Life According To Yogi Bhajan X The Living Chronicles of Yogi Bhajan © The
Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
You know you have life that you can live. You can have all that you need. That is destined. More than that you can only get, if you open yourself up. Open your door; open your heart to others. You have to show that you are the beloved of the Lord and you are here to live a life for everybody. And this is unlimited. Whatever life is given to you by the pranic energy is unlimited. There’s no other way on the planet to free your soul unto the destiny and unto God but by serving those who need a hand -- smiling at them, wiping away their tears, forgiving them. Harmony should bring you success. It should bring you peace. It should bring you tranquility. It should bring you happiness. It should bring you the things you need. You don?t believe it. A yogi is a person who can totally amalgamate himself with you at your level, experience it and realize it, and then pull you up. Happiness is a by-product of the totality of life, which has to be shared compassionately and kindly with all. Serve all without classification or discrimination. Discrimination means you have reservation, which comes from fear, phobia, non-Infinity. In the worst scenario, sit down, close your eyes and talk to your own soul, spirit. The moment that becomes your attitude, all things you need in life shall come to you. We do not understand that the most important aspect of a human is the consciousness. We do not have the power of commitment if we do not have consciousness. We do not have the power of conception if we do not have consciousness. And when we do not have consciousness, we do not have basic intuition. Once a man adapts himself to righteousness, then no sacrifice is painful. As long as a life of righteousness is not adopted, everything is painful. I am trying to relate to you the power that lies in obedience to your own commitment. Once you commit, obey the commitment and everything that you want to achieve you shall achieve. You have not learned to live by the decoration, beauty and make-up of grace. You have learned to look beautiful by your make-up. And you cannot improve on the work of God. Your make-up does not make any sense. That's why, spending all the money on make-up, still you are miserable. Nobody can improve on what He made, the Great Creator, the artist, whose creation you are. The soul has a journey and it is pre-destined. It selects its longitude and latitude to be born. It selects its geography; its space, its protective, nurturing essence of the parents; mother and father, and its environments. All the aspects, all the events that happen in the first seven years are set. It is like when you have a book. Let us say somebody has a sixty-page book that's called "Life". Every page has to be turned and every page has to be read. Every page has to be gone through and has to be understood. In between, there will be things you highlight -- the things you like. There will be things that bring tears to your life, and there will be things that are dreadful, things that are right and things that are wrong. So, let us say that life proceeds like a book. Elementary tomorrow is already in existence. You have to walk on it... When you are in the state of the neutral mind, the soul is like a chandelier switched on over you. Communication of the soul is just that light; you are lit up by it. In us there are three values: we are angels, we are humans and we are animals. Our barbaric animal nature is to live at each other. Our human nature is to live with each other and our angelic nature is to live for each other. That should decide all of our behavioral aspects if we start looking at this trinity, that is what our behavior is. Whenever you decide to deal with somebody ask yourself, "Am I an angel? Am I going to do it angelically? Am I doing it humanly? Am I going to be a brute-barbaric and neurotic?” Every calamity is the test of our reality. Never be afraid of it. Whenever you face calamity with your reality, you shall win because God shall be on your side. You have come from the Perfect to be perfect. It is not that you have come from the Perfect and you have been put here as imperfect, and you have to become perfect. Your prosperity is based on your spoken word. With one word you can make a friend, with one word you can make an enemy. With one word you can win a heart, with one word you can break a heart.
Middle-aged crisis come from the fear of being old. Instead of being joyful about maturity, people start getting scared of being old. A woman who knows how to save her grace can always uplift humanity. The next sentence shall be in the scriptures: Humanity, in its dignity and divinity, lives because of the grace of a woman. I am not talking about the humanity who boozes, the gamblers, the thieves. They are humanity, too, but that humanity is a polarity. I am talking of the divine sect of the humanity that lives; whatever is left out is because of the grace of the woman. I said once before, and I say it again today, there shall be no peace on Earth if those born of woman do not recognize the divinity of the woman. People who love each other don’t bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space. If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love. There is no liberation without labor. There is no freedom, which is free. You think that when you love somebody you have to totally follow him or her. No, that's not love. When you love somebody, you have to be totally truthful with that person. It is a gradual experience and a perfecting of your own projection and the mind, which have to be brought in tune with the God-consciousness. And that takes a practice and a sincere effort on your part. You have to be sincere because you will definitely be tested. A woman who is not a leader is a miserable person… A leader has three things. First thing, leader has to sacrifice; second thing, leader has to stand alone; and third, leader has to lead. And leader has to lead by example, by action and by word. A leader is (one) who can stand on the top of the ladder and can stay balanced and alone. So basically, if you do not want to be the leaders, and you do not want to lead the home, lead the family, lead your environments, with grace, with courage and intelligently, you will have nothing in your life... A spiritual marriage is a process of amalgamation whereby the man and woman eventually become merged, retaining all of their individual strengths, while complimenting each other, supporting each other and covering for each other’s weaknesses. There are a lot of ways you can maneuver your life, but you have no life, you are rather a burden to life when your axle breaks. And every life has an axle, and that is the spirit of God, the breath of life... the most important thing the mortal has to see is that immortality is the axle of life. Love is the ultimate state of human behavior where compassion prevails and kindness rules. It is not how spiritual one is, it is how spiritually one faces calamity. Spirituality is when all is gone, and there is nothing to hope for, you become the hope and you are not gone. That is spirituality. Self control is not a discipline, self control is not a brake, self control is not something, self control is whether you are in touch with your soul or not. It is mental, it is not physical, it has nothing to do with nonsense. Just remember when you give an offering you don’t make big mess with it. There is a way of salutation to the grace of God and to the self. That is the first chapter of Vand Chako, share with others and serve them. But don’t control people or they will become your dead weight. Share with them and guide them and let them become successful. Remember that in the tomb of the emperor there are always pigeon droppings, but on the tomb of the saint there are always candles. The king owns the world and tries to control it; the saint owns the world and gives it all away. That is the difference. We are born for happiness, not for pain. As the pain increases so our insanity and that is a desirable life. Therefore we must understand every moment of our life is in our divinity and not in our duality. If we deny our self our divinity and go after our duality we will be nothing but a chatterbox of questions. It is not the wealth, it is not the happiness, it is not the possession, it is not the position, it is not the power, it is not the projection which can help you to be happy. Your happiness is based on your fundamental steadiness, what is called is your foundation. Foundation in science is known in spiritual world as faith. Total harmonious relaxation cures the body. To achieve this there must be coordination between the three facets of ourselves: body, mind and soul. We never blame ourselves for our own neurosis. We always blame others. You must understand that when we are successful and we fail at the same time. Success does not bring you anything but boredom. How to maintain in that boredom is the real secret of success. You cannot sustain a friendship without wisdom. Wisdom is nothing but practical learning of a higher consciousness. A person can know and trust you only if you are a wise human being. That existence which does not have discipline cannot deliver. That deliverance is the measurement of personal happiness, and that needs discipline in every facet of life. Within your discipline, whether you serve or you de-serve, within your discipline, you live or you don’t live, within your discipline you eat or you don’t eat, within your discipline, you are the discipline. If you are master of that discipline, which is you, you are all God. There is no other. Many people believe that the spiritual path is difficult and the neurotic path is easy. Students profess it and even some teachers encourage this idea. I have never agreed to it nor am I willing to agree to it now. It takes the same effort and energy to walk either path. The problem lies in being subject to time rather than being one step ahead of time. There are four chambers of a Teacher's heart: one pumps out information, one pumps out blessing, one receives all the faculty of negativity, and one chamber is strong enough to cleanse it. The prayer of the mother is the most powerful tool. Once you give birth to a child, give him the highest gift: pray for that child. Giving birth to a child and not adding prayer to that child is just building a house with no foundation. Yoga means “union.” It is the experience of Infinity in our own finite form. Kundalini Yoga offers us the discipline through, which our own self can experience our Self. It is a path that will lead us onward to find the bliss that is at the core of being human. The Kundalini is known as the nerve of the soul. This is to be awakened. Your soul is to be awakened. When soul gets awakened, there remains nothing...If your soul is awakened, what else do you need? In the reality of your own structure and existence, the mind is given to you so that you can act, express, and experience yourself in this creation. The challenge of the times is upon each of us. Those blessed with a spiritual life and reliance upon God will have the capacity to rise and flourish. It is common to spiritual pathways to give time to meditation, prayer and chanting God's name. This nurtures our consciousness, compassion, and kindness as human beings and makes us generous in our acts and deeds. We give of our consciousness and we give of our earnings. The act of giving creates an opening from the heart and soul unparalleled by any other. Our fears are there to spoil our lives. It is not you who betray the soul. It is your fear, which betrays the soul. Fear is earthly, and has nothing to do with the heavens. Your fear is that you must hassle, and only you can make it. It is never true, never was, nor is, nor shall be. The guiding hand in this world is the hand of God. So, you are what you eat. And your power is what you speak. Your strength is what your manners are. And your prosperity is based on mutuality. That's how you will spell it. Your relationship is based on service. And your trust with people is based on your purity. Head is a computer. Heart has the power of 108 suns. Heart center is the strongest of all centers. Whenever you pray with the head, it will take so long -- you have to go through the intellect, thought, circumstance, environment, space and time. Whenever you sing or pray from the heart, it will be timeless, spaceless, and absolutely effective. Nothing can change the pattern of human destiny until the devotion is so strong that one is willing to sacrifice his patterns (ego). And when that occurs, life is greatly changed. Elevated consciousness is a surety. Happiness is around the corner. What is the difficulty in us? Why can't we figure out that God is still the owner of this planet earth? He rotates the Earth, he will take care of the routine. Why don't you give the chance to the Master, the Guardian Angel, the God who created you, to fix up your tomorrow? Give it a little chance... Let us love ourselves in a very small way. And let us love everybody all the way. Let us trust little bit by little bit. If the soul won't leave, the body won't give in. If one thing has to ultimately leave, that is the soul, and the soul has a certain period of time through which the body shall continue. The body shall sustain as a faithful friend as long as the soul sustains itself with it. It is a counter balance; they are very personal friends. Soul is the pure essence of life, and body is the circumference of life. We do not understand that the most important aspect of a human is the consciousness. We do not have the power of commitment if we do not have consciousness. We do not have the power of conception if we do not have consciousness. And when we do not have consciousness, we do not have basic intuition.
Silence is the language of all languages. Make it possible so that we can be serene. Still your body, every fiber of it. What is Sadhana? It is a process which you do every day to grow, to be. There is a fight in this lifetime: to be or not to be. Nobody can destroy you… You destroy yourself by not being yourself. Sadhana means spiritual practice. It is the 10% of our time that we give to God in the ambrosial hours of the morning. The radiance of your spirit can be measured according to how the Name of God vibrates within you and around you. If your Sadhana is perfect, your spirit will be high. If you have forgotten to chant the name of God, you will be in the doldrums. If you become low and depressed, it is only because you have not warmed up your machine in the morning, you have not done your spiritual practice. (See You Have 10 Bodies.) Sadhana -- Communicating with your soul. Sadhana is nothing but where a disciplined one, with love, talks to one's own soul. Is nothing but where one cleans his own mind. Sadhana is nothing but where one prepares for the day to become kind and compassionate for everyone, including the enemies. It is a human tendency to like to sleep between 3 am and 6 am. It’s natural. But if you can be alert enough to work on your mind, to confront the day, then you are alert enough to take care of your life. The reason you don’t get up early is not because you are lazy, tired or overworked -- that’s all wrong. You do not get up early in the morning because the relationship between you and your mind is not established. Period. Try to engage your mind in Sadhana. Try to get up in the early morning. Try to understand that the time is now and now is the time. Those who feel they love God are fine, but those who get up in the morning for Sadhana, God loves them. God created this whole universe just to love. God has a special time available to each of us -- when you rise in the 2-½ hours before the rise of the sun, the ambrosial hours, and synchronize your mind and heart to praise God, God listens. God feels it so much and falls in love with you so much, that it seems unbelievable. In return that Creator touches you with vastness and cleanses your mind. You become fearless, innocent, and pure. Sadhana is a test of self-grit. If your Sadhana is more important than your neurosis, you are fine. If your neurosis is more important than your Sadhana you are not. Doesn’t matter how saintly you are, nobody wants to get up in the ambrosial hours. Why you still do it is a mystery. At that time, between 3 and 6 o’clock, the rays of the sun pass at 60 degrees and you want to feel relaxed. You take a cold shower, wake up and meditate. Why do you repeat the mantra hundreds of times? To create stamina, an absolute mental stamina, without that there is no chance for the life to be smooth. If somebody refuses to exercise, nobody can force him. But at that one moment in life when that person needs physical stamina, it won’t be there. Sadhana is what your mental stamina requires. Love is what your spiritual stamina requires. (See You Have 10 Bodies.) The prayer of the mother is the most powerful tool. Once you give birth to a child, give him the highest gift: pray for that child. Giving birth to a child and not adding prayer to that child is just building a house with no foundation. Mentally say, "I, so and so, do hereby promise and pledge on this sacred time of the day that I will always try my level best to meditate on each breath of mine and will think of it as a gift of the divine". Just understand, there's another power. It's called 'the mind.' You have a mind and you have an ego. But mind and ego come of the Universal Id. You are part of that Universal Id. Every mind computes its desire without you, and the master-mind responds. When you can develop that response, life becomes comfortable, happy, relaxed. Sing songs that relate to the spirit; it is such a beautiful emotional release. You will always be grateful to yourself. It is a perfect way to stay sane. Don’t worry about obnoxiousness, narrowness, abusiveness, negativity and neurosis of a student. Had he not been all that, why should he come to you? So please, when you become a Teacher, serve all, like the sun, which shines on all with light and warmth. Even though we don't mean to hurt anybody, sometimes we do. The reason is very simple. There are two energies, two polarities in a human mind. One is when you say something to cover the time and the space; and second is when you say something beyond time and space. When you say something to cover time and space, you are not real, because you are living to the moment. But when you say something beyond time and space, you are real. 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. When oneness is because I am alive, you are alive; when oneness is because of time and space - my friend, oneness has not been found. Oneness is, wherever you are, I am. Wherever I am, you are there. That is oneness. Once you have belonged to me and I have belonged to you, then it is the end of all that searching. Oneness is that amalgamation within the mind. As long as the oneness is the amalgamation of the body, it is the temple of grossness. Oneness is a subtle thing. It is not gross. It cannot be seen; it can be felt. There are a lot of ways you can maneuver your life, but you have no life, you are rather a burden to life when your axle breaks. And every life has an axle, and that is the spirit of God, the breath of life... the most important thing the mortal has to see is that immortality is the axle of life. 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. 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. 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. It is the very selfish thing to think a child as your own property. With the most corrupt person, you can be honest; with the most angry person, you can be cool; and with the most insulting person, you can be graceful. If the balance of your personality and your sensitivity can remain under your control and your projection, you have learned the art of living. We love God, not in us, outside. We love our lover, not the soul, but the personality, the facade. You have never fallen in love with the nucleus of the soul of the beloved. If you can find the nucleus soul of the beloved, you can never separate. 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. Origin of everything is God. Everything comes from God. Everything goes to God. Everything belongs to God. It never belongs to individual. You all have to die. You all have to be born to die. You have come to go. That's called Ava-Gavan. We come to go. If we remember that and we are good, then we know where we are going. Otherwise we don't. We just die, miserable. 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. 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. 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 you will become nothing, you shall see everything, you shall feel everything, you shall know everything, and you shall command everything. The purpose to visit planet Earth is not to find God, neither to announce God nor to denounce God. The purpose of coming to planet Earth is to find the sacredness in you, and to live it. Higher caliber means that the more effectively you obey, the higher your consciousness becomes. The law of obedience is this: as effectively as you obey a command of higher consciousness, that infinite your consciousness becomes. Life is a constant prayer, not a constant play. Your development as a person and especially your development as a woman have a complication and it has a cross-complication. As a woman you do not agree from day one to the day of your death that you are not a man. You do not agree that you have two active parts of the brain and man has only one. You do not agree that you conceive, you deliver, you nurture and you are sixteen times more evolved than a man. You do not agree that the coziness, the gentleness, the kindness, the character and the nobility, which you can give to your child is imprinted from the time of growing up. Nobody can substitute for a woman. Love without trust is a river without water. If the entire divinity and domain of God sits in the heart of a person, and his longing becomes timeless, then man can develop the capacity to love. 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. 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. The mother is the only person who can teach her child tenderness and compassion. It is this exposure to gentleness in the lap of the mother for the first seven years of life that teaches a man to be just, tolerant, and compassionate in his dealings with others. The entire capacity of a person for self-control is determined by the touch of a mother. The Cosmos works for those who have discipline, who have longing, who have some goal to reach in their lives, and who make a constant, constant, constant effort to reach it. That is dharma. Dharma is in every day, in every action, on every side of the day. Don’t waste yourself into the maya of this Earth. (See Left of Maya.) Every day of your life your tolerance should be ready to cope with your circumstances. The Trinity of God is nobility, compassion and kindness. So please, remember that God is a virtue. When you want God to enter your personality, act noble; don't act powerful and don't act weak. There is no make-up required. Before shaking hands with anybody, or coming and talking with anybody, all you require is that when you are nine feet away from that person, and your aura has not yet touched their aura, just insert a psychic thought, “I am going to be very, very noble with this being.” You’ll be shocked. Your language will change. Your manner will change. Your entire acting process will change. When there is constant pressure and no relaxation, when there is no outlet, or when there is constant boredom in life, or a constant cavity in the capacity of mental life, it results in a shattered mind and the loss of happiness. Prayer is when the mind is one-pointed and man talks to Infinity. Meditation is when the mind becomes totally clean and receptive, and Infinity talks to the man. Share your strengths, not your weaknesses. Student: Is it impossible to change our own destiny? The mind becomes a monster when it becomes your master. The mind is an angel when it is your servant. 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. 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. Where there is forgiveness, there is God. Where there is sacrifice, there is compassion. And where there is service, there is the radiance of the human. Is there anything more precious in a human being than these objectives? The purest thing in the world is the heart of the mother, the heart-chakra, the center of the mother. It can move God. It can move the Universe. It can cause an effect beyond limitation. The heart of the mother is the greatest power of Infinity ever given to any finite being. What is grace? Grace is the shield of radiation or radiant shield which protects the pranic balance in your entire living system, not only with you, and within you, and within your psyche, but how you correlate to all other psyches in your communication of memory, all who have gone before you, all who have to follow you. Do you understand what grace is now? That trust that others place in you is your grace. The word you give to others is grace. Expectation of you being who you are is grace. It is a total sum of your personality, reflected by you. It is your radiant body. Wake up! You are the hope. Serve the legacy, not the lineage. Those who serve the lineage never live, those who serve the legacy never die. The body may forget things but the soul doesn't forget its journey. All actions come from the breath of life, and we all breathe the same breath of life. So, we are extremely united if we understand the expression: We are strung like beads on one breath of life, which is everywhere. And that is how Universal we are. Nobility is cultivated only when one consciously relates to one’s spirit and flow of the soul and one feels the total divinity within. It is a manifestation of divinity. Nobility takes one away from temptation, anger, lust, greed, unvirtuous and unrighteous living. It gives one a qualifying factor to impress everybody without impressing. That is the beauty of nobility. The way one talks, walks, sees, deals, serves, gets served, is a total sum of one’s living behavior. There is a tremendous flow of spirit in a noble person. A noble person is a very powerful individual. Remember that intellectual knowledge does not hold and sustain you. Knowledge only becomes real wisdom when you experience it with your own Heart and Being. When a woman leaves her gentle and firm nature, or her dignity and divinity, then Mother Nature does not relate to her. In other words, Mother Nature will always relate to a divine woman. And all your wishes shall be fulfilled. I was taught the most fundamental law of karma, cause and effect. As shall you sow so shall you reap. And you are a sovereign independent identity. When you do fault, you lose your sovereignty. You subject yourself and subjection is worse than death. I was taught all that right from day one. It was a continuous process. It was a continuous learning. It was a continuous training. It was a continuous behavior. Your sovereignty can only be given to you by your mother. By her identifying you as a complete, total individual. What you call 'grit,' the strength of the identity is given to you by the father. It is all done in the first eleven years. Afterwards anything done or said and taught by the parent is useless, because the base is already built. A child is born to you to help him face his karma in this life. A child is not your ego; not a pet dog in the house; not a substitute for love. A child has nothing to do with that. A child is born to you so that you can prepare him to face time unto Infinity. Don't feel guilty. Just get awakened. Just wake up. Spiritual maturity begins with the seed planted in our destiny. It is nurtured by a series of teachers and watered by the wisdom each brings to us, a wisdom which is less a philosophy as it is a combination of consciousness and intelligence that lets us face the challenges brought by each stage of our development. In that challenge and answer of life we come to recognize our self, honor our self and deliver our self in relationship. Inhale deeply with reverence, love, compassion, and kindness. Communicate with your breath that it must give you peace of mind, peace on the mother planet Earth, peace and oneness with God and His creation. Before shaking hands with anybody, or coming and talking with anybody, all you require is that when you are nine feet away from that person, and your aura has not yet touched their aura, just insert a psychic thought, “I am going to be very, very noble with this being.” You’ll be shocked. Your language will change, your manner will change, your entire acting process will change. When you face today with courage, with dignity, with grace, and the word of the Guru (spiritual teacher), your prayers will be answered, because you'll become the prayer. When you stop playing games then there’ll be one game left to be played, and that is to become the most powerful, forceful, brightest light of God. That is the purpose of life—for everyone. When you have to say nothing, do nothing, be nothing, then what are you? You know what you are? You are a lighthouse, so nobody else can wreck near you. That is the one thing in life you have to do. Forklift. Spread the light. Be the lighthouse. So every journey, every destiny, every distance can be safe. One who rotates the earth, this earth of yours, one who rotates it. In twenty-four hours shall take care of your routine whoever it is. You believe it or not. If we remove judgment of ourselves, and others from our lives, we will be living in paradise. Mankind is still seeking to find the peace within so it can have peace without. There shall not be peace in the world if there is no peace in the heart of the man. There is not going to be peace in your heart if you do not understand and experience your very relationship with your soul. Sometime we vibrate and we say things without thinking for a second that we have to prove it, I love you and sometimes, time demands it to prove it. And then we fail. We become miserable and then we become totally miserable. Love is a sacrifice, an experience of sacrifice within oneself. It is better not to say I love you if you are not ready to prove it. Say what you can prove. If you start doing it, it will give you vaak siddhi, whatever you shall say shall become true. We do not trust God. Trust is, not a human faculty because when you trust something, you are fulfilled, you are there, your understanding becomes deep; and it is a state of ecstasy where there is no shakiness. Trust is very difficult. We do not trust God. Trust is, not a human faculty because when you trust something, you are fulfilled, you are there, your understanding becomes deep; and it is a state of ecstasy where there is no shakiness. Trust is very difficult. Mankind is still seeking to find the peace within so it can have peace without. There shall not be peace in the world if there is no peace in the heart of the man. There is not going to be peace in your heart if you do not understand and experience your very relationship with your soul. You got to develop a trust to see your inner voice and hear it and trust it. Inner voice can be feeble but shall not be wrong. It is the consciousness in tune, which tells you very humbly and musically what is going on. Please try to listen to it. Raise its volume; you will recognize it is yours. That's the beauty of the inner voice. 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. You have to walk on your own feet and you have to walk tall. Humans learn to crawl and then walk. All men, women and children are children of God. They have to learn that their neurotic blocks have to be broken in two, to become triangles, and this challenge belongs to all of us. We cannot afford to be limited. We cannot afford to be negative—you cannot have the luxury of a negative thought because it will multiply in you and hurt you badly. Friendship is not a state, which you can exploit at your beck and call. The human lifespan is given to you not to distance you from your destiny but to cover the distance to your destiny. The urge of giving only comes in when God wants to give to you.... God invokes in you something to give to others, so that there may be some empty space where God can send a better gift. Love yourself. Love your soul and let go of the past. Past pain is keeping you in pain. You don't have to deteriorate. When consciousness changes, people change with it. Some people match up, some don’t. The criteria of the Piscean Age were, “I want to know, I want to learn, I want to understand, I want to experience God.” It was a time of search. The Aquarian era is, “There is no search.” It is a time to be. It is a time to be God, to find within yourself the Godliness—the strength in your manners, in your grace. Life has unexpected challenges, which can be faced by you if you have the energy for it. That energy won't come to you unless you mentally clear your fog through meditation. As it is essential to clean your house, so it is essential to clean your mind. May God guide you on this path. May you understand that you are blessed children and you have a job to do. May you know in your heart that God belongs to you always, within and without. May your sorrows never touch your tomorrow, may your blessings be for all, may your happiness be shared, and may your smiles give hope to others. 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 that God likes all. This is the error, which every mother does. When your mind thinks too much, it loses touch with the reality of life. To be real, our feet should be on the Earth and our head should be in the Heavens. The mind becomes a monster when it becomes your master. The mind is an angel when it is your servant. Every day of your life your tolerance should be ready to cope with your circumstances. You should be smart, learn the art, and go across the world and heal God’s creation. This is your job, and what you are actually going to say is, “Hail, hail Guru Ram Das, heal the world.” Your job is to heal the world and elevate and uplift everybody. Everybody shall be healed. Take a person from his lower self, from his ditch, and raise the pitch so he can be uplifted. The mantra of the Age of Aquarius is “Keep Up.” Help keep everybody up. When you never let yourself down and never let anybody else down, God shall serve you. He shall never let you down. The art of being smart is to be small, which can contain all. The art of success is to answer the call of duty with grace and compassion. The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you. 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. You are master of your body, mind and soul. It's a gift of God. If you cannot find your own reality, you will never find anybody's reality. There is no love without reality. Everything else is false. When there is falseness, then there is no strength, no power, then there are conditions. Where there is a love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is a business, not love. Love is blind, that's what they say. It is your power to live in love. Ask no question, Mother Nature will ask you no question. Don't claim you are in love. You will never be blamed that you are not in love. 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. Consciousness, intelligence and ego, take exactly the same energy that emotions, commotions and ego take. 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. You must understand when somebody talks to you, if you are not willing to hear them out, you are foolishly going for an unsuccessful future. The first principle of success is when somebody is talking hear it. Don't interrupt. Let him complete the sentence; hear him properly. When they are done and you are asked to speak, do not answer the question if you cannot uplift the person. If your answer uplifts that person, you shall be prosperous. When God gives you good times, He wants you to forget Him and sleep. When He gives you bad times, He wants you to wake up and face Him. Neither an appearance is bad nor an act is bad; it is the intention, which is the problem. Bad intentions are cunning devices. You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of your soul energy. Kindness is the mother of Truth and compassion is the father of Truth. When compassion and kindness join, Truth is born.
The Siri Singh Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji's Epitaph
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Assist Sangat members in the performance of their worship and other activities, especially to include the arrival and departure of families with young children, giving aid and comfort to the elderly and the infirm, and greeting visitors.
Take direct Protective and/or Defensive action in the event of emergency circumstances such as fire and emergency medical response, disruptive or disorderly activity, or any act of aggression occurring within or around the Gurdwara or amongst Sangat members, and ensure security of building perimeter (doors and windows) while maintaining appropriate access for Sangat members and guests.
Gather and disseminate intelligence data, and subsequently alert Sangat members, and appropriate local authorities to the existence of issues or circumstances involving imminent or potential risk to the security of the Guru, Sangat members, or Gurdwara property.
Interface with and assist Local Fire and Medical Emergency or Law Enforcement Response Team members in order to maintain appropriate and respectful decorum in any emergency conditions occurring in the presence of Guru Granth Sahib or upon the Gurdwara property, circumstances permitting.
