Sat Kartar Kriya

WHAT IT WILL DO FOR YOU:

If you feel your heart is closed and there is no flow of love, and want to change to open your heart, do this meditation

PRONUNCIATION:

SAT sounds like "sut"
KAR sounds like "ker"
TAR sounds like "tar"

POSTURE::

Sit cross-legged in a comfortable position (easy pose).

MUDRA Position 1:
Arms move in this. As you say "SAT", the hands are pressed together in prayer mudra at the center of the chest

MUDRA Position 2:
As you say "KAR" the arms are extended out in front of you with hands and fingers pointed straight up.

MUDRA Position 3:
As you sat "TAAR" the arms are out from the sides parallel to the floor, hands up (3). Make the transition from step to step a flowing movement.

Practice Time: Open

History, and How The Sat Kartar Meditation Works:

"Sat Kartar" is a sound that Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh Path, (which many of our Kundalini Yoga mantras have come from) would speak, when things would happen, good or bad. His response was, "Sat Kartar!" and in effect he was saying, God or the Great Divine One, is the One doing this action, this situation. The "Sat" in the mantra is first identifying the Soul's True Sound(means Essence of Truth, or Being) with the palms in prayer pose at fthe heart(pic 1). It is said that directly behind the heart is supposedly where the Soul resides. "Kartar" means Doer, and when the two words are combined, it is to say "Doer, Manifestor, or Walker of the Truth." We are making the gesture, in pic 2 extending this vibration forward in a straight line/projection out of the heart.In pic 3, the arms sweep open and spread the frequency of the heart outwards in an arc on the plane line of where the Heart and Soul reside and radiate out from us. When the movement and these primal sounds are repeated/affirmed over time, as a practice, we are in effect, opening,expanding, and directing the energetic FLOW of the Heart. The second aspect of this heart-opening mantra is that it is a key to living in a state of Faith; we are calling our souls to walk, to experience, to do, in our lives with the belief and understanding that the Divine One is working in all situations. To experience the trusting, faithful aspect of love in our lives, we sometimes need to first do the work to open and trust the Flow of the Divine doing everything.(Hence the name of the CD FLOW). When we open to that Flow then we establish and allow a path for the Universe to Flow back to us in response, with All it is waiting to give to us.

My Story with This Mantra: Living a Spiritual Name

My name, Sat-Kartar, was given to me by my spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, in June 1972. Little did I know that I was beginning virtually another incarnation in the same body I had walked in for the last 21 years. That hearing people call me by the sound of Sat Kartar for the next few decades would change the very frequency of who I was, as a being.

"A spiritual name, on the path I walk(I am a Sikh and practitioner of Kundalini Yoga) is a frequency of consciousness, and is the spiritual work a person is to do, to work on becoming." It is a frequency of consciousness, and is spiritual work that the person is to do, to work on becoming. We believe that every time you speak about a person, and refer to them by their spiritual name, it is a prayer done for them.

It is affirming and praying that the person becomes that frequency of consciousness. "Sat Kartar" means Doer of the Truth. It also means God is the Doer in everything. So my job is to remember that in all my actions and embody it. To get out of the way, let God take care of it and let it just flow through me. It is said that if you want to know something you read it. If you want to learn it, you write it. If you want to master it, you teach it. So my job is to share this mantra to you, so that I can learn the atomic essence of what it is. That's why it's on this record.