Happy Birthday Guru Nanak Ji !!!!

A favorite quote from this wise saint born in on this day in 1469:

The throne of God exists in all places;
His treasure house fills up all spaces.
God, being Truth, lights up all faces.

Guru Nanak is the founder of the Sikh religion, but if you study his life, you'll see he never intended to create a religion. He was all about worshipping TRUTH, in all its many forms.

As you may or may not know, Kundalini Yoga came through the lineage of the ten Sikh Guru's of which Nanak is the first. This does NOT make Kundalini Yoga a religion however. My teachers describe the relationship between this school of yoga and Sikhism as the way the sun's light gets colored by the lens it flows through. This beautiful religion (its all about about worshipping the sound current and truth) was simply the vehicle for the ancient technology to arrive in. This practice was developed thousands of years ago and has been passed down in secret from teacher to student until Yogi Bhajan came to the west in 1969. I have read that he came intending to just teach Hatha yoga, but when he came to Los Angeles and saw the the young people demanding a change but getting lost in drugs , he realized the time was now to share this practice openly. I could go on...but basically the point I wanted to make was that Kundalini Yoga is not a religion and is in fact a technology and "spiritual" practice that honors all faiths because it is simply about empowering people to live their own highest truth. And for that I am grateful to the man responsible for opening the doors to these precious keys. Thank you Guru Nanak Ji and HAPPPYY BIIRRTHHDDAAYY!!!!

a quote from the wikipedia page devoted to his life:
" Guru Nanak Dev Ji spoke from direct understanding as an Awoken personality and not as a scholar, utilising the language of [Punjab] at the time as a person of Hindu background living in a highly Islamicised state. He encouraged people to worship within their own traditions, but to keep the focus on God's names rather than egotistic considerations."