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Numerology for 2010
Shiv Charan Singh Khalsa, Portugal

TRAIN THE POSITIVE MIND

The change of the year is noted by the introduction of the number 10 and in combination with the century we find the total number 2+0+1+0 = 3.

Key themes of 3: action, manifestation, positive mind, affirmation, heat, fire of joy or anger, resourceful, playful, hope when there is no hope, smile when there is no reason, unjustified enthusiasm, equality or victim, success or failure, respect and right value.

The background presence of number 10 means that all these themes can be experienced in their extremes. The 10 will illuminate the best and the worst of these themes over the year. It is a year of ‘all for one and one for all’, however the excellence begins as a mere potential to be realised only in the actions of each and every one.

The presence of the 2 [from 2000] will continue to bring out the duality and challenge us to find the creative polarity.

It is a great year to distinguish and clarify the No and the Yes in our life on a daily basis. By doing this we will be well placed to train the instrument of the Positive Mind to serve the awareness of the Neutral Mind rather than the subconscious tendencies of the Negative Mind.

For example 3 is the planet Jupiter which is the planet of joy and expansion. Of course it is also the encounter with the blocks we meet when we try to expand. Or it can be the tendency to over expand, which leads us to fall over ourselves. Either way there is a sense in which the most hidden truths will be brought to the surface and made visible.

Spontaneous combustion is a phenomena that can refer to mad outbursts of riots and war, as well as sudden releases of joy or hysteria. It can also refer to unpredictable moments of freedom from of old patterns of behavior based on inequality. Leading to sudden moments of recognition of everyone as being just like ourselves. Such moments could be invited by establishing the will to listen to each other in a big way.

It is not so easy as saying that the total number of 2010 = 3 therefore the year will be lucky, positive, year of action and joy. There is a journey to make to reach to the best of number 3 and it is not an easy one.

Yogi Bhajan referred to that journey as Obey, Serve, Love, Excel.

To obey is like following the call of the river to reach the ocean. Even when the power of the flow gets deeper and wider and is not so easy to stay with.
To serve is to hold to our commitment no matter what circumstances we cross. No matter how strong the storm of fear or how great the doubt.
To love is to deliver your whole and true self, letting the heart go through the pain of stretching wider to reach the discovery that there is nothing the Light of God within cannot hold and deal with.
To Excel is to let that Light shine through into every single act you do.

This process trains us on a cellular level to disinvest in self-deception, or in the let down of self. It will also serve the cellular training for success. it means that emotions are neither repressed or naively expressed. Rather they are held and directed into effective action.

The journey to the 3 is also described in the Karam Kriya saying "Chaos Spontaneously Initiates Order". To find the true and natural order requires that we hold the power of the chaos in a state of prayer. Alternatively we may enjoy or suffer from the reverse effect; "Excess Order Initiating Spontaneous Chaos".

So it may not be a year for being in control but it is a year to take intuitively guided and intelligent action. A result of Training the Positive Mind.

This means to ask for help. To remember, and lean on, the Greater Unit of Self, as represented by the number 10. [The whole that is more than the sum of the parts]. The 10 is what always keeps us company, even when alone. Listening to the Greater Unit of Self, and thereby keeping a sense of the divine at your side. This shall provide the impulse for all your accomplishments of 2010.

It is a year that the big picture reveals itself. It is not a year for hesitation but for excellence in action.

Key Sutra: “When the time is on you, act and the pressure shall be off.” — Yogi Bhajan

 

 

 

 

Cambodia Outreach

On my way home from teacher training in China last week I visited Cambodia and left inspired and hopeful. I was invited there to learn more about Cambodia and be part of their Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training Program. The Kundalini Yoga Teacher’s Association of Australia and New Zealand (KYTANZ) and KYCambodia have applied for a fellowship from AusAID Australia to support three young Cambodian Kundalini Yoga Teachers to come to Australia for further yoga study including Level 2 and Conscious Pregnancy teacher training. I wanted to share my experience.

Cambodia is a country that experienced mass genocide less than 30 years ago. Out of Cambodia's seven and a half million citizens almost two million died from mass murder, starvation, or disease during the Pol Pot regime. The Khymer Rouge dismantled Cambodian society. Schools were closed, books destroyed, and 75% of the teachers were murdered. Many mothers saw their babies die from shooting or starvation. In 1979 only 40 doctors remained alive within Cambodia and there was only one qualified anesthesiologist in the country.

Now just 30 years later, the Cambodian people are slowly recovering and aid has come in many forms and from many countries. I visited a school in Phnom Penh that was conceived, financed and managed by a French couple to support and educate the children who had been living on the rubbish dumps. It now educates 6,000 children each year, providing three meals a day, and training students for international baccalaureate university degrees, and for those not able to go to university, there are trainings in many different careers. I went there with Vannac, one of the young Cambodian Kundalini Yoga teachers. He spends three hours there each week teaching the teachers and residential psychologists from the school so that they can then teach Kundalini Yoga to the children. While there, I also watched a group of about 800 children sitting in the quad doing a guided meditation. Many of these children and adolescents carry deep wounds.

On Sunday morning I was picked up at 6:30am and rode on the back of a motorbike (often three of us on one bike) to go to the House of Smiles, an orphanage housing abandoned children who have HIV. Three young Cambodian teachers taught Kundalini Yoga to different groups of children outside on a tarp on the concrete. As soon as I sat down I felt myself being enveloped by many tiny clinging beautiful children. My first thought was How could I take one home?, followed by how can we in Australia help make a difference here.

Tonie and his wife Hanneke started teaching Kundalini Yoga in Cambodia almost three years ago. They have created a centre which is now financially sustainable and is managed by five local Cambodian Kundalini Yoga teachers working together in community. They have a full program aimed at the local community and the overseas community, many are aid workers. The work of the team is reaching out into all levels of Cambodian society. Kundalini Yoga is really supporting people to cope with post-war stress and past abuse and starvation.

If you would like to help expand the impact of Kundalini Yoga in Cambodia, please contact me.

May the light shine on you and your families and all those you meet over the holiday time and into the New Year.
Love and Blessings
Suraj


Suraj K Khalsa
President
KYTANZ (Kundalini Yoga Teachers Association Australia & NZ)
+61411194256
www.kundaliniyoga.com.au

 

 

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