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Life According To Yogi Bhajan IV The Living Chronicles of Yogi Bhajan © The
Teachings of Yogi Bhajan Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people. My soul, bless me, be with me. Energize me so I can face the world
with the strength of the spirit. Save me from duality, give me the
reality and royalty so I can face my world in peace and tranquility.
May this journey of life be completed with love and affection, kindness
and compassion for all living things. When
fundamentally and basically we do not do what we are supposed to do,
then Time becomes the teacher. Time leaves no space. Don't
put so many stakes on the earth that at the time of going to heavens
you are stuck with your own ropes to your own stakes and you can't
get to the height. There
is nothing more important than you. You must decide what is wrong
and what is right. If you decide it is right to be wrong, then go
ahead. Experience it. Step up to a 'better stool'. First thing in the morning, mix two parts alum and one part potassium salt. Place a small amount in the palm of your hand and run toothbrush through it. Brush gums and tongue and then take your finger or brush and press the back of the tongue to make a gag and bring up mucus from the monkey glands. This mucus has to come out; otherwise it will go back into body and pollute your system. Rinse and smile! The motivated self in you is nothing but your thought. When thought is added to the sphere of creativity it becomes experienced, it becomes reality.
It is a simple idea that out of the woman comes the human generations. Whatever her mind is, that will be imprinted on the child during pregnancy, which is 9 months and 4 days, exclusive of the day of conception. Whatever she conceives and imagines her child should be, that will be the structure built up in the child in the first 120 days, because there is no soul in the first 120 days. When there is no soul, there is no mind. After 120 days, her behavior will imprint on the child's mind. So actually the child's mind is built while the child is in that pregnancy. This is why a rightful ritual after 120 days we ask the woman to come and all the relatives come around and bring her presents. She is relieved of all hard duties and is assured sympathy, because with the biological and psychical changes the woman goes through during pregnancy, she normally becomes insecure in those days. The second month she doesn't want to eat, she starts vomiting normally and feels bad about food. The third month she is tired, and the fourth month, when the soul enters, she is less effective; she wants to rest more. Now, all these changes look unusual to men. They don't understand. But her total structure inside changes, her metabolism changes, the composition of the important ingredients like metals and vitamins change. Therefore, those months she is required to be in circumstances which are very secure, respectable, comfortable and in which she can have a lot of understanding around her. We always know how to raise the rose bush, but we never have tried to study how to raise our children. Our children are actually raised within those 9 months of pregnancy and development. Those are very important days of life of the child. (Editor's note: "Our teacher, Yogi Bhajan, spoke of the Mind being Universal and the body having a brain. The use of (the word) Mind is in fact the use of the Brain-Mind connection. This connection would not take place before the Soul-Body enters the physical body. Until that moment, it is just a construction site without occupancy--same as a house being built before the people move in."
The purpose of life is for you to reach a state of consciousness where there is no peer group, period. Only then can you become a giver. Before that you are in the business of give and take. But when you give and give and give and, for the sake of living, you live, then you have to have no peer group. Then you become "lk"- the One. One is very lonely. It has its own beginning, it has its own end, and its own process. That's why Guru Nanak described Ik: Aad sach, jugaad sach, haibhee sach, Naanak hosee bhee sach. What will it be? Ik. That One. There are a lot of people who love a lot of things. But are you going to have the capacity to love that Infinite God who created you, as gratitude? Can you develop that attitude? That is called, "Self". It is surprising to me that people do not understand the simple formula of how the subtle body works. Basically, you have to understand that electricity is created by rotation and cross-rotation of the electromagnetic field. That’s how electricity is produced. People can communicate from one place to another place with wireless telephones; there’s no distance. Similarly, the subtle body of the Mahan Tantric lives; it is an everlasting, factual fact. It is a privilege to tune into it. And that’s why, within my lifetime, I am trying to educate you. Because there can only be one Mahan Tantric, and God knows on whom this crown shall be bestowed, or if it ever will be or not; I’m not predicting it. But to protect you, to save you, and to make you understand, I am using a mixture of my attained powers as Mahan Tantric and as Master of Kundalini Yoga. Kundalini Yoga was not always openly taught to people. Generally the person has to initiate himself, come to a standard of perfection and then qualify to meet the Master. If the Master approves him, then he gives him the kriya or Sadhana or dikshaa, whatever you want to call it. But I have openly taught Kundalini Yoga and survived, so I feel God is very kind and merciful to me, and he wants the mission to be complete. When I was sick I enjoyed the sickness because it handicapped me, and I couldn’t move or work. It also created a shortage of money. But you came through with everything with your devotion, with your experience, and with your excellence. And it made us realize that we cannot stop the Tantric energy. We want to enrich ourselves, we want to grow, and we want to progress. That’s why we started using the “wireless telephone” method for the Tantric courses. Through the television, you’ll go through the energy, and your subtle body will tune in with my subtle body. (See You Have 10 Bodies.) So death, for that purpose, will never mean a thing. For those who believe that I am dead, I shall be dead for them. And for those who believe that I still live, I shall live a hundred times more powerful and stronger in them than they have ever experienced. With these words, I’d like to tell you that we shall have an everlasting, loving, beautiful relationship, here, hereafter, unto Infinity, and even beyond that. Man changes with the cycles, with the consciousness of seven years, intelligence eleven years, life cycle eighteen years. But woman totally changes her identity every nine years.
You are all afraid to become lonely, you are scared to become lonely. You do not know what to do with your loneliness because you do not know how to give. Give your loneliness that oneness, that ecstasy, that state of higher consciousness. When you do not ever have a peer group, nobody can match you, nobody can understand you, nobody can know you, then you become heaven, heaven becomes you, earth has nothing to do with you ... Loneliness means being in a state of consciousness where you see everybody as you. That oneness, that loneliness, is a state of consciousness in which you don't see anyone other than you - one focus, one picture, one meditation, one consciousness, one feeling, one emotion. You
should make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people
become happy. If your power to communicate does not combine with your spirit and your caliber of honor, you should not speak.
Misery doesn’t need appreciation. Misery needs to give you pain. The purpose of misery is to put you through pain. As soon as you start appreciating misery, its purpose is lost. The opportunity that we are given for a life of consciousness is to clear this debt and live in the highest peaceful allocated self. Guru Nanak said it all starts from Ek Ong Kar - "the One Creator Who created the creation." To live in the highest Self is what human life is all about, but we waste our life on small things. Our poverty doesn't hurt us, but our neighbor's richness does. We are always competing and comparing and planning and imagining things. We rarely allow the flow of life as God wants us to flow with it. But now, as we are entering the Age of Aquarius, we have to know what life is all about. We want you to have the hot food in these jagnas and saadhanas. Why? Purpose is we want you to stimulate within yourself, that your energy may be stimulated. raajasic food. We are doing sattvic saadhana eight and nine hours a day. And we eat sattvic food? No. We eat raajasic food so there may be lot of energy, so that we may accomplish what we want to accomplish. It is creating a balance. If I tell you, "Just drink a glass of milk, or seven days be on fast, and do these exercises," half of you would die with a heart attack. You would have no energy. Who can do it? That is why we are not calling these things "retreats." We are not retreating for anything. We are going to advance. From whom we are retreating? We are advancing to God. We are not retreating. Why you call it that? Why you got those vibrations? I am retreating from where? Words do mean something. They are vibrations. They build in the mental self. I am not going to retreat from everything. I'm going to fulfilment of everything. I'm going to go on the path of sacrifice. I'm going to offer my lower self as a gift to my higher self. That is renunciation. Renounce your lower self and give it to your higher self. That is renunciation. Renunciation is not, my friend, to leave home, leave children, get away. To live in the highest Self is what human life is all about, but we waste our life on small things. Our poverty doesn’t hurt us, but our neighbor’s richness does. We are always competing and comparing and planning and imagining things. We rarely allow the flow of life as God wants us to flow with it. Man is so weak that he has not created a universal system. All he has created is a political system. A political system is outright a system where a bunch of people rules other people. As long as a bunch of people will rule other people, God shall never become our ruler. As long as people will rule people, it will be difficult for mankind to realize that God is our ultimate ruler. Love that shrinks is not love. It is passion. Love endures the endurable. You can run after satisfaction all over the world, but satisfaction must come from within you. Give and I guarantee you, you will get a hundred fold, but I also put it on record, those who go there to take or steal or manipulate and do their hookery, their families shall go under the curse of poverty and shall be crushed by the time. The Holy Nam gives you the state of ecstasy and when equilibrium and ecstasy become amalgamated, when they merge together, a person becomes infinitely divine. All things come from God. All things go to God. This is the ultimate truth, which you must understand and you must believe and you must trust. If you do not understand that life is there to challenge you with every breath of life, you do not understand living. If you do not challenge your life yourself, somebody else will challenge it. Those of you, who intend to survive or feel like going on, must understand: don’t count your wrongs, count your blessings and you shall not fail. Any human who calls himself a creature of God who does not count many times during the day the blessings, but only counts what he doesn’t have, is insulting to God and devilish to himself. Don’t expect life will treat you nicely if you do not treat life nicely. You should be SO angelic, SO graceful, SO perfect that your mood and your routine can be totally predictable so that people can trust you. You want people to trust you but you don’t want to be open. That is an insult, which NO human being, no matter how rotten he may be, can accept. That’s why you lose people. That’s why you lose friendship. That’s why you lose relationships. If any of you want to be a leader, (which you all want to, and I know, that’s your hidden agenda) you have to do the first thing first. You should be predictable. And you should be in a position to be acknowledged by your routine. The problem is that you have one thousand thoughts in the shashara, the seventh chakra, which are released in one wink of the eye. And any thought which is released automatically, which is none of your problem, has to be caught by the id and has to be processed by the ego. And whatever this ego will process, it shall have duality. “May I, may I not? Should I, should I not? Is it, is it not?” That’s called processing. Otherwise there’s no processing. And when the ego processes, only at that time, if your faith, your wisdom, your courage, your commitment, your consciousness comes through, you will go through it. And you will come through it successfully.
If you call yourself a Khalsa (Pure One), then you must be identified in silence by your behavior, by your appearance, by your thought, by your company, by your talking, by your communication, by your deeds, by your acts, by your reality, by your non-reality. Those who shall not learn to obey shall never be in a position to command. People, who waste their energy speaking, waste the God in them. Never speak without integrity. Never. Word is God. The most precious thing in the human body is the breath. A meditation which cannot bring normalcy and equilibrium to your breathing is useless, because the rate and length of the breathing will determine the rate of secretion of your glandular system, and that secretion will give you physical stability. Physical stability will then give you mental stability, and mental stability will project the radiance of the spirit, the soul in you. And when the spirit becomes radiant and healthy, you will look spiritual. To have a conflict is a conscious act. But to keep it inside, and hidden, is a personal crime. If you have to face that kind of situation, you cannot live in peace and tranquility. What is the purpose of this life? To be happy. We have to be happy that we have inner conflicts and we clean them out every day. Every day you make your bed. You sleep in your bed; you have to make your bed. Right? So you live. There are conflicts. Conflict comes from all sides of the angle, triangle, chakras, etc. But you are beyond it. Conflicts have come to test your purity and piety, your unison-ness, your grace, and your reaction to it. In ordinary life, you are not about to become a saint. You are to become pure with a depth of piety such that through your feelings and your ideas and your thoughts, if you touch somebody or you look at somebody, that person is elevated to the height of ecstasy (“Drib Drishti”). It’s not that you close your eyes like you are doped up. That’s not ecstasy. Ecstasy is when you are firm and live as a human in the pleasure of the Divine God. Then you shall have no duality. There’s nobody without God. If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.
We have the ultimate strength of the spirit – the soul. You may not know it, but you have an awakened soul. We are born spiritual people. Simply, we have to be kind and cozy as humans. So there is nothing to worry about. My soul, bless me, be with me. Energize me so I can face the world with the strength of the spirit. Save me from duality, give me the reality and royalty so I can face my world in peace and tranquility. May this journey of life be completed with love and affection, kindness and compassion for all living things. Woman loves the wise man in every man. She does not need you. She needs security. That depth of security is founded in your wisdom -- not in you.
Everyone must remember that there are certain characteristics of a noble person, a noble woman. A noble person is noble through all time and space. A noble person is constant and consistent whatever the time and space. Some people behave differently with rich relatives as compared to poor relatives. That is not nobility. Nobility teaches one equality before God. So under any circumstances, one can find a noble person through their constant behavior, which is absolute in equilibrium through all pressures and all shortcomings. That is one great sign. Constant continuity of equilibrium of any kind of behavior is the first sign of a noble person. A noble person is one who will not barter, who is not even tempted to barter, the values of character for benefit. Noble people are those who will not forget the presence of God within a person. And most importantly a noble person is a dedicated person, like the Infinity of God. God is Infinity. There is no shortcut, and people who try to shortcut will always end up adopting unnoble ways and means. It requires an infinite endurance to live within the range and the circumstances of one’s nobility. The noble way to act towards a slanderer is to ignore him. It is the greatest punishment one can award to anybody. Do you know how bad you feel if someone doesn’t even look at you? You should not lose your merits in contrast to someone’s demerits. Walk nobly, talk nobly, live nobly and experience divinity. The sign of nobility is that it has a deep effect in relationship with any person one comes across. They say nobility is a virtue, which affects every soul. It is a virtue, which affects every soul just as innocence affects every heart. Woman has only one virtue: she is noble in the beginning and noble until her death. People do hanky-panky along the way, thus they pollute their virtue of nobility. If nobility is ever precious to a person, that person will never, ever put himself or herself down the tube for any reason, for any argument, concept, thought or feeling whatsoever. Because nobility is like a mirror; once a crack is in it, the entire image is distorted. Noble habits, noble language, noble behavior, noble posture and a noble way of communication are so powerfully impressive that even an enemy’s heart can be melted. You ask your child to have good grades in school. You never teach that there are mental grades, spiritual grades, and social grades. There are grades in etiquette, manners. There are grades in courage. In social and political changes, a woman must understand that whenever a woman becomes power hungry she becomes a monster. The Chinese dragon is a monster. It is a very beautiful view of such women who instead of flowing with the flow of noble tradition become possessive monsters. I have seen in practical life, a noble mother becoming a possessive monster and ruining the future of her children because of her social, psychological and personal handicaps. There is nothing more noble than the relationship of the mother, but in that same relationship of the mother, she becomes a destructive monster when she becomes possessive. A mother becomes possessive because of her social, economical, and personal handicaps. Questioner: You said that nobility is like a mirror, when it is cracked it distorts the image. If one appears unnoble in front of a person, will one’s nobility be distorted forever in the eyes of that person? Reply: It may get healed but there shall be a scar. Nobility is like a trust. Once it is broken, one has to rebuild it. It is like a credit report. Therefore it is not very fair to discredit yourself. Questioner: If a child is going through his traumas, what is the noble way to act? Reply: First noble way is to make him recognize that he is going through the trauma and that you understand. The moment the child will understand that the parents understand that the trauma is being played as a trauma, then, it just becomes a drama. The child will immediately change the drama act and start doing something different. If that does not work, the parents have to exert their authority in a legitimate way to make the child think that they cannot be conquered by that injection of trauma. They will be successful. When a child reaches the age of eleven, one should never ever play any drama with that child, but should be straight and firm. Now they are entering the stage of ego trauma. You can win them by frank, straight talk. You will win it. When parents try to hide their own weaknesses from their children and lie to them, it spoils the children. That destroys the image of the parents’ nobility. They won’t be able to believe their parents or act upon their advice. You are not here to experience life. Earth is not the experience of life. Earth is the experience of death. You will be shocked to know that. You have been told differently. You have been told that Earth is the experience of life- that is wrong from the beginning. Life is a continuous factor. Earth is a flow of that life. You come to Earth to flow. In the garden of God, you are His one and only rose. Carry your own smell with your own deeds. Please remember it: First, success, which is not everlasting, is failure. Second, success is only success when neither time nor space can take it away. When you start out - look good. Look in your mirror, look in your consciousness, look in your intelligence, look at yourself-body, mind and soul- and ask one question: "Can I win the trust?" Keep the trust. That is what I mean when I say, "Keep Up". Keep Up means keep the trust flowing, keep the trust going, keep the trust living, keep the trust accelerating. You must realize that the strength in you is you. The material world around you is to supplement your strength or to complement your strength; it is not your strength. You cannot tolerate the fact that sometimes, in order to have one thing you must give up another. I'll give you the secret of how to become God. When another person calls you in the name of trust, and you come through and you deliver it, you are the God. When God is called upon in the name of justice and truth, God delivers it. It takes 40 days to break a habit;
For menstruating women: Take a handful of almonds, about two ounces of ginger juice, some banana, some raisins, and blend it into a beautiful drink. When you get your first cramp, let this be your morning drink. Touch a person, hold a person and then carry a person. You can’t drag anybody, you cannot lean on anybody. Carry them simply and truthfully. The most difficult thing to believe is, "Humee Hum Brahm Hum," "We are we and we are God." I may teach another 100 years, but I will not be able to convince you that you are God. Sometimes you do not even believe that you are a part of God. You do not even believe that the One who rotates this Earth can take care of your routine. Once you believe that you are God, Mother Nature will start working for you ... You have to learn to be. Just sit down, close your eyes, calm down and be. Be yourself! Not anybody else. Just a creative human being. (See BeYourAllness.com.) The real worth of a human mind is contentment. The real wealth of the spirit is when you prevail as divine. If you do not understand that life is there to challenge you with every breath of life, you do not understand living. If you do not challenge your life yourself, somebody else will challenge it. What is self-respect? When you value your own soul, your own identity, your own personality, your own reality. Learn to bless yourself and everything will be blessed around you. Just bless yourself always. To wear the garb of a holy man, and to read the Holy Scripture and to pretend to be holy is easy. But there is one fundamental law and that is to accept the will of God, your Creator. Forgiveness is the highest performance of the elevated consciousness. There is a kindness of nature and a direct approach to life. There is no deficiency and no depression. It makes a man dedicate himself. You have to develop your mind with meditation. You have to develop your spirit with kindness. We have forgotten who we are. We are one and there is One to whom we belong. The aim of life is to inspire each other to God-consciousness. You are wrong if you think your intelligence works or your words are powerful or you are very charismatic. Actually it is your radiant body, the glow, the shine in you that works. The first stage of higher consciousness is the state of equilibrium where neither praise inflates you nor slander depresses you. You may love the praise but you offer it at the altar of your Creator. You may dislike slander but you offer it at the altar of your Creator. A person who lives in this state is super-sensitive therefore he is grateful. This attitude of gratitude makes a person great. In your life you must project, because God gave you life and therefore God can only relate to life. If a prayer has life in it, it shall be accepted. If love has life in it, it will live. You only want to deal with a few things, so you pick and choose. This way you build character of being limited, because you only want to deal with the limited. No limited thing can be happy, because God is unlimited and the environments are unlimited. Love is a power, not a logic, debate, discussion, argument or question. Use it wisely to elevate yourself to excellence. Yoga is a science of reality and an experiential proof of the sacredness of all life. Whosoever shall spend some part of his life spreading righteousness and serving righteousness and serving righteously, helping others to live righteously, advising others to live righteously taking care of people who are falling apart and helping them to walk on the path or righteousness, shall always be exalted on this earth as a righteous human. Two plus two is four, but for some, two plus two is five. They are so good. They add smiles, they add warmth, they add love, they add passion to it, they say hello, they go one It is very difficult to become spiritual. That means you become a part of the Universe, and the Universe becomes a part of you. The highest Sadhana (spiritual practice) is, that your presence should remind people of God. What bigger and more powerful miracle than that can there be, that by your very presence you can invoke Godhood in people? Whatever your weaknesses are, they are all divine and whatever your strengths are they are all divine. Balance it out and you will be absolutely great. Honesty is when your character is your character, and nobody can make it change. Without tranquility of self you don't have a chance to face even an ordinary thing in your life. Forget about big deals. You need that tranquility and you cannot force yourself from the outer stimulation to reach inside. You don't enjoy yourself, you don't want to trust yourself, you don't want to believe yourself. You want somebody to appreciate you and for that you do dummy neurotic actions. Every defeat in your life is based on your own reaction to the situation. Our children are to be morally, ethically, physically flawless. The world has to follow them. These children have to walk themselves. If you cannot make them strong and deep rooted, and get in them the character like iron, you do not have affection for them. Moment you start working and seeing God in everything, all wealth, prosperity and opportunity shall come to you.
The most precious thing in the human body is the breath. A meditation which cannot bring normalcy and equilibrium to your breathing is useless, because the rate and length of the breathing will determine the rate of secretion of your glandular system, and that secretion will give you physical stability. Physical stability will then give you mental stability, and mental stability will project the radiance of the spirit, the soul in you. And when the spirit becomes radiant and healthy, you will look spiritual. Why do we suffer? The actual fact is we want to suffer. If we are relaxed we will never suffer. Blessed are those who care for their values and virtues, who understand their lifespan is a gift, who love God in others, and Find God in Themselves. Communication, like a road, is already mapped. And every communication has to have an indication in it as to who you are dealing with. Are you dealing with a person of authority? A person of love? A person of shallow relationship? An acquaintance? You must gear yourself before you even utter one word. What is prosperity for a woman? It is when she expands herself, her goodwill, her good manners, her smiles, her counseling, and her uplifting. Prosperity is all good things. Whenever a woman puts all good things together, prosperity and abundance are assured. But if she wastes her time in bitterness, poverty is assured. A person who talks to you already trusts you until you blow it. Trust is built by every single phrase of communication. It is always computed by the subconscious mind, please understand that. And trust is the most vital truth of life. Trust is the total truth of social life. Your social life, in which more than one person is involved, is absolutely based on your trust. Your normal process of life is to not give. Not giving yourself a chance, not giving to others. You do not believe in creating a vacuum. Where there is a vacuum, God must fill it. Harmony should bring you success. I think that people who think they are not insecure, are in ecstasy. I think they are statues. I think if you get up in the morning, and you get up in an absolute negative mind and conquer it in one second, you are much more a saint than a saint himself. I think you must have a virtue. We are people of the earth, but our religion is divine. We come from God. We have to carry that powerful image of God with us throughout our lives, and stop worrying about the earth plane so much. Yoga is a science of reality and an experiential proof of the sacredness of all life. Experience has stages. Attitude of gratitude brings you opportunities beyond your concept. And when the prayer becomes the vibration of the soul, mind and self, we can create a miracle. Try to understand that each one of us has a soul... each one of us has a mind... and each one of us has bodies - mental, spiritual, physical, subtle... all combinations. We have a life... the breath of life... without which we cannot even live. Our real master, our real employer, our real relative, our real owner is the breath of life. The moment the real owner, the Master, the breath of life abandons our body, the mortal falls. The immortal, the soul, leaves. It takes the shelter of the subtle body and a subtle weight leaves the human as all the designs and ambitions are gone. The purpose of being human in this life is to become immortal. The secret of happiness is in your power to sacrifice and uplift others. Happiness is in giving, not in taking. God will give to you. Trust in the fact! The fact of life is that you and God are one identity. There is no place for duality! The moment you become a prayerful person, the fear of the Unknown is gone and love of the Unknown awakens. With meditation, achievements can be manifold; without meditation, the mind will not be a partner. The ironic thing that happened in this last century is that man started finding God outside himself. Man forgot that God is the working God, “Karta Purkh,” which Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, said works and breathes in us. It’s part of us; it’s not separate. We were blind to God’s presence everywhere. (See You Are The Essence.) Today we have become limited, small, squeezed to a point of just physical existence. We have little quality, quantity, character, and commitment. Our character is mostly inconsistent. We often say things that are not true. We truthfully say things that are not true. We dramatically say things that are not true. We do the most detrimental thing on this planet. In order to build a tower that surrounds the individual--like adding to how many houses, how many boyfriends, how much money we have--we end up on dirt, a termite heap of dirt. In character we have become very shallow. We talk about how many TV sets we have, how much bigger our TV set is, how many cars we have. You won’t hear a person talking about how much satisfaction, how much containment, how much contentment, how much character, or how much realization he has. What you hear these days is, “Who had sex with whom? Who wants who? Who chased who? Who is nude? Who is more nude?” Do you understand? There’s a competition going on. You see our magazines; it’s a human joke. When a race of humans starts making a mockery of themselves openly and obnoxiously, nothing is sacred. So this is the state of affairs, and it has to go on for 12 more years of this cusp period. And it will be bad for us. (See The 12 Signs of Kali Yuga.) My idea to present this to you is that many of you will try to reach out to help people or to help yourselves, and you will have something to understand. It’s called “building the foundation of the New Age.” The Age of Aquarius will be the Age of experience in which people of experience will be liked, respected, worshipped, talked to, and understood. It’s not a matter of how old you are or how young you are or how white you are or how black you are. Religion, as it has been known, has become absolutely obsolete. In the past 5000 years religion has been teaching you to redeem your soul. The soul is already redeemed. What you should redeem is your being not true to your words, not true to your commitment, not true to your character. That’s what you should redeem. The majority of people in the world are nothing but show business. You put on a show. And today even spirituality is nothing but a show. No human believes that they are a fact of life, a fact of existence, that they are real, that they are born in the image of God. The most magnificent Allah, most infinite God Jehovah, the most pure wise Lord Buddha, whatever you want to call God, has created you in His own image. The main experience in the Age of Aquarius is God within; then you are grateful, you are merciful, you are passionate, you are wonderful. Whatever God has given you, He'll give more. Opposition is just like a mustard seed; it will grow in proportion to your light. If you think you are poor, you are poor because you do not communicate with your soul, the source of prosperity, the source of reality. If you think you are desperate, you are desperate because you have no Sadhana. Desperation, depression, and a feeling of destitution comes only to those who have no discipline or Sadhana. Only a house, which is not cleaned looks dirty and the mind which is not cleaned stinks. Sadhana is the most selfish act, because it is a self-cleansing. Cleanliness is Godliness. It is good to wear good clothes, look good, be bright, beautiful. But when you want to be blissful and bountiful, you have to have a clear mind, a mind through which your soul, your spirit can shine. (See You Have 10 Bodies.) Never be right or wrong, always be neutral. Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind. There is no intimacy without compassion. There are a lot of things we need: One of these needs is that for the mind to work for you for the whole day, it must be fresh and clear; it must be made livable. That is why it is a requirement to rise early in the morning when nobody can disturb you, when you can be yourself. So people think that if they live long, live healthy, live rich, live powerful, all that etc, etc, etc, that is the sign that they are people, they are human. Not true. Not true. A person is a person... per his sun, he has seen the light within and without. If a candle does not light another candle, it breaks the continuity." If you have not done one good thing today to elevate one person, you have wasted your day. If you have not inspired one person today, if you have not served one human today, if you have not smiled at one person... take all good qualities of you... if you have not used them all today, one way or another, you have lost a part of you. And it is each day. And that's the difference between an animal and a human. Human has an impulse of consciousness to ignore light -- or be lit with it. Wherever you are, whatever you are and whatever the will of God is, may you be blessed, saved, protected and guided into the destiny of divinity, grace and unto Infinity.
I know sometimes you act very obnoxiously in a most belittling way when it comes to challenge to your ego. Whatever you cannot handle, you handle it very angrily. And anger gives you insensitivity and makes you immune, and cuts you off from the inflow of Infinity. It takes away from you your will and competency to be loving, to be sharing, to be trusting, to be understanding, to be flowing. You perhaps do not know, it is called: 'act of karma.' Each day one negative thought will create a one negative scene tomorrow. These are laws you can't change. To put blocks against your own vibration is the worst thing you can do to yourself. Whosoever will do this to oneself shall never find the Self. The Light of God shall always show you the way. A human cannot recognize another human just as a human, just as he is. You recognize gold as it is, and then you start looking at the purity of it: fourteen carat, eighteen carat, twenty-two carat, twenty-four carat, right? That's what you do. Have you ever measured another human being or person just as a person and then related to their evaluation, their purity of the heart and clarity of the head? I am asking you to be committed so that you can have self-confidence, self-projection, so that you can create a strong enough magnetic field that you can be graceful, dignified and noble. Woman can only be a woman if she has grace around her, and man is only a man if he has courage around him. Man without courage and woman without grace are so-and-so's. That is the politest thing I can say. Do not follow anybody, do not listen to anybody, do not look for anything, don't hear a thing, don't worry about anything -- all you have to do is to find in you your own sacredness. When a male child is born and a female child is born, mother out of attachment thinks it is my child. That is where wrong happens. There is no such thing as MY CHILD. One soul is so pure, so genuine, so competent, so creative that it can give birth to another soul. Actually to be a woman is only to allow another soul to go through the experience of the creativity of God, but once you possess it that this is my child you start the trouble right that minute. Because when it is your child you will give it the values as you want to give it, but when it is a gift of God then you will give it the values of God like. This is the error, which every mother does. Now what is the fault of that poor soul which took your body to just come and experience the creativity of God and you started laying your number on that all your neurosis you fight with your husband, you beat the child. If your husband doesn't love you, you start over loving the child. You are supposed to only give birth to the child and let the child grow in the consciousness of God so that child can experience it's own future, but your job is not to only give him birth but reach him to that God consciousness. Your first lesson to that child is you are with me because God wills it. You are owned by God and I am supposed to serve you, that's the second. Third, this life is yours and this future is yours and within the means God has provided us both husband and wife, we will try to build you so that you can enjoy your life tomorrow. All goodness has a evilness. It is your prerogative, your privilege to choose whatever you want. It is the very evilish thing to think of a child as your own property. Transportation principle is that you cannot transport until you do not have gears. And gears give you power, strength and adjustability to cope up with the time and space, and you are on the road. Whenever you have a problem, if you put your problem at the touchstone of the spirit, the consciousness and the soul, you will be surprised how easy it is for you to solve that problem. But whenever you take a problem and look at it from the ego's point of view, it will not only bring you confusion, but it will also bring you destruction. 1. Love is blind. It never sees anything. Everybody has a dream. It’s my dream that every child will have the birthright to have a mother who is graceful and he or she can be proud of her. I think I have a dream that every man can have a wife who never says, “why” and “if” but through her light she shows the path, not to him alone, but to the entire family, to the entire future. That shall be a day when man will not go to an astrologer or a psychic, but he will have the very faith in his wife to tell him how tomorrow will be. There’s a foolishness that Kundalini teachers do: they mix so many things—astrology, numerology, tarot cards, yum-yum, yo-yo, bananas-pananas-chananas. They are afraid to cover their head when they teach. They want to be very popular. If you want to sell yourself, sell in the open market, but do not take a profession as a Teacher. Don’t insult this institution. In the end you will be sorry and regret it. The teachings are never for sale, and a teacher never has a price. You are priceless, guaranteed by the One who made this Universe. The pelvic bone is where the breath of life is triggered and where the breathing power of the pranic body is found. All knowledge, all scriptures, all wealth, all environments, all energy is meant to perform duty. Let us sincerely sit down, talk to our heart and head, speak with our neutral mind, and see what is our path. And let us walk on that path, totally conquering our mind, so that the world can trust us, believe us, and be with us. When you are mad, angry, emotional, insecure, naive; then just find the Infinity of God. The coin has two sides. You don't have to learn to be wise. Food is the medicine, which creates essential energy in the body and creates essential rest in the body to bring equilibrium. That is the beauty of food. All food was considered as human medicine to begin with. The strength of the man does not lie in what he has, but what he can give. As long as you don't compliment yourself, your environments and your job, you will always be miserable. Complaints bring misery, compliments brings strength. The power of prayer can bring peace to the earth and peace to the heart. Corruption happens when a religious man, having established being religious, becomes corrupt to save his authority and does not save his mission. He does not save what made him spiritual. If we cannot create an institution in which we create oneness of two individuals, then a child cannot be born with the caliber and intelligence to save the planet Earth Physical intercourse is called 'the bridge of seven constructions.' You can elevate your physical, mental, and spiritual body seven times over if it is an intercourse of mind, body and soul - if it is sacred, if it is worthwhile. Otherwise, it is the dumbest thing to do. When your soul will be the sole guiding factor in the sector of your activities, it will always be a prosperous life, it will be always happy life. When will joins the ego, it makes you fanatic. And when will joins your lower consciousness it makes you depressed. When will joins you, it makes you divine. I will wait for that time when the soul in you will become so pure, so awake, so aware that you will be willing to sacrifice your being to protect the very gentle, sweet being who brought you to what you are today. With these words and with this prayer of mine, on this most beautiful day, which I relate to, it is a day to be reminded of my own source of energy, I bow to every mother and I also ask to the would-be mother, to be graceful. And I ask every man who would seek peace to realize peace doesn't come by protests and rallies. We know it and we are aware of it. Peace comes by peaceful actions and so long as those born of the mother will not learn to respect the woman, there shall not be any peace on this planet. The day on this planet the woman will not be exploited, there shall be peace on this earth. Give us strength. Encourage us in spirit. Elevate us in radiance so we can be healthy, happy, holy and blessed with the bliss of our life and love so that we can smile, communicate and be as a spirit shining in Thy name to all human beings. Sat Nam. God's fear only means don't harm anybody. "Ahimsa," compassion. That's what it means. God's fear does not mean stand and shake. Don't take that concept, please. God's fear means when you have a fear of God you shall not do wrong to anyone, including you. A teacher has a primary responsibility to be a conscious leader, to be ahead of the times. The first qualification of a Kundalini Yoga Teacher is that he goes through calamity with a radiant smile, he deals with another person with a most humble understanding and he lives in the core relationship of Imperial Majesty. Your greatest art of life to win the world is to move gracefully with utmost patience, tolerance, kindness and compassion, because Mother is not which delivers a baby; Mother is which delivers the universe...If you want to see the strength of a nation, you can see it in the depth of the eyes of the woman and the smile on the face of the child. If you want to see God on earth, you can see it in the depth of the commitment of the woman towards her own nobility. If you ever want to see the miracle of God, just see a very saintly, noble, committed, divine woman, and wherever the light of her human eyes fall, that becomes heaven...and that is the power of a woman. There’s no substitution for victory. And there’s no equal to nobility–noble dress, noble behavior, noble conduct, noble code, noble appearance, noble jewelry, noble virtues, noble everything. We decided to belong to purity. We brought our dress to the standard of purity and we are trying to bring our conduct to purity. We want to be pure. We want to have a meditative mind. That’s why we do Sadhana (Spiritual Practice). I am explaining to you that emotions are like little waves, which don’t carry you anywhere, but nobility is like the trade winds. It will take you where you belong. Subconscious anger can completely and totally destroy your mind. When your mind is destroyed by your subconscious, then you have only one thing with which to help yourself, and that is ego. Because you have no friend, you have no energy. You cannot keep yourself together. And when you deal with life with ego, then you are a rebel, then you do not flow with the flow. Then the hassle in life starts. Then you’ll sweat and stink. When you will become nothing; you shall see everything, you shall feel everything, you shall know everything and you shall command everything. Be balanced within yourself, be balanced with your environments, be balanced with your one to one relationship, just understand what can bring trust for you is the balance, not you win, that's not balance, that person loses that is not balance, that person wins, that's not balance, you lose that's not balance, balance is when you and the other person are in an understanding, nobody loses, nobody wins, life goes on.
It’s your birthright to be Healthy, Happy, and Holy—and the practice of Kundalini Yoga is the method to claim that birthright. The only thing that is heard and understood and communicated at the same time is truth. Therefore you should be truthful. Do not speak for your advantage or my advantage. Sane is that who can deal with insanity and still smile. Brave is that, which can deal with cowardness and still keep going. Rich is that, which can face the poverty and still not give up his consciousness. Spiritual is that, against all devilish darkness, he keeps the light burning. Giving is God, taking is taking, doesn't matter what you take. Service creates permanent love and friendship. Love is the frequency of psyche of an individual, which entangles with the frequency of the psyche of another person. It creates inseparable image and it's qualifying. It's not quality, it's not quantity…that is what God is. Totality of God is the love of self. And if you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all. If you see this is bad and this is good, you have already divorced fifty percent of you. And if you can deny fifty percent of you, you can deny hundred percent of you. When they say don't judge, that's exactly what they mean, don't judge. Consciousness, intelligence and ego, take exactly the same energy, what emotions, commotion and ego takes. Happiness is in the palm of your hand, if you take it. Life is a constant flow of love, only takes your participation, your participation is requested. We do not feel that we have to raise our children for tomorrow. Child is born to us innocent, child is born to us for love, child is given to us in trust of God. You see how we break the trust of God. Our own chemistry doesn't meet, our own situation falls apart, our own things are stupid and we break the heart of the child. You are just parents, you just pay the rent. Forget about everything else. God has given them their destiny and dignity, Let them be who they are. If you can't help, get out. Your children born of you do not understand you. Do not understand your values. All they understand is their rights and the privilege you provide, that's why give children not the rights and the privilege, give them the values and the technology to have those values. Give children the biggest gift, a value of life. When you give children a technology of life in which you say these are your privileges and every privilege you give, becomes his right, they are asking more and more, you give in more and more, finally you reach a point where you cannot give in and the war starts. War starts that way the day the child will do a drama and wars get to the height when he starts throwing tantrums and trauma and the war is in the worst when he leaves, he is out of the door, but you caused it. You did not give him life and its values, which is your responsibility as parents. You got blinded by the love and forgot your duty. The most elementary object of human life with all a sensory system is to meet your own soul, mate your own soul and live with your own soul, that is the sole purpose and all prosperity and virtue shall come to you. First of all, as humans we have a wrong way to talk. We talk shallow talk, we talk showoff talk, we talk convincing talk, we talk sales talk and sometimes we talk stupid talk. We are not limited to anything. But the only best way to talk in your life is when you just talk to build an understanding. That's very important. Student: What do you do if the destiny is negative and you want to make it positive? YB: Destiny is not negative. It is the fate, which is negative. Fate eats you up on the way. Destiny or fate is two sides of the same coin. If you will not reach the destiny, you will reach your fate. So question is whether you want to reach the destiny or you don't want to reach the destiny. It's very difficult to go on the top of the mountain; it's very easy to fall at the bottom. That's the law of gravity. Make your choice. You want to sweat or you want to fall. Both hurts. Sweat is difficult and fall is hurt. But one is achievement. One is losing. Do as you want. Give to everybody, smile at everybody, pay attention. It will all come back to you. People give for the sake of giving, for the sake of the return, for the sake of public relations, for the sake of better relations. Giving is in our nature, but it is conditional. Those who can give unconditionally are those who feel that everything they have comes from God. There needs to be "x" amount of time, personality, self-projection, thinking and planning, which must be one-tenth of your totality, to guide you to the realm of yourself, your soul. Give to God what belongs to God: one-tenth of your time, belongings, income, thoughts, projection, communication, one-tenth of every act. Every act shall be a blessed act in which one-tenth belongs to God. There are a lot of very important things in our life. Mind is the muscle; body is the shell. There cannot be two opinions about it: The mind either controls you, or you control your mind. There cannot be two relationships. It's impossible to both control the mind and have the mind control you. No. It is always one-way traffic. It's a one-way road. Either you control your mind, or your mind controls you. If your mind controls you, whether you are rich or poor, you are done. You will just come and go. If you control your mind, even if you control only forty percent of it, you make sense. If you control fifty percent of it, you make prosperity. If you control sixty percent you become a legend. Life is all about the control of the mind; but there has to be spirit behind it - the soul. See Woman: According To Yogi Bhajan. See Women: The First Teachers.
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