Espanola Lecture

 
Date:
January 27, 1999
Location:
Espanola, NM
 
 
 
 

Did we bring that sword?

Student: (---).

YB: Come on, half an hour late and still the sword is not here that's not good. Not right.

What I am trying to do these days sharing certain knowledge which can open you up, to certain dimensions which are layered within you. First let us talk facts. Fact is you are not corrupt. Fact is you don't want to lie. Fact is you are not a failure. They are all fact. Fact is you are not stupid. These are all facts. Because the perfect God cannot make a imperfect. That's a fact. But for centuries you have been asked to believe you are not a fact. So whatever you do, you are not a fact, you are corrupt, you are debauch, you are prostitute, you are liar, you deceive, you are jealous, you are angry, you are withdrawn, you are... name a thing, I am not going to name the whole long list. But I think we can type papers and papers of your wrong, the fact is, you are not wrong. If you are you, you can never be wrong. You are never you. You see, I don't want to give you example of anybody I do not know who can do it or not. Look at me, I am Siri Singh SahibSiri Singh Sahib Honorary title given to Yogi Bhajan to indicate his role as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma in the West. His complete title within Sikh Dharma is Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. , I am YogiYogi One who has attained a state of yoga (union) where polarities are mastered and transcended. One who practices the disciplines of yoga and has attained self-mastery. Bhajan, I am Har Bhajan Singh, I am this Singh, that Singh, left Singh, right Singh, what I am. But I have never forgotten I am now me, at this time, in existence. I never deny my existence. You know one day, I will be gone, all letters which I have signed and written or people have written to me will become a public record. You see how many letter I receive, I am wrong, you can't count it. Many times I am told this person can prove dangerous, this person can prove dangerous, this person is not in the right state of mind, this and that, you know what my answer to them is? Our job is not to judge, our job is to serve. Our job is to elevate. And I am not denying that you cannot be hurt, I am not denying by depending on a idiot you can never make it, I am not denying all those things you want me to deny.

But on the other hand nobody will have their sword either. You see this? This is a very perfect samurai sword. Now go, now press the top and take it out and cut few heads, so that we may know it works or not. Watch okay, now take it out. I just was myself amazed seeing it, I wanted to see the samurai sword and I have never seen a samurai sword which has wheel. You see this wheel? Yeah. Because I think the Japanese are, Japanese are very small so they have to wheel it, so it has a wheel. It's very original. Is there anybody artist who I can trust that they can renew it? Somebody has done work on it, it looks very odd to me. Is there anybody who volunteers against cash reward? Look, normally I give things to your wife but this is first time I am giving you. Get it done. Get it done A1. And all (?) that for all sins he has committed I will forgive him only when it is done. Okay that looks good.

Student: (---).

YB: Yeah I want this to be done according to Japanese rule. Yeah, Chalo ho Gaya. Then this stand can wait. Anyway.

Technologically you are not the byproduct of mistake, blunder or sin. Effectively you are corrupt, you are shallow, you don't trust, you don't believe; in what? In yourself. You are subject to something else. You are always something else. You always want to be somebody else. You know, if I start acting I am Siri Singh SahibSiri Singh Sahib Honorary title given to Yogi Bhajan to indicate his role as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma in the West. His complete title within Sikh Dharma is Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. , I will not last more than thirty days. What is Siri Singh SahibSiri Singh Sahib Honorary title given to Yogi Bhajan to indicate his role as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma in the West. His complete title within Sikh Dharma is Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. ? Siri Singh SahibSiri Singh Sahib Honorary title given to Yogi Bhajan to indicate his role as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma in the West. His complete title within Sikh Dharma is Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. is like this robe. Under this there is a body of YogiYogi One who has attained a state of yoga (union) where polarities are mastered and transcended. One who practices the disciplines of yoga and has attained self-mastery. Bhajan. In that body there is a spirit of Har Bhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji. So status, cover, wealth, values, relatives, affairs don't matter. They are not.

'Oh I am in love, first sight love, nobody understand,' yeah, we understand. It's first sight love and third time divorce, I mean to say, what is this? When you are blinded,restricted by your emotions. Then what happens is your intuition doesn't work. Parents want to run the life of their children. They will not spare them doesn't matter what. So much so that I have seen not one, not two, ten, twenty people in my intimate counseling where they are totally living the life of their mother or a father and they are not living their own life at all. They even sometime do not know who they are. I mean, a bird, allow things to go out of nest and ask the little ones to fly and be themself. We don't. It's not our (?).

Secondly, we feel how should I say it? I don't want to offend the ladies. But if you are offended, so be it. What the damn hell you people think? Who the hell has taught you this that without perfect grace you can even exist? You are the one to carry the child. You are the (?) things, you have to grow up, what is it for? Why you walk into the swamp? Who has given you that permission? And I am asking those who are married, why you got married at all? What was so important? If you are not capable and competent to live together, why to get together the problem? What's so important? So answer is why these things happen. Answer is KarmaKarma The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action. . KarmaKarma The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action. has action and reaction and people out of emotions and feelings got into KarmaKarma The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action. and KarmaKarma The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action. has action and reaction and misery, pain and consequences and sequences. But those who follow DharmaDharma A path of righteous living. It is both an ideal of virtue and a path of action that is infused with clear awareness and comprised of actions that are the soul in total synchrony with the universe. It is action without reaction or karma. , they don't have these consequences.

Hey, I am a married man right. I want to be corrupt. Why not? You have license I don't have that license? You are the only one who can be emotional and you have feelings and you have this and you have that, I don't have that? But I can bifurcate myself in three extensions at every moment which you have learned to do. I am a human, I am a disciple, I am a teacher. Human, disciple, teacher. Three things basic, two I am a servant and I am a future. I'll take the last one future. When I say future and if you really believe in future, and you want to work for a future, you can never be corrupt. Because you know corrupt future will not work. The only thing you do wrong is you think you are now and now you should control. No, no, no, no. You will not be judged now. You will be judged by future. It doesn't matter president Clinton is caught free or he is removed. You understand? But future has already started judging him.

Future is very important. Future is future which you will create, future will not create you. And future is a future which you create today, now. And it will never miss you. Future will not, never miss... It doesn't meant that your everything is fine and nice and everything is goodie, goodie for you. No, no, no. That is not true. Future is whether you leave a legacy of your existence or not. But if you do not understand you are always trinity, you are always three layers. What is your three layers? Self, conscious self and applied self. If you do not apply yourself with grace, tranquility and strength and you are not conscious that action has a reaction and you have to be careful, you shall be in trouble. Now question is, if you are not in trouble, what will happen? Then manythings may happen, you will have intuition, you have clarity, you have wealth, you have a prosperity, you will have grace, people will trust you, for your words. Everybody will like you. But all that energy you waste fighting between husband and wife, fighting mentally with neighbors, fighting with even the weather. You discuss weather more than you discuss the shabadShabad , Shabd Sound, especially subtle sound or sound imbued with consciousness. It is a property or emanation of consciousness itself. If you meditate on shabad it awakens your awareness. of Siri GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. GranthGranth Literally: knot: book. , that much I know. You romance all the time. You don't meditate that much. You want to hear gossip, never gospel, that bores you. One woman told me, "I have tried everything, I cannot sleep."

I said, "Read JapjiJapji , Japji Sahib The Song of the Soul written by the First Sikh Guru, Guru Naanak Dayv Jee. Saadhana opens with a recitation of Japji each morning at 3:40 am. A mantra, poem, and inspired religious scripture composed by Guru Nanak. Japji Sahib gives a view of the cosmos, the soul, the mind, the challenge of life, and the impact of our actions. Its 40 stanzas are a source of many mantras and can be used as a whole or in part to guide both your mind and your heart. at night." Can you believe it, she sleeps in the half of the JapjiJapji , Japji Sahib The Song of the Soul written by the First Sikh Guru, Guru Naanak Dayv Jee. Saadhana opens with a recitation of Japji each morning at 3:40 am. A mantra, poem, and inspired religious scripture composed by Guru Nanak. Japji Sahib gives a view of the cosmos, the soul, the mind, the challenge of life, and the impact of our actions. Its 40 stanzas are a source of many mantras and can be used as a whole or in part to guide both your mind and your heart. ?

Her husband said, "What is that book she reads and sleeps in the middle of it?"

I said, "Don't bother, you wanted her to sleep, that's all it does."

We are so drunk, so drunk that if a guard policemen, guard policemen puts us a (?) ask walk three steps, we can't walk. We are so drunk with our ego, first we are graduate, second we have done our school, third we have read books. Something so silly. We are working. I said nobody has understood,

"Jay jug charay aarjaa hor dasooni hoe

Navaa khandaKhanda Double-edged sword. vich jaanee-ai naal chalai sabh koe."

If your life (?) according to the four yugas and you are known on the all nine regions of this universe. And everybody walks with you out ofawe and respect.

Your name is so worshipped that everybody in the wonderful state about you. Praise you.

'Jeh tis nadar na avey, davathan piche ke.'

If you do not experience the infinite God, in every breath of life, you got nothing. It's all for here, what is for here is here. What is for there? What is for there is not here. (?) you are living your incarnation of the previous life time KarmaKarma The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action. . You will meet, you will fight, you substitute, you will prostitute, you'll direct, and you indirect, and you cheat and you do everything.

Once somebody took away money from GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's fund and I was told, I said 'it's okay. It's too little.' It's not worthwhile. There is no need to go after a person who couldn't be honest with GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. alone.

You have to involve in yourself certain sensory system that your sense can feel Infinity, like today.

Now right, lock this and you lock this, yesterday we did the first, that was with the Jupiter finger, today you have Jupiter, absolutely on Saturn. And yesterday you cheated about twenty percent. You did. Today... see pull the elbows out and shoulders out, it will be very easy. But if you do like this, after a while you are going to fall apart. Right here pull your shoulders out and put your elbows out and put your fingers straight and put it sixty degree and start breathing the way you are supposed to. Yesterday you did it. Drink it. Drink, drink, drink, drink.

Oh wow Hari Mithar's birthday, we are going to get cookies.

Yesterday it blew my mind, one girl made a paper on two side of it, one side it is a Sikh, the other side it is not Sikh. She drew the picture. I have asked that paper to be laminated so that we can keep it, preserve it forever. And I will like to show you if that comes back next class.

Wow. Shanti Shanti Kaur has courage for a different journey. MeditationMeditation Dhyan. It is a process of deep concentration or merger into an object or a state of consciousness. Meditation releases reactions and unconscious habits and build the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself. for change-twelve step program. Five elements of meditationMeditation Dhyan. It is a process of deep concentration or merger into an object or a state of consciousness. Meditation releases reactions and unconscious habits and build the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself. , how they create like Yogic model of mind and emotions, mantraMantra Sounds or words that tune or control the mind. Man means mind. Tra-ng is the wave or movement of the mind. Mantra is a wave, a repetition of sound and rhythm that directs or controls the mind. When you recite a mantra you have impact through the meridian points in the mouth, through its meaning, through its pattern of energy, through its rhythm, and through its naad - energetic shape in time. Recited correctly a mantra will activate areas of the nervous system and brain and allow you to shift your state and the perceptual vision or energetic ability associated with it. , movement and emotions. Breathe, belief and behavior. My God, you must all attend. Transfer anger, grief and fear through meditationMeditation Dhyan. It is a process of deep concentration or merger into an object or a state of consciousness. Meditation releases reactions and unconscious habits and build the spontaneous and intuitive link to awareness itself. technique, intention, action and outcome. Clearing the past, breaking non productive habits, breaking the past, why not? And making conscious change, developing a relationship with inner wisdom, spiritual connection and self guidance. Six thirty p.m. twenty third through March thirtieth.

A history of medicine.

I have an earache, two thousand BC. Here eat this root, thousand AD the root is healthier, then say the prayer. Eighteen fifty AD. That pray superstition, here drink this potion, nineteen forty AD. That potion is snake oil, here swallow this pill, nineteen eighty five the pill is ineffective. Here take the antibiotic. Two thousand AD, that antibiotic is artificial, here eat this root.

Wow. Very good, people have fun.

Let's collect humor everywhere. And then put on in a sense what I heard and put all the humors into one thing and write a book.

This exercise you are doing for yourself, not for me and not for anybody.

Drink, drink, drink, change your electromagnetic field, drink, drink.

You talk of exercise, why don't you do this exercise see how much you stand? Be honest, you have three more minutes.

They have made a chip, you swallow that, it will sit in your stomach and it will release medicine at a proper time and proper amount. Wow.

Side B

Now move your hands like this free and clear and fast. Fast you can. Don't listen (?) bother what you are doing. Up and down, back and back, back and back, up and forward, back, move, move, move. We need it fast. You don't want to go to hospital, stay five days in intensive care and get your chest cut out, don't do it. I knew it I didn't do it, I went to hospital, my all things were clogged up, so for God's sake now behave. Hey this is very simple. This, this, this but when you do it, do it like this. Use force electromagnetic force of the body. Oh Mama Mia. Lock your hands up. Inhale deep and stretch your spine from base to top. Pull, pull, pull, pull. So much you pull, you go up. And breathe out. Breathe in deep again, pull, pull, pull, pull. Pull, stretch. Let it go. And relax.

The whole thing you did for eleven minutes. Cannot you do it at home? Why not? You will be new. Energy will be balanced, you will open up, the world will look just real to you and so is your tomorrow.

(The tape 'On this day the lord......' is played in the class)

YB: Sing it from navel pointNavel Point The sensitive area of the body near the umbilicus that accumulates and stores life force. It is the reserve energy from this area that initiates the flow of the Kundalini energy from the base of the spine. If the navel area is strong, your vital force and health are also strong. . Cookies are being served in advance.

God bless our consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. . Let us be creative and clear. And our existence be within our own grace. Give us the strength to love, to serve, to elevate. Show us the clarity of our future. In comparative to past give us a walkway, pathway so we can reach our destiny. Help us to cover this distance and give us sense of self dignity, Divinity and grace. In thy name we pray. SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. NamSat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Naam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word. .

Students: SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. NamSat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Naam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word. .

YB: That's a good idea. Now next week right. But I like you to understand something. These things are not just to come to class and do it, you should start doing it at home. Ten, fifteen minutes a day. Improve, reach second stage. You have been hanging in for long as many years, now you can totally reap the result of your endurance. What we are teaching you the kriyas which directly relate with your magnetic field and extend your being. This body of yours when is under fear is obnoxious. When in love is gracious. So basic sentiments affect the whole thing.

Enjoy cookies, but I tell you in thirty one years I have been rewarded. Which was that little girl who made that definition? She painted. She draw a woman in white, like sun rays coming out of her face. And she put Adi Aad Shakti , Adi Shakti The primal creative force. ShaktiAad Shakti , Adi Shakti The primal creative force. Shakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. at the heart center and said 'A Sikh.' Then on the other side she draw a shoulder cut hair and put a devil at the heart and said, 'Not a Sikh.' I couldn't believe, what future holds in line. But her concept was more clear than even mine. I don't know where she got the idea. Actually fact is, we are all organically born Sikh. If we just understand by law of nature. We are all Sikhs. From Sikh we become non Sikhs. It's funny. Actually fact is, you are supposed to love everybody. So we have to make a concept. People who are seeking God within themself should stop. God is already in you. And everybody is not going to wear banaBana , Baana One's outward projection, often refers to a specified clothing that projects a consciousness. tomorrow as far as I am concerned.

Little change towards yourself, that's all needed. I know you are going to wear jewelry but why not to wear jewelry with infinite sign rather than anything else. I saw a biggest earring in my life. There is a relation of mine, she came to see me, she had earrings. Earrings like it goes into the ear, then it has a small Adi Aad Shakti , Adi Shakti The primal creative force. ShaktiAad Shakti , Adi Shakti The primal creative force. Shakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. , then bigger one and bigger one and the bigger one, in the end it was equal to American dollar. And I laughed and she said, "Why you are laughing?"

I said, "You have no mercy on your earlobes. Look how much weight you are putting on them."

She said, "I thought you will be very happy to see I am wearing this."

I said, "I am very happy to see you in this, that's fantastic, diamonds are fine and situation is great. But I was just thinking about your earlobes, not, they are really stretched." And if you see the baby in a womb and this earlobe is equal to head and this is your spine and this is your inner organs. You are a complete acupuncture point in the air. So if you really want to get something done these two things fits in there. And if you do it for three minutes you will find all inner organs stimulated.

But this little girl's drawing blew my mind, I am still wondering. But walked into her so precise. She is going to write tomorrow another picture. With a turban is a Sikh. With that cap, what they call that cap? Baseball cap, not a Sikh. We have started something very universal become, we have become a judgment right now. We should say Sikh is a Sikh. And we should not say non Sikh, we should say human. Give little margin. Panth KhalsaPanth Khalsa The ordained Ministry of Sikh Dharma; also refers to the general body of the Khalsa worldwide. when GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Gobind Singh Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Gobind SinghGuru Gobind Singh Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. described about it, he explained that all walks of humanity will walk into it like all rivers walk into ocean and merge as one. That's the purpose. And we have to start educating our children.

And that day boy was playing and he said to the other boy and I satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. down and I corrected them. He said, "You are not Khalsa."

He said, "What is Khalsa?"

He said, "What is pure."

He said, "Where I am impure?"

He said, "You are....."

That was going on. (?). "And what is a pure?"

I said, "Explain to me what is pure, not that (?) heart. Out. Out you go."

So let us watch our surroundings and our offshoots. Siri SimranSimran A deep meditative process in which the naam of the Infinite is remembered and dwelled in without conscious effort. was talking to Nanak Nihal, "What is that?"

He said, "Dada."

"What is that?"

And he started laughing and saying, "That's a picture of GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. Ram DasGuru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. ." And she changes it from here to there, there, you know those kind of things ladies do. But he never misses a point. We should educate children when they are one day old.

Hey, I have to make a phone call, let's run.

Thank you.

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