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MIND
BUILDING IN UTERO Jan. 24, 2012 Because I have worked with so many people whose
difficulties are based in their mother’s mental state while she was pregnant with them, I am providing this very special
article for you on Yogi Bhajan’s instructions for women when they are with child, as well as guidance for those around
her. Another fact is that while a woman is pregnant, her
own mother’s difficulties at the time that the daughter was in utero may actually come up to be played out during her
own pregnancy. For instance, if the mother was insecure, or didn’t want the child, the grown-up daughter
who is now pregnant may find those thoughts and feelings flowing through her, even though she can’t find a “base
in the reality” in her lifetime. How extraordinary
that our mental states can be so powerfully handed down through the generations! The following article is from “The Ancient Art of Self-Healing” by Yogi Bhajan, edited by Dr. Siri
Amir Singh Khalsa, DC, copyright 1982 by Yogi Bhajan and Dr. Khalsa, p. 40. This book is now out of print. MIND BUILDING by Yogi Bhajan It is a simple idea that out of the woman comes the human generations. Whatever her mind is, that
will be imprinted on the child during pregnancy, which is 9 month and 4 days, exclusive of the day of conception.
Whatever she conceives and imagines her child
should be, that will be the structure built up in the child in the first 120 days, because there is no soul in the first 120
days. When there is no soul, there is no mind. After 120 days, her behavior will imprint on the child’s mind. So actually the child’s
mind is built while the child is in that pregnancy. This is why as a rightful ritual after 120 days we
ask the woman to come and all the relatives come around and bring her presents. She is relieved of all hard duties and is assured sympathy, because with the biological and psychical changes the
woman goes through during pregnancy, she normally becomes insecure in those days. The second month she doesn’t want to eat, she starts vomiting normally and feels bad
about food. The third month she is tired, and the fourth month, when the soul enters, she is less effective;
she wants to rest more. Now all these changes look unusual
to men. They don’t understand. But her total structure inside changes, her metabolism
changes, the composition of the important ingredients like metals and vitamins change. Therefore, those
months she is required to be in circumstances which are very secure, respectable, comfortable and in which she can have a
lot of understanding around her. We
always know how to raise the rose bush, but we never have tried to study how to raise our children. Our
children are actually raised within those 9 months of pregnancy and development. Those are very important
days of life of the child. From Siri-Gian Kaur: So, if you know someone who is pregnant, or you are contemplating pregnancy,
please be very sure that all know these very important facts. Now,
if you are pregnant and have any of these seemingly “out of nowhere” emotional challenges, please set about healing
them. In your meditative mind, become very clear about what they are, and then find meditations to melt
their hold over you. Deeply, meditatively forgive all concerned so that the ties to those emotions may
thaw and evaporate. Use your mantra to break out of their hold. And then Love, Love, Love! Love the baby, love yourself, your environs,
your partner and all. Sing songs of goodness and greatness to the child, and free yourself to be fully
ready to receive this precious new Soul into the world. Don’t pressure yourself, but do know that
what you implant in the child at this point will not only affect him or her for their whole lifetime, but also affect all
the generations that come after. Best to relax in Guru
Ram Das and Divine Mother--Adi Shakti and sing their blessed songs to your baby as beautiful, expansive lullabies.
Snatam Kaur and her mom, Prabhu Nam Kaur have made a wonderful CD called “Divine Birth, Meditations, Shabads
and Songs for your Child in Pregnancy and Life.” You may listen to it in your own healing/rebirthing
process as well. CD is at http://www.spiritvoyage.com/yoga/Divine-Birth/Snatam-Kaur--Prabhu-Nam-Kaur/CDS-004160.aspx Yogi Bhajan always said that Jesus was so great because
his mom always told him that God was his father, and he lived up to that. What can you tell your baby?
Or what will you tell yourself as you rebirth your own self? You can do that, you know.
You truly have the power! Lots of Love, Siri-Gian Kaur RESPONSE
TO QUESTION #1 FROM THE KUNDALINI YOGA YAHOO GROUP ABOUT THE ARTICLE ABOVE
Dear One, Since I have never seen Yogi Bhajan’s answer on this, I will just tell you what I have seen
in working with so many people over time. Maybe someone else has his exact words. First, the Being of the child from the time of conception
is based in an energetic structure. This is a kind of patterning, or master matrix for the child’s
body and energetic system that will be the “seat” for this child’s mind, emotions. The
mold for the child’s energetic structure is originally supplied by the mother’s projections while she is pregnant.
So, her energetic system at that time arranges or molds the baby’s energetic system—its subtle structures.
(Once the child is born, the developing child continues patterning on both the mother and the father’s energetic
systems throughout their childhood.) It is a very dynamic process. Also, the very real energetic imprint of the
trials and triumphs of generations preceding this child come with its body’s DNA. (Yogi Bhajan said
that when we are liberated, we also liberate 7 generations back and 7 generations forward. From
what I have seen, all those samskaras* of all those ancestors that have been passed to us actually reside in our own make-up.
But as we heal those inherited samskaras within ourselves, we are liberating ourselves from the energetic bonds that
hold us to this created realm. This healing process gives us the freedom to be liberated, as well as the
healing process liberating our ancestors. And then we pass on this energetic freedom on to the following
7 generations.) Now, the memories
of past lifetime events—whether overt or hidden continue to reside our mind and emotional makeup, as clearly evidenced
through regression therapy. It appears that the information and processing of what we call the mind comes
in with the Soul at 120 days. Now it is our Soul—our true Self that decides which body, which parents,
environments, etc. will best serve this lifetime’s opportunity to pay accumulated karmas, and heal its samskaras. So, from the 120th day of pregnancy
forward, the mother’s thoughts, emotions and energy, actually “lay tracks” in the child’s mind.
They continue to resound within the child’s entire life. Of course, the growing and grown
child can address these and heal them over time. But imagine if the mother is kind, sweet, unperturbed
and living in her highest consciousness while pregnant! What an amazing head start she gives that very
lucky child. Although if the mother slips and gets insecure or emotional, she should not worry that she
is damaging the child. Remember, the Soul already knows what will happen and has chosen the mom for Its
own profound reasons. *Samskaras:
Ingrained habits of attachment—energetic, emotional, conceptual, etc., which continue to create karmas, and consequently
bind us to this karmic cycling. RESPONSE TO QUESTION #2: Do you think the soul coming into the body gives energy, or life, to that connection
in order to make it happen - sort of like you have to turn on your computer for it to work even though the hardware is already
there so it can work. Dear One, I
feel you have asked a very sweet question. Actually Yogi Bhajan has told
us that the Soul comes into the little embryo at 120 after conception. It is quite remarkable that this is the exact
time of "quickening," that is when the mother first feels the baby move inside of her. What an extraordinary
and magical time that is! Now, I have talked with a couple of women who
had no idea of Yogi Bhajan's teachings when they were pregnant. However, when that quickening time arrived, either with
their open eyes or in a dream state of seeing reality, They saw a focus of Light that they reach for. In that dream-seeing
state, she finally asked her husband to help her bring in that Light. Only
years after that time, when she heard Yogi Bhajan's teachings, did she realize that she was actually facilitating that beautiful
daughter's Soul coming into its body! Now, in my own experience, it appears
that the Soul of my daughter actually led me pay attention to her future father. There was a knock on the door, and
when this fellow whom I had never met walked in, I saw a light over his head (kind of like a lightbulb in a cartoon), which
in retrospect I believe was the Soul of our future daughter. We "fell in love" pretty instantly, and within
the year, we welcomed our sweet daughter, Siri Atma Kaur into the world. So,
from my experience the "child's" Soul has a lot to do with picking the parents, but of course, the parents' Souls
do agree to this. Lots of love,
Siri-Gian Kaur
www.SoulAnswer.com RESPONSE
TO QUESTION #3 In Kundalini-Yoga@yahoogroups.com, "gurukaramyoga" <lk108@...> wrote:
Sat Nam,
Wow, great response Siri Gian!
My immediate response to the question was this. The mind is the servant of the soul. Therefore the soul must precede
the mind.
Blessings, Guru Karam Dear Guru Karam Kaur,
So good to hear from you, Dear!
For some time, I have been puzzling about where the mind goes at death
and how it comes back into the next little body, bringing its continuity of memories, samskaras, "identical identity",
which is a sort of unique vibrational signature that Yogi Bhajan says continues with us through all of our lifetimes. It is
this Identical Identity that we feel when we are in touch with each of our saints who no longer have bodies nowbut each one
"feels" so remarkably different, and different people totally agree on what each saint feels like from their own
experience. For instance, Yogi Bhajan feels strong, massive and totally present.
So these are my thoughts. Since
Yogi Bhajan said that at the time of death, the subtle body encapsulates the Soul to move It to another dimension of frequency
between lifetimes, I would say that the mind is either associated with the subtle body or is also encapsulated by it in the
Soul's journey of transmigration. So, it appears to me that the mind comes into the body along with the Soul.
Now,
here is the real secret! We know that we are all headed for Union--meaning our full Consciousness knows itself as Infinite
Consciousness. So, that would mean that our mind fully gets that in fact it is actually an extension of Soul. But the mind
is that part of Consciousness that has forgotten Who it really is so that over time it can experience "finite" creation
and grow in awareness and "memory" of Who It really is. And our path back to Union is actually healing those misconceptions
that the mind and its samskaras have developed over time. To read more about why the Karamic Cyle of Soul does this, please
go to www.SoulAnswer.com/karma.html .
Yogi Bhajan always said that the spiritual path is about changing our identity--from
finite to Infinite--God and me, me and God are One! Consequently, learning to live entirely from your intuition, that is receiving
and following the direction of your Soul, your God Self at every second is an essential step. Mind or "everyday self"
as I call it learns to clear itself of old self-centered habits of thinking, needing, reactive emotions, etc. (true non-attachment)
and simply becomes the clear and happy projector of Soul's input, making Soul's direction become a reality in everyday life.
In this way, mind becomes the happy and free "servant of the Soul". This is true Partnership which leads bit by
bit to practicing Who you really are. With that continutal transformation over time, the Infinite Soul finally "enlightens"
the mind with the experience of total Union! Union is the total experience of there being no difference between finite and
Infinite.
I hope this helps, Dear. Maybe this is more information than you were asking for, but it seemed to be
important to put it out there.
Lots of Love,
Siri-Gian Kaur
www.SoulAnswer.com RESPONSE
TO QUESTION #4 In Kundalini-Yoga@yahoogroups.com, gondolf1 <no_reply@...> wrote: Yogi Bhajan used to talk about
the sensory human which I see as a situation where the mind - in all its facets - is being used as a servant to the soul,
rather than as a servant to the various energetic maps nicely described by Siri Gian. Would you agree with that?
Dear One,
Actually, I see the"sensory
human" as our ability to use all of our senses on a subtle level. That would include the ability to see, hear,
know, move (kinesthetic), feel, and even smell and taste, plus more in a most subtle way. That subtle feedback is the
way to get information and direction from Soul! Now it takes a
bit of practice to tell the difference between when "everyday self" is giving the input, and when Soul is communicating
with you. This subtle, sensory feedback from Soul is actually the very real experience of what we call "Intuition."
Yogi Bhajan talked so very much about how important our intuition will be in the Aquarian Age. (I actually teach a number
of courses on INTUITION TRAINING. You can see more about the basic course at www.SoulAnswer.com/intuition.html)
For instance, "hearing" on the subtle sensory level
doesn't mean actually hearing a person's voice in your ear. Rather it has more of the quality of remembering someone's
voice, but when it is from Soul, it will tell you straight and simple--but most profound things that you may never have thought
about. Or it might verify something that has been occurring to you over time.
And
"seeing" on the subtle level may mean getting a picture--whether still or moving in your mind or seeming to appear
on a subtle screen a few inches in front of your eyes. The "knowing"
is that you just KNOW in your bones, or in your gut you might say. This
is not psychic ability, the judgement of which can easily lead you astray. Yogi Bhajan said that only a few have psychic
ability. Rather he said that everyone has intuition--or subtle communication with Soul and "higher" beings.
But there are two very important "tricks" with this. The first
is to become very practiced in understanding the difference between communication from your "everyday self"--made
up of your mind, ego, emotions, memory, cultural conditioning, etc. and your Soul. And
the second thing is that once you are sure that you are listening to Soul (Guru, the teacher aspect of God), you follow Soul's
direction at every moment. This is where it is important for everyday self to become healed and clear so that it can
trust Soul's direction and follow it, even though everyday self doesn't know the outcome before hand. This is how the
mind becomes the servant of the Soul. When you actually get into it, that is when you gain the real peace and security
of living from Soul. This coming Tuesday's Soul Answer Newsletter will be about that. If you like, you can sign
up for weekly newsletters when you join the Soul Answer Community at SoulAnswer.com Thanks
for your lovely questions, Dear.
Lots of Love,
Siri-Gian Kaur
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