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Summer Solstice Meditation, Day 1

 
Date:
June 18, 2001
Location:
Ram Das Puri, NM
 
 
 
 

I slept and I came straight to the cabin because I don’t want to forget my class, right? You know what your problem is? You forget your class, each one of you is a class. Do you know that? If you just remember that you have a radiant body, what do I say?

Students: Radiant body.

YB: And it needs to be polished everyday, you shall never be poor. And even in the adversity, sickness, misfortune, bad luck and terrible environments, terrible?

Students: Environments.

YB: You will be shining. Do you know that? Do you know that?

Students: Yes.

YB: Na, na, you don’t know, that’s why you don’t do it.

Life comes to a certain little button, each one of you have a button, if you polish your radiant body and press that little button of yours, you can be nice. We spend on spirituality, lot of money. You know why? How many were you here when Alfredo was speaking?

Students: (------)

YB: That many? How many people were present on Peace Prayer day? Did you not hear Alfredo?

Student: (------)

YB: No you didn’t. He is a Ambassador to the United Nations from the World Bank of international monetary fund. And he is teaching them spirituality. What spirituality we are teaching you very slowly, the difference is that those who are you with me, I am building them to the process of converting your energy, human energy into prosperity so that you can be comfortable. Without being comfortable there is no such thing as spirituality. That’s what he was saying.

You have to be you, to begin with and whether you like it or not or find it or not you must know you have some radiance about you. Yeah. Even your worst circumstances, you want to radiate, you want to look prettier, you want to look beautiful, you want to look successful, you want to be trusted, you want to be loved, all those things, is that true? If I am not saying something you don’t understand just tell me, is it not, don’t just yes, yes, it’s not the problem. Problem is to let you know that on this planet, every human, wants what you want. You understand? So you have students everywhere. You have public everywhere, you have your audience everywhere, you can be listened and heard, you can be reached and you can reach out. Why you are not told all this all these years, I wonder why not? But slowly, in getting message and slowly and gradually things are being understood, slowly and gradually you are getting into middle age when sex is not important, sixth sense is important, your sensory system is important than your physical system. And after all this, your radiant body is important. Because you want to radiate, you want to shine, you want to be bright, you want to be…

The tragedy of things is that you even do not know how beautiful you are. And once you discover your own beauty, you become givers. Beauty, there is a one thing with beauty, beauty is innocent and bright. When there is a beauty and it’s bright but crooked, it’s a tragedy.

Once somebody said to me, “Yogiji….”

I said, “Go on saying, it is very good healing thing, go on saying.”

And she said, “Aaaaahhhh…”

I said, “Say it louder.”

So I made her do it about fifteen-twenty times, and then she stopped. I said, “Keep on going doing it.”

And she said, “No, I can't do it anymore.”

I said, “That’s it? That’s what you want to express to me in simple words, papa, I am miserable, right?”

She said, “Right, unbearable. It’s unbearable.”

I saw two tears dropping out of this beautiful girl. She grew with me like this and this and this and this and this, you know. Now she has four children, she has a husband, she has a huge house, everything is fine. But how? And when the tear drops out of her eyes, I said, “Hey, don’t do this. Close your eyes. Close your eyes. See what you want to see.”

After few minutes she opened her eyes and she said and she won't raise her head, I said, “No, no, come on. Look at me again now. And do that aaaahahahhaaa…”

She said, “No, no, I am sorry, I want to apologize, I am sorry. I am a bad girl, it’s not right.”

I said, “What are you talking, sometime you are saying this, sometime you are saying… what do you seek?”

She said, “Oh God, this was worst time it could have stuck us like this and that, God didn’t even touch us.”

I said, “See, life is a comparative study.”

This period I said, what is going over you and through you offers the previous 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. could have crushed you all guys through the pain that would have been totally unbearable. But it is unbearable, but not broken. It has not broken you.

A person was supposed to be hanged and the soldiers were taking him to be hanged and one soldier just miserably rubbed him and his uniform star stuck into his body and he started bleeding. And when the soldier saw the blood there, which was coming out profusely, they totally released him and said, “Go away, go away, go away.”

So he ran and he found a water ditch, he fell in it and fainted. Somebody came and picked him up, took him to his hut, nursed him, recuperated him and he said, “Where are you from?”

He said, “Don’t ask.”

He said, “No. I want to know, where are you from?”

He said, “I came from death bend.”

“What you call it, death row?”

Students: (------)

He said, “Oh yeah, you must be that same man, because when they lost you, they put a statue of you and hanged that. So I think they lost you. And I saw that statue hanging there for a long, two-three days. But it’s gone today.”

Sometime things comes on you which you don’t know. When I was coming, I intentionally late coming and when we saw that the soul of your ancestor rising, it was a scene from there, did you get the twister? No, you didn’t. There was a huge twister over you and we saw that. You know what these people driving were telling me? Oh there is a car, cars are good, they said, look, look, look, these are not cars, they are going. They are acknowledging. This world is of the soul, there are zillions and zillions and zillions of souls dancing in this atmosphere. They all belong to us. You know what we call them, links. They are our connecting tissues, they are our links. They are our goads and guides, they tell us what to do. You know we sometime do things without knowing what we are doing. You know that? In everybody’s life that happens. He maybe Jew, he maybe Muslim, he maybe Hindu, he maybe Sikh, he maybe Buddhist, but basically we are human and every human has to have his armor shining and that’s the radiant body. The amount we spend in beautifying ourselves and our hairdo and our clothes and our shape, tip-top and all that, to polish the radiant body, it’s a very polite and light and simple thing. And if you do few minutes everyday, sometime sit in peace and tranquility, with it, we will be radiant in our day, in our week, in our month, in our year, and exactly in our life.

You know some people, love flows from you. It’s not easy, you are in love with somebody, there is no such thing. It happens.

Sometime you think somebody is your spiritual teacher, right? And he hates you, right? Have you that experience? That is a real love. When you cook a very good dish, very nice dish and it tastes bitter, how you feel? How do you feel?

Students: Bad.

YB: Bad! Right? And if you have a great student with a great destiny and you try to do something good and make it right and it stinks. How you feel then?

Students: Bad.

YB: But no, a good teacher when he feels very bad, he says, ‘Hahahahaha, how are you? How are you? Very nice, you must be doing all right, it’s going around, right? At good speed, that’s all right. It’s going on okay, did you get your HIV or not yet.’ Like as you have got a degree. Your PhD. And sometime your students don’t understand you. They don’t want to know.

This morning I had a great experience, somebody told me, “I know my husband has talked to you.”

I said, “Wow.” That I try to balance it out, but doesn’t matter, I better shut up.

Very few people can say very few things to very few people. Do you know that? Are you aware of that? But no, what you believe is that you can say everything to everybody, at every time, whenever you choose, whenever you want, whenever you feel, isn’t that true? No, you can't. You can't. Whereas radiant body shines everybody it also protects everybody and it doesn’t let things in.

You have 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. . This physical body is just one. Three mental bodies. Negative, positive, neutral. You have arc body, you have auric body, you have pranic body. God, you have bodies and bodies and bodies. Last of all is your shield. The radiant body.

So I decided, first let me deal with you and then we’ll talk again, right? We will say a few things, I’ll say a few things, you may try to listen to me or leave with a excuse of going to bathroom, right? And not come back, right?

(Students’ laughter)

But that’s all right. It has happened too many times, so it’s all right this time too. But I thought now you are very captured audience so I should do something which makes me happy, that I have done it. Whether it reaches your heart and mind and you are willing to do it hundred percent, that’s up to you. You follow? No, you don’t follow.

I have been teaching in this country for thirty-three years in my way to reach out to you and to tell you, the Age of Aquarius has come. Let us prepare our self. Let us use different techniques of beauty and bounty and let us use techniques to be in bliss, let us uplift everybody and love and be affectionate. Let us understand God has created us for a purpose. Let us start complementing rather than complaining. Right? And let us not be mummies.

You saw that movie? Mummy I, Mummy II?

(Students’ laughter)

YB: You are Mummy III.

(Students’ laughter)

All wrapped up, what is a mummy? It’s wrapped up. Yeah, ancient, ancient, ancient, ancient years of soul wrapped up with the cloth of thoughts and with the wax of ego. And when it wakes up, it just says haaaaaaa. Have you seen mummy who forgets about where the child is and child does something wrong, she says hey! What is the difference between a mummy waking up and mama waking up? Same thing. Yeah. Have you seen the father coming home after the day and trying to introduce himself to his own family. Do you see any more corruption than that? Have you any idea? If father of the family walking into the house and just trying to say, ‘Hey, hi genie, hi yoyo, hi poo-poo.’ Funny words. We live in a very funny world. But I’d like to awaken your tenth body and polish it today, so that you may feel great. Yeah. Okay? Are you ready?

Students: Yes, sir.

YB: How many of you are ready and how many you are not? Everybody is ready, yeah, we are going to do it in one, few minutes and hours, we are going to become complete. Yeah, we can become complete, that’s the gift of the great God to the great vehicle or we can call him a master, and that gives to those who are destined to become masters. You are destined to become master and you are master of your good luck, best self and radiant body. But you don’t take it seriously. You know, how you take it? Okay, let me goof for a while, it’s okay. You won't even say it, ahhahhahhah. It’s so true it hurts. But it’s all right, we accept you, as you are, all right. With your all wrap and wax and your box, this body, this body, is a box, King Tut, what they call him? Hah?

Students: (------)

YB: King Tut? He has a gold plate on his box, right? What came out of that box was just dirt. So we are grateful to tenth master, he left for us few words and I am personally, personally, very personally, grateful to Niranjan, who doesn’t even talk to me these days. Where is she? I don’t see her. I think she has disappeared. That is the mummy of Niranjan?

(Students’ laughter)

But out of her sometime comes a sound current, which she has sung for many lifetimes, it’s not that she is wonderful and beautiful and marvelous but what she does for the congregation and for people and there are about twenty-one tapes of her about those kind of things which has never been valued, which has never been promoted, we have never commercialized it. Isn’t something funny? Because sooner or later, we will need that.

It’s all in the making, we are preparing our self for the times to come and as the Aquarian AgeAquarian Age The next in a succession of astrological ages each lasting roughly 2,000 years. Fully inaugurated in ad 2012, the Aquarian Age will witness a radical change in consciousness, human sensitivity, and technology. The central change of this new age emphasizes an increased sensitivity and evolution of our power of awareness and a new relationship to our mind. is setting in, our psyche is changing, our sensory systems is changing, we are changing, and what should be our foremost, powerful, beautiful, body, the radiant body, that is needed to be polished. Armors are to be shined, and we have to become again the soldiers of divine light. Ready? Okay.

Take your these fingers and put them straight, straight and look at the tip of your nose. Yeah. Is that okay? Are you going to put that tape on guys from the sky? You have to sing this tape from the navel, please.

(Tape is played in the class….)

YB: (Over tape) and with each word, navel must move. Pick up the sound, don’t worry. If you don’t know the words, you are lucky, pick up the sound.

Move the navel, feel the radiant body, joy it will be.

Radiate your radiant body, so that ghost may leave you forever.

You are getting there.

(Tape is played in the class….)

YB: (Over tape) keep up, keep up. Bravo. Keep up, God will keep you up. Steady, it has started affecting you. Move the navel.

We are getting there, keep up. Come on, come on, now it is time to be. Move the navel to reach the destiny. You, the yogisYogi One who has attained a state of yoga (union) where polarities are mastered and transcended. One who practices the disciplines of yoga and has attained self-mastery. , wake up. Wake up in you, the real of you. Rise, rise, within you. Let us cash it. Bravo! Why not? Rise, break through the shackles. Break the bondage. Shine the earth. You, the sons and daughters of the age of the Aquarius, rise and rise, above all. Speak to God in the language of Infinity.

Happiness is your birthright. Go after it. Break the pangs of the pain. Penetrate, penetrate. Shine your armors. Move at the base of your spine, round and round. Move, move, like tree moves. As the tree moves their heads. Rise within you. Bravo, bravo.

Inhale deep. Hold each other’s hands please, hold each other hands.

Move on your base. The whole gathering must move. Move, move, move. Move the ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. , move. Whisper. Strong breath, huge, strong, stronger, than this. Strong. Strong, strong, strong, hammer the power.

Inhale, hold the hands and breathe long and deep and be still. Solid. Become Satve BuddhaBuddha An enlightened one; founder of the Buddhist faith. . Still everything, except breath, long and deep.

Hold the grip tight, as tight as you can, allow yourself. Tighten the grip, tighten the grip. Feel the flow of the energy and tighten the grip. Inhale deep.

(Tape stops.)

Deep, deep, inhale. Open up to heavens, hold the grip, let it go, tight breath. Breathe in again, fill yourself with the energy, expand it to all sides, radiate. Let it go. Inhale again, again, again, again. Let it flow from you, flow, flow, let it go, go, go, go, relax. Relax, relax.

Okay, we have to do something very quick and then we have to do the other part of this whole thing and complete the day today, right?

There are lot of unfortunate things happened this year and some innocent people, their parents, caretakers, relatives were killed, without any rhyme and reason leaving many children orphans. Now the prosperity of life is when you give for it and reaches to the heart of those and soothe their suffering, in return, it gives you thousand times, so I need volunteers to stand up and get your purse,… not steal them but to get money out of them, come on, get up, go to your next neighborhood and collect money. If you are cruel-hearted don’t give, doesn’t matter. But you must do it for your own prosperity.

She is very rich, see, what you accept from somebody. Grandson, you should see what you are getting. Some people are very rich, don’t get from them one dollar, that’s not right. She is so rich, do you know what she gave you. Just a token, that’s wrong, squeeze money out of her.

Actually, you want to be here and understand the fact it’s for your own prosperity, but it’s a channel through which we have to go through. We will accept the check, don’t make excuses. Make check to 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. , 3HO, 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. corporation, we are only the agents. We are the only one who will collect it and put it together into the fund, we like to see it, that it is properly given. Come on, be the leaders in giving and be the leaders in collecting. Yeah, this should bring the hat-full. Hey, bring in some big bills, you are just bringing one buck, my God. Come on Sunder, bring the money. Come in guys. What you are going to write, IOU? Don’t miss the bus, come on. Don’t blame me later, you know what I mean.

All of you who wants money give money, that’s a simple rule. Give and get it. All currencies are accepted. These are the two books which Bibiji has published, they are for those who seek knowledge, elementary knowledge in life. They are for you, they are available. But right now, come up. Money, money, money, money, money, get it out. Don’t be the prisoners. Oh, beautiful tape. In South Africa?

Student: (----)

YB: These are the poems?

Student: (----)

YB: The new tapes you have printed? Tapes, beautiful tape. We are trying to help you out, come out.

Student: (----)

YB: Yeah, yeah, yeah I know. Hey, ‘Road to prosperity,’ is limited, we are going to close it down. Hey, somebody pay on my behalf, I want to be prosperous too.

Student: (----)

YB: Huh, pay something. Beautiful, show it to everybody. Money, money, money, money, money. Hah, that’s money, copy of that, wow. ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. , ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. . Hey, hey, give money out of my purse also, I want to be prosperous, why not? Okay, back to your seats now. Beautiful T-shirt, wow, I, I am getting lot of things. ‘Summer Solstice 2001, summer of love,’ show it. Okay back to your seats now.

Student: (----)

YB: Huh?

Student: (----)

YB: From Baisakhi dayBaisakhi Day For Sikhs the day of the formation of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh which took place at the traditional festival of Spring (Baisakhi). ? Who made this? Show it to people. Please now sit down, please. Sit down, sit down, sit down. We will tell you the result, sit down. Everybody is ready? Are you ready?

Students: Yes sir.

YB: If you are ready, sit down please for God sake. I know you don’t listen to me, so it’s okay but just for the sake of time, sit, sit, sit, sit, sit. Sit, sit, sit, sit and sit and face each other. Face. Face, face, face the grace in each one. Come on, do it right.

Hold your hand to each other, without touching it. Okay, don’t touch it though, just face to each other and it’s right and now we are going to play the tape and you are going to sing with it and raising your hands, twelve inches moving, alternatively. Look into each other’s eyes deep.

(The tape is played)

(Students singing ‘Ajai, Alai, Abhai…’ with the music)

YB (talks over music): Look penetratingly into the eyes of the person opposite to you, as gracefully as you can.

It’s a very poor number. Do it right and be right to your destiny. It’s not joking, it is a science. Put your mind into it.

Don’t touch the hands. Let the energy flow. Let in the name of God, heavens flow and flow. Let the winds become the breeze and touch you. Let the song of the holy ghost be heard. Let the spirit flow. Flow. Let the winds blow. Come in the winds, touch the (?). Wind blow. Feel the breath of life.

Inhale. Keep looking deep. Inhale again. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out, relax.

(The tape stops)

(Students clap)

YB: Now one more and we will be through. Hey guys, we have to do a good stuff today. Participate, don’t get up, it is all right. This day doesn’t come again. All right. Now, it’s the real stuff. Ready?

Students: Yes sir.

YB: Really ready?

Students: Yes sir.

YB: All right, then sit down facing each other. Right and put your hands through each other hand and lock your ears.

Side B

Come on let us see, you the lovers, let us see what you do. Lock each other ears. Tight, tight, no it is not a friendship, it’s cheating, if you don’t do it right. Okay?

(The tape is played)

(Students singing with the music)

YB (talks over music): Loud and clear from navel. Tight (?). Grip. Loud, loud. There are only few minutes. Come out. Cover the ears tight. My God, do it very best. Do it now, tomorrow is yours. Hear the eternal sound. Higher, higher, higher. Hold the head gracefully, with the mount of Jupiter, tighten the ears. You won beautiful, come on. Inhale deep. Press your hands as much as you can. Breathe out.

(The tape stops)

YB: Breathe in, press hard. Breathe out. Breathe in deep, press hard, relax.

Now, if I live next year, I will teach you a class. For this year, I have played my part. The future is in your shoulders, if you cannot feel it and see it and understand it, there is something wrong with the heavens. I will be going on a Europe tour and then you can join me at Amritsar, if you want to or you can come to Anandpur SahibAnandpur Sahib Birthplace of the Khalsa, located in Punjab, India. to study with me. Intense chiseling classes, as I used to learn. However, I feel very joyous, extremely happy that you have shown a good promising standard of being. In our language humans are beings and when they progress, prosperity, virtues, values, Divinity, dignity, grace goes with you.

When I came to United States, I promised you, I have come here to create teachers. I have stuck to my promise, you have to stick to yours. With lot of love and affections, I will let you relax, feel for each other.

Each human being is a pure energy of God, created by His will, within the environments of 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. . When you start practicing 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. , God bestowed on you, all what you need and that is what all is about. All is all, in the very word small. The people who feel that somebody is bad and somebody is good are being yoyos in the art of ego and judgment and that is the worst suffering we don’t have to suffer. You did well, you brought the cool airs in the hot day. The breeze touch your cheeks and your faces, took away from you the evil and left you with nothing but goodness. With that platform and standard, keep moving.

Love is a ever flowing smile. This physical body contained the subtlety and the beauty 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. keeps the energy and the radiant body give you infinite success. So we have been practicing these words of the tenth masters, which are permutation and combination to shine your radiant body. You have sang it well and beautifully. It’s the language in the mouth of the human with the tongue and the taste, for the ears of the angel and the heavens. It’s my joy to look at you and to bow to you for the most successful day. The responsibility that for few moments you forgot who you are, is a achievement. The expression of joy is the ecstasy you felt.

I hope you will continue this as your practice so that peacefully and gracefully, strongly, you may enter the Age of Aquarius and may not participate the bulk of the people who will be shattering and shivering and sharing fears, nightmares and that kind of life. I want you to be successful, very successful. Really successful. So that like a forklift you can lift people. Hold on to them and reach their destination. I am asking your spirit to wakeup, that is what matters. Okay?

Students: Yes sir.

YB: So we will meet again. So, could you please close your eyes and meditate. So I can peacefully disappear. All right?

(Students singing, ‘May the longtime sunshine upon you…’)

YB: That ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. will do, come on ShaktiShakti The creative power and principle of existence itself. Without it nothing can manifest or bloom. It is feminine in nature. . Come on holy mother.

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