Los Angeles Lecture

 
Date:
May 18, 1982
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
 
 
 
 

...Before I start the class I like to announce 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. estate got (?) and burnt today and it was fascinating experience to see what happens when the house is on fire. When I went there it was a simple situation which we saw but there was no way to help it, so we let it go down peace, fire brigade came in time, they tried their best, but there was nothing we could do. There were lot of things which were given as gift to the house of GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. and lot of them got spoiled, damaged or ruined and some were saved as souvenir. However, it is a wonderful thing to learn that you must know in your own house where is fire extinguisher. In 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. house the fire extinguisher is so powerful that it could have taken care of the fire by the neighbors too. I don't wish to mean anything. But nobody knew where it was because everybody panicked and GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. Ram DasGuru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. estate normally has the tradition when they are outside people working there is always a men of security to stand by, we protect and guard our houses. And it was not done either.

My idea to tell you is I am not worried what happened to 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. estate, I am more worried what is happening to you, all of you. Because you have not yet learned to live by the rule. And that is the maximum penalty, when you don't live by the rule and you break the rule then you suffer. And many of you think by crossing the finger and lowing the muscles and pushing this thing and that thing perhaps calamities will go away. Now tell me now if you put five gallons of combustible highly explosive stuff and then you put a electric wire which is about to give up and that gives a spark what you can do?

Normally these explosives were supposed to be mixed outside the house, not in the room, normally all other precautions were to be taken they were not taken by the contractors and normally my own son Siri Datta Singh who I trusted some years ago now he wants to be a superior head honcho of the whole thing, he should have been present there. And somebody else could have volunteered too and the Mukiya Singh Sahib or the Mukiya Jatedar should have seen to it voluntarily. I am being given lot of explanations why things are not happening? Therefore I say I am very grateful to God and GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. that nobody got burned in this incident and the damage of the property, it admirably happened in a very graceful manner. And it's a great lesson to learn that you either live by the rules or you suffer.

This statement I am making because lot of you come from a background where you believe in Genies and evil wills and akashik records and all that kind of stuff. And it will give you a point to gossip. So to put an end to that I am telling you it's a simple fact of negligence on the part of the contractors. And it's a simple act of nuisance that we did not over cautiously guarded it, we are not supposed to, but normally we do. It's a habit with us, it's a habit with us whenever woman goes somewhere we send a escort, it's a habit with us we don't leave the estate and GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. Ram DasGuru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. alone. It's a habit with us we watch our life. There are certain things we are very proud we build them into our habits. And the idea is to make you understand is we are losing those good habits. And life does not like it.

Insurance will cover it, we'll cover it, it's all right, there will be no problem, people will be adjusted and accommodated, everything will be far out. But I am just trying to tell you if you want to worry about it worry for yourself. This is how I look at it? I have to go one day and I have to leave all this to you, I made up my mind long time ago and I believe in it. Nothing is going to stop me and the way you are taking care of things it's not healthy.

I tell you one little example. There is a side gate here, its lock was, inner gate lock was loose, I noticed it about two weeks ago and I didn't utter a word. Then a week later I noticed it, it was more loose and nobody took care of it. And finally I brought to the notice of my staff.

I said, "You people pass this gate twenty times a day could you see this lock is loose?"

It means the purpose of the security which that gate provides is totally defeated, its own lock is loose. And it is considered routine. And the second routine which I have seen with 3HO people when there is some outsider working you think for granted he is a professional. You are the most professional, but when you work you put a caution and somebody else works you accept it totally and that's where this whole ridiculous thing has happened.

So, anyway to end the matter short, it will be my personal request not to create any gossip or read any Akashik records or to start doing unsikh like things. It will hurt me more if you start doing that. And if I am going to find out I am going to excommunicate you on that very charge and I am pretty serious, I am sick and tired of this nonsense and I have to put it to end. And don't give me a chance to do it. Because we know where we are wrong, we know why we are wrong, and we also know what is wrong? We are very sensitively intelligent people. If Krishna Singh is not going to make money I may bend my back downwards, he is not going to make it and I tell him right now in the class "Sardar Krishna Singhji, just understand excuses never make money, believe it or not. You have to go and make it. And if you believe in GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. 's words," 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,

By your own virtue correct your own system and complete your own work. But I definitely like to see you, why didn't you come yesterday you had appointment with me?

Student: I was working last night.

YB: Then you didn't have the courtesy to call me and tell me you are working?

Student: (-------)

YB: Did you ask for the appointment?

Student: (-------)

YB: If I start confirming every appointment which is being requested I need.

Student: (-------)

YB: Hmm?

Student: (-------)

YB: Today we are going to discuss something very basically interested to initiate our own mind to deal with our total self.

It's very beautiful that this subject is being discussed now. Because we have to train our mind and it is very surprising, it is amazingly surprising that how God has trained me, I have been thirty-nine, forty years in India and in the continent and then I am here for twelve years. And I am seeing something which is explainable now. You have an attitude to go by a route or by a routine. I have an attitude to check the route and check the routine and then go. And in simple life it is called pros and cons. Total you must balance pros and cons. Totally you must initiate the relationship of anything with you and you with anything and the pros and cons which you have to face or has been to project it to you in sequence. So you must know the sequence. At least when you know the sequence and you initiate your mind, and you totally understand and you put your you in front and the sequence then I can assure you with a little practice you will know the consequences. We may not know the consequences we can predict, or somebody who is totally psychic or initiated who has divya drishti, who know the unknown can totally come out with but if that one is who is not going to come out with anything, because what does he care? Earth is a earth anyway. No big deal, it keeps rotating, keep rotating. But on the other hand when you can do a favor to yourself and the biggest and the highest favor is you must stop to know sequence. It is essential, it is a essential mental initiation of each one to each one.

It is very surprising that I have now counseled from last twelve years very extensively and when I look into the problems one thing is missing, one factor is missing, nobody is mentally ready and prepared. Mentally ready and prepared to know at least the sequence, forget about the consequences. Life does require to always take the sequence and at least estimate the consequences.

I remember in life a situation happened, somebody first sued 3HO foundation, didn't get away with, sued 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. in New Mexico didn't get away from it, then he sued me for five hundred dollars and for one year the guy was after our blood serving on us (?) I am not there, so normally didn't get served, finally we got so tired we said get it, doesn't matter I am there are not, let's get over with. We got over with, we got this (?) and all that stuff. And the guy was so sharp, he went to the lower court, the court is there, the magistrate you know somebody is milking the cows in the morning and in the evening because he is a magistrate like that kind of stuff, so they just act like a Muslim law what you say it, what you say it? So this guy told our attorney well doesn't matter let it come we'll take care of it and then he said, "Where is the defendant?"

They said, "Well, you never said the defendant should come?"

He said, "Well, that is a degree, that's it, now pay him six hundred dollars and you pay twelve hundred dollars the attorney fees."

So there were about two thousand dollars to be deposited if he even go to appeal. The question is what to do? It was a very simple thing, and I said, "We got to go and appeal it."

"Why?"

And we had a beautiful attorney, he is a friend of mine and he said, "Why?"

"Question was for you when he was paying asking five hundred, you should have paid got rid of it."

I said, "No, it's a matter of principle. If I start getting sued in this country, this part of the country and started paying moment a person sues, I think everybody in 3HO will sell their meat to pay these guys, to save my skin. That is not right, the consequences are much more fearful than the sequence."

So we went back and we sued him and I remember after my deposition for which he was feeling very victorious, that he dropped the case. So we end up paying the attorney fees of about eighteen hundred dollars and he end up paying about three thousand bucks and nobody got hurt. But one thing was it became a little good warning to everybody that cases are not good. But if you have extra money and you want to go to the court and you have some friend as an attorney, please hire him so you know it goes on. So you have to weigh the sequence what I am trying to tell you is you have to weigh the sequence into consequences and check it out where you as you initially, now make the statement it is very important to understand where you as you initially stand in the realm of sequence and consequence. Because you are never sequence and you are never consequence, sequence affect you to make you face the consequences. Neither you are a sequence nor you are a consequence, you are the victim of it, do you understand that? Sometime you think, sometime I think, sometime we think actually our thinking doesn't make any sense we are always victim of the consequences and the consequences are always the start of the sequence and within the sequence and consequences we have the relationship.

Okay now take this way. A sequence has started, consequences are here, there is a person who even doesn't care for the consequences. Sequence has started the same way, consequences are there, there is a person he is doomed totally because he cannot take those consequences. It is you always you in the middle of everything who has to decide whether you can take it or not. There are people, they go in Las Vegas, they gamble and once I asked somebody I said, "How much you lost and how much you won?"

He said, "On one night I won five hundred dollars next day I lost fifty-three thousand dollars."

I said, "That's a lot of money."

He said, "I didn't come here to win. I love to lose."

I said "You come every week?"

He said, "You bet."

I said, "My God!"

I said, "What is your average of loss?"

He said, "Just sometime twenty, sometime fifty, sometime eighty."

He said, "Average forty thousand."

I said "Do you ever win?"

He said, "I have been trying from last eight years, so far none, just some where here few pennies and some there."

And I saw the guy was very happy.

I told him, "You must be very rich" and his friend said, "No, no he is loaded with richness. He doesn't know what he is doing. For him to come to Las Vegas to pass time to lose money is a kind of life he feels is a life."

For you some of you to work the sweat and lose fifteen pound of your weight you are not going to touch even twenty thousand dollars, so there are two different people. There are two different people. There are people who drink coffee and coffee and coffee and claim they are healthy. There are people who claim absolutely healthy and take one cup of coffee and their legs are up and their head is down and for four days they say who are you? Who am I? Who we are? Have you seen those people?

Your immunity of your total you is different in proportion to other people that's why all people are creation of God, all are men of God, all are beautiful, but proportionately your own immunity to face the consequences is different. Therefore the sensitivity and immunity, sensitivity or immunity are your personality projections which must decide what sequence you want to start and what consequences you want to face. And I tell you life becomes very easy if you just know this is the sequence and these are the consequences and you have totally initiated yourself and you walk with full heart into it, get defeated, get successful, it's okay you will never be burnt.

But if you do not know what was what and what is what and what is going to be what? Then each time you are facing something totally unprepared and is it surprise and sometime you should take the surprise and sometime you don't.

Therefore you have to create, you have to create a direct relationship with your own mind. And by adjusting to sequence and consequences, by adjusting to sequence and consequences you must know where do you stand in relationship. It is very vital, it's very essential. And that has to be very respectably considered, because I tell you one thing purpose of life is to live smoothly and happily. You can live smoothly and happily others may not let you live smoothly and happily.

Because essentially, it's very funny I was discussing with one very, very beautiful lady today and she said, "My training as a Christian demands me to do dah-dah-dah." I said, first of all, you must understand that Christianity which Jesus taught and Christ Christianity which you people practice are two different Christianities. What he said and what Christianity is, what church made the Christianity and what Jesus taught the Christianity are two different Christianity, I like to know which one you want to practice. And she couldn't let me know.

She said, "What the way I have been told."

I said, "My dear sweet lady the way you have been told that's the way you have been told."

(Second voice of the dual voice becomes high.)

Side-B

(Second voice of the dual voice becomes high.)

...You can't, if you want to be happy and you want to grow and you want to be great and you want to enjoy your own life then don't wait, serve, help, pull people out of the grinding wheel of time and space. Because each one is competent to help each one. It is never too late and it shall never be too late. I do not know if my friend can make that tape Har bolo, har bolo, har bolo mere pahi, har bolat sab paap lehjahi, have you made it? No?

Because you are a jack of something, is your birthday defect?

Student: No.

YB: King of clubs.

Student: (-------)

YB: King of clubs is until the club doesn't hit your head you won't move?

Student: It's the first time I (?).

YB: First time you have heard of it? How come you have heard first time? I have been saying it for so many times that this tape should be ready in Espanola, in this, I told Espanola, I told Karta Purak, Karta Purak called here. You are not meant to weep, you understand? Hari AmritAmrit , Aamrit The nectar of bliss; also the ceremony in which a person dedicates their life to the Khalsa. , you are not meant to weep.

(Students' laughter...)

Okay, don't weep, that's all, do everything else.

SatSat Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself. SimranSimran A deep meditative process in which the naam of the Infinite is remembered and dwelled in without conscious effort. , are you listening?

(Students' laughter...)

Is that tape here in the Hacienda de Guru Ram Das , The Ashram The grounds of Yogi Bhajan's traditional home and ranch in Espanola, NM, as well the surrounding businesses, gurdwara and langar hall. ashramHacienda de Guru Ram Das , The Ashram The grounds of Yogi Bhajan's traditional home and ranch in Espanola, NM, as well the surrounding businesses, gurdwara and langar hall. Ashram , Aashram A community of practitioners who come together to live conscious, mindful lives. ?

Student: No, sir it's not.

YB: Where it is?

Student: (-------)

YB: No, that, that's another story. We have no duplicate tape of that tape here?

Student: (-------)

YB: Why not?

Student: (-------)

YB: You are admitting your own mistake?

(Students' laughter...)

YB: Something is working.

(Students' laughter...)

That's a very brave act. Today you have really honored yourself. It's a very brave act to admit mistakes. I made a mistake too.

(Students' laughter...)

Well, I just...

Student: (-------)

YB: Okay try it, and don't make an accident.

(Students' laughter...)

There is a tape and there is a note with those tapes, those Gurubani, there is a little notes, the way the people are singing, it may look to you it is useless and I am willing to buy that risk. Because until it is a Jazz music or it is a what you call it, what is these days where you dance without tune and turn, what do they call it?

Student: Yoga aerobics.

(Students' laughter...)

YB: No, yoga of aerobics you do something exercise, I don't want to bring exercise. High pitch rock music, you know why they call it rock music?

Student: (-------)

YB: You know that? It stones your inner sensibility, the brain becomes rock.

(Students' laughter...)

And there is nothing wrong about it, if you want to carry a rock in your skull it's good, in case of any car accident and everything else you know. What should I say to you, I really, I really love you very much and I have put in fourteen years day in and day out, tomorrow morning I am flying again, I have not even rested. Because I want to go and serve and love wherever you are and I want to serve and love you here. I know you love me very much. Don't misunderstand that when I tell you what to do is it's just to put you down, that's not true. I don't want to put you down, but you are not coming that fast either. You know I know you have a chance to be happy, I definitely know that. I am itchy, I feel to be semi-happy is not enough. I feel semi-strong is not enough. Now I know a problem of a woman, I'll give you one example without putting her name, I am not afraid to put name but some people get very depressed when I take their name and they feel they have been publically demolished. So keeping the confidentiality, that person is very religiously great, but emotionally is stung up in what you call it ego command. Ego command on self and on the surrounding limits a person. Ego limits you...

(Till here.)

Have you checked it out the way it is what it is? Somebody tell you God is, why don't you check it out, God is and God is not. Because basically religions have great speculations. Any religion which will give more concessions will have more members, I tell you right now. More concession you give you will have more following. Lesser concession you give, lesser following you will have.

Buddhism is a very practical (?) Buddhism started with Hun Yang(Huenstang), Hun Yang(Huenstang) is practiced BuddhaBuddha An enlightened one; founder of the Buddhist faith. , be stavic BuddhaBuddha An enlightened one; founder of the Buddhist faith. that's Hun Yang(Huenstang) and there is a such a beautiful, wonderful, schedule but there were very few Buddhist, no big deal and then they take out a branch called Sa yang. And you know what is a Sa yang? Believe in BuddhaBuddha An enlightened one; founder of the Buddhist faith. and you are the BuddhaBuddha An enlightened one; founder of the Buddhist faith. . Everybody became the Buddhist. It was the best sell out in the religious market ever it ever happened. Now look what happened was I tell you both sides of the religion so that you can make your own confirmation about it.

Christianity started and Jesus start and whether it was a plot it was real, he was crucified. Now here is a very magnificent point, some of his lovers or beloveds took out that cross, a symbol of death and made it divine. And made everybody to work and make everybody to feel guilty the basic idea that Jesus died for your sin, the basic idea of Christianity is Jesus died for?

Student: Your sin.

YB: Your sin, so you go on committing or you don't have to commit. What is your explanation, guess it out, tell me, what do you say?

Student: (-------)

YB: Jesus died for your sin, what's your job to do?

Student: (-------)

YB: Do you understand?

Student: (-------)

YB: The actual idea is Jesus died for your sin for God sake don't commit anymore, don't do adultery, those ten commandments, thou shall not kill, thou shall... Now how many here only know those Christians who live by those ten commandments, raise your hands. I am not saying you live or not, I am not asking you a question. Even you know give me the name of a Christian who?

Student: (-------)

YB: What is her name?

Student: Christina.

YB: Okay send somebody to her grandmother and check it all out the details you will be surprised to find it out, she doesn't eat meat?

(Students' laughter...)

I have asked you a question. Thou shall not kill. I like to beg your pardon for certain things but I like to bring to you some knowledgeable fact. Fact of life is I have counseled everyday lot of people one after the other, morning till evening I sit down with people and I see the pattern, I see the life, and it worries me. For a simple fact that you want to be in something but you never initiate your mind to just surely know what sequence will lead to what consequences. And eighty percent time I am told I was not aware, now is there a solution to it? I was not aware I asked once a bride just at the nick of time, you know nick of the time, just when she was going to, I said, "Where are you going?"

She said, "No, my father is taking me to a altar."

I said, "What for?"

She turned out, she said, "Yogiji, I am getting married, don't you understand?"

I said, "Yeah, I have come, I have come to attend your marriage, I am here for that, didn't you invite me, you father invited me, I am here."

I said, "You are going to walk to that altar, right?"

She said "Yes."

I said, "What for?"

She said, "I am going to accept my husband."

I said, "You are going to accept it? Or you are going to accept through 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. because what is the idea of going at the altar, why not to accept it right here, why to walk these feet, waste time and energy and space?"

She said, "I don't understand please tell me what (?)?"

I said, "Go there, accept him in the name of God and tell him so long we both will live and we will remember God is, there shall be no separation." I said, "This is the Christian way. This is the Christ 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. ."

She said, "When I am going to tell him?"

I said, "Moment you stand with him, tell him."

So she went with all that white thing coming down and whole stuff and she turned around and she told him, "Michael I have one question to make."

And he said, "What?"

She said, "I am going to accept you as a husband and you may accept me, and may not accept me as wife but be sure right here tell me that we are never going to divorce come what may."

He said, "Yeah, yeah, but what you are saying."

She said, "I just want this promise right here."

And you know what Michael said? I said, "I know, I know that 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. was talking to you, I know."

(Students' laughter...)

"I saw it there."

He said, "Sure, sure, sure, you can tell him and I am telling you, I am not going to divorce you ever."

She said, "No, I didn't say divorce, I am just saying we will remain married so long we know in the name of God we are alive, you are going to say that."

And it was the funniest marriage which I attended she told the priest to ask him that question. God bless them they are still very happy, because Michael got so scared.

(Students' laughter...)

From that day onwards he has just, he just got scared. Don't walk into things, because don't walk into things because you are walking into consequences, when I walked into this robe of mine and I walked into be what I am and I walked to what I am to be I understood one thing at that moment and I understood it very clearly, that I am going to guard my enemies and my friends equally. Call it anything. I shall speak in shortest language and truthfully. And I shall only speak truth in spite of the fact untruth will pay me more dividends.

While counseling one of my son today, I said to him, we discussed and discussed got too long, two hours you know and I said to him, I said, "What do you want?"

I want you to definitely grow, but you are too attached.

And I said to him, "Normally as a spiritual man I should have said to you, my dear son I really love you, now you go back be on your place, enjoy your life, my prayers are with you and I'll be available on the telephone, call me anytime I am at your service and if you want I'll be around, tell me anything beautiful, you are wonderful man."

And I said, "You would have been so happy but I am telling you are an idiot, you don't want to work harder, you don't want to give yourself a chance, you want break your chance or not, but I want you to break a chance, break a chance. This chance you are taking with your negativity and your depression already taken a more peace of life and you may not be in a position to afford that freshness in life and you are not going to make it, I know it. I say I can't do it, it is dishonest on my part. I want to agree I know you are going to lick my brain to the barest of my skull, I know you are not going to leave me alone. But come what may these consequences sequences that I cannot misguide you, because you have come in trust to be guided. I have accepted you in that trust to be guided. I am going to guide you, you are going to be guided. I cannot now tell you something which suits me better or suit me less, I all going to tell you what it should be, what it is and the consequence of it is at this time if I may not apply the brake you are going to cause a very serious accident of life." Life is like that, work doesn't wait, and mistake never forgive. Consequences are as truthfully fact as sequences, once you are totally jammed in a sequence you shall face the consequences. That's called law 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. .

All those religion who will not talk about 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. are those who will propagate believe in the prophet and you will be liberated. But after all when you meet the God you will be liberated but when you will meet the mother creation you shall be grinded. I like to tell you that, God will forgive you. If I say God won't forgive, God is not merciful then I am putting down the Islam.

Rabh and Rahim, God is the great merciful, therefore you can chop off anybody's neck it's all within the rule. Whosoever does not accept your God the final God which gave to you by your prophet is a kafar, kafar means the condemned person who has no right to life. What I am trying to reach to you is every religion took the circumstances, every religion took the sequence, every religion took everything to it and there are many religions, many will come and many will go, I'll like to introduce you to one religion and that is a religion of total you, totally initiated by you, totally understood by you, totally served by you, totally guarded by you, totally loved by you, totally promoted by you and totally becoming you. And GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. NanakGuru Nanak First Guru of the Sikhs. explained it in beautiful words when he said,

"Aad sach, Jugad sach, Hai bhee sach,

Nanak hosee bhee sach"

Therefore please in all sequences and all consequences just remember that sequence and consequence are not you.

We'll discuss tomorrow or day after or whenever we meet, the law 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. . We are now entering into Ayurvedic and Buddhist doctrine which I have been avoiding twelve years because normally my attitude is take the doctor of the religion and just say it is good for those who believe in it, but because we are going to deal with the initiation of mental mind we have to take lot of example for religions, I like to bring here to notice of all those that purpose of this is not to put down any religion or to uplift any religion, purpose of this discussion is to totally discuss the facts and facts are sometime very difficult to swallow. And don't misunderstand me when I confront in Sikh religions I sit with the highest organization hierarchy and discuss with them, they can't even swallow those too, so don't' misunderstand that because I believe every religion is a circumstantial simplicity and that is the way it should be, rather than making it a complicated and taking advantage of the innocent people. I believe people who come to you because of love you just have the right to give them love and nothing else and if you can't you have the right to tell them you can't spare it. I believe that.

I believe people who come to you for guidance just give them the guidance and leave them alone. I believe if the will of God you know there is no need of playing it, let it be played, just be satisfied.

And I give you the funniest part of it which I couldn't believe. I was coming out and the guy who burnt the estate that contractor, he was standing there and I said, to him I said, "It is all right, it's God's will, you know this house served us very much and it wanted to get burned just like body ends you know, it happened, don't feel sad."

He said, "No, no, no, I am sad you should not feel sad."

I said, "No, if we have to feel sad let us both feel it."

(Students' laughter...)

"And if not let us both not."

He said, "No, no, no, I have a huge insurance and it's going to cover whole thing and I am the one who has lost everything."

I said, "How come?"

He said, "Look, my lamp and my everything got burnt in it and plus they are going to raise my insurance."

I said, "Look, everybody has a trouble. He has a different kind of trouble, I have different kind of trouble. I have a trouble tonight where I am going to sleep and he has a trouble that he lost his lamp."

(Students' laughter...)

And I said, "Don't worry insurance will cover for you. If it will cover for me, it is going to cover for all, forget about it."

So situation is each one has each taste and each one has each personality and each one has each frequency, each projection. But sequence have always the same consequences, simply we take them differently and we will not understand it until we do not understand the law 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. or law of avagavan, law of avagavan. Law of avagavan is Aava-Gavan, come and go, law of coming and going. That's what we are going to discuss, meanwhile may the...

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

Blessed is the hand of God which guide us and provide us with prosperity, maturity and experience of life. Blessed is the house of GuruGuru That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word. Guru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. Ram DasGuru Ram Das Fourth Guru of the Sikhs. which took upon itself the tragedy all the lives were protected and nobody suffered a serious consequences in spite of the serious time and space. Blessed is grace those who saw it, learned from it, those who saved and served and participated in that grace. Blessed is that life which knows the real home and who prepares for it. Blessed are people who love God expect His will praise the lord through consequences and sequences and merge in the Infinity now and forever. 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. .

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

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