Los Angeles Lecture

 
Date:
April 27, 1982
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
 
 
 
 

From the time immemorial to the time today our concept of Divinity has been interpreted by seers and sages and by saints and by all men of religion and it's surprising, from half a billion people we have grown to four billion people and from written time and unwritten time of history, written time according to the eastern philosophy we know each other from last million, two million, three million, four million, five million years. And according to us at this time we are five thousand years old and according to nobody we are at least nineteen hundred and eighty one year old, let us take any figure you want to take, but it is very surprising we have a synagogue and church in every corner of almost every sector or street, we have rabbi and padres and we have yogisYogi 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. and swamisSwami Master. coming in and talking about God, but it is very surprising man has never understood Divinity.

Divinity is nothing but when man is in undivided higher 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. is called Divinity. It's very simple thing. Divinity is not this, Divinity is not that, Divinity you don't get in any other way when you are undividedly in higher 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. you are called Gurmukh. It's called Divinity. And when you are in divided lower 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. it is called Saakat, and people call it Satan and people call this and you know you can have as many mythological stories and name you want.

But I like Greeks in one way, what Greeks did was they created mythological Gods like human beings and taken care of their emotions and started playing game and by playing game in the heavens they started explaining the game of the earth. That's what the Greek way of teaching was. So Greeks made zodiac and gave them figures where there is bull or not but still but somehow they said no, that is the horn that is this and that is the fire coming out, couple stars and there is a tail behind and they create okay this is bull and this is Taurus and that's what it is and they made you believe and every children looked around where is that bull and nobody knows and everybody knows that it's there. But the idea with them was that the people who are born in a certain zodiac at a certain time have got certain tendencies which is the prominent tendency of a animal like that bull, you know all that bullhead. So every Taurus is a bullhead. Every Leo is a Leo in the essence what a Leo can do. You know what a Leo can do. And every Sagittarius you know they made a horse and half man with a arrow and with a thing hitting backwards you know. They hit their own track.

And then they made the Pisces, the two fish eating each other's tail and not going anywhere you know. They created a circle and they thought that's it. And they took a ram and you know what rams do, when they want something, when they are horny you know hear them miles otherwise you never see them on the top of the mountains. So that is what they decided, that is what it is. So man by his gradual feelings and in his own mind started to create an image known and unknown image of man. Because God is the unknown man and the no God is the known man. And it was very difficult to explain then and it is very difficult to explain today. If I say the unknown of you is your God you say forget it, what is he saying? Yeah, your unknown potential which is innocent, which is unused, which is always at your command, which is alive, which is here is actually the God. And when you use it in 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 consciously for conscious sake is your God and when you are just like a beast, animal, you just use left and right you don't care and I know you don't and you know you don't. Then it is beastly, it's a lower 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 is a divided concept of you. It is not Divinity. If you start acting and organizing and planning everything according to 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. you will be surprised how happy you will be. But unfortunately you decide and promote everything according to your emotions.

It's a very wonderful idea if you want to look into it. Every person as a child is angry. Now why angry? It's a very simple phenomenon. Why you are angry? What's wrong with you? Why you are angry? You are angry because you didn't get undivided attention of your mom and papa. They couldn't give you undivided attention because they were not together. You cannot pay undivided attention to anybody if your scene not together or you are not together. And then you are two, three, four and they couldn't do a thing even to one, forget about two, three, four. But they thought if you are emotional and you want undivided attention and they give you some toys and they give you something to play or they gave you some rap, if not they give you a spank and keep you under control... That's what the parents think.

Parents think to keep a child under control is that's all is about. And when they can control it in a legitimate way they overlord themselves. This over lordship brings rebellion, brings anger, brings frustration. So children have that basic anger. Tremendous amount of it.

Last time I taught a Tantric course here and I am still sorry for it why I have to teach that still you know bubbles are coming, the fire is on on everybody who participated. And listen three days I have been telling them while teaching, guys, this thing is going to bring out of you so much that you even don't know. So don't bother me and just take it easy and it's going to be all right. I know it's going to be all right, I know but they don't. They want to say hello (?)dah dah dah, well, dah dah dah what? Something came out, that's all right. Let it come out let it go. But there is anger, there is anger in three year old child and he has not forgotten that. So much so he has taken all that anger into subconscious and he says give me the torch and I'll burn the city. And that is how it is going on. And anger comes out of obnoxious, anger comes out in abusiveness, anger comes out in betrayal, anger comes out of treachery, anger comes out of use and abuse and anger comes in sexual and sensuality, after all, what is anger? Anger is the motivating force beyond control. That is anger. And when it starts letting out by subconscious, it is the most horrible thing you can ever understand.

Somebody once told me, "I want to get rid of anger."

I said, "Then what is the date you want to get rid of?"

He said, "I have made up my mind by next Baisakhi I'll get rid of anger."

I said, "That's a very bad day for you to get rid of anger."

He said, "Why?"

I said, "You get rid of anger you will be dead."

He said, "Why?"

I said, "Anger is controlled by the Agan Granthi. Heat. Entire body, the heat system is what creates anger and controls anger. You told you get rid of anger, that means you get rid of the heat, Agan Granthi, that means no digestion, no circulation, no temperature at all."

He said, "I never understood that."

I said, "That's what it is. You can say I'll bring down my anger under control, totally get rid. That's not positive, that's not very good approach. There is a Sitali PranayamPraanayam , Pranayam , Pranayaam Regulated breathing patterns or exercises. , if you perfect it you can kill yourself even without letting anybody know. I mean it's no big deal. But it is done only with a limited range and capacity to control your anger and bring your nervous system from frustration to non-frustration."

But in Divinity it is not that basically you have to take control of yourself you are divine, in Divinity you take care of everyone you are in touch with it with higher 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 called dispensing the Divinity. And we have a setback in 3HO, people who were just neurotically very unhappy, we took care of them, we taught them discipline, we spent couple years, four, five, six years, people became little unfrustrated, little this and that and then they think the heat came in, they started feeling horny for left and right, then they wanted to do everything else. They forgot where they started.

Well, you all love to go to Hollywood, but you know the entire Hollywood is full with super-neurotics. It is not that people who are around you are happy and it is not that they are unhappy and they want to do something. They actually, if you really want to look at people, people do not know what to do with themselves. People do not know how to pass time. People do not know how to take care of their loneliness.

Now majority of people who suffer today in the western society specially are those who may not say it, but they feel it that they are lonely. And loneliness comes from a very inner being of you and that is your soul. You really feel lonely. Your full soul feels lonely. It is lonely because it wants to be with God, it wants to feel the feeling of God, it wants to feel the inflow of the divine spirit and in touch with and you have done nothing to create that scene. You think by bourbon on the rock and by doing this and doing that you can totally beat out the hunger of the soul. The whole pain of life starts when the hunger of the soul is not taken care of at all. And when you are confronted with this you say I don't have time. I don't have time to get up, I don't have time to meditate, I can't do this, I can't do that.

Well my dear, soul is hungry and needs to be fulfilled and by the spirit of the higher self, through the word of higher being, by the company of the holy, these are only three ways that the thirst of the soul can be quenched, by the company of the holy, by hearing the high sounds of the God's praises number two, number three by giving it the musical essence or spirit of the God. Because you may not be part of God, you can deny God, your soul can't. That's the dispute.

You think you can live without God I agree, but your soul can't. And soul is very powerful in you and it is dormant because the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. is the next friend of the soul and it is that minutest subtlety and soul wants that subtlety, soul wants that little prayer, that little folded hand, Lord be with me. That is more than a big meal. You sometime think perhaps you have to grind the whole earth upside down to just quench your soul, no. Soul needs a constant food. It is hypoglycemic.

(Students' laughter)

It needs little food and all the time. Little word here, little word there, little kindness, little love of God, little appreciation of God, little relationship to God, little blessing of God, this little, little, little, drop, drop, drop, drop. Soul does not have a capacity to drink by gallons. It wants just a little trickle or it wants to hear the name of the beloved, God is the beloved and you create it. Some people do not understand Divinity, they think they go in church on every Sunday, sit there for two hours and all done. My dear sir, this is not the way the soul (?), soul is very good in those two hours in Sunday, but Monday it is same hungry. Monday night, your party and your dances and your all that doesn't work.

I remember once a woman asked me that she is very upset and she has been to every doctor and she has been to every person and she doesn't know what to do. So I gave her those African drums, you know those big one and small one? I said, "Take these two fingers and use them as stick and beat them and just say God, God, God, God and me, me and God, God and me..."

I didn't ask her to complete the sentence even.

She said, "What that will do?"

I said, "It's none of your problem. Now you have told me you have gone to everything, right? You have come to me for what? You have come for a hope. I am giving you a procedure, you follow the procedure. If it doesn't work then let me know."

She said, "When I'll see you again?"

I said, "Maybe six months."

She said, "That's too long. Why should I do something six months if it doesn't work."

I said, "Look lady, let's make a deal. Deal is, if in six months it doesn't work call me all the names you can collect. But if in six months it works don't call me. I don't want to hear from you."

She said, "Why that?"

I said, "I know it works. That's why I don't want to hear anything from you."

She said, "Okay, okay."

And in that ashramAshram , Aashram A community of practitioners who come together to live conscious, mindful lives. you know I just... he said, "What is the price of it?"

I said, "I don't sell. It's here, it belongs to somebody, I just give it to you. Take it as a gift, get out of here."

So just you know for a western lady to sit down and beat that thing you know it's a hassle.

(Students' laughter)

It is and then you say God and me, God and me and nothing further. It's useless. So after a while her husband said, "You are feeling good, that I understand. But what do you do with this drum? What is this hobo, hobo you are doing?"

She said, "No, no somebody told me, 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. ..."

He said, "What 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. told you?"

So they got into a big argument. She said, "Look, first you said I am getting better. So I am getting better, just relax. Let me do it."

And he was so shocked because normally he expected she would throw that drum right at him because she has been attacking him with lot of instruments and things and plates and all the time the dinner table, and the curtain everything go down the tube and house was a mess. So much... I tell you the story of the mess. He removed all carpeting from the house, all carpeting, there was no way that man couldn't pay for cleaning the carpets in house. Everyday dinner or whatever they are eating it is right there. And that was temperamentally she was insane. But you won't believe it, in three months exactly she was totally a changed person.

One day I got a call and she said, "You know I am that drum girl."

I said, "What that drum girl? I don't recognize, what drum?"

She said, "You gave me..."

She told me the story and I knew she is on the line other side. I said, "You seem very calm."

She said, "Thank you very much! You didn't give me that drum, you gave me a God and I'll play that drum rest of my life, I can assure you. But you told me half of the sentence what is the complete?"

I said, "God and me, me and God are one. That's the complete."

She said, "Thank you very much. I remember it."

I said, "Repeat it."

And you won't believe it she repeated it. And she said, "That's all is needed?"

I said, "I told you never call me, never see me again, that's all is needed. When you and God and God and you are one, why you need me? I don't understand that."

"See you are very different person."

I said, "Now don't cater to my ego. I am no different, I know a simple thing, I am telling you simple thing but keep on doing physically, it is called Karhath."

Karhath means, Kar with yourself. From Karhath came kriyaKriya Literal meaning is "completed action." A Kundalini Yoga Kriya is a sequence of postures and yoga techniques used to produce a particular impact on the psyche, body, or self. The structure of each kriya has been designed to generate, organize, and deliver a particular state or change of state, thereby completing a cycle of effect. These effects have been codified and elaborated by Yogi Bhajan and form the basic tools used in yoga and its therapeutic applications. kirtan, kirtan means doing something, Kir-Tann. Tann means body, Kar means hands. When hands and body, total self. Body means here personality, when you and your personality praise the God it is called Kirtan. You have to understand what Kirtan means. Music is music, don't misunderstand that music is no different than anything. Music also has music, Kirtan also has music, Kirtan is played with instrument. But when mind, body and soul praise the God it is called Kirtan. And whosoever shall do kirtan shall always have a happy soul, satisfied soul. That's the one way the fifth 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 Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. ArjanGuru Arjan Fifth Guru of the Sikhs. , when they asked him, they said, "Lord, what is the way, we work and work and work and can reach God, but sometime we may not be in a position to work and may not improve our self, may take long time."

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. satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. down with Saranda, the musical instrument, it's beautiful and satSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. down and appreciated and praised the Lord and he said, "BhaiBhai Brother. , do it from today onwards, you all will be all with God."

Divinity, this is called Kirtan, it's the path of Divinity. Yoga is the path of unity with God. When you want to unite with God you do yoga, you take all eight aspects of you. But when you are not competent, suppose you are cripple you can't do yoga. You can't do PranayamPraanayam , Pranayam , Pranayaam Regulated breathing patterns or exercises. , you can't meditate. But you can always sing. And when you cannot even sing you can listen. If you cannot listen you can see, if you cannot... something in the personality if the totality of the personality is moved towards Divinity and that is when you feel like just giving some food to God and that food is to your soul. You appreciate the God the Creator and soul is satisfied. Everything else is everything else.

Some people have very powerful nervous problem. I agree. Some people have horrible body diseases, they do not know. They do not know to change it. There are lots of things in physical body which you cannot even understand. But one thing you understand your life is the nucleus of self and self is nothing but soul. So if you can take away the hunger of the soul and trickle little, little, little, what is soul? Soul needs the love of the beloved. The love of the beloved. Soul is the beloved of the Lord God. The Creator. And when you appreciate and when you praise the God in any form and shape, when you selflessly serve somebody in the name of God, when you move and dance in the name of God, when you sing the praises of the God, but you do anything to create environment and when you do it together it multiplies.

Side B

That's why, "Saad Sangat sab jan hai tariyo."

"Saad Sangat sab jan hai tariyo. Har ka namNaam , 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. jee mein up jiyo."

With the congregation of the holy all men shall go across and God's name shall sprout in you. What is that sprout means? Because the faculty of soul is dormant. KundaliniKundalini Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual. is dormant. Soul is dormant. Because you are not subtle enough to reach the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. , you cannot reach the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. , you cannot rule what is in the body. Because when soul has to leave it, it leaves via subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. .

You know, today the world is at brim of war. You think we are fighting for sixteen hundred sheep and nine hundred people? Sixteen thousand whatever. What is the exact number of the sheep on the Falcon islands? If you talk to those sheep the war is coming do they understand? They say mayyyyyy... all they need is grass. Yeah, yeah, you try to understand. I mean they are interested in grass, they are not interested in war, whether it is between Argentina and... exactly soul is not interested how much money you have got, you are a doctor, you are a attorney, you are a big businessman, soul has nothing to do like that lamb, that little sheep. Soul needs its own trickling of God's praise.

You know my, that little cat that blue? When it comes the evening time, it starts going around with the tail up and says meow, meow... actually it wants the cottage cheese and brewer's yeast. And if you do give him only cottage cheese and not brewer's yeast, it says meow, meow, won't eat. Because it has developed the taste, it has something which it needs.

Exactly your soul needs also to be fed. When you start mathematically, methodically, personally relating to the soul and feeding it by trickle and trickle of the praise of the God, that is the day Divinity starts sprouting in you. Are you amazed? This is not according to the western organizations and law in the western atmosphere, forget it.

You know, somebody argued with me he said, "What are you talking sir, soul, soul, soul, soul? What is soul?"

I said, "It is under your shoe."

(Students' laughter)

"That's the soul. Your ego is that big you keep it under the... It is the sole of your shoe. You don't care. You say heck with your soul. But I tell you when you say heck with your soul happiness says heck with you! You choose. You choose between the two and choose it now. And this is the time."

And when I say do kirtan. Well, I have not learnt. Arey, I have not learnt kirtan too. I don't need to learn kirtan, I play like this even sometime. I have to play, I have to keep my busy, this is my kirtan. What you are worried about it? I don't want to get some reward from you, I don't want to know what is the musical this, what is the musical that, that's a simple thing. I just... Thus, it works for me, it can work for you; if not do something else. Take a table play on it, just create a rhythm, and with that rhythm start playing and start feeling and start feeding your very soul. It's in you, it's less than an ounce. It's no big deal.

The total subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. and the soul when shall leave your body they only difference between weight shall be less than even a quarter ounce. Nobody will even feel it. But when it will leave it's all two hundred pounds of you shall be boxed up and deposited in the ground or put to fire. And all the money, tax paid and tax unpaid I am not worried about that part, shall never ever make you to walk. Shall never ever make you to see, shall never ever make you to talk. Now if you are that foolish, that blind, that idiot, that ignorant and that, that, that now what should I do? Kill myself? I have been telling twelve years to you the same thing. Just feed your very soul. I don't care you are a Jew, I don't care you are a Christian, I don't care you are Buddhist, I don't care you are black, I don't care you are white, I don't care you are freak, I don't care you are super three piece tie suited whatever... I don't care you are a gay, I don't care you are lesbian, I don't care your legs are up, I don't care your head is down, I actually to be very frank do not care at all. I don't care you are blonde, I don't care you are brown, I don't care you have curly hair, and I don't care you are flat. This is your damn problem. It's none of my problem, all I know is your soul is hungry and needs little trickling, little bit of food and I know the story of the soul, it is very hypoglycemic.

(Students' laughter)

It needs food here and there, little bit here, little bit there. Why can't you take care of it? You let your soul live lonely, die lonely and squeeze it to suffocate into own extremities. And then you have lot of problems. Then your problems come out with neurosis, your emotions, your commotion, your this, your that... what's going on?

Somebody gave a birthday present to his wife a beautiful car, wonderful. She drove it. She was so happy she wanted to go all around by ride, good. And then what we heard? Over a bridge, crossing a freeway over freeway over freeway, you know, there is a freeway here, it's almost about twenty-thirty-forty feet God knows how big it is. Because two-three freeways goes through that freeway; you know what she did? She jumped out of that freeway in the car. Now it is a good luck that she didn't fell(fall) on the freeway itself. She fell on a truck. And it was fortunate that truck was carrying those grass things you know, those where they lay the grass, what they call that stuff?

Students: (------)

YB: No, it's not hay, it's a full solid...

Students: (------)

YB: It's a solid land and grass itself complete, it can be laid down on a... the car fell right on it. Well, everything was patched up, insurance paid up the truck and paid up this and whole thing was all right. She was in hospital couple days and luckily I knew her and I went and I said, "What happened?"

She said, "I started talking."

I said, "To whom?"

She said, "I don't remember. I was talking something. And I forgot I was driving. I passed out."

Can you believe? Why you do that? Because you don't want to connect with your unknown which is in you. You try to connect with outside.

My dear friends, outside with you, I tell you something now I am going to take tomorrow that subject. Inside is you and outside is your 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. , make a choice.

And we will continue the subject of Divinity... no birthday today?

Students: (------)

YB: Tomorrow means next, next, next tomorrow, tomorrow doesn't come very soon sometime. Tomorrow means next Monday I'll be on tour. Does anybody know when tomorrow is coming?

Students: (------)

YB: Ninth, tenth of what?

Students: (------)

YB: Oh, ninth, tenth of May. You can save money of the class, don't come at all. Oh lot of people don't come. I was talking to somebody, I said, "Why don't you come to the class?"

He said, "Don't. You speak so much and you tell all the truth and we do not know what to do Yogiji."

Well, two days a week I have decided to dispense you something, to remind you for something so that you may know. And I think it is little food we give to the hypoglycemic patients of the soul. And that's urging, that's asking. So when we meet next will talk about the Divinity, the subject of the soul and we will tell you the centrifugal and centripetal force, the inner being and the outer being. Outside is the 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. , inside is the 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. , and it's a very new area where... I think you will understand. Twelve years you have been hassling about it, you will make it.

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

YB: God handful we are sitting in thy presence, feeling thy in our heart we pray that the drums of war which is hanging and being heard and so it was known and so it was said may deviate the disaster to which they are beating for. May the humanity live in peace, may 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. prevail, and may thy hand protect us and provide us into health, wealth and prosperity so we can grow 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. .

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