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A principle in life to remember is to travel light.
You are traveling all the time.
Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.
– Yogi Bhajan
Sunday Evenings
by Guru Fatha Singh
L awton Bozeman had grown up in Orlando , Florida and was almost nineteen. He had met Yogi Bhajan in Orlando , then made his way to Los Angeles in January of 1970 to connect with the source of the teachings.
Lawton took a train to Phoenix . Then his hitch-hiking luck served him well. Alone in Los Angeles at 11 p.m. , with no idea where he was, the driver dropped him just two blocks from the Phyllis Ashram. There, Lawton settled into the rigorous daily routine that had evolved. It started each morning, rising at 2:30 am for a shower and an hour of Kundalini Yoga, followed by two and a half hours of the "long" chant: Ek Ong Kaar Sat Naam Siri Wha Guru till daybreak . Then there would be a morning class and an evening class, with occasional yoga through the day, just for fun.
Sunday evenings were special occasions for music, food and celebration, when guitars would come out and students would remain after until well after class. Lawton and Gerry Pond and others would engage their musical hearts in putting together all kinds of Sat Nam tunes and music - rocking, rolling, joyful and inspiring.
When classes were not going on, a core of volunteers at the Ashram - Mark Lamm, Craig and Diana Schnurr - was busy compiling community news, exercises, recipes, teachings, stories of Guru Nanak, wisdom from the Guru, quotes from Yogi Bhajan, and organic gardening information for a newsletter. Their inspired creation was fittingly called "Beads of Truth," each issue a bead on a string of growing self-awareness.
Beautifully illustrated and designed, and starting with just eight pages, a new issue was mailed out each month to inform and unite Kundalini Yogis, wherever they might be.
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