San Diego Lecture

 
Date:
May 27, 1981
Location:
San Diego, CA
 
 
 
 

.... Songs.

YB: Hey this seating arrangement is not good.

Student: (----).

YB: No, they don't come to my navel pointNavel Point The sensitive area of the body near the umbilicus that accumulates and stores life force. It is the reserve energy from this area that initiates the flow of the Kundalini energy from the base of the spine. If the navel area is strong, your vital force and health are also strong. what they will listen, nothing, it will all go over their head, that's what you want.

Student: (----).

YB: Bring something higher. Don't worry, I am not going to go my plane leaves little later, that's it. Get in there, there is some space. Krishna...

Krishna: Sir.

YB: They didn't have a good seat for me why don't you give us a one beautiful song which is very loving and that kind of stuff and I'll enjoy it.

Krishna: (----).

YB: I can't catch you anyway these days, where you have been?

Krishna: (----).

YB: All right stand there and sing a good song, come on, come on, come on, come on, what made you to stop? Oh! that song you sing about a girl who is in love with somebody.

Krishna: (----).

Krishna: Singing a song.

YB: Good.

Class clapping.

Conversation between YB and students.

YB: Oh yeah, I'll stand up, what is this now?

Student: (----).

YB: You brought...

Students: (----).

YB: Okay, if that this is what you have to do. (?).

Student: Yes sir.

YB: So that is what I thought was missing.

Students: (Laughter.)

YB: See table didn't lie to me, you did.

Student: (----).

YB: (?) you can ask somebody to bring some (?) circulate.

Student: (----).

YB: Yeah.

Student: (----).

YB: All tight.

Student: (----).

YB: (?) back in the wall.

Student: (----).

YB: That's okay, put it in the wall. My God it looks like every skin we have to chase this in.

Student: (----).

YB: Anyway that is cleaner.

Student: (----).

YB: Good. That's fine, (?).

Student: (----).

YB: If I fall then it will be God's grace, if it holds up then it is (?) grace.

Students: (Laughter.)

YB: Okay where is the fan now?

Student: (----).

YB: Good, good what you have been doing before this?

Students: (Laughter.)

YB: First of all I never come to San Diego, once a while I come you didn't make any arrangement. Can you believe this?

Student: (----).

YB: That part I liked I couldn't find any defect I looked with sneaky eyes everywhere.

Students: (Laughter.)

Everything was well done and the everything was right. Oh! somebody brought the fan, why it doesn't work.

Students: (----).

YB: Oh! bring it here, fix it somewhere here then we can do this (?).

Students: (----).

YB: Oh! yeah we will put it here. There is a plug here. Bring the fan here, oh! no, no, no nothing is needed, don't worry, people are hassling so bad. ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. move little bit. Put it here JiJi Soul; used as an endearment or sign of respect. . Fix it right there. That's good and leave it alone. Yeah, that's nice, now I can sit and talk nicely. Give me a (?). I never knew San Diego is that hot.

Student: (----).

YB: No, no, no I don't know.

Student: (----).

YB: Summer, before summer.

What we are going to talk about?

Come on just further there are lot of pressure on people in the back, move little bit.

What I believe I don't expect you to believe. And basically what I say I don't care whether you believe it or not because the consequence and sequence of life is individual affair. It is not requirement of life that you must do everything good and nice. There are virtually two ways of life, you can live by ego and you can live by consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. and it's a very simple scientific fact that consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. in proportion of the use of the ego and ego is in proportion to use of 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. and the resultant is always negative to each other, so if you use anything in your life with the power of your ego that much proportionately you shall be away from 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 as much you will use 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. that much you will be proportionately away from ego, it's a ratio proportion, nobody can change it is a law which God Almighty cannot change it. Ego is a identity, 'I did it, I am lecturing, you are listening,' this is a ego, all which is identifiable or is identified is ego and all which is not identified and is an infinity is 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. . Did I make clear? Basic problem today is people... I ask somebody, "What do you study?"

"I study 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. ."

I said, "What is it?"

He said, "I don't know."

So that is how much people study.

So basically in your life purpose is not to receive God and be with God and become God people and all that, that is not the purpose, that is a very phony explanation. Purpose of life is to be happy, that is the basic purpose, whether you find God or not God is everywhere, God doesn't going to runaway and doesn't care whether you want to find Him or not, if you don't bother Him He will be grateful rather than being bothered all the time Almighty, come on Jesus Christ, this, and that. These are all your own commotional gestures. If you have a guitar you have to tune it, tune it in the name of God you have a 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 want to tune it, you want to tune it with infinity, so you say this is this, that is God, this is it, actually God doesn't get disturbed by your goodwill or with your abuses.

The fact of life is the God has given you lifespan at the rate of proportion breath, so you have to use your breath of life, use it anyway you like, at a particular time switch will be off and you will be gone. What shall be gone? Two things will be missing right on the spot, one is your soul, the other is your subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. , what shall remain? Other eight bodies of yours. You are a total combination of ten bodiesTen Bodies We are all spiritual beings having a human experience. In order to have this experience the spirit takes on 10 bodies or vehicles. They are the Soul Body, the three Mental Bodies (Negative, Positive, and Neutral Minds), the Physical Body, Pranic Body, Arcline Body, Auric Body, Subtle Body, and Radiant Body. Each body has its own quality, function, and realm of action. . Did I say something new, must be because your face looks like you are hearing something very special. No, this is a very common thing.

You have a spiritual body, you have mental negative, mental positive, mental neutral, then you have this physical body, the arc body which you call it halo, then you have this simple auric body, then you have a subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. , pranic body, radiant body, ten and they are interlocked, but two are free to go. Whenever the soul desire to leave the arc body and all other bodies remain behind they have no combination. The pranic connection with the pranic body totally breaks and with the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. the soul leaves, that means your identity is gone, but you understand what that indicates that subtlety that is what subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. is, if in subtlety you become very refined and in activity you become very subtle, very subtle, you are very near to your soul because there is a direct relationship between the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. and the spiritual body, the spirit and the subtle bodySubtle Body See Ten Bodies. are very much related, they never leave each other. So anything which do refine, refined art, refined acts, refined speech which is not gross will put you nearer to the soul. That is a rather a simple way of reaching your God consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. .

You might have different ways to look at life, I look in a very simple way. As people you are just creatures and you have no defense mechanism like God gave to everything else. You have no hoof, no long legs, no big neck like a giraffe you can beat up somebody, you actually virtually to be very honest with you have nothing for your defense mechanism, but what you have is you have applied 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. which you can develop if you can develop your meditative mind, it means before getting into any sequence you can know the consequences and then you make a very conscious choice what you want, are you ready to pay the price or you are not ready to pay the price, that is the total secret of life. I have seen here in this country, 'oh! I loved him, he was very fine and then he betrayed me or she betrayed me.' Betrayed me not betrayed me that is not the question, these are all emotional relationship which we decide and deal with spur of moment and all we do is we hurt somebody or hurt ourselves.

The process of life which is the source of happiness is that you need your own control, self-control and when somebody cannot have self-control one will try to control somebody else. If we cannot defend our home we need guns, we need dogs, we need whole paraphernalia and if you are very rich and very popular and you know there is a (?), then we have a electronic arrangement, plus security guards, plus, blah, blah, blah this, but you will be surprised sometime to see somebody just walking and feeling very secure.

So life goes into two polarities, who you are and who you want to be. You may not be who you want to be and you may be totally living who you want to be and you may not be and that is a total difference. Every girl stands before a mirror and say, "oh! I am very pretty, I am going go get to prince Charles." Well the Dian got him,

Students: (Laughter.)

And you are still standing before a mirror. Everyone man wants to get up next morning, make a million dollar, he doesn't know moment he makes a million dollar IRS will be on your gate. So everybody does not want to take the total picture of life.

'Salam dwab do karay muddo do ko jai.'

'At some place you bow and you question.'

GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. says it is a rootless situation, it has no root, nothing will come out of it.

The earth is a life, earth is a life where you have come to experience 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 have never worried about it, then what you want to build? You want to build a home, you want to build this, you want to build a business, you want to do lot of things to be secure where you definitely know you are not secure to start with.

'Aageh aapnee mot sae koi bashar nahi,

Saaman so baras ka, kal ki khabar nahi.'

'No man knows when is death is, they all make arrangements about a hundred year, they do not know what will happen next moment.'

And it's not true with Americans, Americans are little more frustrated, very unloved people, more frustrated, and out of frustration you tolerate everything and because you have tolerance for everything you have much less space for discipline. Without discipline there cannot be pressure, without pressure there cannot be crystallization, without crystallization there cannot be purity, without purity there cannot be sanctity, without sanctity there cannot be divinity, there cannot be dignity, there cannot be grace, cycle is complete and why to have a discipline, why? Tell me why to have discipline?

That's why every third American is crazy, every fourth is insane, but that is not a national number we want to live with. Every second American is depressed, every first American is worried, is it a national statistic we want to live with. And then we look into the symptom we have a alcohol problem, we have a drug problem, we have a murder problem, we have law and order problem, these problems are just outwardly problems, there is a fundamentally basic problem in ourselves that we are not nearly related to 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 we have no experience how to develop it.

We have learned to develop lot of things, but the dormant power, the KundaliniKundalini Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual. ... I am very shocked, I have been teaching 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. for twelve years, I have written no book and around me runs so many books on 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. and I can't even afford to read them because there is nothing right in it. There is so much grip to make money and to get to people and to build up a stuff nobody wants to wait.

God made man in His own image. Now the perfect God cannot make imperfect man, it is not possible. Perfect can only produce perfect. Don't run into the catholic guilt thing, but it is a very simple honest statement, perfect can only create perfect, but perfect when created the perfect the perfect so created as a creature has to develop to perfection, it didn't work on itself and not working on itself is the main problem of all unhappiness.

Everybody knows which way to look beautiful, nobody knows how to be beautiful. So all this makeup and all this paraphernalia you do one way or the other it does not solve your basic problem. Question boils down to the basic need; are we consciously conscious that we have to develop our consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. to the scope of infinity, or we are egomaniac to the extent that we want to pass our life in our own self, these are the two questions. I hope you can go home and sit down sometime, spare sometime and answer them for your own sake.

I am sometime surprised that why people are unhappy. Why people cannot talk straight truth? Why people are not open and enjoying? Why we are not relaxed and rejoicing? I wonder and out of the wonder I have a answer, are the people know they are people to begin with. Has the realization reached to the effect the person knows the person is and that is the fundamental.

When 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. in the inner essence of the nucleus of the polarity has not been realized to standardize to the person's own ecstasy of consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. , there is nothing but conflict and out of conflict there shall be nothing but pain. There is no kindness which is not kind, there is no goodness which is not good; if you want to be good us have learned to be goodness, live it and if you want to be kind then you have learned the totality of kindness because you are a mankind, that is where the nucleus is, that's where grace is. Without dignity there is no divinity, without divinity there is no grace, but unfortunately you want to buy it with dollars.

Look at your foreign policy, nobody is your friend you want to buy them with dollars. Can friendship be bought with dollars? Look at in this country, look what we are doing to ourselves. Why? Because simple thing is the America is based on one simple thing, 'In God we trust,' and now we don't even trust ourselves. Whereas our basic foundation line is, key line is, we trust until infinity and now we do not even know who we are and what our trust is, and that is the hassle.

I don't talk much now, because it is a headache. Bunch of good looking people, you talk to them and their upper story is empty, it's all filled with emotion, crazy Americans, crazy. After (?) years I have found that you all should be hung from your boots, but now I have found out people hang themselves with boot and that cost about fifty bucks.

Students: (Laughter.)

It's a exercise, it stretch their spine. What I wanted you to do you already do it. There is no grip on self and consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. , no relationship has been created between self and self, then what relationship you can have with somebody else? When I did my Ph.D., my main submission was that if a person does not know to communicate with self, every other communication is meaningly meaningless, because to communication with self is the necessity, it is fulfillment, it is enjoyment, it is a fact and communication with somebody else is creativity for which you do not know the resultant. Therefore in particular life without developing a meditative mind and arousing this dormant power to its fulfillment and full play and having a applied 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. life cannot be considered happy or complete. It doesn't matter you are American, Japanese, French, whatever. Malaria is malaria, it knows no political boundaries, and insanity is insanity, and unhappiness is unhappiness whether you are black, white, brown, yellow, it doesn't make any sense but surprising fact is that you all have in you the power to be happy, you all have in you the potential to be happy, you all have in you the strength and the knowledge to be happy, simply you need discipline.

Well, if anytime and any moment you need discipline don't forget to call me, but if you don't I won't call you because that is the way I have found the secret of happiness in my life. It's a hard work and it's a long way, it's a path of the seeker, it's a path of the faith, it's a path of the divine, it's a path of the grace, it's a happiness in itself and when one walks on it one doesn't need anybody or any rewards, it is very self-fulfilling and then in the ecstasy of consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. you can say and declare in God I dwell.

If you have any questions you can ask me. I didn't take much time. Then after that we will meditate. Feel free. Yes.

Student: (----).

YB: Yeah you have mind, your mind has three, you have three minds. First of all when the intellect releases the thought in your brain it goes through the negative mindNegative Mind One of the three Functional Minds. It is the fastest and acts to defend you. It asks, "How can this harm me? How can this limit or stop me?" It is also the power to just say no, stop something, or reject a direction of action. and it tells you what is in it against you in each thought per second, per close of the eye you release in this Shashra one thousand thoughts, that's why we call it thousand petal and that is how fast is the pressure, you can understand and the negative mindNegative Mind One of the three Functional Minds. It is the fastest and acts to defend you. It asks, "How can this harm me? How can this limit or stop me?" It is also the power to just say no, stop something, or reject a direction of action. picks up all thoughts of the intellect and it does tell you what is in against you because life is survival and survival is granted by God divinity. Therefore every thought must go through the negative first, then it goes to the positive, then 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?" tells you what is for you. One is what is against you, that tell you what is for you and the neutral thought tells you what it is, because negative thought will put it very negative and very depressingly against you. Positive thought may accelerate it but if the negative, positive are overworked and you come to the neutral thought then it will give you what it is and action on that shall produce a sufficient sequence and consequences where question of suffering does not arise.

So every person has to first understand how many minds you have got, you think you have one mind, it's ridiculous, you have three minds. Two may not be working, that's okay. So nobody have a meditative nature to let the thought go through all three phases or ask a question; all right this is dangerous, what is behind this danger and what is the neutral of it? Even that way you should start working, you can totally develop all the three faculties, it doesn't take long time, seven, eight, ten days. If every thought which pounce on you, you start asking what is it, what is against me, what is for me, what is neutral of me, that's it, in seven, eight, ten days with practice you can be all right, there will be no trouble.

To live trouble free life is my birthright. I am born of the perfect, I am born in the image of God, I am not born to suffer, because creativity is constantly infinite, therefore it doesn't suffer. Suffering is my lack of my confidence, my development, and my projection because everybody has a depth, dimension and direction; when you are messing it up then there is a problem. And these are very simple things.

Student: (----).

YB: Yep.

Student: (----).

YB: No suffering is inadequacy to deal with your flow of life, it's a handicap, it's nothing else. Anybody who flow with the flow of life is not suffering at all, they are very well in absolute state of bliss.

Student: (----).

YB: Discipline is a very great pressure; at 3:30 get up, take a cold shower, do exercises, you think it is a less discipline, my God. Thanks to these Americans who can take it, normally it is very hard. 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 very hard discipline.

Student: (----).

YB: It's the same thing, discipline, do's and don'ts, moment it is do's and don'ts brakes and accelerator, there comes gears, moment things comes to gear it comes to control, it comes to control there is a pressure, that's why the car runs. Nothing runs without pressure, remember that and when it is a hard pressure then it is a crystallization. Carbon as a gas means nothing, as a porous means charcoal, as a hard crystal means diamond, and still when it is diamond is to be cut and then become something.

So I don't recommend everybody to do 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. , all I say is it is, it is available. You can wait till insanity and not do it or do it but it's a very hard pressure, I don't hide it and it is not a guruship or a swamiship that you can come in and I'll bless you and you will see stars and it is all bogus thing, I don't sell that.

Students: (Laughter.)

It is a simple thing, get up in the morning, take a cold shower, and go through two and half hour of it, and one day you will make it God bless you, if not you are a fool. I don't take blame either.

Students: (Laughter.)

I don't make any claim why should I take a blame?

Students: (Laughter.)

Yes you had a question.

Student: (----).

YB: Yeah, to just crystallize yourself, up to the crystallization you have to go through the hard (?). When you start flowing it's not natural to flow with the flow of life. It requires a constant 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 requires a applied 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 requires intuitive brain, it is a system of the self though it is within yourself but it needs to be developed. I have found no way out, but to develop it.

I have seen I have worked with a person who is totally declared he is a vegetable, I work with that person and he runs now the corporation, so it's same thing, but somehow it was manageable to get him into the discipline and from discipline it was better to get him to be who he is really potential was and to exploit the potential let him understand with the flow of his 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. , moment you start flowing it's okay, our job is done, the person is at his own. Each person needs that development.

All we do is somebody becomes a doctor, nothing else. Now what about the fundamental base, the person itself? You can become a doctor, you can become engineer, you can become anything profession, you can make money, you can live, animal live too, that is not what is essential; essential is the being first, the fundamental being must be developed first and then put a label on it anything engineer, doctor, anything, he is a fine person, you will meet a wonderful man. That period which you talk about the contradiction is where you are raw to develop. And you know in everything from barren land to a vegetable land it takes hard time.

When I said flow of life I said of a developed person, undeveloped person cannot control his emotions, cannot control his tantrums, traumas, ya, ya, ya, ya, yu, yu, yu, it's look like a, there is a you know mad dog in the house, that is how we behave at each other, hurt each other, (?) nothing.

One day I saw a man and woman yelling at each other, somehow I interfere, I said, "What is going on?"

They said, "We don't know." Both of them at the same time.

Students: (Laughter.)

And they were yelling so loud, I said, "Then why don't you shut up?"

They said, "Okay," and they walked in.

Students: (Laughter.)

Next day I met him, he is my neighbor, I said, "What were you doing with your wife yesterday?"

He said, "We don't know, we told you we don't know anything."

I said, "Then why don't you walk in peace?"

He said, "Well you told us."

They needed somebody to tell them shut up and go in.

Students: (Laughter.)

That can be emotional trauma. Our people who drink wine or alcohol at night have you seen them and after two, three drinks they get little loose, they are loose already, they needed the excuse. Nobody needs any stimulant from outside if one can raise the stimulant from inside and that has to be developed.

Student: (----).

YB: There is a simple procedure, get up in the morning, take a cold shower, open up your capillaries,

Students: (Laughter.)

And do exercises in which your circulatory system and your breathing system and your nervous system can be all tuned in like a guitar you want to play you take the guitar, tune it up, don't you do that., So tune up to your body and then play on it, make a harp of it, and it will create the celestial music, and you will become a worthwhile human being.

Side – B

Lot of people have developed lot of system, I have no participation with that. Some people think you jump from a tree your KundaliniKundalini Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual. will rise, fine, I have no objection.

Students: (Laughter.)

You end up in a hospital why should I worry?

Student: (----).

YB: Oh! your body is first, first it is tuned up your body and then... You know first all the strings have to be tuned in and then we can start rubbing with the wires and start creating mental situation. That's what in 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. first we prepare you physically, then we make you tune up physically, then we give you 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. . I mean, we don't do it, I'll touch your head and you will be enlightened, it is not that way, it's a whole science and it's a workshop, hard work, very hard, it's very hard to follow, but that's the way it is. There is no doubt it is a hard work but it's worthwhile. Some can do it, some can't.

Student: (----).

YB: Your forty days is when you want to change a habit, ninety days you want to confirm it, hundred twenty days you can celebrate it.

Students: (Laughter.)

Oh! that is all in scripture. You know one thing about me, I don't add anything from my side. I just whatever I have learned that's the way I want to keep it, and that's the way it is, it's all there. I don't do any research either, because when I learnt with my teacher I suffered so much, I say, once (?) you say you are okay, that's it.

Students: (Laughter.)

Thank God one day he said, "Okay." And I said, "That's it, from today no book, no work, nothing. The only thing I do is sleep." Yeah, two hours a day, that's enough, rest of the time I work. David thinks he works.

Students: (Laughter.)

Student: (----).

YB: Well, solstice 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. is wonderful, we will get you for ten days and we will make a chicken out of you and then we make a lion out of that chicken, that's what we will do and it's a really hard five days work because at that time the sun energy is ninety degree, the solar ions are very powerful, to get to KundaliniKundalini Comes from the word "kundal"; coiled energy; the creative potential of an individual. is very easy, and very smart, it's a very smart thing we do it's 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. time, so we get everybody for ten days, five days we really do a very hard job, you know, five days we enjoy, we have music every night, and people sing different things, it's far out.

Students: (Laughter.)

No, no it's a kind of a festival, we don't end up making lot of money, but every year we do it very gracefully, plus you ten days you go on a very beautiful mono diet you cleanse out your liver, you cleanse out your whole system, it has done wonderful. And it's very enjoying, you don't speak, you are on a silence, but still you communicate, so you learn automatically body science, because it is necessity, plus you do lot of other practices, plus you need lot of good people, plus you want it's a... You can take a beating for the whole year, that is how we look at it, it's nice, it is high up in the mountain, it's exclusive, nobody bother you, you have to smuggle a chocolate that too bribing the guard and whole thing, it's a lot of fun.

Students: (Laughter.)

Once I caught up with the medical car and I found there were having popcorn smuggled through the medical...

Students: (Laughter.)

So you know, deal with everything, it's a life, it is not, hundred percent spiritual but it's not dull either, there are lot of things.

Students: (Laughter.)

Yeah, now I know everything you know, first I used to close my eyes and look at nothing now I know everything, what goes on. Yeah.

Student: (----).

YB: Sunstroke for what?

Student: (----).

YB: If you had covered your head it can't happen, you must have missed the bus.

Student: (----).

YB: No but that at solstice side there is no much sun that it can give you sunstroke.

Student: (----).

YB: Now we have built much more, shelter and everything permanent and things are much... Arey that water there should be given thirty dollars an ounce. Yeah water at that place is pure Geritol white.

Students: (Laughter.)

It has a iron you can't believe it, it's very beautiful. If nothing else ten days you just drink as much as water there, it is worthwhile the whole life price. Yeah, that's good, that's a good place to go, but not more than ten days.

Students: (Laughter.)

Arey, nothing what to Americans, you know, they are crazy anyway, but because they are meat, potato people they have messed up. Every, almost every American has a bad spleen. And when spleen is not good it has a great pressure on liver, when liver has a pressure liver put pressure on kidneys, liver put pressure on heart, liver put pressure on pancreas. Luckily, now it is the spring time, and if you take three parts of carrots, one part of daikon radish and just go for forty days or twenty days or something like that you can clean out your system. So this is the time if you just want to get rid of all your toxin and whatever you call it and it's not a very painful kind of a diet, it's a very simple diet, it works, it has worked for centuries.

Student: (----).

YB: It's a mono diet, that's it. Three parts of carrot juice, one part of daikon radish, drink as much you want.

Students: (Laughter.)

No diet give you that freedom.

Students: (Laughter.)

Oh! you will be great, you will be so cleansed, you can't believe it, your eyes start seeing you, face starts coming out, you will become food, you are what you eat, you will become a carrot and daikon, both.

Students: (Laughter.)

It is worthwhile, it's very healthy, but it is, only unfortunate part of it is you can do it only now. You have to do it at the time of spring.

Student: (----).

YB: Why follow, later on go and eat pizza, what do I care.

Students: (Laughter.)

Oh! I am not into any trouble now, I know Americans cannot live to discipline totally, so if they live thirty, forty percent, that's enough, they are crazy anyway, what do I lose.

Look what is suffering here is; broken homes, broken hearts, broken parents, broken, broken, broken, everything broken. So build it together now to let people understand that they have a chance, those who want to take a chance take it, those who don't want, adios.

Students: (Laughter.)

Yes.

Student: (----).

YB: Spiritual growth has nothing to do with marriage but without marriage nothing grows, because anything which is not grown out of (?) is a bastard, that is what we call him. So it is a very psychological and sociological, very mental negative conscious effect, but if it grows through marriage, what happens is, what is a marriage? Marriage is also the same intercourse, same kissing, same hugging, rather it is a free license, but the only concession you have is that you have 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. in divinity, because normally people do not have that divine commitment, they don't dedicate the sex to God.

Though I say there is nothing without sex and there is nothing with sex, so it's the same thing. But marriage is a very unifying factor, it is a area where two people have developed or should have developed grace first. It is a institution where you compliment and supplement each other rather than nag at each other. I am not discussing American marriage, or Indian marriage, or Japanese marriage, I am discussing the institution of marriage; institution of marriage is one thing you join together in the name of God, not in the name of your ego. So your personality should play no part in marriage, it should be total divinity, then marriage will be just nothing but happiness. But doesn't happen, just go to church and join you in the name of God, that two seconds only, later on they will say, we will join each other the way we want, and that is not a marriage. Marriage is for those developed minds who take a vow that they have joined in the name of God, that's it. Children are not their property or emotional property, it is just a gift of God, their household is not their ownership it is a gift of God. Everything what they own, do, they deal, they project is totally, mentally, physically, socially, economically, personally, and impersonally is in the name of God. That is the fun of marriage otherwise everything is marriage you know, there is no problem.

Yeah, you have ten minutes. No question? Let us meditate.

Sit down straight, I don't think you can stand ten minutes but even five minutes will do. Our meditationsMeditation 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. are weird too. Structure your hand please, put this mudraMudra Mudra means "seal." It usually refers to hand positions used in meditation and exercise practices. These hand positions are used to seal the body's energy flow in a particular pattern. More generally it can refer to other locks, bandhas (see Mul Bandh), and meditation practices that seal the flow of energy by concentration. , look straight, put your hand straight, if your hand is like this you are mentally sick, and your stomach is terrible, your digestive system is goofed up, and now you can test it how healthy you are, put it this way okay and look straight. And now put your eyes and focus it at the tip of your nose please. At the tip of your nose inhale deep, exhale deep, inhale deep, exhale deep, please chant with me, Hum dum Har Har Har Har hum dum....

(Student: Chanting 'Hum dum Har Har Har Har hum dum....')

Stop, stop, it is from the navel pointNavel Point The sensitive area of the body near the umbilicus that accumulates and stores life force. It is the reserve energy from this area that initiates the flow of the Kundalini energy from the base of the spine. If the navel area is strong, your vital force and health are also strong. , Hum dum Har Har Har Har hum dum....

(Student: Chanting 'Hum dum Har Har Har Har hum dum....')

Pump the navel. From the navel. Pump the energy, pump it. Come on, pump it. Bravo, bravo, keep up. Come on, come on now, don't give up, come on.

Two more minutes, two more minutes. Pull up, pull up, pull up. One more minute, half a minute, fifteen seconds, inhale....

(The chanting stops.)

And hold, hold his breath, this is a precious breath, you spend eleven minutes not for me, for this breath hold it tight, stretch the hands and stretch the posture, and concentrate, that will give you and there are only thirty to forty seconds to do that, pull tight, tight, let the breath go. Good, good, don't loose the hands, keep it there. Inhale deep, and now stretch, now it will create total nervous system, stretch straight in the posture not up, I didn't say up, stretch forward, tight, and let the breath go. Once more, inhale deep, exhale deep, inhale deep, exhale deep, inhale deep, deep, stretch forward tight, it's okay, no, don't leak out, no leaking, five second more, let it go. Relax.

Hello...

Student: 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. .

YB: It takes eleven minutes only and if you have already done a good yoga practice it should not take even that much to put you into the space and beyond, but the problem is you have to do what you have to do and I'll do what I have to do, right.

Student: (----).

YB: This benefit? Look and ask them what happened to them, they have totally transformed. The three energies-sympathetic, parasympathetic and action nervous system is combined stretched, total circulatory system, nervous system, and pranic body are intermixed, 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. and apana takes a combination and cleanse each other, just in a eleven minutes.

What you call is God is not anywhere, it is right there, that's all, that's how it takes, but it requires some work, some tuning, some and now if you want to meditate just close your eyes and see where (?), but we don't have a time that's why we let you go into that space. You understand the problem? Problem is prepare somebody, do it, and just tell him to meditate and (?). But now he will sing.

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

YB: Oh! wait, wait, wait, wait, Krishna 'you are my love oh! God,' that I want to hear, come on stand up.

Krishna: (----).

YB: You didn't sing first (?), you have eaten too much fatto.

Students: (Laughter.)

YB: You are becoming bad girl now. Now this you sing right, otherwise I'll drop you here.

Krishna: Singing 'You are my....'

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

YB: May the hand of divine protect you, guide you, and be with you, may the unseen hand of God merge with thy two physical hands to protect and provide you the ecstasy of consciousnessConsciousness The nature of the self and being. In the realm of nature, awareness becomes consciousness. It is from the being itself. Being is expressed in consciousness through contrasts and sensations, in awareness through merger, clarity, and reality. and workability of deeds. May you always be protected in your 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. , elevated sense and dutiful and beautiful being. May you always have divinity, dignity and grace, uplifted soul and always exalted in the name of the God. May this day bring you peace, joy, and happiness. SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Sat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. NamSat Naam , Sat Nam The essence or seed embodied in form; the identity of truth. When used as a greeting it means "I greet and salute that reality and truth which is your soul." It is called the Bij Mantra - the seed for all that comes. Naam , Nam The manifested identity of the essence. The word derives from Naa-ay-ma , which means "that which is not, now is born." A Naam gives identity, form, and expression to that which was only essence or subtle before. It is also referred to as the Word.

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

YB: Now time to go...

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