Number | description | Quality | key phrase | key question | Guru |
1 | Soul body | Humility Creativity | Heart over Head | Do I feel creative? Do I come from the heart? |
Nanak |
2 | Negative mind | Obedience Containment | Longing to Belong | Can I determine if there is danger in a situation? What do I need to consider? |
Angad |
3 | Positive mind | Equality Positivity | Devil or Divine | Am I open to all possibilities that life has to offer? Do I let these into my life?? |
Amar Das |
4 | Neutral mind | Service Compassion Integration | Cup of Prayer | Do I allow myself to perceive and act upon inner wisdom? | Ram Das |
5 | Physical body | Sacrifice Balance Teacher |
Teacher/Balance | Do I use my strenght and assets for the good of all? |
Arjun |
6 | Arcline | Justice Protection Projection | Person at Prayer | Am I able to manifest my goals? Do I so with integrity? |
Hargobind |
7 | Aura | Mercy Security Love | Platform of Elevation | Do I feel security in universal love? Am I unhesitating in uplifting others as well as myself? |
Har Rai |
8 | Pranic body | Purity Energy Fearlessness Self-initiating | Finite to Infinity | Do I fearlessly embrase life? Do I have enough energy to fulfill my goals? |
Har Krishan |
9 | Subtle body | Calmness Subtlety Mastery | Mastery or Mystery | Am I subtle and sensitive and can I penetrate beyond superficiality? What is the REAL pupose of life? | Teg Bahadur |
10 | Radiant body | Royal Courage Radiance Nobility | All or Nothing | Is my life an example of courage, royalty and creativity? | Gobind Singh |
11 | Parallel Unisonness | Divine Vision Truth for All | Infinity | Is my identity Sat Nam? Do I allow Infinity to flow through me? |
Siri Guru Granth Sahib |
The Ten Spiritual Bodies
The 10 spiritual bodies
represent the Gurus. We
were given “key phrases” for each one of these bodies to help us
remember them. Following are the definitions of the ten spiritual
bodies.
The First Spiritual Body is called the Soul Body and it represents Guru Nanak. The key phrase is “Creator.” The conflict that we will have when this body is not working is the conflict between head and heart. The person who has a conflict with his First Spiritual Body will come more from his head than from his heart. The key of being a spiritual being is to come from your heart.
The Third Body is the Positive Mind and it
represents Guru Amar Das. The key phrase is “Devil or Divine.” If the
Positive Mind is working, a person will always have a positive
suggestion or a way out of every situation that seems like a dead-end.
If the Positive Mind is not working the person will not be able to do
that; he will not have the ability to see the positive side of any situation.
Our minds go through this process: First we calculate the danger in a situation - we find out what it will do for us and what could go wrong. For example, on a practical level, let us say that you are a businessman and that your Negative Mind doesn’t work. You will get into a situation and you won’t be able to see what could go wrong. The first thing you should calculate in any business deal is what could go wrong. The second thing you have to calculate is what could go right - that’s the Positive Mind. The third calculation is done by the Neutral Mind; it evaluates all the positives and all the negatives - you are not involved; you are completely detached; you make a yogic decision.
A person who has mastery of the 4th body becomes like Guru Ram Das. They are so neutral to you that you just go to them and you feel like you are getting their darshan. That is the blessing to me - Cup of Prayer.A person who masters the Pranic Body can go 20 hours a day and never get burnt out. Yogi Bhajan has an 8 as his Soul Number and an 8 as his Karma Number. All breathing exercises, pranayam, Breath of Fire, holding the breath in or out, and any meditation which requires you to hold the breath out automatically rnakes the Pranic Body kick in. The mantra WAHE GURU WAHE GURU WAHE GURU WAHE JI-O chanted eight repetitions per breath also works on the Pranic Body.
Whenever you master the Eighth Body, you automatically also master the Second, Third and Fourth Bodies. In other words, when you master pranayam you will have control of your mind. This is one of the fundamental yogic teachings that Yogi Bhajan has taught us many times before. Each Guru came to this earth plane to teach us
mastery of one of the qualities of the perfect human being. The
Complete Human Being will have mastery of all the ten Bodies, and he
will become the Siri Guru - one who is a constant reminder of God. A
human being will die, but the Siri Guru Granth is the Guru for ever,
and ever, and ever - it is eternal.