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.
Yogi Bhajan 1/23/98
You shall never be in a position to command the 108 elements of the
universe until you know perfectly how to obey.
Yogi Bhajan 4/23/97
Life is one simple challenge. Act, don't react. Calm yourself and
claim yourself. When you reflect like a torch for a long distance,
it takes away the darkness.
Yogi Bhajan 1/17/00
The science, which teaches you how to absorb the shock of adversity
and come out with grace and wonder of life, in the old days was called
Kundalini Yoga.
Yogi Bhajan 6/22/2001
When
fundamentally and basically we do not do what we are supposed to do,
then Time becomes the teacher. Time leaves no space.
Yogi Bhajan 6/27/93
Our fears spoil our life. It is not you who betrays the soul. It is
your fear that betrays the soul. Your fear tells you that only you
can 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.
Yogi Bhajan 4/23/97
Medically, there is no medicine in the world to open up the capillaries
other than the cold shower. In the morning when the sun is hitting
the earth at sixty-degree angle, take a cold shower. Then, dry yourself,
cover yourself with warm blanket, and meditate. The blood comes into
all the organs to feed them and make them strong. On the outside,
your skin is beautiful. On the inside, your body is active and youthful.
Yogi Bhajan 4/24/97
You are caught between the memory of those things you have done and
the thought of those things, which you want to do. You are caught
between the two.
Yogi Bhajan 9/7/99
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.
Yogi Bhajan 4/4/97
The thread of God in you, this candle of light, is the breath
of life. And all breathe the same way. Some short, some long,
some big, some hold it, some don't. But as long the breath is in us,
we are alive.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/96
May we all understand that God lives in us as He made us to be in
His own image. Let us honor that strength and serve in affection,
in compassion, in kindness and in care. May this day change the life
to become positive, courageous, and motivated, so we can walk on this
earth with grace, with radiance and with prosperity. Sat Nam.
Yogi Bhajan 1/23/98
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.
Yogi Bhajan 9/20/77
When you only play the game of time and space, the whole life of the
human being is wasted in creating the conflict and then solving the
conflict.
Yogi Bhajan 9/15/77
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! (Editor's Note: Headaches and migraines can be traced to mucus accumulations.)
Yogi Bhajan
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.
Yogi Bhajan 9/26/77
Whenever you are secure, be grateful. When security comes without gratitude it becomes tragedy. Nobody will teach you this part. With security, remember to be humble.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/1977
Prayer is not only that which you say or utter. Prayer really means attention. When you, your soul, and your mind, pay attention, that is called prayer. Prayer means power.
Yogi Bhajan 12/1/86
Truth is nothing but giving your values of earth away and taking the values of ether to you. Truth is nothing but your strength of your commitment. Truth is your security.
Yogi Bhajan 10/6/77
There is no fun in exposing anybody. The action of a person will always expose him. That is why people of God don't defend themselves. They are defended by God because they defend God.
Yogi Bhajan 11/23/77
When you comb the hair of the head with a wooden comb, you do not disturb the electromagnetic field and the 25 watt electricity required for the function of this most wonderful computer, which is in this cantaloupe called the human head, which you seldom use.
Yogi Bhajan 11/30/77
To be humble requires the highest efficiency of your proficient training in practical intelligence. To be kind you need courage like God. To be decent you must be alert at the top rate of your human efficiency.
Yogi Bhajan 12/1/77
Will it ever look graceful? Do you look graceful while doing it? Will I ever look graceful in the future?
Yogi Bhajan 12/2/77
People forget there is a cosmic destiny also. The capacity of an individual is based on the capacity of the individual power to commit. It is the one-pointed mind which can take you to the One.
Yogi Bhajan 12/12/77
Who is learned? A person who has gone through the experience of learning. Therefore, if you want to be trusted, you must trust yourself and create an environment of trust. In that lies your grace.
Yogi Bhajan 12/9/77
Why do we suffer? The actual fact is we want to suffer. If we are relaxed we will never suffer.
Yogi Bhajan 11/19/00
People who do not meditate, do not change, do not recite Holy Naam, they have very clogged up arteries of the mind. They are in line to get a heart -mind attack.
Yogi Bhajan 7/24/88
When adversity comes, automatically we meditate. We cannot survive through adversity without meditation. Meditation is a process through which you take your total self and your total pride and your total ego and your total spirit and you put it on the line.
Yogi Bhajan 3/21/89
You need strength, Chardikala (rising spirit). The phoenix rises from the ashes. Man rises from the adversity. This universe is a university in which we graduate against adversity. Man is supposed to be unbreakable.
Yogi Bhajan 11/19/89
Never ever attack anybody's altar. Never ever interfere with worship. And never break anybody's heart. Even the humble cry of an injured man of faith can change the universe.
Yogi Bhajan 4/23/97
One is always all and all is always one; and that has to be honored, that has to be accepted, that has to be related.
Yogi Bhajan 11/20/88
When you have consistency in contentment, even tea without sugar tastes sweet.
Yogi Bhajan 3/20/01
Live for each other. Today you will live for humans. Tomorrow you
can live for God, your own Creator, O creature, and you can learn
the truth.
Yogi Bhajan 9/15/77
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.
Yogi Bhajan
(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." -- M.S.S. Guru Singh Khalsa)
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.
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 even have a peer group, nobody can match you, nobody can reach 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. (See You Are IT.)
That oneness, that loneliness, is a state of consciousness in which you do not see anyone other than you -- one focus, one picture, one meditation, one consciousness, one feeling, one emotion. People say, "What should I do with my feelings?" Have them. Because shashara releases thoughts, and thoughts become emotions and feelings. But that's fine. Having emotions and feelings is perfect. There's nothing wrong with it. What's wrong is when every feeling and every emotion becomes neurosis and commotion. Rather every feeling, every emotion, should be put to the test through intelligence and consciousness. The first two things are okay. The other two you don't want to do. You don't want to do the homework, and yet you want to enjoy life. Now tell me what will happen if you do not survey where you are going, which road are you going to take, which freeway will you take, which lane will you take? If you do not take enough gas in your car, enough food, enough money, how can you get to the destination?
And just as an ordinary destination is part of daily life, in the travel of the soul, we call it "destiny." In the travel of a man, we call it "destination." There's no difference. And everybody goes alone. Even that driver who has six passengers in the car is alone and is the driver by designation. Destination, distance, destiny; it's the same thing. You are designated as a human being for the destiny to become One. It is a very long, lonely road. Nobody else can travel on it with you, match up with you, understand you, or be with you, because you are very specially made by the One in the image of the One's own Self. For convenience you call it "God."
"God" is a convenient word. Just to express the known and the unknown together in the living self, three things must meet: known, unknown, and you. That is Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh.
The Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer. Three powers must meet together to create the word "God." And there is but one God. Totally lonely. Have you ever understood? When you merge in God, God is very lonely because there are no two Gods. He even cannot go bowling. What can He do? He has nobody. Nobody can judge Him, no one can understand Him, nobody can know Him, because He is beyond, beyond, beyond.
Nit, Nit, Nit, Namo, Namo, Namo -- No, No, No, I bow, I bow, I bow. Because God is not this, God is not that, God is just God. Parapaarabraham, paramesheram. That is beyond the beyond, that creative self or the total self in destiny and dignity, and insanity and sane self, and wrong and right and plus and minus, beauty and ugliness and thief and saint, are all just saying one thing.
You do not know you are unique. You are One. The Oneness in you, you have not found. That's why people take everything away from you. That's why you want sociability, and society, and relations. How bizarre and berserk these relationships are, and you all want it because the one relationship you need with One has not been established.
You don't understand Sikh Dharma at all. Sikh Dharma started with that one lonely word: One. Ik Ong Kaar. There is but One Creator of the entire creation, therefore you cannot say anything. It means, "shut up." It's very simple. When you have to say nothing, you do nothing, be nothing, then 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. Spread the light. Be the lighthouse. So every journey, every destiny, every distance will be safe.
Yogi Bhajan 11/87
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".
Yogi Bhajan 1/15/97
Your strength is in your purity and in your piety, and your power is in your projection, in your service. Your beauty is in your manners and your understanding. And your bounty is in your openness and love.
Yogi Bhajan 4/24/97
Without the flow of moral force in you, you can't love anybody, you can't sacrifice for anybody, you can't help anybody, you can't give to anybody.
Yogi Bhajan 9/19/77
Reason, logic, questions, gain, no gain. Should I, should I not? All this is beyond the sphere of love. Love has no argument.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/77
Love has no limit. Love cannot be limited. Because love takes Infinity and reproduces it within the limited concept of the human being.
Yogi Bhajan 1/16/95
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.
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.
Yogi Bhajan
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.
Yogi Bhajan 6/27/91
You are never bad and you are never good. All it depends on is how fast you come to a mutual understanding, and when you stand under in an understanding, how powerfully spiritual you are that you can live it.
Yogi Bhajan 12/17/99
Every female has a natural power of abundance, good luck, and prosperity, but she has to decide to concentrate on it. If a woman provokes the Divine, there will be prosperity. Her discipline guarantees it. But often she wastes her energy in many ways. 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 together. Prosperity and abundance are assured. But if she wastes her time in bitterness, poverty is assured. A woman must make kindness a priority. Kindness is an essential part of every female. As her kindness expands, prosperity grows.
Yogi Bhajan 6/26/01
Question to Yogi Bhajan from an interview:
From the point of view of a yogi, can you tell us what self-esteem is?
Yogi Bhajan:
Simply it is the state or condition of mind in which the self is realized. I defined it as the character of human excellence. For example, if we excel in the human virtues of kindness, righteousness, courage, dignity and grace we experience our own nobility and divinity. This is the wellspring of self-esteem. Actually speaking, it is the self-conscious good performance, which gives self-esteem.
Yogi Bhajan 5/1988
Whenever you mentally expand, you save yourself trouble, but when you mentally contract, you will trouble yourself. When you become vast, your troubles become zero. When you become little, your troubles become big and you become small.
Yogi Bhajan 3/8/95
The greatest thing I was taught was that I have a complete, full, sovereign identity. Your sovereignty can only be given to you as a child 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 or taught by the parents is useless, because the base is already built.
Yogi Bhajan 2/19/85
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1/1/87
You
should make yourself so happy, that by looking at you, other people
become happy.
Yogi Bhajan
When your two eyes concentrate on the tip of the nose, the mind stops
flirting around.
Yogi Bhajan 3/30/1990
Your power is not in your strength and weakness, in your show and
your capacity, in your titles and your achievements, in your money,
and in your playing games. Your power is to uplift others. Those who uplift others, God shall
uplift them, because it is God's Will to uplift everybody. When you live in your Godliness, He will not let you fall.
Yogi Bhajan 6/20/1993
You should be dependable, authentic, and everlasting.
Yogi Bhajan 3/30/1990
Self-control is not a discipline.
Self-control is not a break.
Self-control is not something applied by the mind or the will.
Self-control is whether you are in touch with your soul or not. It's
not mental, it's not physical, it has nothing to do with all nonsense.
Yogi Bhajan 3/13/1990
We are all pioneers in the Age of Aquarius.
No man can give a man anything other than love.
No man can give a man anything other than hope.
No man can give a man anything but service. The only thing you can do is act like a forklift - go into the dirt
and lift the other person and put him on track, so he can proceed.
Then the big forklift called God will come, and He will go into the
dirt and lift you up.
Yogi Bhajan 6/20/1993
Facing the life decides whether you are fulfilled or not. When you
face your life you win, you are fulfilled. This is the secret we all
know and this is the only thing we do not want to do.
Yogi Bhajan 4/9/91
What can you give to your child except the values of self-justice,
except self-identity and self-sovereignty? A child must be told in
a practical way, how to behave and must be treated to be self-sovereign.
Otherwise you are absolutely not giving self-respect to that child.
If you take away self-respect, after childhood, the child reacts and
then needs psychologists, psychiatrists, mental hospitals, and the
like. In childhood we have to be taught about life and justice. We
have to be asked to relate to the reality of life in practical sovereignty,
and to our independence. We have to have a system of judiciary within
ourselves so we can have the experience of it.
Yogi Bhajan 2/19/1985
When an obstruction comes into our lives, we feel very upset. We suffer.
We think everything is ruined. No, it’s not true. A car without
brakes is not going to be driven on any road. These obstructions,
these negativities, these nuisances are part of the game. They give
you a chance to cross over them. But you can’t cross them because
you have not acquired friendship with your own spirit.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/73
You cannot be noble, you cannot be honorable, and you cannot be graceful
if you do not have very committed, pure sentiments.
Yogi Bhajan 3/13/90
Any human being who can develop his or her consciousness to trust
the Universe is going to be absolutely all right because you are a
part of the Universe and the Universe is part of you.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/1973
Emotions, feelings, sentiments and values should be subject to our
own conscious control.
Yogi Bhajan 10/16/1984
Those who will just identify their identity into the oneness of each
other, God shall serve them. God shall not only bless them; that's
too little of a thing to ask for. God becomes the servant of those
who amalgamate their egos and bring one identity out of the union
of the two. They are such that God grants them the soul for which
their generations will live forever. And that is how saints are born
on the earth.
Yogi Bhajan, 7/15/1984
When you are half insane you will not listen. When you are totally
insane, you totally won't listen. Sanity and listening are in one
hundred percent proportion.
Yogi Bhajan 7/31/87
One who flirts is not alert and is a failure in the end.
Yogi Bhajan 3/30/1990
Woman without reverence has no strength. You must demand reverence.
It's your right. And you must command reverence; and you must live
reverence when you must. Otherwise you will be exploited; you will
be misled. You'll be cheated. Your life will be nothing but pain.
It's not worth anything. Every woman - beautiful or ugly, short or
tall, young or old, married or unmarried, rich or poor - who commands
reverence will never be poor and shall never have pain. She can face
the calculated life and shall always be the winner.
Yogi Bhajan 7/8/1997
If your power to communicate does not combine with your spirit and your caliber of honor, you should not speak.
Yogi Bhajan 4/14/97
When you are going through any trouble, duality, depression or misery, go into silence, go into thoughtlessness for a few moments. Meditate yourself that way. You will get an answer and you will come out of it in the best color.
Yogi Bhajan 6/25/98
The majority of your actions do nothing. All you do is satisfy your emotions. And all this lifestyle and lifetime you spend on satisfying your emotions will be enough to kill you. Everybody has to die. Some shall die fulfilled, but many will die without fulfillment. That is the tragedy of being human.
Yogi Bhajan 1/5/94
Trust is the keynote of life. If you trust in God the entire creativity will trust you because everything belongs to God. Trust is the key of love, happiness, dignity, divinity and grace.
Yogi Bhajan
You now have an action to take, you must achieve your own fulfillment so that your inner satisfaction will be strong enough and your courage will be strong enough that you can let the world know that there is a place where we live in total reality. There is an achievement that a man can accomplish, not ritualistically, but in a total reality, and it is that total reality which shall prevail tomorrow.
Yogi Bhajan 12/31/1989
On the basis of actual prosperity, actual prosperity in human life is just like spring ... The tree grows, the leaf grows, they get filled up, there is a lot of color, there is a lot of life. With every prosperity, there is a purpose. Human prosperity is not what human has in matter. Human prosperity is what a human has in spirit.
Yogi Bhajan 10/4/1975
Give your discomforts to God, and take happiness home. It is the happiness, which you can share, not the troubles. God is interested in your troubles, people are not. Out of sympathy and apathy, they will listen to you for a while. Then they will avoid you.
Yogi Bhajan 4/26/97
You will never enjoy happiness in your life by isolating yourself and separating yourself.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/96
You will never find a community leader who doesn't know how to give. Giving is the only way. Don't give only to those who ask. Give to those who don't ask.
Yogi Bhajan 3/5/1995
Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle; a source of happiness and fulfillment. It’s called gratitude, an attitude of gratitude. A person who develops an attitude of gratitude is absolutely divine. You don’t have to sweat. If you have achieved the attitude of gratitude, everything in the world will come to you. If you make it a point to have an attitude of gratitude, it could be the greatest achievement in your life. Gratefulness will make you great. It takes away any discrepancy, any negativity, any bother.
Yogi Bhajan 6/27/1984
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.
Yogi Bhajan 6/27/1984
When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/96
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.
Yogi Bhajan (See entire lecture here.)
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1/31/72
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.
Yogi Bhajan 7/28/2002
When you meditate, the subconscious starts releasing the garbage. Mantra is the soap that cleans it.
Yogi Bhajan 5/1/91
You cannot live under a camouflage. You have to live openly, honestly, brightly, and forthrightly. Your words should be so strong that they affect every heart; your truth should be so pure it lifts a person’s soul to the heights.
Yogi Bhajan 7/28/2002
You have to have an understanding that you are like a lotus flower in a pool of mud. You are not to let your leaves get dirty with it.
Yogi Bhajan 7/28/2002
Even if life is lived with purity and piety, in happiness and in abundance, still it’s the journey, which we are supposed to take and supposed to finish. Let us finish it with victory, so nothing falls short in our lives. God has given us this chance with every breath of life, every moment of life.
Yogi Bhajan 7/28/2002
Life is a living experience; it's not something you can borrow.
Yogi Bhajan 7/29/1992
You can have thousands and thousands and thousands of merits - one action can wipe it all out; plus put you in the negative.
Yogi Bhajan 7/29/1992
Do you understand what your problem as a woman is? Woman is a living, organic psyche. Woman is not a machine for intercourse, or a baby machine, or a servant to "his highness, the husband." There is no such thing in a woman. Woman is a living psyche-vibrating, organic, original. All she has to remember is to live in the consciousness of: "I am a woman." I am telling you one of the most powerful scriptures which I have read: If a woman within herself is a woman, the only guardian angel for service and for pleasure is God, Himself. If a woman within herself is a woman, then the Hand of God is always there to serve you. It's not a miracle. We're talking about science.
Yogi Bhajan 7/11/1997
You are not human if you are not excellent.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
When input is direct, it expects an output. But that expectation of an output, because input has been put in, does not fit in the ego. Because everybody has his own agenda. And when the input is direct, and it cannot match the output, it must burst. There’s no way out. Because that is natural law, the law of nature. Input MUST equal output.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
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.
Yogi Bhajan 11/18/198
Love that shrinks is not love. It is passion. Love endures the endurable.
Yogi Bhajan 12/22/1987
You can run after satisfaction all over the world, but satisfaction must come from within you.
Yogi Bhajan 2/8/90
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.
Yogi Bhajan 10/5/1996
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1976
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.
Yogi Bhajan 6/27/91
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.
Yogi Bhajan 3/12/89
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
Don’t expect life will treat you nicely if you do not treat life nicely.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1988
Those who shall not learn to obey shall never be in a position to command.
Yogi Bhajan 1/10/97
People, who waste their energy speaking, waste the God in them. Never speak without integrity. Never. Word is God.
Yogi Bhajan 4/7/83
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1976
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.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/02
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.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/02
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.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/02
There’s nobody without God. If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.
Yogi Bhajan 10/3/02
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.
Yogi Bhajan's 10/3/02
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1/23/98
You know those bumper stickers that say, " have you hugged your kids today?" I think we should have a 3HO bumper sticker that say, "Have you hugged your soul today?" Have you talked to yourself today? We totally ignore our identity. And we deny our identity to ourselves. We want to please everybody for everything and not ourselves. Then we have mental problems. We get burnt out. We get tired. We get frustrated. We get depressed. Why not? We must now start to learn to remove our body blocks and let the mind understand that we don't have only a body, we have a mind of our own, and we have a soul of our own. And our body, mind and soul make our identity. We cannot just cater to our physical body.
Yogi Bhajan 9/17/1984
God is not outside you. He is within you, and feel Him within you, so when you lie, just understand, the guy is hearing it. When you are doing something, which is mean, God doesn’t like to tell you but He knows it. It is that sensitivity of knowledge, which you have to achieve. It doesn’t matter how powerful or expensive a car may be, if it doesn’t have brakes, an accident is inevitable. If your mind doesn’t know how to stop within the psyche of the circumstances of the flow… to create a universe and unisonness in you--you have not learned to live as a human.
Yogi Bhajan 9/23/2002
At an early age you ask this question: “Why are we born? What is the purpose of birth on this planet Earth?” When we are almost middle aged, when the heat of the young blood is gone, and a little cold seeps in, we start asking: “What is my purpose?” The fact is that whatever you have achieved, it is because of the karma. It is because of the karma of previous lives. Opportunities, wealth, health, happiness, relatives, friends--they are all part of the karma. This life is to settle the account, to pay for the karma, and to progress on the path or dharma--whichever dharma you may have.
Yogi Bhajan 8/21/2001
What is a meditation? It is a practice to fight negativity by self-control.
Yogi Bhajan 4/24/97
We believe the strength of the man is in the challenge: the higher the challenge, the higher the man's capacity to meet it, the higher is his achievement in life. Challenge is not something that destroys you; challenge is something that gives you an experience.
Yogi Bhajan
When someone tells you something, don't reject it. Don't say it is wrong. Don't say it is right. Just think over what the person has said. Then think what you will say.
Yogi Bhajan 12/14/77
Where there is mastery, there is no mystery. Everything is there for you to do, but it is up to you to do it.
Yogi Bhajan 1981
The fact is, nobody can control anybody. All you can do is flow with each other like rivers and streams and end up in the same ocean. All things come from God and all things go to God.
Yogi Bhajan 2/2/76
A spiritual teacher is nothing but an emergency brake. A spiritual teacher is not your friend, not your enemy, not your altar, not your worship, not your knowledge, not your money, not your wife, not your husband. The spiritual teacher has no relationship with you, but functions only as an emergency brake.
Yogi Bhajan 1978
Commitment will dry up and die if you don't nurture it.
Commitment needs to have a constant flow behind it.
Commitment has to be nurtured, renewed, and refreshed.
Yogi Bhajan 4/1981
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.
Yogi Bhajan 1981
It is a real strength of the real person to avoid the foolish person and his company. Too much company of the foolish person can make you obnoxious. Try to understand the saying, "Be in the company of the Holy (or the company of the wise)."
Yogi Bhajan 4/1981
When you have trust in God, then you are not afraid; and when you are not afraid, you don't react. You let the Divine create the sequence and the consequences and you enjoy it.
Yogi Bhajan 1981
The beauty of the woman is not her eyes, or her lips, or her nose, or whether she is young or old, and all that. Her beauty is her playfulness.
Yogi Bhajan 4/1981
The Inner Self, the real Self, has to be found, has to be felt, has to be touched creatively before anything in life matters.
Yogi Bhajan 1981
Your ultimate desire is a desire that uplifts you, your spirit, and your consciousness. It is always positive to you and your surroundings and your framework. It is a feeling within the feeling; it deals with the innermost essence. It is a love of self and grace. It is a consciousness, which has nothing but radiance about it.
Yogi Bhajan 4/1981
If one becomes a saint by the process of elevated consciousness, it is a virtue. If one becomes a beloved of God, it is a virtue. If one gives away all one’s worldly wealth for a good cause, it is a virtue. If one sacrifices one’s given human body in the Name of God, it is a virtue. If one defends the weak and the poor, it is a virtue, but it is not the virtue of virtues. But what is the virtue of virtues? When somebody is falling apart or freaking out, if someone can hold that person up in the flow of the spirit, it is the virtue of virtues. There is no other virtue.
Yogi Bhajan 7/2/1978
There is no other way of spiritual progress. There are forms of demagogy, people will teach you. People will process you. People will reach you. Some will take away a person’s money, some will take away youth, some will take away beauty and some will take away a person’s talents. Some will take away this, some will take away that, but nobody will give one the experience of God consciousness. There is only one way. A person has to have the spirit, and does not allow another person to fall from the spirit. That is the secret of one phrase, which you worship and say all the time: Chardee Kalaa, the constant rising of the spirit of Godhood.
Yogi Bhajan 7/2/1978
Nobility is the foundation of every grace. Somebody once asked, “Define a noble person.” “Noble is noble in the beginning, in the end and remains noble through time and space and beyond. There is no era, which is left. Nobility is a virtue; it is a fountain from which grace springs.”
Yogi Bhajan 7/2/1978
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.
Yogi Bhajan 7/2/1978 -- See Woman
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Woman
According to Yogi Bhajan
"Woman without reverence has no strength. You must demand reverence.
It's
your right. And you must command reverence; and you must live
reverence when
you must. Otherwise you will be exploited; you will
be misled. You'll be cheated.
Your life will be nothing but pain.
It's not worth anything. Every woman - beautiful
or ugly, short or
tall, young or old, married or unmarried, rich or poor - who
commands reverence will never be poor and shall never have pain.
She can face
the calculated life and shall always be the winner."
How
to Succeed in Business As Taught to Us by the Animals
By Yogi Bhajan
"To be effective and excel through current pressures
and challenges, we must learn from and adopt:
The
grip of a bear.
The skin of a rhino.
The loyalty of a dog.
The clarity of an owl.
The hunt of a wild dog.
The friendship of a wolf.
The intelligence of a rat.
The neutrality of a dove.
The attack of a cheetah.
The beauty of a peacock.
The diplomacy of a rabbit.
The endurance of a horse.
The responsibility of a cat.
The personality of a butterfly.
The planning of a lion's pride.
The communication of a crow.
The adjustment of a rattlesnake.
The executiveness of a king cobra.
The courage and strategy of a lion.
The brain and intuition of an elephant.
The vision and watch of the eagle's eye.
The penetration and impact of stampeding buffalo."
Kundalini Yoga
Guidelines For Sadhana (Daily Practice)
