Today is a very interesting day isn't it? It is a day for sleeping under the tree. You are all sitting in the class, can you believe that? Must have done wrong 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.
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Well, folks, today we will talk about the nitty-gritty of the life. Something, which we like not what cannot live without it. It is called YamYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
and Niyam. Niayams are the dos and then YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
means don'ts. But don't be serious about it. It's very difficult thing to do. But the sage has written it, so we like to read it and have fun about it and then do what we are doing anyway. Well, what we should not do? What are the don'ts? They call them YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
and Niyams. YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
are to avoid harming others can you believe that? Harmlessness, don't harm anybody and you won't only harm when you are kind. When you are not kind, you will harm. So they go together. Unkind people always harm. Avoid telling falsehood or lie. Avoid telling falsehood or lie so that your prayers can get affected. Your words do not mean anything to anybody, you mean just to look like a mean. You don't look effective, you don't look realistic, you are, you don't make, you don't break grounds because you lie, you practice 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.
, lie. So when you pray you almost lie too. So same person doing the same thing. So in your own effectiveness, happiness and interest you should not lie. That takes away the power of the word. 'In the beginning there was a word, word was with God and word was God' and that doesn't mean a thing to you if you lie.
You lie to save your position temporarily. You lie because of innocence. You lie to avoid to confront the consequences and sequence. You lie because you do not want to live in reality, you lie because you do not know your reality, you lie because you do not know who yourself you are? Mostly people live in lie and number is very great, so feel good. Ninety-eight percent of a hundred people live in lie. They lie to themself, they lie to their dear ones, they lie to their circumstances, they lie to environments, they lie to even themself. Lying is a big product on sale all the time. People lie to that extent they start believing in it and they start living it finally in the end they know that was all false. Avoid stealing. Now this is a funny thing. Stealing. What is stealing? Stealing a thought, stealing an idea, stealing a thing, stealing a material, stealing somebody's soul, telling somebody you are my soul mate, using it and stealing all the beauty, stealing somebody's youth, there is so much stealing going on and unpunished that (?) magistrate, there has to be a court everyday to punish everybody and if confinement is one second for every offence nobody will be moving on the street for the rest of life, that's what stealing is about, and here you say don't steal, he is a funny guy.
Avoid overindulgence in sex. What is indulgence in sex? Sex is not what happens in the bed, what happens in the bed is good. What happens outside the bed is bad. Sex is when we create to the intercourse of mind with lot of false illusion, that is sex. You don't know actually what sex is? Sex is the sixth sense of the person through which he intends to create its own imaginative future in reality. But the problem is you don't do that. This practical, physical sex to get in bed with somebody is just a kind of exercise for few minutes; it doesn't have more effect than that. But there is a training for the mind with it, that affects a lot. You know one of the funniest thing, which I experienced, once I called somebody and somebody's wife was away for the night, couldn't believe it. So the local minister called and said, "Sir, we do not know what to do with her. She was all night away and we presume that she was with some man. I don't know how can we ask her she is a married woman, she is a good conduct..." blah-blah-blah.
I said, "Well, I will ask her." So I called her so and so. "On such and such night you left your protective security and you slipped by and you were not found whole night. Should I say that you were with Mr. Such and such?"
She said, "Yes."
"What you did?"
She said, "Well, we hugged and kissed and talked, but sir we didn't have any intercourse."
I said, "What about oral sexual intercourse?"
She said, "Does that mean sexual intercourse?"
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"Well, as a oriental I don't know," I said, "Perhaps not. Because woman doesn't masturbate. No woman can masturbate. The word masturbation is only meant for men, it is not for woman and woman doesn't ejaculate. Her sexual tendency is known as tiding, it's just like goes up like a water and down, up and down, you can put a woman through clitoris tiding say about hundred times and she will feel best about it, but there is nothing wrong in that. It's not wrong, it is the way the nature has made her body metabolism, but man cannot do that. Once man ejaculates that's the end of him. If he is a really, really super neurotic he can go for twice and that's it.
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But what I am trying to share with you is the metabolism between man and woman is totally different, there is nothing in that and sometimes sex only means what? It's the physical intercourse. Now that is not what sex is. That is called sexual exercise, hey honey let us go for a sexual exercise! Or I don't have time for a sexual exercise, you know just like yoga exercise. It's not important at all. I mean you just give too much mind and emphasis to this neurotic physical thing because it has a problem. It is a problem if you conceive through this exercise, you are stuck with it, its consequences are sometime afterwards are so heavy or before are so heavy because you are emotionally stuck with it, you are mentally stuck with it, you are physically stuck with it, that's why the entire word sex is only in getting that thing into that hole, it's not very holy for some people and some people ran away from it and some people just don't mind you know. They are ready like a gardener who wants to water every plant.
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They had their water bag in their hand and whosoever is available they will just give a little bit of it and that's it. So there are lot of kinds of situation in sexuality. Sexuality is nothing and it is everything. There is nothing in sex and there is nothing without sex. Now I think Baba Singh should reproduce that article of mine rather I will take your whole time and you can have a page of it, it's a little thing you can read it to yourself. It is what I spoke in Washington DC and that will make to Las Vegas. Secondly if God willing this book, which I taught in summer "The All Facets of a Living Woman," that explains about woman and sex more than any person has ever explained, for any reason, book will be in printing you can have there afterwards. It's a very good situation, which you are going to do. Avoid overindulgence in sex means only avoid mental masturbation; write it down it's a very good word. The worst is the mental masturbation, which woman cannot do, man cannot tolerate. This physical things are just, just okay. You don't bother about it.
Avoid greed. What is greed? Can anybody explain me what is greed please? Can anybody define, oh come on folks. We are friend, are we? Go ahead speak.
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YB: Hey if I don't teach in UCLA come around, you know nothing.
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I mean to say it's fantastic to understand, my God. You don't know what is a greed? What is a greed?
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YB: You can pass, pass (?).
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YB: Greed is where you mentally agree to something for which you do not know the pros and cons, please write it down. Don't be foolish. You mentally agree to something for which you do not know pros and cons. Greed is not this, greed is not that, try to understand. Greed is where you mentally read to and you do not know the pros and con, you do not know what it will do to you. What is it? That is greed...you understand? I know it you don't know.
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Well, look here. What is it? Okay what is it? It's a female organ.
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What is it? It's a pregnant woman. Anything, which runs in circles is creative and anything creative runs in circle. Therefore nature has nothing in triangle and square, it's all round, and you have a nature very sensual and very sexual and you don't die, neither you want to die, nor you can die, because you are a product of the seed and you seed to produce more of you. This is your creative process, creative cycle. You follow that and when you want to be creative and expand your 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.
to create more, sometime you get or mean or think or imagine to have something for which you are not aware what that will do to you. Well, you are happily married you are a woman, you want to have another girlfriend right and you really like it and you keep it secret and you do everything, you don't know what is happening to you and your married life and your wife or anything. One fine morning you getup say honey I have got a telephone, I got to go.
And she said, "Well, thank you very much. Will you be at office?"
He said, "Yes. What is the matter?"
She said, "I like to call you about two O' clock afternoon today."
He said, "Okay. Is something special you want to say?"
She said, "Yeah." And two O' clock he is served with a divorce notice.
She never uttered to him, he never uttered to her, but something was happening, something was happening in life. Most of the life, everything and anything is destroyed because of greed. Man's capability and ability of human constant thinking and imagining and living cannot be undermined except your own greed and don't think greed is just having a thing, no, no, no not at all. If you care to imagine to agree to even a thought and distance, if I live up to two thousand years from now, it's a greed too. Cycle of life is not your property. It's not you, it's not your imagination, what are you talking about? Soul is not your, I have told you that day. Soul is not you, mind is not you, body is not you, you are you. Therefore you got to understand to live in now. Those who live in now, future serves them. Hey you understand that what I said? What I said? It's a million dollar thing. Those who live in now, future serves them. Those who live in tomorrow, past (?) them, and you have the choice. So YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
, avoid harming others, avoid telling lies, avoid stealing, avoid indulgence over in sex, avoid greed and if you can do all that, you will be a Almighty God living in a human body.
Well, that is what it is, and (?) means dos, what you should do? If you do what I tell you do and what this thing tells you to do you will always avoid what you have to avoid. First of all is purity. Not only live pure, look pure. Pure, purity and then live content, contentment is the law of happiness and contentment only comes to those who are grateful, grateful are those who can see the limits, those who can live the limits are those who have the horizon of 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.
, those who have horizon of 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.
are learned, those who are learned those who learn, those who learn (?) rich, it is called constant fight.
So contentment and contentment can come to you by self discipline, then self discipline is knowing yourself, knowing yourself is mastery of self, mastery of self is reality of the self, reality of self is God in you. This I agree but it's most difficult to study. Learn. That's the key to it, to earn learn. Those who learn become learned. Devotion to God means devotion to your Infinity. Man is never poor, it's a relative term. Man is never rich, it's a relative term. Man is never beautiful, it's relative term. Man is never ugly, it's a relative term, all is under the law of polarity. Beauty is in the eyes of beholder, truth is in the heart and 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.
in the head. Okay come on now, any question. Participate.
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YB: How you dress, how you eat, how you sit, how you sleep, how you yell, how you scream. You know you abuse somebody, give a very pure abuse.
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YB: No, no, it is very looking pure. If you want to tell somebody a very, you can tell somebody a very dirty abuse, be very explicit straight direct, just like that somebody pick up somebody's pocket. I tell you purity in simple words of purity. Somebody picks up pocket, he took all the cash out, all the paper and plus the pocket which was hanging out, he took it he said, "Sir, there is something for you. I took mine, I return yours" and (?) the guy looked at it, cloth was like a piece of suit he was wearing. He looked in it, he said everything was there his ID bah, bah, bah all missing was the money. When he got caught, since I said, "I have a question."
He said, "What?"
"Why did you return all those things fool, I would not have even recognizes you."
He said, "I am a pure pickpocket. I only pickpocket and I pickpocket nothing but which can be not yours, not mine. Money is what money does. So rest of the things I never keep, doesn't matter I am arrested, I will be punished I will be back in my business soon, thank you very much."
Very pure pickpocket. Purity does not only belong to the hefty good ideas of the God people only. Be pure in everything you do. It is a story in the time 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 Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
NanakGuru Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
, somebody came when he was a professional thief. He said to 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 Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
NanakGuru Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
, "Sir, you are a 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.
. You can enlighten everybody."
He said, "What. What is your problem?"
He said, "I have come to get enlightened."
He said, "You are a thief? That's your profession. All right be a thief. But be a pure thief and nothing else."
"Okay sir."
"What is a pure thief?"
He said, "Three things you must do. If you eat anybody's salt don't steal from him. If somebody suffers you must take care your are at fault and thirdly speak the truth."
He said, "Okay sir. If this makes a pure thief, I love it." So next night he went, dressed himself and went to the king's palace and he said, "Who you are?"
He said, "Thief."
(?) they couldn't believe a thief who comes to king's palace and could say I am a thief.
So they said perhaps king has gone incognito and he is making a joke.
He said, "Your highness (?)"
He went in and he collected all the silver, the gold, the diamonds, the jewelry and made a big bag out of it. While collecting the silver pots he went into the kitchen, the master kitchen where king's food was cooked and then brought into a place where it was transferred into silver and gold pots. So he was right there and he just saw a very beautiful pot and there was something and he put his finger and touched what is it? It was salt.
He said, "Oh my God!"
He left everything and he walked away. Early in the morning the king (?) he called all the guards and commanders and just lined them up and he said within one week either thief should appear here or you all will be shot dead. What kind of people you are? What guards should do? You are supposed to watch my palace and look what has happened to the palace. Somebody came in, collected the whole thing, never took anything, I want answer to this mystery. They tried their best now who is going to catch him? None. No proof. So finally it was announced in the village I mean the capital that this guy has betrayed the job and betrayed the king and it could have been anything, therefore they are found useless to the state therefore they are all going to be killed. He learned it too. He went right before the king and he said, "Hi, hi, hi Sahib. How are you?"
"Fine."
He said, "Who are you?"
He said, "I am thief."
"Oh how you are thief?"
He said, "I am thief. I stole your things."
He said, "I don't believe you. You came in, you picked up everything, you left everything."
He said, "Look, my tragedy is in my whole lifetime I met a learned man. But I told him to give, make me enlightened. This is what he told me. Speak truth, you eat anybody's salt, don't steal from him and if somebody is going to be punished you go and confess, so nobody should suffer because of you, I came in, asked your gateman, he said who you are, I said thief. They thought that I am not they let me in. I went and collected everything precious and wanted move away with it, but I unfortunately touched your salt pepper thing and I touched your that salt and I left everything and now I should not have come and get beaten up. But when you wanted to kill all these people, they are going to suffer because of me. Third principle is that I am a very pure thief. So I don't want anybody to suffer, so I gave (?) present myself."
The emperor said, "Wait a minute. Who is that man who taught you so much and make you so effective truth within? You are totally forgiven. If you take me and take to that man who gave you that wisdom."
So he brought him to 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 Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
NanakGuru Nanak
First Guru of the Sikhs.
and story goes on and on but his life was spared and thereafter he found it out there is no need of stealing at all. What I am trying to reach to you is life has many, many meanings. Life is like a onion. Onion can tell you very good example of life. You take a onion and you take layer after layer, layer after layer, layer after layer, all is onion, but the end last you will find there is nothing. But you collect all these layers, bunch them up and you will call onion. Exactly this is how life is, it's like an onion. You dip deep into it, dig into it, go more and more into it, you will be shocked to see in the end you will reach the point of nothingness and when you reach the point of nothingness you will know everything and then nothing will be anything to you. It's a very fascinating experience in human body and it's a very gifted 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.
what they call is life, it's very pleasant to be alive isn't it? It is highly pleasant, it is utmost beautiful, it is totally Divine and it's very dignified, to just feel alive. Everybody lives, mind you. But to feel alive can give you feeling of such a greatness that you can never be short of anything.
Then comes Aasana. Aasana got eighty-four postures, eighty-four postures are meant to stimulate the glandular system and tune up the nervous system. Parasympathetic, sympathetic action nerve muscles and body tissues and then comes PranayamPraanayam
, Pranayam
, Pranayaam
Regulated breathing patterns or exercises.
, the breathing exercises and that breathing exercises in PranayamPraanayam
, Pranayam
, Pranayaam
Regulated breathing patterns or exercises.
has many technologies, but if you breathe right you breathe normally fifteen times a minute, but if for sake of practice you start breathing one breath a minute and breathe out one breath a minute then you are breathing under your control. That will make your lungs very healthy and strong, give your bloodstream the chance to be pure and has a sufficient oxygen, work into your life for the day, you can avoid diseases, sicknesses, temperament and shortcomings of behavior, character and weaknesses of human life.
Only when there is a shortage of oxygen in the bloodstream person becomes unhealthy. If you don't want to believe it, I want to tell you something right now, open up your mouth like a cave, open it up and everybody should do otherwise somebody says they are special somebody is not, open it up. You want to experience something or not? All right do not close it tight, if you want to open it and very slowly breathe through it, not fast, very slowly, very slowly. See what it does to you (?) experiment you will learn, very slowly breathe through it and very slowly breathe through it out. Breathe in and breathe out very slowly. It will change your mood and you try not to change your mood and you will be shocked it will. Do it for couple minutes, simple experiment there is nothing wrong to do experiment, just experiment. No, no, open your mouth full, some of you even can't open mouth what is wrong with your jaws? Open up dear, you will not learn it, where you are going to learn then? In Kansas City? Open up your own mouth, not mine and breathe very slowly. Technicality of that is let the air come through this very slowly. It's a very hard exercise, don't misunderstand that it is just a joke I am joking with you. It can save you sometime from suicide, from mental torture, from laying bad (?) all you have to do is sit down, open your mouth and start breathing in slowly and breathing out, funny you will save a disaster, many, many disasters in life you can save for nothing and this is one of the simplest PranayamPraanayam
, Pranayam
, Pranayaam
Regulated breathing patterns or exercises.
. They call Yoni PranayamPraanayam
, Pranayam
, Pranayaam
Regulated breathing patterns or exercises.
, it's not in yoga books, you will not find it anywhere, relax.
Now assess yourself, feel yourself the moment you started, moment you are now. You don't get a sleep at night, you feel upset open up your mouth, remember me and just breathe for a while, you will never know when you close, then where you have gone. Yeah your boyfriend didn't call, he will come on a date and your girlfriend didn't meet you at restaurant and you want to break your head with the wall, instead of doing that go back home and have a fun and just open your mouth and lie down on the bed and breathe like this couple minutes and after that you will not remember what happened to you. It will be next fine morning; you may be late from your classes. It is very, very, very super relaxing. Why? It has the capacity to give the merger; it enhances the merger of oxygen in the bloodstream. It's very, very, very good. It is so good that all the people doing that they feel nice you understand how these Spanish people speak? They will never say good, they will say gud. Why they speak different than any other people? Because of their cozy family, structure of life. They are human beings, we are human being. If you go to New Mexico, you speak to the Spanish people you will strive how they say. Oh yeah, under that circumstances would feel as of no good, but we like you anyway, you are right in our palace and we didn't know what you are doing here, and what the funny hat you are wearing, (?) they are very secure, cozy family bringing up. They maybe poor, they maybe rich. They are very emotionally tied in you will find this Chicanos the Spanish people, these Mexicans all those people they have, have a special way of talking and those who are brought they are independence (?) and separated as yes, I understand under those circumstances (?) as it is a rapid fire going through a machine gun.
All are human beings, all are individuals, all are under the state sovereignty of the same constitution. But the learning, the environments and experience makes people live. There are no two thumbs, which (?), there are no two individuals which are alike. Happiness is to enjoy your living. Sometime you wonder whether you are needed on this planet or not. You must understand, you will not be needed, there are lot of people who will be not needed with you. So until they don't quit, you are not going to quit. So hang on, it's a good world to live. It's a nice experience to be a human body. Only it is hard thing to do is, to do YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
and Niyams. It's a hardest possibility, but I can assure you once you have YamsYam
Yam/Niyams "do's and don'ts; the ethical precepts defined by Patanjali.
and Niyams you will always be loved and exalted and that is the secret of Yoga. It has dos and don'ts and every do has every don't. You love me, you shall hate none. Write it down. Ask yourself one thing always. One thing every morning ask. I shall love therefore I shall hate none. Those who know to love, they don't hate. Those who hate they don't know to love. Is it nice and your problem of love is when somebody give you reward or a gift, you think you have been loved, if somebody hits you hard and tell you or yell and scream at you, you think you are punished. Love is not a reward or a punishment. It's a constant flow of the spirit. Therefore it includes yelling, screaming, hugging, bugging, kissing, loving, everything, because love is God and God is everything.
So this new form of love, that is why bring roses to you, then I love you and if I bring the thorns to you I hate you, that's not love is. Love is a constant flow of your thoughts, mind and soul towards the self and that concludes me with you for today and we talked about lot of things, I will pickup some of the things and explained little more because I will like to give more time to you to practice Aasana than breathing, don't become practitioner person. Just see what it is. By the way I like to disclose to you that we are not filing in for the advance course. There is a problem. If we file for the advance course, then this course, which is already improved will not (?) out they and I don't think they have got funds or whatever it is. So don't feel that we are betraying you, we are just trying to stick around to the (?) in one form or another.
What we will do is, we will make a deal. It will like us so much, register in the next semester with us and we will take care you somehow. We know lot of things to do. We will repeat this course for the beginners, but make it so interesting for the seniors that you will not feel (?). You know what we will do? We will do like this, we will ask Baba Singh to tell me the story for the seniors or I will come and tell you the story for the seniors and also we will teach the beginners. But it will be difficult for us; we have never understood United States of America's workability. So I know there is nothing to feel frustrated, tonight the result will come out, either we will become banana or peanuts who knows?
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Something will appear on the horizon and that may decide lot of things. But in all sincerity so long you will stay with us, we will try to make you a beautiful human being, that we promise. Thanks for the day. See you next time, God be with you.
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