All done?
Student: All done.
YB: You know today is a day, when it is true, there is a one part in us beast, one part in us human and one part in us angel. We are the trinity, Trimurthi and it doesn't take much energy to become angelic or human or devilish.
The word devil is de-will. When you do not have your will, will to be. Human is that when you have your light or your halo, angelic is when you are willing to help, serve and you uplift, to the extent you can become divine when you totally sacrifice yourself for the sake of to save others.
Then you have those faculties of God like savior, like a giver, compassionate. These are the words normally used for Almighty God, because in His Infinity God is Infinity. And man or a human has a capacity to match up that Infinity. 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.
is not right when he, wrong when he said, it's the action which will decide where you are, how you'll act.
I had a very hard day today. Somebody was so convinced, they are horrible, miserable, you know, that kind of statement, and in spite of the best of my effort to saying that God is and good and bad is all way of God. There was no hearing, there was no understanding, there was no even effectively realization or rationalization that bad and good is a test of time. In a rainy season in a cloud, is not that there will never be a sunshine. But there was no death of faith or trust or anything. And then the other person said, "You do not know how it is to be. Hopeless, without money, without shelter, without home, without this, without friends."
And I said, "I, I went through it twice and I am very aware of it."
There is no person who doesn't go into lonely hour. You all go. And that is the only most beautiful hour. When you go into the most lonely hour and you feel God is lonely, too. You are not the only one who is lonely. You make all the effort to go on the top of the mountain, but you know, on the peak only one can fit? When you realize you are lonely, at that time you may feel God is with you or the energy is with you or your soul is with you. That may be the only chance. When there is a very hard calamity you are facing and the fact is, you are facing it, you may put yourself in a prayer that you my reach your excellence and your mind with the combination of your soul may change the universe and within existence.
There are people and there are people and there are people. There are people who believe in excellence, there are people who believe in being mediocre and there are people who are just commoners, they don't want to be anybody. This all we choose who we want to be. God is compassionate, God is Creator, God is kind, God created you in His own image. Because that is what the thought was.
We were talking thought yesterday. That is what thought was that this person (?) like this. That's why your appearance, which looks today, in ten years will not be the same. You will process your appearance. But your creativity will be the same. You have to acknowledge yourself in the same way. Therefore with very thought, you are a creature and you belong to a Creator that everybody belongs to that one Creator.
'Ek Pita Ekas Kay Hum Barak, Thu Merey Guhayi,'
'There is one father and everybody is the child of that father and the giveth of the knowledge, the highest is that is also God.'
Tonight, you will see children going out, asking door to door for candy in very different costumes. What they are, tonight they are not. Tonight they are somebody else. I saw one child coming for the candy, that was crowned like princess and the other child was bunch of grapes. But they looked pretty, effectively grapes. So whatever the parents helped them to be or they wanted to be, idea was today or tonight was not the night to be. Actually the night is to go to home to home, door to door to bless. Children are considered angles of blessing. But it end up in a candy and treat and things do not relate the way. Next day will be All Saints' Day. We will worship saints. But this is very great tragedy if you look at it.
There is no day when you worship yourself. There is no day when man can worship oneself. Self-worship day. No. There is a day, we celebrate birthday, there is a day we celebrate death days, self (?). Why? Because the relationship with the man and self is very little. We are all forced and trained and goaded and guided into the fact that we must live to be somebody. We always live on a Halloween dress. We are never in ourself. We always try to look different, we always try to act different, we always try to be different, but we are not otherwise. Once our awarenessAwareness
The pure nature of existence; the power to be consciously conscious without an object or need. A fundamental property of the soul and true self; it is Kundalini as it folds and unfolds itself in existence.
becomes that we are we and we are human and we are here, all matter is solved. Then there is no question. Person can question another person, person can question environments, person can (?) anything, but you will hardly find question, person questioning oneself. That's why you are given discipline to be. That's why the choice is gone from you to be not to be. You lost that wasteful choice. The choice given to you is this is to be.
'RehitRehit
Code of Conduct.
piare mohe ko Sikh piaaraa naaheh.'
'Disciple is not beloved of me, but his code of conduct.'
That code of conduct was given to you, because that's the way you are to be. Once a person acknowledges, faces and understand the circumstances that life is to be, then life is to be. Then it becomes. So you saw law, Moses gave a law, Manu gave a law, mankind was always given, laid down the law. But it came to house of Nanak when the man was given a living law. Not the law to be, to protect your heavens and hell, not the law to be protect your tomorrow, no. The law to be is today you within you. Some people do not have the strength and discipline to be themself.
So, you know, you see, you write, so many read so many books and there are so many philosophy and so many holy men, so many teachers, so many thoughts, so many societies, everything is there, but you won't find anything there where you have to be just you and you are expected to be you. There is not any place where you are told, "Leave the rest, you are the best and you got to be you. Present yourself." No. Actually that should be the training of every human. Every loving person must have that depth. And that's why we are going to celebrate tonight. On this night, we like to conquer that in us which is not us and we want to achieve that in us, which is us.
So please balance your left hand and your right hand and put about a one foot difference. This is the posture exactly which, in which I am. Exactly. Close your eyes please.
And put that that tape which we played in France and they will all chant with it.
You will chant in the very notes of it.
(The tape, '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.
, 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.
.....' is played)
YB (talks over tape) Spine straight...
SIDE-B
(The tape continues)
YB (talks over tape) Whisper. Powerfully... Use the force of 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.
... Go into silence with navel. Steady, steady. This is (?) crucial three minutes...
(The tape stops)
YB: Inhale deep, hold. Squeeze the spines please from bottom to top, muscle by muscle. Exhale. Inhale deep, hold the breath and put all the pressure on the spine, squeeze it below to top, stretch it. Exhale, inhale deep, deep, stretch the spine. Relax.
Within you exist your reality and around you exist your non-reality. You are the only master of the time at that space to decide. These two exercises, which you have got are to let you know, though it looks like that you are subject to time and space, that's not true. What happens is a, has a reason. Whatever that reason is, is the challenge. Whatever challenge is has to be faced.
Is GuruGuru
That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word.
Tej here?
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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.
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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.
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Existence; what is; the subtle essence of Infinity itself.
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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.
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Free kitchen associated with Sikh worship service.
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"The Fishes"
Upon the marble, warm and white, we walk together every night, while the Hari Mandir covered in light was reflected in the water shining bright, as we bow together with delight. Upon the PrakarmaPrakarma
, Parkarma
Literally: A window to life. The marble pathway that surrounds the sacred pool and Golden Temple.
the pilgrims slept, 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 hand their prayers were kept. There were many who smiled and a few who wept and with joy and devotion, each heart left as we walked the PrakarmaPrakarma
, Parkarma
Literally: A window to life. The marble pathway that surrounds the sacred pool and Golden Temple.
step by step. The Dukh Banjan tree was there over the PrakarmaPrakarma
, Parkarma
Literally: A window to life. The marble pathway that surrounds the sacred pool and Golden Temple.
in that humid air and under that tree, he stepped with care into the shimmering holy water where the fishes came, his darshan to share. In the dark water, we could see them splash, while upon their backs, the bright lights flashed. All their fishy KarmasKarma
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.
turned ash, as they swam to him, their prayers to cash. It was a joy for the revering bash. Their open mouths gaped, their open mouths gaped large in the dark. These old souls whose prayer was to mark themselves with the light 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.
's arc, so in the Sarovar, they struck the spark 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.
's love in that divine park. Each night they came as never before, coming two by two and four by four, they pointed the way 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.
's door, then from the water they bowed to the shore as his wet feet touched that marble floor. Then into the water they dived down deep to pray to the GuruGuru
That which takes us from ignorance to knowledge; from darkness, gu, to light, ru. It can be a person, a teaching, or in its most subtle form - the Word.
their souls to keep, while on the PrakarmaPrakarma
, Parkarma
Literally: A window to life. The marble pathway that surrounds the sacred pool and Golden Temple.
was heard not a peep, well, except the snore or a birdie's chirp. Then we returned to the (?) and went to sleep. This is the power of the saintly man whom God shall cover with His own hand, the four corners shall bow to where He stands in all the regions on all the lands, so practice His wisdom whenever you can.
(Applause)
YB: On a Halloween night it is a good job. Well, we have more candy to distribute and right now, may the long time...
(The class sings, "May the long time.....")
YB: Wake up, wake up.
Bless us the excellence, bless us the wisdom, compassion, care and kindness. Bless us the togetherness, bless us the sight of thy existence and thy play and thy dance. Oh Lord of all values, God of all souls, being a all brightness in 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.
and on ourself, give us the straight path to walk onto thee in peace, grace and tranquillity. 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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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.
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Goodnight. Hey, now you go, hurry up. Give them all.