"Gobinday Mukunkay" in a mantra often used in Kundalini Yoga classes. It's taken from a much longer text called Jaap Sahib, written by the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh.
My experience with this mantra is mostly from teaching it to preschool and elementary school children. You would think it would be difficult, but actually it's easier to teach new words to children than it is to adults. It helps that we put the words to arm movements ("Celestial Communication") and sing along to Snatam's version of the mantra on the album "Feeling Good Today."
One of my teachers used to say that "energy follows attention." In other words, what you notice is what forms your reality. To me, the mantra teaches children not only to notice, but to be grateful for, the incredible workings of the Cosmos.
When you recite the mantra you are invoking and recognizing eight aspects of this sacred energy.
These aspects are:
1. GOBINDAY (sustainer)
2. MUKUNDAY (liberator)
3. UDARAY (enlightener)
4. APARE (infinite)
5. HARIUNG (destroyer)
6. KARIUNG (creator)
6. NIRNAME (nameless)
7. AKAME (desireless)
Though there are many more than eight names to describe the infinte wonder that is the Universe--and Guru Gobind Singh used many of them in the 199 verses that make up Jaap Sahib--this is a pithy selection to say the least.
What if every child recognized that their precious life was being sustained by a loving conscious force (Gobinday)? What if every child grew up knowing that they were perfectly free (Mukunday)? How about raising a child who intuitively knew that when something was taken away (Hariung), something new would grow in its place (Kariung)? Can you imagine the security they would feel, inrespective of what was going on around them? This is the future I see.
Not only does the meaning of the mantra engage our gratitude for what is, the rhythm of it calls us to action. As my friend Sat Darshan explains in this video, reciting Jaap Sahib makes you want to "get out there and get things done." Yes! Spread the light!
We made this video in honor of Guru Gobind Singh's birthday, which was this Wednesday.
Sat Darshan is the creator of one of my favorite sadhana CDs, "Sadhana in the City." This is his version of "Gobinday Mukunday," which will be available on CD by Summer Solstice 2011!
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