Sit down, sit down.
Where is your mataji? (?) what.
Student: (-----)
YB: But you will tell her.
Student: Huh?
YB: You will tell her.
Student: Yes sir, Siri Hari (?) expect the (?) tomorrow.
YB: Who brought this?
Students: Ong Kar Kaur.
YB: Great work, what do you want to do with it, huh?
Student: (-----)
YB: I know she 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.
Raj Kaur's daughter, I raised her but question is what she is going to do with this? We are not going to print it?
Student: (-----)
YB: Who did that?
Student: (-----)
YB: Yeah, but it is our art, we have the first right to it.
Student: (-----)
YB: Do you know this?
Students: No.
YB: This is the most precious and most beautiful work of art in my hand, it's called 3HO Sikh art, as an experiment of spiritual experience of North America, American 3HO Sikhs and this my kid did it, and it is amazing.
(Applause)
And you wrote the dissertation. Why don't you speak to them about it, go ahead. Without this.
Ong Kar Kaur: Without that?
YB: Yeah.
Ong Kar Kaur: Oh I wrote it about six months ago, so, okay.
YB: Please listen to her.
Ong Kar Kaur: Well, it is, it is a very interesting project to do because, it, it involves first of all, a lot of my own personal research, and a lot of you know, looking into myself to do it, because there really is no, there is no literature and there is no, no work on Sikh art, let alone 3HO Sikh art. So it was kind of a challenge for me because they said, you know, there is no way you can do anything original, everything has been done for this essay. It's a, it's big project that it's supposed to be two year projects and surround them. Mine (?) about forty pages long, about (?) words and it was, it was really wonderful thing to do because I go to travel and I got to speak to, you know, lot of, a lot of Sikhs who have known but who have not (?) really had individual relationship with. For example like SevaSeva
Selfless Service. the heart of the Aashram experience is serving each other.
Singh is the main artist who I focused on in my paper. And it was, it was definitely an eye opening thing, (?) first I looked at, at art in general into the lot of general research on spiritual art and then moved on into 3HO Sikh art and what I see to be that (?) of 3HO Sikh art and I would say that (?) the main thing is like 3HO Sikh, 3HO Sikh art is a combination of the east and the western cultures.
For example, it takes some eastern subject matter, looks on it which, looks at it with a very different perspective, western perspective on it and uses mostly western medium, which is quite, (?) to this point Sikh art and there has been a lot of Sikh architecture certainly but Sikh art has been fairly limited to a certain category and to a certain subject matter and medium.
I don't know, I think the most amazing thing about this paper which is I did my (?) in front of a word processor and, typing it right in and it was pulling it all out of myself because I really I had, you know, some works that I read of twentieth century artists but other than that I really had, you know very little to lean on but myself and my experiences and being a 3HO Sikh myself. I don't know I think it was quite, quite amazing to, to re-read a lot of the Siri Singh SahibSiri Singh Sahib
Honorary title given to Yogi Bhajan to indicate his role as spiritual leader of Sikh Dharma in the West. His complete title within Sikh Dharma is Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji.
's work as well as, you know, talk to my mother and to some east Indian Sikhs and SevaSeva
Selfless Service. the heart of the Aashram experience is serving each other.
Singh and Kaur who are, who are really very wonderful, really very helpful in the projects and I don't know, spiritual art is really an amazing, an amazing thing, you can talk about it for hours but...
Student: (-----)
Ong Kar Kaur: I would necessarily say there were a lot and there were certainly differences, I would say one of them would being...
YB: I tell you the difference, I have seen Sikh art and I am mostly custodian of it. It is all in archives and she has taken almost quite a bit of it but not the total of it. The difference of the American Sikh art and the art is, we paint one picture with beauty, with concept and with perfection but it has a total soul in it which in a normal art you won't find. I am looking at it right now. The picture is missing from here, where that went.
Ong Kar Kaur: May be a (?), I could look...
YB: No, no, no.
Ong Kar Kaur: That one, oh yeah, that (?) I think it's probably in my bag then.
YB: Well, I'll like to have that. Do you know how beautiful it is? You understand? You don't, you are not looking at it.
(Student's laughter)
I am looking at it.
Ong Kar Kaur: I was lucky to have access to a lot of really good equipment for this essay (?).
YB: You would have told me, I would have give you all the stuff, it is right there. But you put it together. Thank you very much for leading the way, we intend to put it all together in one book. And I think that will be the most beautiful contribution of Sikh Sikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
DharmaSikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
Dharma
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.
to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. I am a art lover and I am a artist myself, I paint also. I am the best abstract painter in the whole world living at this time but I don't get a time but, whatever I have painted so far is the best abstract. Sometime people see my painting and they say, this is that, this is that, it's not, that's all me. And I don't care what you say, but you have let us a way, now we'll collect the entire painting so far done and put them in a book form.
I think if that doesn't awaken up humanity, nothing will. This is a beautiful work, you can't even believe, believe it. You can't. If she gives me that picture which is in her bag and I will put it together. What I am going to do is to, this is in this form, so we may have to open it and put it on a wooden board and let you have a glance at it, at a one stretch role because this way I don't know whether you can understand it or not. But there are lot of beautiful things written by it and it's extremely exciting. It is extremely exciting, thank you.
(Applause)
Human speaks once, human listen once, artist also speak once but it is seen forever, that's the difference. Artist in a humble way leave behind a legacy, which is the privilege of very few human. Do you understand what I am saying?
Student: (-----)
YB: Yes, no. But in a basically Sikh art whatever I have seen so far, there is a, there is a beauty, there is a art, there is a whole thing. But the main center, the nucleus of that art is a spiritual story or a spiritual message. Believe it or not, doctor Ellen collects the art, from that, what is his name?
Student: (-----)
YB: (?) Singh, right. And one of the, one of the biggest thing which I have in that house where I stay is ArdasArdas
Prayer; the formal group prayer of the Sikhs.
, total Sikh ArdasArdas
Prayer; the formal group prayer of the Sikhs.
, total, in painting, have you ever thought of it. Thank you. Total ArdasArdas
Prayer; the formal group prayer of the Sikhs.
, right from start to the end, whole ArdasArdas
Prayer; the formal group prayer of the Sikhs.
is in one painting. Can you believe that? He has it, it is his private collection. He has also the collection of ten 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.
. I have the collection of ten 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.
in Mogul Art which is totally rare.
When I first time went to India, a artist gave me a painting of GuruGuru
That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word.
Guru Ram Das
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs.
Ram DasGuru Ram Das
Fourth Guru of the Sikhs.
. And I brought it with me, it is in my 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.
room and is a very, very, precious collection of mine to meditate on. In the dome, on the wall, there is a beautiful painting 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 ever I open my eyes, that is first thing in the world I see. It's angle is correct. Picture has nothing do with you or painting has nothing to do with you. It's just a very deep memory what you want to remember. And it is a very lasting effect. That's why it is very important.
So what we are going to teach today? Do you remember it? Hello, oh, you have come? Doctor you get that rough draft and make it into a fair and we will print it, that mind and the stuff, okay? Could you just little bit more elaborate it, yes, no.
Student: Yes sir.
YB: You did a quick job, I just want you to do a job because once we print it, I want.... That's one thing without which a human is not human and that's the one thing nobody has it. So just understand we are going to change the era. When people are going to read it, they are going to see it is a fact, their whole life will change to be positive, all this goofing business is because of that, nobody knows what mind is, how it works, what it can do for you, what cannot do for you, what are the downfalls and what are the high points and if you just put it together, that's all. All right, thanks for that, oh, yeah, read with the last line.
Student: (-----)
YB: Thank you, do you understand what she said.
Students: (-----)
YB: Say it again.
Student: Philosophy of unisonness of polarity.
YB: Philosophy of unisonness of polarity. Do you know what that means? Come on, tell me.
Student: (-----)
YB: Hah, hah, uniting the opposite, yeah, what it does for you when you unite the opposite? Huh,
Student: (-----)
YB: It creates radiance and heat. Heat and light, heat and...
Students: Light.
YB: You get through the opposites, if you unite them. What do you use for uniting them? Hello?
Student: (-----)
YB: Hey, we are in nineteen ninety-one folks, what we do to unite the opposites?
(Student's laughter)
Somebody is very, very, in a mood, anyway, come on, what you do, huh?
Student: (-----)
YB: You use a coil to create the warmth, you use a...
Students: Coil.
YB: To create the light, you use a vacuum. Arey, simple thing when two negative and positive is put on a coil it becomes a heater, you got it and when they put negative and positive in a bulb which means a vacuum, then it, it is light. Do you understand that? I don't think it has sunk in yet. You are cold, your answers are not very warm tonight, look I am a drenched wet but still I have come to teach, so you got to be listening to it. All right, what we go for?
Unisonness of opposite, right. Now, the fact of life is, God is great, God is...
Students: Great.
YB: But He couldn't create one like Him. God... Just say it, you will enjoy it.
YB & Students: God is great but He could not create one like Him.
YB: And there is nothing like Him, right.
Students: Right.
YB: So what He created? Everything in two. God cannot create one thing as Him, therefore, He end up creating everything in twos, understand that. And everything He created in twos He creates in opposite. So everything God has ever created, He has created equal, opposite. That's why Newton third law of force says every action has a reaction, equal and...
Students: Opposite.
YB: It's a physics. It's the third law of force of Newton, it shall stand true. And entire 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.
of the whole world is based on one thing. Repeat after me, so shall you sow,
Students: So shall you sow,
YB: So shall you reap,
Students: So shall you reap,
YB: If you don't sow right,
Students: If you don't sow right,
YB: You shall weep.
Students: You shall weep.
YB: If you don't learn anything,
Students: If you don't learn anything,
YB: You will die as a creep.
Students: You will die as a creep.
(Student's laughter)
YB: You can make a song for it. So you all can listen to it. That is one thing, every 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.
, every 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.
start the sequence. And if you have a KarmaKarma
The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action.
, you start a KarmaKarma
The law of cause and effect applied to mental, moral, and physical actions. Ego attaches us to and identifies us with objects, feelings, and thoughts. These attachments create a bias toward certain lines of action. Instead of acting you begin reacting. Karmas are the conditions required in order to balance or complete these tendencies. Though necessary, karma is not dictatorial or fatalistic. It is the mechanism that allows the finite experience of existence to maintain and stabilize itself. We all have free will and can take actions to re-direct the momentum of a karma. We can transform it or neutralize it using meditation, jappa, good deeds, or intuition that remove your sense of ego and the identification with that past line of action.
, you start a sequence, if you don't have 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.
, you can't face the consequences. No human is strong enough to face the consequences but every human is strong enough to start the sequence and every sequence must have consequences. There is no way out. Do you understand that?
You can start sequence and you shall start sequence and that's a principle of life. You shall face consequences and you shall face consequences but if 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.
starts the sequence, 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.
faces the consequences with a smile or you have nothing but tears. You got it? And that is the basic principle of a Sikh. Just understand one thing, Sikh is not what they tell you Sikhism is. Sikhism become a ism, buism, business, I do not know why, I think just to survive. Just to survive among the equals and just to, just to let people understand that it's a religion. I have never figured it out myself, is it a religion.
Religion is a path to reality. Sikh Sikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
DharmaSikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
Dharma
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.
is a reality and that is very confusing to lot of people. Sikh Sikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
DharmaSikh Dharma
A living experience of values as taught in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
Dharma
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.
is not a philosophy or a path or something you can learn and be and can and maybe and should we and should we not, you know, there are, there are lot of junk going on around. First of all, you become a human, first of all...
Students: You become a human.
YB: Human is what? When the negative and positive has the proper filament and absolute correct vacuum, this is not a cantaloupe, this is a human head. When a man or a woman is a person, they have a proper head and a proper heart. Head to display, heart to be. Without heart you cannot be. And without head you cannot project. You understand that? So IdaIda
One of the three major channels (nadis) for subtle energy in the body. It is associated with the flow of breath through the left nostril, follows down the left side of the spine, and represents the qualities of the moon - calmness, receptivity, coolness, and imagination. It is associated with the functions of the parasympathetic nervous system but is not identical to it nor derived from it. Also see Pingala and Shushmana
and PingalaPingala
One of the three major channels (nadis) for subtle energy in the body. It is associated with the flow of breath through the right nostril, follows down the right side of the spine, and represents the qualities of the sun - energy, heat, action, and projective power. It is associated with the functions of the sympathetic nervous system but is not identical to it or derived from it. See also Ida and Shushmana.
, negative and positive, moon and sun, Ha and Tha, joins up here in KundaliniKundalini
Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual.
, join up...
Students: Here in KundaliniKundalini
Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual.
.
YB: This bulb, see the shape of bulb where you got the bulb. See it's a big bulb and see the neck of it, it is screwed in here. That's why when you talk wrong you screw up everything. And in Yoga it is called Jalandar Bandh. Jal means water, Indar is the God of water, bandh means it's domain, okay. And what JapjiJapji
, Japji Sahib
The Song of the Soul written by the First Sikh Guru, Guru Naanak Dayv Jee. Saadhana opens with a recitation of Japji each morning at 3:40 am. A mantra, poem, and inspired religious scripture composed by Guru Nanak. Japji Sahib gives a view of the cosmos, the soul, the mind, the challenge of life, and the impact of our actions. Its 40 stanzas are a source of many mantras and can be used as a whole or in part to guide both your mind and your heart.
says,
"Pavan Pavan Guru
Literally, the "breath of the guru." It is the transformative wisdom that is embedded in the patterns of breath, especially those patterns generated in the expression of naad in sound or mantra.
GuruPavan Guru
Literally, the "breath of the guru." It is the transformative wisdom that is embedded in the patterns of breath, especially those patterns generated in the expression of naad in sound or 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.
, Panee Pita, Mata dharat mahat."
So in your throat lies your all fatherly powers. So when you speak, you can create and destroy. Your word explains you, so when you speak, be careful what you say. Because what you are going to say, that is you, out of you. Once something gets out of you, it cannot come in you. Ladies, you know that, once you deliver the baby, it can't go back in the belly, is that true, right. Therefore, any word you said, is out of you, it never can go back in you. But it can do one thing, there is a very beautiful saying. You open your mouth and say it, you put it out and it can put you out of the whole village. Tu mein mookad, mathen pinokana. The word says, put me out of your mouth wrong, I'll create your universe as wrong. Put me out right, I will do even your wrongs are right. That's the power of the word.
"Akhri 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.
, Akhri sala Akhri gyan gituvanga, Akra akrin bole bon, akra sansu yova kaan, yene lekhe thesi nai (?)," goes, goes, you goes on, on, on, and that's what Nanak said.
In Bible, in the word, in the beginning there was a word, word was with God, word was God.
"Surth ShabadShabad
, Shabd
Sound, especially subtle sound or sound imbued with consciousness. It is a property or emanation of consciousness itself. If you meditate on shabad it awakens your awareness.
, surth ShabadShabad
, Shabd
Sound, especially subtle sound or sound imbued with consciousness. It is a property or emanation of consciousness itself. If you meditate on shabad it awakens your awareness.
, parameshwar karaKara
Steel bracelet; one of the Five K's worn by baptized Sikhs.
."
Same thing; everywhere you will find the one thing. So this is the bulb, it is screwed up here and so long it is here, that's why they hang you, they break the lining, your bulb is dead, you are dead. So what happens is that you are human being, so time being you are a hue, hue means...
Students: Light.
YB: Light. You create these Gods and Angels and messengers of God and Holy men, you put a hue around their, that's the arc line, that's called hue. Hue maan, maan means mental, being means for the time being you are the mental light. It means you are a identified personality of God. In other words, we call it Akal Moorat or in Christianity we say, you are in the image of God. Same thing, there is no two opinions about it.
So first you become a human, then you become a Sikh. Sikh is who has taken the seek, who has taken the knowledge, how to be unison against pleasure and tragedy, when the yogic principle, when the pair of opposite do not effect a person, when the pair of opposite do not effect a person, he is called 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 is called...
Students: 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.
.
YB: And when the pair of opposite do not effect a person, he is called Sikh. Why? GurbaniGurbani
Word of the Guru, Refers particularly to the words from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
explains it. I think it is BhaiBhai
Brother.
Gurudas am I right, Ram Das Kaur, 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.
Sikh 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.
Yagadi 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.
De which karno Hudasi. Huh, he explain it very well.
Then you become a Singh, Singh means lion, what lion represents symbolically? He is the lord of the beast. He is the king of the jungle and he is the lord of the...
Students: Beast.
YB: When you conquer your beast and become lord of it, then you are Singh, right. Then next stage is Khalsa, means pure. When your life is pure and it shares nothing but purity with others, you being pure is not enough. That's the most selfish act and that has been condemned again and again. You being pure is not... You share purity. That is the act of the Khalsa. So these are four stages. So the science of unisonness in the face of polarity is a human necessity. It's a human...
Students: Necessity.
YB: How you want to do it? Do you have a one simple formula? BanaBana
, Baana
One's outward projection, often refers to a specified clothing that projects a consciousness.
, BaniBani
Literally "Word", Refers to the Word of God contained in the Sikh Sacred Writings; Banis refers to Sikh daily prayers.
, SimranSimran
A deep meditative process in which the naam of the Infinite is remembered and dwelled in without conscious effort.
, SevaSeva
Selfless Service. the heart of the Aashram experience is serving each other.
is very workable solution, that means identify openly, honestly, straightforwardly, quick and up and up. Speak the language which only represents your ultimate wisdom. Serve others to win their heart, simranSimran
A deep meditative process in which the naam of the Infinite is remembered and dwelled in without conscious effort.
, meditate on God to clean yourself, cleanse yourself, be pure, so that you have the strength. But is there some quick way, these are four things.
KundaliniKundalini
Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual.
Kundalini Yoga
It is a Raaj Yoga that creates vitality in the body, balance in the mind, and openness to the spirit. It is used by the householder, busy in the world, to create immediate clarity. The fourth Guru in the Sikh tradition, Guru Ram Das, was acknowledged as the greatest Raaj Yogi. (See Raaj Yogi.) He opened this long secret tradition to all.
YogaKundalini Yoga
It is a Raaj Yoga that creates vitality in the body, balance in the mind, and openness to the spirit. It is used by the householder, busy in the world, to create immediate clarity. The fourth Guru in the Sikh tradition, Guru Ram Das, was acknowledged as the greatest Raaj Yogi. (See Raaj Yogi.) He opened this long secret tradition to all.
is a process, takes about ninety days minimum. 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.
takes whole life. God's grace happens when He wants, we don't know, we want to know something we know. God grace comes when it comes, we can wait for it, may not happen, then what.
Come on, hey, you don't want to participate, I am going to make you go stand in the rain. What? Prayer can work, may not work. Prayer can be for great things, for nothing, thief prays for being a good thief. I don't know what prayer can do. Huh?
Student: Prayer for 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.
.
YB: Prayer for 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.
, good, it will, it will take its time, something which is timeless, which is you can do it, it's easy for everybody and it's fun.
Student: See God in all.
YB: See God in all, see...
Students: God in all.
YB: See, say it in Spanish, see God in all, see, say it in Spanish. Hey Mahico get up, see (?), I know that see, come here, get on the mike. Yeah.
Student: (---)
YB: See.
Student: (---).
YB: No, no, in the end you always say, see you guys.
Student: See.
YB: Yeah, now say it in Spanish and in the end use word see.
Student: (----)
YB: And you say in English, see God in all.
Student: See, God in all, see.
(Student's laughter)
YB: See, is that okay. See...
Student: See God in all.
YB: If you see God in all, all you will see or you shall see God, not at all. And that needs what.
Student: (-----)
YB: No, no, no, no that needs one thing only. If you want to see God in all. No, nothing, everything you know, in dictionary is not going to work out. That word is in Mool 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.
, tell me what it is.
Student: (-----)
YB: Nirbhao, nirbhao, have no fear. When you have fear, you can't see God. When you have fear, you will be revengeful, you will be angry, you can take revenge in many ways, you can take revenge in not participating, you can take revenge in overindulging, you can even take revenge in destroying, you can take revenge in constructing, overexpanding, diminishing. Vengeance has as many form as fear has. And it has as many facet as 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.
can be. Therefore, have no fear, easy to say, easy to say, very difficult to deal with it. What is fear called in English? Hah?
Students: (-----)
(Student's laughter)
YB: Hello.
Student: (-----)
YB: Hah, what is fear... Oh yeah, somebody said it, what is this?
Students: Insecurity.
YB: Insecurity. You know what I did in my life, how I got over it? When I was told fear is nothing but the mother of insecurity and I was supposed to write it, I wrote like this, INN-Security. You spell the word insecurity, IN, I didn't do that, what I did is, I wrote, INN-Security or you can write, I, I didn't know much that time but if I have to write today insecurity, I'll write IN-Security. But I made INN means inn; inn means where you come and live or take rest or be and that is called INN-Security. I couldn't write insecurity as it is. My teacher thought my spellings are wrong, I thought he is wrong. We had a discussion, he gave me a zero, I put the one with it and made it ten and it got counted that way, he found it later.
He said, "Why you did that?"
I said, "Please shut up, because you don't understand there is no such thing insecurity God created all, God is all, you are God, I am God, what is the difference. You wrote zero, I put one."
He said, "But how it got counted?"
I said, "I used your pencil, that's all.
(Student's laughter)
They couldn't figure it out."
He said, "You are cheated."
I said, "No. You didn't understand, I didn't want you to not understand, I helped you."
(Student's laughter)
"Well the whole question means ten."
I said, "That's true." We became friends.
You know, when I was in Catholic Convent and there is a principal, then when the bell rings, chapel bells, you go for prayer, you understand that? And I never went. So my mother what you call them, no not spirit yet, the town mother, the local mother, she put me for action and she marked my absence and she told mother superior that he never comes to chapel. You know what the punishment in this Catholic Convent? There is a wood there, they bent you on that and they take this belt and they stick almost three on your butts, three to seven, I think is normal punishment. But if you have done something more serious, then it can go up to eleven but rarely. And it hurts, and I used to love my butts, I didn't want to bent and I didn't want to open and I didn't want to be beaten either. So she put me up for it, so mother superior satSat
Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself.
down there and she said, "Well Bhajan, first of all we have done favor to you to bring to this girls' school," it was all girls' school, I was just a boy with two my hair things.
So I said okay, "I understand that."
"Well, we are doing favor to you and to your family."
I said, "I understand that."
"Well, this is a Catholic Convent."
I said, "I understand that."
"Don't you love Jesus?"
I said, "I love him very much. I just want to be better than him, there is no problem in that."
She said, "Nobody gets better than Jesus."
I said, "Definitely, that's what he wanted." And then I quoted the chapter.
And she said, "Okay, now what do you want to say?"
I said, "Holy mother, the problem is with this house mother. She doesn't understand me at all."
She said, "Why not?"
I said, "First she says when the chapel... This is what she said, quote her words, I am not putting myself.
I believed her, I love her, she is a great womanand she is a great mother and good house mother. But she told me when the chapel bell rings it is a time for prayer."
I said, "Please ask her, is it not her words."
And mother superior asked, and said, "Moment I hear the bell, I kneeled down, and I do prayer. I don't know, no, I am, I never thought I have to go to the chapel, I thought, I have to pray, I don't want to waste my time, I hear it right and I pray. Ask her whenever she has found me, why didn't she disturb me."
And she said, "Well, he is always praying."I said, "That's isn't the purpose of the bell."
(YB's laughter)
I got out of those beating though.
(Student's laughter)
But the mother superior means,
She said, "But it also means going to the chapel too."
I said, "Okay, now you said it, I will go."
And next time luckily my duty was to ring the bell. You know that string and mind you, it is a very good art, it is not something you can foolishly do it, you have to really have the balance and jump with it and it's really something. I started ringing it, I loved it so much I continued.
(YB's and student's laughter)
They banged at my door and I won't stop. Finally they walked in, "What are you doing?"
I said, "Nothing, I am ringing the bell. And I am also meditating with it. But why you are so upset, what is gone wrong?"
He said, "Well you ring it for a while, then people have to meditate."
I said, "No, when the bell rings, everybody meditates. So the one who rings it."
They never gave me a job thereafter, period.
(Student's laughter)
It was funniest. You know how old I was, three year old, to be exact, five year old, I went to the Regular School.
You have to know the real meaning of two words; Ang, Sang and the filament is 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.
and vacuum is you don't have ego. Do you understand? How you can be enlightened? There is thirty trillion Gods dancing in you with every limb of you, your body is made of ten trillion cells. Each cell has three in it. So you have thirty trillion cells dancing alive and enjoying themself and that is the dance of God. And the filament is Wa He 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.
, those three coils which you put and what is vacuum, you get rid of your ego. How you get rid of your ego, just request it E-GO.
(Student's laughter)
How you can...
(YB's laughter)
You see, because English is my mother tongue, I can play with it as I want, you can't, you are English students, you learned it as a language, mine was a mother tongue, I, I, grew up with it. Because I had a governess which was Welsh and she spoke in English and I spoke in English and I went to the convent which was ladies, girls convent but I was there. So this language became my like a my mother tongue. I can do anything I want, you can't. So what is the relationship between ego and God? Write down ego, write down ego, EGO, right, E-GO, correct. And then put a big long dash and then write down God, GOD right, got it, written or not.
Students: Yes sir.
YB: Okay, now underneath it write, E and D, that's called ED not ID, Id, ED, ed, got it. Now cut down the E on the top and cut down the D on the top, what it sounds now?
Students: Go, Go.
YB: Go, Go, is that right, that's what we folks all are, that's why go, go whisky is very important. Remember Los Angeles, whisky go, go. Everybody in the high of the life is drunk and to you, life doesn't mean anything but go, go. Everybody has their own God and everybody has their own ego. And those who do not have really ego, they have really God, it's as simple as that. That's why we bow. That's why to take AmritAmrit
, Aamrit
The nectar of bliss; also the ceremony in which a person dedicates their life to the Khalsa.
, we gave our heads, that's why we accepted ourself being headless so we can live with heart. It's very difficult to understand first the polarities and then unisonness. But if you understand negative and positive mindPositive Mind
One of the three Functional Minds. It elaborates, magnifies, extends, and assists. It asks, "How can this help me? How can I use this? What is the positive side of this?"
and you understand neutral mindNeutral Mind
The most refined and often the least developed of the three Functional Minds. It judges and assesses. It witnesses and gives you clarity. It holds the power of intuition and the ability to see your purpose and destiny. It is the gateway for awareness.
, through neutral mindNeutral Mind
The most refined and often the least developed of the three Functional Minds. It judges and assesses. It witnesses and gives you clarity. It holds the power of intuition and the ability to see your purpose and destiny. It is the gateway for awareness.
you can always understand the light of God. It's not difficult.
Finding God in this world is finding sand in the great Sahara. Finding God in this world is, finding water in the ocean, but you know our condition is water, water, everywhere, there is not a drop to drink. God is everywhere, you do not know where. Why, why this is our condition? Our condition this now as a human is that we find God everywhere, but we don't know where, this is the corruption of thing called religion as a institute. This is what religion has done to us, religion has totally prostituted us forever. Because religion has to survive, religion has religious men, they have to survive, religion has been used as a power to unite and to use.
More wars in the world have been fought in the name of religion than anything else. More people have been killed in the name of religion than anything else. So what happen is, this religious con man, told you all through these centuries that you are born in sin and you go out and find God. The diamond was in your pocket, the God is in you and this man said, find the diamond. You never put your hand in your pocket and you ran around amok and you got tired, you became humble, you said, I need God, he said fifty dollars.
These religion were selling a place in the heaven for twenty thousand dollars. These religious men have promised God for twenty bucks. God is on sale these days and you are nothing but the clientele. Never... Repeat after me please, Never find the God,
Students: Never find the God,
YB: Share it.
Students: Share it.
YB: Never,
Students: Never,
YB: Find the God,
Students: Find the God,
YB: Share it.
Students: Share it.
YB: Never
Students: Never,
YB: Find the God,
Students: Find the God,
YB: Share it.
Students: Share it.
YB: God is within you,
Students: God is within you.
YB: Don't you sing in 3HO first thing, put it on, God and me, wait, wait, wait, you never understood that song at all, this is a affirmation, this is a oath, this is a declaration, this is self and identification, do you have it?
Student: (-----)
YB: Who said that?
(Student's laughter)
All right, let there be a tape tomorrow, let us sing today, come on.
(Students sing 'God and Me...')
Side B
(Students continue the song)
(Song stops)
YB: Have you ever spoken truth in your life, yes or no?
Students: Yes sir.
YB: Once a while?
Students: Yes sir.
YB: What you have spoken right now is it true or a lie?
Students: True.
YB: Do you believe it?
Students: Yes sir.
YB: No, you are thieves, that's not true. That is not true. Speak it again.
(Students sings the God and Me...)
YB: Everybody. Once more, is that true.
Students: Yes sir.
YB: Now raise your right hand, all of you, honestly. And you will speak truth, nothing but truth. No, no, come on take an oath, you will speak truth but nothing but truth, help me God, correct, now sing it, in this condition.
(Again students sing God and Me....)
YB: Hey (?), why you are not taking the oath. Hey, you why you are not... isn't sing,
(YB's laughter)
Here they are, they say, yeah, yeah. What's going on, this is not fair. Now, now that's okay, I mean to say, we have done it because I told you to do it and you took this oath, are you really, do you really mean it.
Student: Yes sir.
YB: I tell you if you really mean it, what it means and if you don't, you are the biggest and surest meanest of all. What it means is, number one; you shall not, what it means is thou shall not kill. Which, which commandment is that number, huh?
Students: Five.
YB: Who, who, who, who is a proper Jew.
Student: (-----)
(Student's laughter)
YB: Okay, do you know all the commandments, okay, go ahead, one.
Student: (-----)
YB: No, no, no, give her a mike, hurry up. Mike, mike, mike, Mr. mike, that's enough, that's enough, she can bent a little bit.
Student: But I am not Jewish, only by association.
YB: No that's okay.
(Student's laughter)
Student: Okay. I am the Lord I (?) strange cause before me, thou shall not take the name of the Lord that God (?). Or remember to keep (?) Sabbath, honor thy father and the mother, thou shall not kill, thou shall not commit adultery, thou shall not steal, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, no, no, there is something about thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife and thou shall not cover thy neighbor's goods.
(Applause)
YB: Oh, oh, oh, listen to this, if you do not know all about eight religion, you are not a Sikh. Sikh means a learner. If don't know about others what you know. You got to know. If you know all, then you will know the unknown. Listen, if you become ever limited, you will never know the unlimited. If you just define yourself, you will never know Infinity. Even in English spell the words small,
Students: SMALL.
YB: Cut down the SM, SM,
Students: ALL.
YB: Even in small, ALL is contained. Will you learn? Know everything. Know...
Students: Everything.
YB: And trust,
Students: God.
(Student's laughter)
YB: Know everything and trust.
Students: The God.
YB: Who said nothing. Know everything, trust nothing but...
Students: God.
YB: That's right. Hah?
Student: (-----)
YB: Hello, what, what somebody said?
Student: God is everything.
YB: Now let us put that song on, all things, that is JapjiJapji
, Japji Sahib
The Song of the Soul written by the First Sikh Guru, Guru Naanak Dayv Jee. Saadhana opens with a recitation of Japji each morning at 3:40 am. A mantra, poem, and inspired religious scripture composed by Guru Nanak. Japji Sahib gives a view of the cosmos, the soul, the mind, the challenge of life, and the impact of our actions. Its 40 stanzas are a source of many mantras and can be used as a whole or in part to guide both your mind and your heart.
, isn't it, right, is that.
Students: Yes.
YB: Yeah, yeah, put that on. Sing it from heart, let us see, it goes to your head or not.
(Tape 'All things come from...' is played)
(Tape stops)
YB: Well, you remember it?
Students: Yes sir.
YB: Which pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
is that of the JapjiJapji
, Japji Sahib
The Song of the Soul written by the First Sikh Guru, Guru Naanak Dayv Jee. Saadhana opens with a recitation of Japji each morning at 3:40 am. A mantra, poem, and inspired religious scripture composed by Guru Nanak. Japji Sahib gives a view of the cosmos, the soul, the mind, the challenge of life, and the impact of our actions. Its 40 stanzas are a source of many mantras and can be used as a whole or in part to guide both your mind and your heart.
?
Students: (----)
YB: Thirty?
Students: Third,
YB: Third. Now speak it.
Students: (-----)
YB: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, when it was English, you all spoke the highest, now it is Gurmukhi, it's the words of Nanak, not mine not yours, speak it with absolute force of the pranaPraana
, Prana
The universal life force that gives motion. It is the breath in air. It is the subtle breath of the purusha as it vibrates with a psychophysical energy or presence. Praana regulates the modes and moods of the mind.
, come on.
(Students speak the words told by Nanak)
YB: Wow, that was great. If you can just remember this, you don't need to remember anything. You know, the people who can master this pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
, what they can get, hah. If it is written, if it is written, by the own hand of Almighty God, in the destiny of a person, if it is written by the very own hand of the Almighty God, that, that person, shall have nothing in his life but pain, pain and pain, got it, understand. Number of this pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
is thirty-three, three is half of eight, half of Infinity, half devil and half divine, put those two three opposite, it becomes eight, eight means Infinity, you understand that, it is thirty-third pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
, what did I say, if...
Student: (-----)
YB: Right? That person shall have all for the all beyond time and space. This small pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
has the power to give you all, all the time for all the reasons, there is no logic, reasonable explanations so far. But only one thing it does, it works. Yeah?
Student: (-----)
YB: Mastering a 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.
or a pauriPauri
Literally step or ladder. Refers to a particular poetic form used in Siri Guru Granth Sahib.
is very simple. When it you hear it all the time, when you, when you play the 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.
you start hearing it and when its status is reached, when you hear that 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.
all the time. It's not very difficult, one can if, if a human practice in about forty days you can have it all. You understand? You know when you are in difficulty you call Jesus. What you do, how you express that?
Students: Jesus please.
YB: Anything goes wrong around you, you stick Jesus into it, is that right or wrong.
Students: Yes sir, right.
YB: Anything you do good, I did it, right. And if anything goes wrong, whether you do it or somebody else do it or you see it or you understand it, what you say? Put the guy first, right. You understand. Now that is a Sidh 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.
, that is a perfect of you. Same way, same way, when you want to conquer your physical and mental because spirit is real, sprit is soul is real, soul is part of God, it needs not to be conquered, it is part of it, but there are two things which you have to conquer which is called body and mind, right. Then this 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.
you perfect, what is that? Ang, Sang, Wa, He, 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.
, is five tattva 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.
and you are made of the five tattvasTattvas
A category of cosmic existence; a stage of reality or being; a "thatness" of differentiated qualities. In total there are 36 tattvas. Each wave of differentiation has its own rules and structure. The final five tattvas are called the gross elements and have the phasic qualities and relationships of ether, air, fire, water, and earth.
, it has five sounds. Ang, Sang, Wa, He, 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.
. When you want to know the unknown, when you...
Students: Want to know the unknown.
YB: This place is called Trikuti. It is also called Shivastan, it is also called Ajana, it is also called third eye, the 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.
for that is, Wa, He, 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.
, why? Because you say Har for eleven hundred times and you will say, Wa, He 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.
once is equal. So for poor householders who have to chant so much, they don't have time, it's convenient.
Put that tape of the 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.
, Waah Yantee Kaar Yantee Jag Dut Patee. Listen to this, rishiRishi
Enlightened being; Yogi.
Patanjali, thousands of year ago in the puran of the future, which is called Bhavish puran, said about Nanak and they question him, Nanak Thasmai, Nanak shall be and then they ask him what shall be the 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.
, this is how he explains, he writes it. Come on, on super blonde, you never rewind your tapes.
(Tape is played)
(Tape stops)
YB: You understand this? Won't you give a hand to Niranjan for singing it?
(Applause)
You know, it is one of the funniest thing in the world, Niranjan on the one living person, who is in the west, I am not talking of Punjab, she is born of the west, she lives in the west, she works in the west, she is the only one who can totally and absolutely, correctly pronounce Jap Sahib. And it is not that I am surprised, I am surprised there is no doubt. Everybody in India, they were all surprised and you ask her, she has learned one, one Indian thing, I don't know, it is and, and he, you know she does that exactly and I love her, I look at it, she immediately from Americans to become an Indian. Have you seen that, I, I don't know, (?) that hee, hee, hee, business, this hypocrisy she has learned from India so good, I hate it but I can't say it. Giani Zail Singh was the President of India. And he asked me, he came to see me we were talking, he said, "Yogiji, I have one request could you just honor me."
I said, "Why not, you helped us so much and you helped the Sikhs, they come in from America, they took them all around," he was the Chief Minister of Punjab, he really from his heart served, it is not something is, he deserve that honor and he put (?) at our disposal and transportation and the dak bungalows and arrangement and program and all that. I said, "Well, Gianiji now you are the President of India, you deserve it, what do you want?"
He said, "Please, I'll have a GurdwaraGurdwara
Literally the door of the Guru; traditional place where Sikh worship services are held.
in Rashtrapathi Bhavan, in the President house, I will invite people and all I want is Niranjan to play Jap Sahib," it is true. He didn't invite us.
(Student's laughter)
Hah, hah, let there be no secret, let it be recorded, it's absolutely true and after she sang and she finished, you know what he said. He said, "I know one thing; I have never heard any human being in my whole life, who can so correctly pronounce Jap Sahib." And you tell her sometime Niranjan sing it, hee, hee, hee, heee, hee, hee, hee, she has twenty-one tapes now and Niranjan, hee, hee, hee, hee, I don't know where she learned it, I, I am not responsible, I am not participant in it, I didn't teach her, she got it like virus somewhere, that's the only time I see her teeth, hee, hee, hee, I can't do it. You know what that means, really, Niranjan, Niranjan answer me, what that means, put the camera on her face.
(Student's laughter)
What that means when you sing hee, hee, hee, business.
Student: (-----)
YB: What? What you don't want to do it.
Student: (-----)
YB: You and shy, anybody agrees with her, is Niranjan shy.
Students: No.
YB: Is there anybody who can vouch for you as shy. Is Niranjan shy?
Students: No.
YB: And she never believes. You know Mr. Ran who took care of my throat and help me to heal it. He is a voice teacher and all these groups, all this great singer Rock and Roll and everybody else goes to him for lessons. I went to him get my throat corrected and I was there everyday, religiously on time. You know one day, he was talking about Niranjan what he said, he said, "God, all my life I have listened music, I have trained people, I have taught them in voice but this Niranjan," he said, "She has such a voice, which God only gave her," you deny it or accept it.
Student: Accept it.
YB: Because he said so, I know, and she didn't want to accept it even now because we got it totally confirmed on it and he said that's true. Play the tape, just listen, listen to Niranjan voice, you will hear this Sanskriti ShabadShabad
, Shabd
Sound, especially subtle sound or sound imbued with consciousness. It is a property or emanation of consciousness itself. If you meditate on shabad it awakens your awareness.
, the Sanskriti in Bhavish Puran lot of people will sing it, read it and all that but listen to the clarity of the sound and the pronunciation, go ahead.
(Tape sung by the Niranjan is played)
(Tape stops)
You heard it? You know what is this can do for you, all right. Sit in a Bajarasan, not now, not now, not now, not now, not now, not now, sit in a Bajarasan, put this tape on and every time when it say NamAshtang or now, put, touch your forehead with the ground and then stand straight, just that, by the end of the exercise, I don't have to explain to you. You will find it yourself. What?
Student: (-----)
YB: No, no, no, no, when they say, come, come, come, come up here. Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit on your heels, good, straight, put straight, like a 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.
. All right, put the tape on from namasting, when the word namAshtang you hear, you touch forehead and come back to normal. Oh anywhere, just few lines we need.
(Tape is played)
(Tape stops)
You know 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.
, your 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.
did it, why can't you not do it and don't ask me what I can to do to you, I know what it can do. In my dire emergency when I, I can't do anything and everything is gone wrong and physically and mentally things are heavy and my intuition tells me what is going on and my commonsense tell me to avoid the conflict, you must understand intuition is a great thing but it's not commonsense, it's not the sixth sense. Remember that, by intuition you know exactly what it is, by commonsense and by sixth sense you know where survival is. And sometime they both can conflict and they can inflict really, really good. You know what is truth is and you know you can, I should not confront it and you also know there is no way out, that's the moment when for somebody who is in that trouble, I don't use any prayer except this. Then I put this same tape on and I do exactly what this girl did and something happens right. Try it sometime and keep the results with you.
Well, we have in this class our two old associate and will you put the mike before them and they will introduce themself both of them to the class and then you will listen to them, okay. Both of you, these two guest of our here, right. That's what I am referring to. Could you both standup please. My God, do you see these two guys, now they will tell you their story. Oh, the mike is right there and please forgive us, I mean, Siri Ved Singh is this way, we have to accept it.
(Student's laughter)
(?) there is nothing wrong with the guy but he is overworked and overloaded with many directions and sometime he forgets the tape recorder. But if he comes on the... Is camera working. Okay, please introduce yourself to the entire class, you are, you are as good as they are and just let them know.
Student: Hello, my name is (?) and this is my wife Roza. And twenty years ago, August second, after a week long Tantra Yoga class in Detroit the Yogiji taught. The culmination of that class was our marriage, just the two of us there was nobody else and like I said, this August second is the twenty year anniversary and we were having a visit to the (?) hot drinks and two white turban people were in there and I ran after them and I asked them, "How do you (?) Yogiji, do" and here I am so, here is Rosa,
(Student's laughter)
(Applause)
So it was unplanned and we haven't seen Yogiji since then, (?) I don't (?) now live (?) Canada, now is the (?) (?) here and I am (?) vacation. Thank you.
YB: Thanks a lot, please treat them well. The kids have come home, give them love, talk to them and receive them.
All right what else we are going to do? I think this is the time to say Goodnight.
(Student's laughter)
Hey, I am a human being too. May the long time sunshine...
(Students sing 'May the long time sunshine upon you.....')
(Tape is played)