Mul Mantra has been one of my favourite songs since hearing it 2 years ago and still remains on my daily playlist :) so thank you!! It truly is timeless.
 
I agree. Let us all be awake! I embrace this new shift of consciousness.
 
Dear Snatam this is the first time I have discovered your blog. Thanks for this powerful reminder of the power of chanting the Mul Mantra. A very appropriate chant as we enter 2012.

God bless
Gary
 
Sat Nam! Such an eloquent explanation of wanting and the navel center. Thank you for sharing the Mul Mantra as an antidote. I can't wait to share the lesson with my girls. We all want so much, but need so little. We are suddenly homeschooling, and I thought I needed to buy curriculum, supplies, study aids - that I didn't have what we needed, that what the girls needed was somehow outside of ourselves. In our little living room, they have shown me we already have more than what we need. Everyday unfolds, and when we are present in the moment, what emerges from the girls is so much better than anything I could have bought for them - or taught to them. We are learning to be. To be kinder, to be more present, to be more of who we are, instead of what we do, or what we have. Thank you for your inspiration, teachings, and sound current. You are a beautiful, daily presence in our lives. We sing with you every day. Peace, Gian Atam Kaur
 
Thank you for the inspiration. My boys and I listen to the Mul Mantra every morning and whenever I can play it in the car before they fuss for 92.5. So powerful and true.
 
Thank you for sharing the meaning, your meaning, i love this Mantra.
Sat nam
Prabhu Anand Kaur
 
GOD BLESS YOU SISTER AND GROW YOU TO HIEGHTS TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY ! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND PLEASE UPLOADING GR8 VIDEO'S ON NET TO FEEL THE POWER OF PURITY !
 
Thank you very much Snataum,
Your blog was exactly what i needed right now..

Elke (the Netherlands)
 
Beautiful! I really appreciate your translation/interpretation of Mul Mantra. It is so open and expansive! Sat Nam!
 
Satnam Kaur Ji, Gur Fateh. It is Guru's grace on u, that u explained and the meaning of MulMatner, in a wonderful, refreshingly new way. I am Feeling blessed to listen it. Be always in ChardiKla.
 
My beatiful queen! Thanks to share this...I love Mul Mantra!
Sat Nam!
Rommy <3
 
Satnam Waheguru g,
It's great services of sikh community ur doing. so plz keep it go on.never stop till dead end. i realy appreciate ur job. keep serving we r with u.

thanx

bittu dhanjal (India)
 
You are so cool Snatam Kaur! Living your purpose and lifting me up. Great great gratitude to you and your family and team. Blessings to you all. May peace reign supreme in every man woman and child!
 
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