Los Angeles Lecture

 
Date:
November 12, 1981
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
 
 
 
 

.... It is our human necessity, it is our?

Students: Human necessity.

YB: To have a friend. It is our need to have somebody to love; somebody to talk to, somebody to socialize, somebody should appreciate us. We need buddy they call it here. Even we have a business which is called 'Body Buddies.' So I agree that in our life, in our caliber we are not complete without friendship, without personal sensitivity and feeling, without gratification. But have you ever understood in the real essence of your life that your soul needs friendship too? Have you ever understood why the soul took the human body to begin with? Just to eat? Soul doesn't eat. Just to take bath? Soul doesn't take bath. To have a physical intercourse? Soul doesn't do intercourse. What soul does? Soul is a part of the infinity or you call it God. Soul seeks friendship with that infinity, with that God. It's a longing in us; it's a feeling in us. In spite of everything we have got and everything we can get we are not secure.

We need one thing and we always seek to need something. Always. And 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. says, 'Man is like a dark deer, Kaala Harin.' Kaala Harin is black deer, huge big deer and that black deer is worth hundred thousands of dollars if is worth it. What happens is when it comes to its full bloom youth it has a musk in its navel. It gets the smell of this musk. You do not have the experience; I have the experience. It can run so fast that once in the open with a telescopic lens a very professional hunter could not zero on it. You can understand the strength of it. It was a wide-open valley, he was on an advantageous position, the scope was hundred eighty degree open. He couldn't fix on it. He fired; he missed.

That is the strength of fastness and the way it runs, you can't catch on it. What is the power? Is deer that powerful? No. It is the power of that musk and when it smells, they say if the man is dead put musk on the tip of the tongue he will still get up and write his will.

(Students' laughter...)

Such a powerful thing. So what happens is this musk deer he gets that smell and he runs and he runs and he runs he wants to know from where it is coming. Finally when he runs so much he gets tired, his neck nods down and he breaks his neck that way. And then his neck hits back in this belly and his nose gets right into the musk part and he says, "Oh, my God! I was running for the smell of this musk and it was in my 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. ."

Exactly sensuality and sexuality makes a person run, run, run and sexuality and sensuality makes a person run to find its own creativity, which is the soul. Without soul you are dead. But in the process of running we do not invite experience, we invite death. In process of running we do not invite experience we invite death. In process 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. we invite strength and it can be such a strength that you can be God. Then God is not outside you, God is inside you. Our mind was given to us for that experience. That's why 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. said,

"O manaa meriya sadaa raho Har naley. Har naal reh tu mann merey, dukh sab sarna."

When the mind is with God, when the mind is with God no pain, no displeasure can touch you. No, not at all. But when the mind is with mayaMaya The creative power of the Creator that restricts and limits. It creates the sense of limitation that leads us to identify with experience, the ego, and things. Because of this it is often thought of as the illusion that blocks us from the spirit. But, as Guru Nanak (see Sikh Gurus) reminds us, you need not be attached to the productions of maya. Instead they can be used to serve and express the higher consciousness and spirit. Maya is simply Karta Purkh, the doing of the Great Being. Maya takes the ineffable into the realm of the measurable. you can never be happy.

Why so? Because mayaMaya The creative power of the Creator that restricts and limits. It creates the sense of limitation that leads us to identify with experience, the ego, and things. Because of this it is often thought of as the illusion that blocks us from the spirit. But, as Guru Nanak (see Sikh Gurus) reminds us, you need not be attached to the productions of maya. Instead they can be used to serve and express the higher consciousness and spirit. Maya is simply Karta Purkh, the doing of the Great Being. Maya takes the ineffable into the realm of the measurable. limits you. Even thought of mayaMaya The creative power of the Creator that restricts and limits. It creates the sense of limitation that leads us to identify with experience, the ego, and things. Because of this it is often thought of as the illusion that blocks us from the spirit. But, as Guru Nanak (see Sikh Gurus) reminds us, you need not be attached to the productions of maya. Instead they can be used to serve and express the higher consciousness and spirit. Maya is simply Karta Purkh, the doing of the Great Being. Maya takes the ineffable into the realm of the measurable. limits you. It puts in you fear, failure, success, will I, will I not; it creates duality. But when it comes to infinity, infinity has no duality.

"Har, Har, kartey Har jan hoye."

"By saying Har, Har, one becomes God's man. By saying God, God, one becomes God's man."

'Har, Har, kartey, Har jan hoye.'

It takes you many, many, many, many, many, many lifetimes. I know you don't know, I mean, not knowing is not a sin. If you do not remember how many lifetimes it took you to come to be a human, it's very simple. It took eight point four million lifetimes. And then how many light years you were stuck in the ether, everybody has his own timing. And then you become a human.

The life of a human is a paid life. It is not that you become human by fluke or by chance. You become human because you earned it. Human life is earned life. But the greatest problem is that of mayaMaya The creative power of the Creator that restricts and limits. It creates the sense of limitation that leads us to identify with experience, the ego, and things. Because of this it is often thought of as the illusion that blocks us from the spirit. But, as Guru Nanak (see Sikh Gurus) reminds us, you need not be attached to the productions of maya. Instead they can be used to serve and express the higher consciousness and spirit. Maya is simply Karta Purkh, the doing of the Great Being. Maya takes the ineffable into the realm of the measurable. that you forget you are human to experience God, experience infinity, you are not human to experience earth. But that's the difference. Those who feel that human body has been given to them to eat, enjoy and be married, tomorrow you will die, they mess up their life. And God power doesn't help them. But those who feel that God is with them, God is around them and God is for them and they are for God, this attitude, the entire universe and nature helps them.

In spite of all the wisdom of the planning of the calculation of the speculation why you people fail? Why today you are in love with somebody and tomorrow you are totally deadly against that body, why?

Answer is very simple. You get hurt. Why? Because your flow stops, your compassion ceases; wisdom waits for nobody. Wisdom?

Students: Waits for nobody.

YB: A boy cannot get wisdom out of girl and girl cannot get wisdom out of boy, each one boy and each one girl has to go in its own infinity.

Somebody, it was very funny, somebody once asked me, I said, "Why you run after girls?"

He said, "I want to be appreciated. It makes me feel good when a girl appreciates."

I said, "All right, I don't want to discuss this way with you, that girl who appreciates you the most bring her to me."

He fixed up a day and he brought her. And I said, "Now you get out, wait outside, I'll talk to her."

And I looked at the girl, totally Norwegian, natural blind, about twenty-six, naturally blonde in the sense sensual blind and her eyes were about inch and half longer than nature can produce and this thing was... I mean to say out to the sense... I mean it was mess.

(Students' laughter...)

Now I asked for it, I got it, Toyota what should we do? So I satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. down with her and I said, "From where you come?"

She comes from North of the reindeer land and this and that, her parents came from there and this and that and what she is doing here and she just came here first for relaxing and now she is very relaxed and she doesn't do anything.

(Students' laughter...)

You know, you understand, I am not politicizing it, I am just explaining to you in a holy manner. So I asked her, I said, "Dear, this man so and so is my student and he feels very good and he says you appreciate him very much."

She said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he pays me, he pays me, he pays me two hundred dollars a week. Why not?"

I said, "I didn't catch you, what do you mean?"

She said, "No, he just wants to talk and he wants to be good and he takes me out to dinner and he talks to me, talks to me, talks to me and then pays me two hundred dollars, every week. Regular."

I said, "Do you appreciate two hundred dollars or you appreciate him?"

She said, "Two hundred dollars and him, both."

(Students' laughter...)

I said, "What do you mean?"

She said, "One doesn't go without the other, it's the same thing."

I said, "Well, if I pay you three hundred dollars a week will you slap him?"

She said, "If you are as permanent as he is."

(Students' laughter...)

I said, "Fortunate is my student."

So I told him, I said, "Come in now, I want to talk to you."

So he came in. And I said, "This girl is in love for you?"

He said, "Yes, yes, she is in great love with me, I talk to her, she talks to me, she appreciates me, she likes everything of me."

Now I knew it from her that she was there with me only for an hour and she has another interview. You understand what I am saying? So I somehow prolonged the talk to fifty-five minutes with him and then I said, "Ask her to stay till afternoon. We will have a company together."

He said, "I can try."

So he went out and unfortunately just didn't even complete the sentence and she got on his back you can't understand. He came in and he said, "She already made an appointment, she is going."

I said, "Fifteen minutes before you were telling that she appreciates everything. She loves your company; she is in love with you. What happened after fifteen minutes?"

This emotional sensitivity is a mirage, which we take it as reality. And that's the whole cause of our spiritual destruction. Real appreciation, real communication, and real collaboration should be between you the identity, you the identity and you the spirit. You the identity and you the soul when merge together God will be experienced. It's a fundamental truth. It's a truth which has lived. If you think I am a monkey that's what you are. If you think I am God that's what you are. If you think I am an elephant that's what you are. I am nothing but I am everything which you think I am. Nothing is good, nothing is bad, thinking makes it so. It is the caliber and the quality and the quantity of your thinking. Caliber, quality, and quantity of your thinking which makes you either to go to God or to go to somewhere.

(Students' laughter...)

Idea is this life is given to you to feel, it is feeling, it's a feel, emotion. You always see, I don't feel it sir. Lot of people come to me, I say, "Do you feel that you can do it?" He says, "I don't feel it." Your feeling is very limited. Your feeling is very limited; your truth is very unlimited.

Feelings are like waves, truth is like an ocean. If you have to feel everything and then act, you can only act limited. If you can know truth and act you can always act unlimited. I know I am in love with you, I don't feel it. In spite of the fact you feel sometime hatred towards me I know it is the reverse of the love, doesn't mean anything. I know that I have to come through whether you hate me or you love me. I have no polarity. Law of the opposite does not bother me. You love me, you hate me, you crucify me, you garland me, you worship me, you abuse me, in spite of that I am, I am and I must come through. You tell me, I listen. You don't tell me, I listen. You speak to me I listen, you don't speak to me I listen, you don't know I know, you know I know, I must come through. There is no other way. You prostitute yourself I love you. You angel yourself I love you. You dump yourself I love you. You become radiant I love you. I must come through. Why? That is what human is.

Human is who shall know the truth and shall come through with it. Doctor should know the disease and doctor should diagnose the disease, if doctor doesn't come through with medicine, who is going to cure? Doctor takes the stethoscope, he takes the pulse, he takes the blood pressure, he looks at the throat, he looks at the tongue, he looks in the eyes, he measures the temperature, he finds it where is the pain, he touches, pluses whole thing what is the symptom, what is the symptom, what is the symptom, then he diagnoses. He says, "You have fever, you have malaria."

Patient says, "Yeah, yeah, malaria. I shake, I shiver, (?) malaria, malaria, it's a malaria."

But if the doctor is not going to give him quinine and the patient starts shaking and shivering and doctor keeps on diagnosing everyday, everyday taking temperature, everyday saying I know it's malaria, it is a malaria, one day the patient will die and doctor says, "Yes, I know it was malaria, I know he died because of malaria." What is doctor and what is patient and what is diagnose?

I know there is one God but I don't do SadhanaSadhana , Saadhana A spiritual discipline; the early morning practice of yoga, meditation, and other spiritual exercises. The Aquarian Sadhana can be an individual or group practice; Ideally, it includes the recitation of Japji Sahib, a Kundalini Yoga kriya, and chanting the Aquarian Sadhana meditations, immediately followed by Gurdwara. According to Yogi Bhajan, the potency of any Kundalini Yoga and meditation practice will be enhanced in a group setting. . I don't. I don't know that one God is what. I know I am a human being but I have no character. I know I am a person, I have no wisdom. I look beautiful but I act insane.

(Students' laughter...)

I am a Sikh of the 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. but I am a debauch. They don't go together. I am a Khalsa; I am a flirt. Doesn't fit in. I am American I hate everybody. Nobody in the world trusts me. How you can fit in these things? I am a French; I trust none. You know there is a theory in France, trust nobody. And when you trust nobody you can't trust yourself also because self is somebody. There is a theory I forget the name of that philosopher, he said, "Trust nobody, and experience." Now when you say trust nobody and you really believe it, that means you are not going to trust yourself because your trust in somebody has to be and somebody is yourself. But once you trust yourself, you are going to trust everybody. Law of trust is whosoever shall trust the self shall trust everyone. Whosoever shall not trust the self... Arey, if there is a glass of water and there is no water in it, what you can drink? You don't love yourself; you can't love anybody. You can't even share. You can just do a drama or a trauma or a acting. In the end it's going to fall apart.

I was counseling that day, she said, "When I married him..." now listen the statement, "When I married him I thought I am in love."

I said, "What happened now?"

She said, "Now after marriage and after giving birth to three children, I think it was a mistake."

I said, "One pregnancy, second pregnancy, third pregnancy you never felt the mistake and now you feel it was mistake?"

She said, "Yes."

I said, "You are a nut."

If love has a condition, jurisdiction, boundary, argument, reason, logic, you have not even touched the love. Love is a force, absolute and complete in itself. Why you are cheating yourself? Why you are lying to yourself I am in love, I am in love. You don't know what love is. Love is absolute; love is complete. 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 Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. ArjanGuru Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. Parthak Har. 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 Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. ArjanGuru Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. loved, satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. on the hotplate, had hot sand on himself, Mia Meer came, "What is happening?"

He said, "Perfect, great!"

"What's going on?"

He said, "Nothing, nothing is going on Mia Meer."

"Why you are doing this?"

"Because I am a teacher."

"What this teachership has to do with this torture you are going through?"

He said, "When an ordinary Sikh will go through a torture he will not know how to behave. I am teaching how to behave."

Teacher is not who controls you; teacher is who eats your ego and teaches you behavior. If for example Dr. Soram in his Khalsa clinic strip dance one day, you think tomorrow any patient will come?

(Students' laughter...)

I am giving one example, just one example. Now you all started laughing, right? Why? When you strip dance with your nudity of insanity you think somebody will love you? Misbehavior is nothing but a strip dance 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. and it's brute, it is crude, it is inhuman. Unethical, unsocial, it's criminal.

Behavior, behavior has no do's and no don'ts. Behavior is a behavior. It is positive or negative. Negative behavior will destroy your caliber. Positive behavior will augment, will enhance your caliber. Behavior is a secret of God power in man.

What is happening what I am watching in America is people say, (?) I just couldn't behave right. Credibility. People here without credit cannot even live.

Side B

Positive behavior is a positive credibility. Negative behavior is a negative credibility of your entire complex as a human being. That's why when you are disconnected with the spirit, with your soul, your behavior is very dry, negative, limited. It is not infinite. People can see through your skin. They know you are a nut. Therefore caliber 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. needs to be characterized and the character of a person is his behavior and behavior is always backed by the spirit, spirit always come from the soul. Therefore we should meditate.

That's why I say if you need wisdom read the word of the 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. . And then if you need wisdom and appreciation speak the word of the 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. . And if you want to perfect yourself learn the word of the 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. . That is why 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. gave us through all the embodiment the word of the 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. , the 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. . I don't want you to read it because I want you to read it; I want you to read it because it will make you perfect. It will tell you where perfection is, how to find it, how to go about it. It will tell you what behavior is.

"(?) manada kahe karey, apne ghar Har rango bina maaney, su nidey tann kamaliye, bahar kya doondhey?"

The entire human behavior has been analyzed in an analogy with self and with the spirit in 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. . With example, with quotation, with stories, you may not understand that language for the time being but you can understand the translation very well. And in the end 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. says,

"Thaal vich tinn vastu payo satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. santok vicharo."

In this 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. I have put satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. -truth, santok-patience and vicharo-wisdom. Wisdom through analytical study.

"Jay ko khave, jay ko poochey tiss ka vidharo."

"Whosoever eat it and chew it and eat it will be satisfied."

So if you want satisfied life, you want peaceful life, you want graceful life, you want to have the knowledge of it and that knowledge is contained in 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. . You want to live excellent life, right? Excellent life needs excellent character, excellent strength, excellent behavior, excellent personality, and excellent wisdom. From where you are going to get that? It's not available on K-Mart or Ciars or Imagnum something. And you can't use your plastic card either.

"Moorakh andhey waqt gavaya, heera janam paa koudiya."

Moorakh andhey, moorakh means unwise, unwise blind lost the life the trip of the life and it was just, it was heera janam, heera means it was just like diamonds. And koudiya means seashells. The life was that of diamonds and he got it lost for seashells.

"Sut dhara sou preet lagayi."

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. says either we put our love in a woman or in son or in property or in money or in sex or in sensuality, not in God. Why? Because once we love God we have a discipline. It was very funny, somebody said, "I don't love organization."

I said, "Why not?"

"It binds you."

I said, "Look, God has such a beautiful organization, sun rises on time, sets on time, weather changes, wind, pressure, ocean currents, magnetic field of the earth, whole cosmos is a perfect organization. And why don't you like it?"

He said, "I don't know."

I said, "Because you are spoiled brat."

Those who do not love to organize their life they love misery. Misery shall be gift to them. Misery only comes to them who are unorganized because the secret of happiness and success is not you; if you are successful and secret of success then everybody will be successful now. Those who measure their longitude, latitude, and altitude.

If you want to aim at bull then you have to first correct your sensitivity for the wind pressure. It is called zeroing the rifle. The principle is, focus at the bull the front of the eye, the back of you. Every rifle has back you and front eye and the bull. Object, subject and you, three things. Longitude and latitude and altitude. And then it says first fire five rounds to understand the pressure of the wind and of the jerk. So what they do? They aim at 6 o'clock to get to the bull. Aim is not the bull, if you aim at the bull the bullet will go at 12 o'clock. It will go higher. Because when it leaves it creates a jerk, so you have to keep it down. Then you have to see which way the wind is coming, if wind is coming this way you aim that way little. If we have to do little with this little practice of a rifle; what about life? Life has so many wind pressures, so many emotional pressures, so many commotional pressures, so many traumas, so many inadequacies, so many composition, propositions, baits, should we fall in every pit and learn?

That's why 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. says, be in the company of the learned, path of life will become easy. Therefore Nanak sought the company of the holy to live the life of ecstasy. Because you fall in every pit, come out of the pit, fall in other pit, come out of the pit, pit into pit into pit and you will be bit by bit gone.

Don't use this life for foolish experiments. If you eat the eggs you will have cholesterol and you die of heart attack. People think egg is perfect protein and it gives you energy.

I gave some people the formula with nutmeg. I have understood now everybody is freaking out on nutmeg, crazy!

(Students' laughter...)

I mean it's a medicinal thing and do you know if you have low blood pressure and you take nutmeg you can be adduced? And do you know how much affectively if it is too much or too less... I mean to say, try to understand. Don't fool around with these things. If formula is right, dose is right, your way of use is right, then you can cure yourself with poison. In medicine people use arsenic to cure lot of diseases, but if you straight away you are healthy and take lot of arsenic you will be dead.

Somebody once asked me, "Come on, come on..." he took me to the ski resort. Then he took me on that chairs you know all the way on the top and then he fit all those boots, those big long shoes with that long slipping thing and gave me two sticks.

(Students' laughter...)

And told me to ski. Now I never wanted to disoblige my host you know, I just satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. down. He said, "What are you doing?"

I said, "Skiing."

He said, "Why don't you ski sir?"

I said, "I don't want to lose my arms. I am not ready for it." I said, "I am not going to enjoy going about two hundred, four hundred, five hundred yards down there for what? I am all right, what's wrong?"

(Students' laughter...)

He said, "I am not convinced, it's a fun."

I said, "In slipping there is no fun. I hate slipping. I see people slipping everyday." I said, "I don't want to slip."

He said, "What should I do?"

I said, "Take-off these sticks out of my feet and take these sticks back and man if we cannot go by those chairs down, we will walk down."

(Students' laughter...)

He said, "It's the best sport."

I said, "Maybe for President Ford who loves to slip everywhere. It cost him presidency. It maybe wonderful for President Nixon. He got into Watergate. I can't afford it." I said, "I am consciously conscious that slipping is no good and this game to me is just slipping. I am not going to slip into it, I don't have any practice, I am not going to boast about it, you are perfect, and you do this. Spend money, seven dollars to come up, and then slip down. Who wants it?"

(Students' laughter...)

I mean, who wants it? Enough is enough. I said, "Seven dollars will give me lot of orange juice and I'll just drink and look at the sun and thank God.

(Students' laughter...)

I am not into it. I said there is nothing to feel about it, I am just explaining you a simple way of life. You don't like games, I say I see everybody playing games and I do not want to play counter game. I just want to be steady and stationary like sun and I want all stars to play their games and when they come about, I just tell them life is infinity and God is the truth. Truthful caliber is the real power of the soul; we will talk about it next week.

I am going through this series of caliber 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. very slowly so that you understand the basis of happiness, life, behavior, and everything about you. There is nothing in it about me but I am very grateful, I am very grateful. You do not understand my policy. I am very grateful that somebody touched my heart, somebody touched me, somebody spoke to me, somebody gave me the word, the knowledge and today I am, I am. And I owe to you and I look forward... I know lot of you do not want to come to my class, sometime you don't even understand what I say. When I used to go to be with my teacher I never understood lot. But I went. Once you have a caliber of a student, you have a caliber of a master. I don't want you to hang around with me; I don't want you to donate your all money to me, I earn with the sweat of my brow and I know, "Kaal kahey" 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. says, it's not my life is not my life,

"Kaal Khaaye Kujathuday"

"Work hard with the sweat of brow, earn and still give."

"Nanak Sach Pehchaaney Sey."

"Nanak says that person will only know the truth."

I am not willing to live off you; you are not willing to live off me. I don't want this relationship, I just want you to learn and grow and be. So when somebody see you, he says that's the Sikh of the 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. , that has a caliber of infinity, and that knows the truth. If you are a flirt by nature and you can't change yourself, you leave, I have no objection. It's better to have five beloved ones than three hundred nuts. I am not into bargain, I am not into quantity, and I am into quality. And human quality is human grace and that comes from character, that comes from caliber, and that comes from truth. Character, caliber 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. , that is the truth.

I like to share myself, my experiences and my life with you. But I want you to share your life, your experience, and 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. with me too so that we can create relationship, so we can live in a life where we can go from this earth saying Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru 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. , great! I am going.

One saint was dying, lot of people came, he said, everybody said, "Sir, holy sir, we will miss you."

He said, "How come?"

They said, "See, everybody has come they understand you are going."

He said, "When I was here nobody came. Now I am going everybody has come, what use is that?"

They said, "What should we do?"

He said, "Don't miss me; find me."

In finding the truth there is happiness. Love you.

The class sings: 'May the long time sun shine upon you....'

YB: May the God bless you and may you bless yourself. May the mercy of God be with you, may you be merciful to yourself. May the God 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. be with you and may you be conscious to yourself so that you can prosper in peace and truth. 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. .

I have one request to make. We have a great responsibility, very great responsibility, all my pain and all my suffering doesn't mean anything, I do not want you to have children if you cannot have them disciplined and teaching a child 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 discipline how to come to GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. , how to behave, how to meditate doesn't require age limit. You can teach this to even a person who is three months old. Some of the mothers have become emotional, they have gone too much into their children, and they forget that GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. is the court of the lord of lords, of God of Gods, of the GurusGuru 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. of the GurusGuru 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. 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. . Here the word rules and dominates. There is no requirement of any indiscipline or any discourtesy to be shown even innocently. I'll like parents to understand that.

I was taught how to deal in the GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. , how to sit in the GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. when hardly I could sit. And I am very grateful to my elders, very grateful, even today I am very grateful that I could sit and I learned how to sit. Those who do not know how to learn to sit they do not know how to learn how to walk. And those who do not know how to walk in life are called cripples. Teach your children how to sit. Discipline them. Don't be harsh with them, discipline and harshness sometime you put it together, that's not true. Discipline is not harshness. You can discipline people with love and specially children. I don't want my little children to be treated like furniture and getting mad at you because your husband didn't say good morning to you this morning. But I want that little children to be disciplined with love and specially to kindle their light of soul and radiance when they come to GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. you should teach them how to behave.

And when they behave well you should reward them. It's not bribery. Bribery is where you have to give something to get away from something. Reward is you have to give something to learn something. It's called 'Peta' and it's a saintly act and it pleases the God. When children come to the 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 house and they behave good, you should reward them. You offer them something and bow before them and tell them that you are very happy, you are very great, as my son, as my daughter you have pleased the 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. . That kind of situation. Don't make a jumbo jet here. Certain mothers are crazy. They need not come to the GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. . GurdwaraGurdwara Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held. is 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 Dwara. It's not a trash pad; it's not a messing place. It belongs to those who belong to their soul and we love all and we shall continue loving. That's why I say very affectionately and requestingly to you that it is a most essential part of life.

I know some people love neurosis more than they love life. That's why they are neurotic. Neurotic is a person by definition who loves his neurosis more than life. And obnoxious is a person who loves his trauma more than the truth. I know the definition. Clearly I understand it very well. Ugly is the one who cannot live the truth and beautiful is the one who can sacrifice the life over truth. Rest is called demonstration. Therefore... It's very unfortunate that on every Sunday I have to go out, I am always in different cities than in Los Angeles and very rarely I am here. But this place is very special to us; it's the house 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. , it's not my house or your house. It doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the 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. . Whosoever shall come here shall be blessed. Irrespective of caste, creed, disease, sickness, mental, personal, physical, this is the reward to the 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. . 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. has been blessed with this. So it's not something we are putting up as a show, it is something reality and truth. Therefore we want our children to come and be blessed. We don't want to teach them misbehavior and that too in the 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 house where we have all the love.

Therefore I want to be very clear and request personally to each mother to take little time with love and affection, teach the little saints how to have a protocol in the house 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. . I'll be personally very thankful if I find it that you have heard me and you have accepted my request. You are very dear to me but I am in love with the 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. and I like to keep and maintain. It's my duty as a servant to maintain the dignity of the house 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. . I don't care five people come, one comes, or none comes.

This is not an institution which lives on your offering. It's an institution, which lives by its own grace, by its own light. You come to offer yourself to get blessing. Keep doing so. This is not a playground. If you have to play here something play your devotion, play your courtesy and play your grace and your humility so that your life and your soul be enriched.

You do not know the vibration of this place; even touch these bricks and walls, those obnoxious people who never knew what God is have chanted hours and hours Wahe Wahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. GuruWahe Guru , Whaa-hay Guroo A mantra of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It is the Infinite teacher of the soul. Also called the gur mantra. Guru 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. here. Don't you understand the miracle? Is there any more miracle than that? Though you used to drink and booze them the life are today sophisticatedly elevated in the 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. of God. Don't you see the miracle of this house? Those who are here are strong, those who fell it was God's will.

"Jisnu aap khwaey karta khasley changi aayi."

"If God wants to ruin somebody He takes away the goodness from that person."

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