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© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan Page 1
Meditation for an Invincible Spirit in the Aquarian Age
A 1,000‐Day Sadhana
We are quickly approaching the long awaited transition to the Aquarian Age. Much has been
written about this. In essence it is humanity’s transition from adolescence to maturity. We
leave behind the Piscean Era and enter into an age of global awareness, radiance, intuition and
cooperation, an era that will usher in an age of equanimity and prosperity, accompanied by an
evolution in our capacity to perceive, think, feel and sense. Such growth would mean that much
would need to be left behind—old structures and ways of thinking, communicating and living
will pass. Confusion, depression, and conflicts will increase as the old ways of holding power—
politically, religiously, socially and personally—all fight their last fight. This period of testing and
growth will last until 2038, when a new stewardship of this planet and our selves will be
realized and peace will have an opportunity to prevail on Earth.
Yogi Bhajan used his intuitive clarity to focus and prepare us for this transition, noting that the
dawning of the Age would be precisely at 11:30am (PST), November 11, 2011. The cusp period
will end and the Age of Aquarius will begin. We will be challenged on every front—and from
that pressure, a new culture of consciousness will bloom. He defined it as the time of Khalsa:
those who are pure in heart, clear in conscience, fearless and effective in action, intuitive, kind,
and compassionate, noble within the Self, and humble before the Infinite Creator.
One of the many blessings in the community of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan® is the
love of discipline that allows us to awaken, expand and refine our awareness. With that
expanded awareness we can act effectively, heal those in distress and enjoy the tumultuous,
spontaneous creativity of life. We practice 40‐day meditations to embody new experiences or
increased capacities. We practice 90‐day meditations to clear our subconscious and build new
habits. We practice 120‐day meditations to realize that awareness in our daily lives. But when
we want to experience self‐mastery and confirm our consciousness, beyond every change of
time, space and circumstance, we practice 1,000 days.
A 1,000‐day practice projects our newfound awareness, mastery and consciousness
impersonally for all—it is impersonally personal—a discipline of grace that blesses all. In
mythical and symbolic traditions like numerology, it represents the nobility of the individual,
“1”, expanded and radiant, as supported by the three “0’s”, the body, mind and spirit; negative,
positive and neutral minds; and the three gunas. It is experience and mastery blended into a
self‐qualified awareness of human excellence.
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan Page 2
Yogi Bhajan gave us a practice for the Aquarian Age, which calls on those inner virtues. He
shared it so that we could act with integrity and clarity as teachers, healers and leaders; so that
we could be human under the pressures of the times and the distractions of change, ego and
emotion.
Our practice will be worldwide and you can join in at any point, adding to the global psyche,
projection and prayer: that we may enter the Aquarian Age awake, aware and joyous. 3HO
Foundation, The Kundalini Research Institute and Sikh Dharma International invite you to join
us in this 1,000‐day sadhana. We will be doing the following meditation for a 1,000 days,
leading up to the Aquarian Shift on November 11, 2011. It uses the power of shabd—the
technology of sound and consciousness. He originally introduced this mantra on February 5,
1992, soon after we entered the final cusp period of the Aquarian transition.
We will practice it 11 minutes each day. If you wish, you can increase the time to 31 minutes.
Ideally, choose a regular time to do it each day. Get together with friends and students. Practice
it in community: Be together. Be brilliant with light. Be powerful with prayer. Be prosperous.
Face the future with an open heart and open arms.
The 1,000 day meditation begins February 14, 2009 and ends November 10, 2011.
On November 11, 2011 we will do a special meditation to complete this practice in a global
wave of sound and consciousness. Join us as we prepare for the first Summer Solstice of the
Aquarian Age, where the full energy of the sun ignites us and unites us in June 2012.
Let’s join hands and hearts as a contemplative community and act together in the love of
excellence, the gratitude of being and the hope for peace and prosperity.
Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD
Director of Training
The Kundalini Research Institute
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Meditation for an Invincible Spirit in the Aquarian Age Yogi Bhajan • February 2, 1992
Posture: Sit straight. Left hand is in Gyan Mudra, the tip of the forefinger touching the tip of the thumb,
resting on the knee with the arm straight. Raise the right hand to about 12 inches in front of the chest,
holding the mantra sheet and concentrating on the written words as you chant. If you don’t have a
mantra sheet, angle your hand as if you were reading a sheet of paper, with the palm open and
the wrist straight. (Ideally, you would print the mantra on a sheet of paper and read the mantra as
you chant. We’ve created a printer friendly version for you to download.) Eyes: Apply Neck Lock and look down the nose to
see the mantra sheet or the palm. When he gave this meditation, he asked us to focus the eyes, to pay
attention and not drift. If you do not have the page to read from, use the palm but continue to focus.
Mantra: Focus on the movement of the tongue and the sensation of the sound as it creates a time and space.
Sing with Nirinjan Kaur’s Aquarian March. Become a symphony. 7 Minutes (27 Minutes for a 31‐Minute Practice)
Continue chanting, close your eyes and put your hands on your heart, one palm resting on the
other. Press the hands firmly into the chest. Press hard. 2 Minutes Keep your hands on the heart and begin
to whisper the mantra. Whisper powerfully. 1 Minute To Close: Chant without the music for 30 seconds. Inhale, exhale and relax.
``` Mantra ````
Sat Siri - Truth, Projective Prosperity and Greatness
Siri Akal - Great Undying One Who Knows No Death
Siri Akal - Great Undying One Who Knows No Death
Maha Akal - Infinite Who Is Deathless
Maha Akal - Infinite Who Is Deathless
Sat Nam - Truth as Identity; or Identity of All That Is
Akal Moort - Embodied Form or Image of the Infinite
Wahe Guru - The Ecstatic Totality of God and Existence
Note: “Great” still has a touch of finiteness; “Infinite” in Maha has no finiteness or form.
Mantra is pronounced: Sat Siree, Siree Akaal, Siree Akaal, Mahaa Akaal, Mahaa Akaal, Sat
Naam, Akaal Moorat, Wha‐hay Guroo. See Tools for Students/Teachers at
www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org to hear the pronunciation.
Time: 11–31 Minutes
Comments: In the face of any great change, we confront three destructive impulses: to be
alone and withdrawn, to deny or fantasize about the future that’s coming, and to live with
greed or scarcity instead of prosperity. This mantra counters these three tendencies and instills
the mind with courage and caliber.
You can purchase the DVD of this class, 1,000 Years and Beyond, from The Source at www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org
Meditation for an Invincible Spirit in the Aquarian Age
A 1,000‐Day Sadhana
We are quickly approaching the long awaited transition to the Aquarian Age. Much has been
written about this. In essence it is humanity’s transition from adolescence to maturity. We
leave behind the Piscean Era and enter into an age of global awareness, radiance, intuition and
cooperation, an era that will usher in an age of equanimity and prosperity, accompanied by an
evolution in our capacity to perceive, think, feel and sense. Such growth would mean that much
would need to be left behind—old structures and ways of thinking, communicating and living
will pass. Confusion, depression, and conflicts will increase as the old ways of holding power—
politically, religiously, socially and personally—all fight their last fight. This period of testing and
growth will last until 2038, when a new stewardship of this planet and our selves will be
realized and peace will have an opportunity to prevail on Earth.
Yogi Bhajan used his intuitive clarity to focus and prepare us for this transition, noting that the
dawning of the Age would be precisely at 11:30am (PST), November 11, 2011. The cusp period
will end and the Age of Aquarius will begin. We will be challenged on every front—and from
that pressure, a new culture of consciousness will bloom. He defined it as the time of Khalsa:
those who are pure in heart, clear in conscience, fearless and effective in action, intuitive, kind,
and compassionate, noble within the Self, and humble before the Infinite Creator.
One of the many blessings in the community of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan® is the
love of discipline that allows us to awaken, expand and refine our awareness. With that
expanded awareness we can act effectively, heal those in distress and enjoy the tumultuous,
spontaneous creativity of life. We practice 40‐day meditations to embody new experiences or
increased capacities. We practice 90‐day meditations to clear our subconscious and build new
habits. We practice 120‐day meditations to realize that awareness in our daily lives. But when
we want to experience self‐mastery and confirm our consciousness, beyond every change of
time, space and circumstance, we practice 1,000 days.
A 1,000‐day practice projects our newfound awareness, mastery and consciousness
impersonally for all—it is impersonally personal—a discipline of grace that blesses all. In
mythical and symbolic traditions like numerology, it represents the nobility of the individual,
“1”, expanded and radiant, as supported by the three “0’s”, the body, mind and spirit; negative,
positive and neutral minds; and the three gunas. It is experience and mastery blended into a
self‐qualified awareness of human excellence.
© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan Page 2
Yogi Bhajan gave us a practice for the Aquarian Age, which calls on those inner virtues. He
shared it so that we could act with integrity and clarity as teachers, healers and leaders; so that
we could be human under the pressures of the times and the distractions of change, ego and
emotion.
Our practice will be worldwide and you can join in at any point, adding to the global psyche,
projection and prayer: that we may enter the Aquarian Age awake, aware and joyous. 3HO
Foundation, The Kundalini Research Institute and Sikh Dharma International invite you to join
us in this 1,000‐day sadhana. We will be doing the following meditation for a 1,000 days,
leading up to the Aquarian Shift on November 11, 2011. It uses the power of shabd—the
technology of sound and consciousness. He originally introduced this mantra on February 5,
1992, soon after we entered the final cusp period of the Aquarian transition.
We will practice it 11 minutes each day. If you wish, you can increase the time to 31 minutes.
Ideally, choose a regular time to do it each day. Get together with friends and students. Practice
it in community: Be together. Be brilliant with light. Be powerful with prayer. Be prosperous.
Face the future with an open heart and open arms.
The 1,000 day meditation begins February 14, 2009 and ends November 10, 2011.
On November 11, 2011 we will do a special meditation to complete this practice in a global
wave of sound and consciousness. Join us as we prepare for the first Summer Solstice of the
Aquarian Age, where the full energy of the sun ignites us and unites us in June 2012.
Let’s join hands and hearts as a contemplative community and act together in the love of
excellence, the gratitude of being and the hope for peace and prosperity.
Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD
Director of Training
The Kundalini Research Institute
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meditation for an Invincible Spirit in the Aquarian Age Yogi Bhajan • February 2, 1992
Posture: Sit straight. Left hand is in Gyan Mudra, the tip of the forefinger touching the tip of the thumb,
resting on the knee with the arm straight. Raise the right hand to about 12 inches in front of the chest,
holding the mantra sheet and concentrating on the written words as you chant. If you don’t have a
mantra sheet, angle your hand as if you were reading a sheet of paper, with the palm open and
the wrist straight. (Ideally, you would print the mantra on a sheet of paper and read the mantra as
you chant. We’ve created a printer friendly version for you to download.) Eyes: Apply Neck Lock and look down the nose to
see the mantra sheet or the palm. When he gave this meditation, he asked us to focus the eyes, to pay
attention and not drift. If you do not have the page to read from, use the palm but continue to focus.
Mantra: Focus on the movement of the tongue and the sensation of the sound as it creates a time and space.
Sing with Nirinjan Kaur’s Aquarian March. Become a symphony. 7 Minutes (27 Minutes for a 31‐Minute Practice)
Continue chanting, close your eyes and put your hands on your heart, one palm resting on the
other. Press the hands firmly into the chest. Press hard. 2 Minutes Keep your hands on the heart and begin
to whisper the mantra. Whisper powerfully. 1 Minute To Close: Chant without the music for 30 seconds. Inhale, exhale and relax.
``` Mantra ````
Sat Siri - Truth, Projective Prosperity and Greatness
Siri Akal - Great Undying One Who Knows No Death
Siri Akal - Great Undying One Who Knows No Death
Maha Akal - Infinite Who Is Deathless
Maha Akal - Infinite Who Is Deathless
Sat Nam - Truth as Identity; or Identity of All That Is
Akal Moort - Embodied Form or Image of the Infinite
Wahe Guru - The Ecstatic Totality of God and Existence
Note: “Great” still has a touch of finiteness; “Infinite” in Maha has no finiteness or form.
Mantra is pronounced: Sat Siree, Siree Akaal, Siree Akaal, Mahaa Akaal, Mahaa Akaal, Sat
Naam, Akaal Moorat, Wha‐hay Guroo. See Tools for Students/Teachers at
www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org to hear the pronunciation.
Time: 11–31 Minutes
Comments: In the face of any great change, we confront three destructive impulses: to be
alone and withdrawn, to deny or fantasize about the future that’s coming, and to live with
greed or scarcity instead of prosperity. This mantra counters these three tendencies and instills
the mind with courage and caliber.
You can purchase the DVD of this class, 1,000 Years and Beyond, from The Source at www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org
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