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The Rich Roll Podcast

Guru Singh: A Master Spiritual Teacher on The Power of Cultivating Awareness To Awaken Your Highest Self

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2017

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Inspiration. We crave it. We need it. We love it. But inspiration alone is a salve that does not cure. Because it rarely translates into positive lifestyle adaptations sustained over time. For that you need something called purpose. Purpose derives from a keen awareness of self. An awareness that cannot be found in externalities but instead emanates from the deep recesses of your soul — a place far removed from the dopamine-inducing inspiration hits we restlessly seek outside ourselves. Indeed, purpose is an inside job. So this week, we turn inward. A conversation designed to cultivate that awareness, amplify intuition, and enliven the soul so that we can more deeply connect with our unique purpose and awaken to our highest, most authentic selves. I can think of no better steward to ignite this process than master spiritual teacher and celebrated Kundalini yoga wizard Guru Singh (@gurusinghyogi). Imagine a modern-day rock star Gandalf dropping mad guitar licks between pearls of timeless wisdom that beautifully fuse of Eastern mysticism with Western pragmatism and you start to get the picture. Named “Best Guru in LA” by Los Angeles magazine, for the last 40 years Guru Singh has been studying and teaching Kundalini Yoga – a 5,000 year old ancient science and school of yoga focused on awakening the primal energy known as shakti for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment. He is the author of several books (enumerated below) and a powerful lecturer uplifting thousands worldwide. An extraordinary teacher, he also serves as a behind-the-scenes guide to many a luminary, including Fortune 500 CEOs, athletes, artists and even Tony Robbins. A peer of rock legends like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead, Guru Singh is also a supremely talented musician who began his recording career on Warner Bros' Sire label in the 1960s. When he isn't recording tracks with people like Seal, he's bringing down the house on the daily at Yoga West, his Los Angeles home base. Simply put, Guru Singh is one of the coolest people I have ever met — a huge, beautiful consciousness I'm proud to call friend. It's an honor to share his story and wisdom with you today. My hope is that that this conversation will catalyze your desire to peer more deeply inward. That it will spark a yearning to more thoroughly cultivate your latent intuition. And ultimately that it helps set a trajectory for your journey towards the ultimate superpower — unlimited awareness. To rise up, you gotta lay down. It is there that you will find purpose. Peace + Plants, Rich

Transcript

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Be aware, be aware, and then assign, you got bandwidth. Assign a strand in your

0:08.6

bandwidth for maintaining that awareness. This is the nature of yoga literally

0:14.9

off the mat to be able to assign a part of your bandwidth, your awareness bandwidth,

0:20.2

and we've got a lot of it that we don't use to being aware that you're

0:24.8

breathing. Have an awareness that you're not just talking to somebody, you're

0:31.0

actually conversing. There's a there's this pathway going between you and when

0:37.5

you start to be aware of these bandwidths in your consciousness, it's like a

0:44.9

whole new world opens up to you. The world of relationship becomes so much richer.

0:49.8

That's Guru Singh and this is the Rich Roll Podcast.

1:04.6

Hey everybody, how you guys doing? What's going on? What is happening?

1:10.4

Greetings. My name is Rich Roll. I am your host and welcome or welcome back to

1:15.3

the show where I get intimate and go long form. When some of the world's most

1:19.7

intriguing thought leaders and positive change makers all across the globe, I

1:24.2

really appreciate you guys tuning in today. I appreciate you subscribing to the

1:28.9

show on iTunes and for sharing the show with your friends and on social media.

1:32.5

And of course for supporting my work through Patreon and the Amazon banner ad at

1:37.7

Rich Roll.com. Okay, first off, I want to thank you guys, all of you, for the

1:43.6

tremendous reaction to the David Goggins episode, just unbelievable. Man, that one just

1:49.5

took off. It went a bit viral. There were thousands upon thousands of tweets and posts

1:55.2

on Facebook and Instagram. It even made the newspaper in Sydney, Australia. People are

2:00.6

just really responding positively to David's powerful super inspirational message. And

2:06.6

that episode is definitely well on its way to becoming my most popular podcast ever.

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