The Future Of Planet Earth

This is something that I've gut from sikhnet. I think that this is very interesting. Its from Yogiji.

Let's read about the future of planet earth

The future of planet earth

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I think we taught the half of this class which I am going to teach you today in Hamburg. And now they have to wait for me, when I go back. They can't believe.

There are two things in your human life which you have to recognize, which you don't know. One is called by a very common word. Word is called 'grief.' Every disease in the body is divided by two... there are two things in your body. That's all that is. I mean to say it. How rich you are, it doesn't matter. How beautiful you are, doesn't matter. How religious you are, doesn't matter. How ugly you are, how pervert you are, even that doesn't matter. Your total behavior is your satisfaction and your emotions and your feelings. It has nothing to do with your life. Your life is dependent on two strengths or on two things: One is how angry you are. Second is how aggrieved you are. If you are angry, you will have all blood diseases; cancer, etc., etc. And if you are aggrieved, you will have diabetes, phobias and fears and moods and depression, whatever you call it. So if you take a packet of celery and carrots with you, and when your sugar is down, you take the carrot and when your sugar is up, you take the
celery. Celery has natural insulin. And carrot has natural Vitamin A and sugar. I mean to say, that's the only thing humanity has to learn to live.

Because this is a time of great stress. We all have lost one thing. We have all lost the ability to talk to our soul. We have no friendship with our soul. We have friendship with our emotions. It's very amazing. It is so amazing that in Moscow I learned one thing: Whatever opinions we Americans have about Russians is totally false. They are the most contained, patient, sober and honorable people. They are so peaceful. They can take it so much that I think that what their condition is today, if there is that same very condition in America, we'd all get into the ocean and jump and die. We wouldn't take it. There is no comparison.

There is a department store as big as six blocks long, a royal thing, it's not something... and there are only about fourteen things in it and only four shelves. There is a six block line but nobody will break the line. And it is snowing. It is minus forty degree centigrade. Who can take it? And they do not know if they can afford to buy it or not. They do not know if any will be left for them or not. But still they are there. Strange people.

Absolutely they have no smile and no grief. They will take you as granted, will never trust you until you gain their trust. It is amazing what I learned in 7 days. It was totally different world.

And Russians are fifteen Republics out of which one republic is Russia itself which is the majority of the white people. Rest are all Cossacks and Tatars and Azerbaijan's -- you name it. But one very common thing runs in them, they are very peaceful.

There was a situation where they had to take a cup of coffee. Let's take it that way, all right? And there were twenty people waiting in line and I stood on the railing and I said, "My God. There are only three cups available, and there are twenty people. Let us see whether three get it and others leave." No, not a single person left.

I don't think anybody in good sense of his power can ever conquer Russia. Never. It is so cold. Yeah, I am truthful. It is so cold that nobody other than Russians can ever live there. I think Napoleon lost it. He was genuinely right. And Germany which has all the supply lines... I mean, Napoleon they say lost because he didn't have the supply lines and that's why he couldn't win. But at least Germans have all the supply lines. Well, just look at it. I was wearing a woolen robe and then a Pashmina shawl. Pashmina shawl means you can boil an egg in it, it is such a hot cloth. Very beautiful Indian Pashmina shawl. Over that I wore this which I am wearing right now. And then over all that I wore a fur coat, and still it was cold. And when it snows Moscow people are very happy. They dance because it is warm. It is an amazing place.

And I tell you about Russia. The roads are as wide as one block. A 747 can land absolutely on the road without any trouble. I thought they were runways. I never knew that they are roads. But I think that our conference was very beautiful. We were seven hundred people. Three hundred religious people, three hundred legislators. Our senators were there. Other ministers came. And two hundred were these scientists. And what the scientists told I can tell you in one line. That is: whether we are or we are not, if we do not stop what we are doing, we'll blow up the earth on us within twenty-five years, give and take five years. That was their final, total opinion. Religious people were very good, very jealous of each other, pulling each other's legs. They were very nice. I loved them. It was amazing.

Normally, you know, you go to such conferences and TV is after you. And there, everybody was after me. I never knew why. But they wanted to be seen somewhere. And the legislator people were saying: "We did our best. I don't think people understand us." Something like that. But scientists were very honest, straight and blunt. According to them, we have damaged earth so irreparably now that if we just go little further, there shall be nothing left. And they were true to the true calculation. Their explanation was right. Their experiments were good, and they were grateful to the legislators that they paid for it, and they could say it.

But one good news I have is that there shall be no Third World War. Third World War will be possible in small countries like little possible where people will like to fight each other just like you call it, 'tribal wars.'

Primal war like Second World War and Third World War will never happen because they have found out through their studies, a war cannot be fought for more than seven minutes. And within those seven minutes, everything you fire will fire back at you after thirty-eight seconds. If you send all the missles and all the warheads and everything up, whatever you send in the first thirty-eight minutes will go to the target. Rest will come back to you.

So basically, you must have heard that we have 300 billion dollars worth of extra stuff rotting. And they didn't tell you that you have 900 billion dollars worth of warheads which do not work. They didn't tell you that. We Americans pay one fourth of our earnings in taxes. And out of that three quarters is wasted. But we are alive. We are happy. It is a great country, good democracy. But don't get angry. Today we have to get rid of anger, not to make you angry.

Today we are burning our back cord, they call it. Alley. In our brain, in our neurons, we have a back alley. It is called 'fire back alley.' Normally everything we do in our life, it fires back on us. Do you know that? And it is a continuous system. I was very surprised to see every German very grim. Normally they are very accurate people. They are very precise and the work they do is so sophisticatedly detailed, but they are very unhappy.

This time my experience was different because I was there not to just teach a course and then run. I was there for two weeks and I found out there is a back alley problem. Whoever you are, as much happy you are, that much unhappy you are creatively. It is called alley restore. You restore that unhappiness and that passion of that to be reserved. Body has a very great system. Body has a system, and exactly the same, mind has a system too to reserve things in the reverse of it.

Everything in the world is in a balance. There are as many corrupt people, and there are that many honest people. And every corrupt man has equal honesty about it and every honest person has equal corruption about it. Entire universe is in total balance. As much as people are in ecstasy, that much people are in perversion. It can't be this way and that way. So hating somebody that somebody is wrong, and loving somebody that somebody is right is your just mental disillusion. Everybody's doing what they are doing. You can never say, "That man is great." But that man is great because you like him to be great. Or, you like him because what he is doing is great. Maybe somebody else will say, "That man is rotten." So you can never say that.

Isn't sometime now that we are teaching 'Higher Yoga' rather than 'Hatha Yoga' -- how to make a posture. So today we are working on the very inner self of us and that is our extension self in our back yard. You know, there is a back yard... little green pasture and few flowers and little storehouse in every house you see. Now every person has a personality. Personality is called 'A' and equally with that personality you have a back yard. Everybody has a living room and then on the top, what they call the place where they put things that they don't bother about? Attic. So we are going to get into attic today. Like it? But I want to warn you. If you don't want to participate, don't. Or if you do want to participate, be honest. Because I do not want to open the attic with you... with my understanding... because I love and I trust. That's my weakness. I don't want to open up the can of worms and not complete it if in the middle you say, "Well, it's too hard for me." All right? If I can work after coming all this time, after hours and hours of travel, I think you will also participate right. Correct?

Now: "Why I am angry?" That is one question you should ask yourself. You are angry because things somebody didn't do right. You are angry because you didn't do things right. You are angry because circumstances were not right. You are angry because you expect too much. And you are angry because you have a false, exaggerated imagination of your personality projection. That's the scientific reason for anger. Why you should not be angry? Because being angry damages your own health. Why you SHOULD be angry? Because without anger you do not feel satisfied. You become angry to feel satisfied that you have snubbed somebody, you have abused somebody, you are neurotic to somebody or you yelled and screamed to let the steam out, whatever.

But there is a problem whether you are angry or not angry, for all achievements of happiness, in the alley you reserve yourself, and that is anger. They call it very subtle, but it is very sure. For that treatment, people have gone through a lot of changes and there are a lot of excuses for it, but actually that is a part of the thing. Like... there is a problem today in the world. No one knows what to do with nuclear waste. And exactly in our life, nobody knows what to do with mental waste. And this part is what we are tackling. All right?


(Meditation with two oranges begins....)


(End of meditation....)

Oh yeah, this is our new meditation on healing. (Talking about the new healing tape by Nirinjan Kaur.) It has a very powerful affirmation and a prayer. You are very good, Guru Prem you are doing good. Nirinjan, thank you.

Anybody has seen the article, or read and has reserved? There is a huge study that these electric watches, you know, these battery watches, are bad for heart? Whatever they are, quartzes, right? Quartz is a movement, but the question is that current. Anybody? Oh, I saw it, but I was on airline. I was flying.

(Student: Was that in the "New Yorker?")

Yeah, it is a study by....

(Student: There was a long article in the New Yorker. I think I have it.)

Okay. It is funny if it is true.

Do you know that they have found out also that some people have mood problem? How many of us here have mood problem? Mood problem? It's a problem. It's not a disease. Call it a problem. We will tell you the remedy, but first let me have a show of hands of how many of you, honestly, I mean, don't try to cheat. Okay, this is how the mood problems can be solved: You can make beautiful celery sticks and carrot sticks and put it in your bag and go. When your sugar is high, take celery and sugar will come down normally and you will have no problem with it. And they have found out that if sugar is more than 110, you start having an aggressive mood. Yeah. And if your sugar is below 60, you will have a depressive mood.

So 60 to 120, they call is the limit. And sugar does change it. Don't misunderstand that you are diabetic if it will go high and all that. But it does change. It takes pancreas time to secrete insulin and then react and all that stuff. But they say that if you seem a little aggressive or itchy or irritated, then take celery and that will calm down. It has a natural insulin in it. And if you feel very depressed and negative, and the world is over there and I am here, then you start chewing a few carrot sticks. And they have experimented. Those people now swear by a million bibles that it does work.

And those people who do not sleep at night, if they take lettuce juice or make a lettuce soup which has a natural opium in it, you'll sleep tight. So these are certain very natural things.

And in case of situation... if you feel, what do you call it? You are very depressed? Miserable? Oh yes, yes. No, no, no, no! Just watch this. Take one tablespoon of fresh ground black pepper and take a cup of yogurt and take four kiwis, you know, that green thing inside? Yeah. Take it out of the skin and either put it in a blender or mess it up or otherwise. And just eat it. You'll be surprised. They have timed it. It takes seven minutes to get out of deep depression.

You know that kind of thing where you think your body is outside and you are inside like a lead? Have you seen that kind of a depression? Otherwise it takes two moons to get out of it. It means two months once you get into that mood. One moon, it means full moon. One full moon to another full moon to another full moon. It means full moons. When they say in the book, "Two Moons," it means "Two months." Once you get in that kind of situation, it takes two months to start thinking right. But one tablespoon of black pepper, freshly ground.... I don't know why they wrote that, but that's exactly what true is. And this kiwi... You know that fruit? It's a green fruit. Inside green. Four of them. And a cup of yogurt. And mix it up and eat it.

You know this flu is going on these days. It's very horrible. It's fatal to many people. If you want to write down the formula, please write it down: One tablespoon of black pepper. One teaspoon of cayenne. Three tablespoons of turmeric. One ounce by weight of basil. One ounce by weight. Dry or wet, whatever you want. I didn't read that. You understand? And then you take fresh pressed olive oil. The sign of that is it says that when you put olive oil in the pot, if it is fresh pressed it will make a foam. If it doesn't make foam, you have bought the wrong olive oil. Don't use that. Reasonable? I mean to say don't take... olive oil is very strong. And you make a kind of a... what do you call it? Masala? Masala means you sauté it and it is very tasty. And you can put on vegetables. It is very tasty. You can put on rice, or you on a piece of bread. But this flu will leave you. It should not take three days to get rid of this stuff.

Now let me repeat the formula. The black pepper is one tablespoon (freshly ground, not pre-ground). They are very cautious about it. And this cayenne... one teaspoon. This turmeric... three tablespoons. And just remember, it is called 'heaping full.' Not flat. They call it 'heap full.' And this basil, one ounce by weight. And the olive oil has to be used, fresh pressed. They call it cold pressed, fresh pressed. (How much?) To your choice. It was not written. I'm not going to make it up -- this many, that many. And, there's a cold-pressed olive oil but they use caustic soda with it, and it's very injurious to health. So be careful. And if the olive oil doesn't make a lot of foam, it means it is hot pressed or it is chemically pressed. Yeah? (Can you use yogurt with this?) This masala you can use with yogurt, that is very wonderful. You can put on vegetables. You use it any way you want. But it will really shape you up in seventy-two hours. It is very healthy, too.

There are some people who say their cough is not gone from last six months. You hear them, "hung! hung! hung!" all the time. And we had a situation where that was existing. Within three days it is all over with. So please understand.

And I do not know what you call it. They call it "Siberian Flu." It happens in northern Russia very often and the casualty is 100% sure. I mean to say, the relatives just understand that this Russian is going to be not voting for the Communist party any more. And that they know. But here in this country, it is a very painful process and you can't breathe and you cough all the time. Every medicine has been used for it, and the result is a big zero. And people take penicillin after penicillin, after penicillin. They take shots after shots. It attacked this time lower Germany, Bavaria, and it took a lot of casualties.

Yeah? (Question: Olive oil that is cold pressed?) Olive oil that is hot pressed or they put some, chemically pressed. That...they have come out with a study that olive oil reduces sugar. It is good for diabetes. New England Medical Journal made a very vast study of olive oil. And they came out with that it reduces diabetes. It reduces bad cholesterol. It reduces everything and they think it is one of the best things in the world altogether. But if you understand calories, one ounce has about seven hundred or something of calories. If you count calories, you just study the book.

Normally for living healthy, you should take 1200 calories a day. And if you heavily exercise, then you can have up to 2000 calories and normally there is a very system set which I'll give to you. I'm perfecting it on myself first. I'm not going to give you so long I am not on it myself. You can burn 600 calories in your bed. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to remove the quilt. That's sure. I have come to that refinement now. There are exercises... one exercise is very simple, but you sweat. I mean, you have to change your sheets every day, that's true. But....you can do it if you want to.

All right, tomorrow morning when you get up, just get on your left side. Left side. And put your feet into the bed. And put your shoulder into bed. And move your pelvic area and baby boys and baby girls, just see in ten minutes what happens to you. Just swing that central part. You can't believe it what undertow you go through inside the body. And it is very easy too. Cross the legs and fix it on one side and put the shoulder... but it will be preferred if you do it on the right side, shoulders down, and left side up. If you do it left side down, it will put sometime pressure on the heart area and that's not very technically right until you are very tuned with it. That's one exercise you can do.

Second, you can sit down in a baby pose and go flat on your belly and then sit crunch back to baby pose. Quilt on. And in 5 to 7 minutes, you will not be surprised if you are sweating to yourself.

And the other situation is you can do bundle roll kriya on your bed. But be careful. Only you can take one turn left and one turn right. You can't go on and on.

All right, there is another situation for your... what you call? When you sleep at night, your foot is this. Do you see this? Your foot is like this? Stretch it all the way like this and stay there for a minute. Just one minute. You'll be shocked with the best results you can get. In the morning... if you know "Touch of Health" book or not... just in the morning, just at your heart center, do this. That will neutralize your health to start with. And for your eyes, please do not open your eyes like that! Just put your hands on your face, massage it, and then open your eyes in the hands and then open. First light is very shocking to the optical nerve. And when you brush your teeth, go back in the mouth, and empty these two monkey glands and see what you'll draw out. Keep it as souvenir for yourself. It's natural to have mucous in the throat to clean the air but it's dangerous to take that into the stomach early in the morning with a cup of coffee or tea. Then the whole body has to work to get it out, and it
never comes out. It is one of the ugliest things which has caused a lot of problems to mankind.

What else? If you are clinically sick in the sense of medically sick... if you take a hot bath all the time and hot shower, and you are afraid of cold water, normally you will get sick one way or the other. You will get common cold and all that stuff, very often. But if you do not like... let us say you have made a New Year's resolution that "I am never going to take a cold shower," it means your capillaries will show up and your body will look just like a spider man. Ultimately you will have those diseases. Because the capillaries... there is no medicine which can clean the capillaries except surgery or some other process, but if you take cold showers... naturally the body temperature outside, when it becomes cold inside, blood rushes out and it does it. However if you have decided totally, "I'm not going to do it!" -- then at least wash your hands up to wrists, your elbows, your neck and your face. And then the other thing is, take a towel dipped in cold, cold cold water, and sponge your body with this towel.

Some people are just afraid. There's one person I know, she's so scared of this cold shower, you can tell her two hundred things she will do, but this one she cannot do. But with a sponge she is successful. And I do not know whether you know how to take a bath or not, but these two hands must go into the armpits and massage them when you take any shower. Doesn't matter, hot or cold. If you do not massage your armpits, which you don't like to do -- you put little soap on, then you get out. I definitely know. It is just like this. Uh, hee, hee, and that's it. No, no! Put these both sides and massage it at the same time. (SSS demonstrates by crossing his arms in front of the chest and massaging armpits with opposite hands) Just this area. Your day will be different. I'm not kidding.

Listen to me. I didn't sit in the sun and just become gray. I have studied a lot. Do you know what I'm saying? At the same time, if you put your both hands in your armpits and massage it (which is against your taste) your day will be different, your energy will be different. Because you do not understand what an armpit is. Armpit is a pit where the total all three nervous systems are controlled. It is very important. If you have a chance you take a shower or you sit in the tub and take a shower. Take a small towel, wash cloth or whatever, and rub this area as much you can. Stimulate it. This is one area which nobody stimulates. Even the masseuse.

Well, once I thought, "Let me go to the western massage." So I went to this Beverly Hills thing and the guy put oil on my back, "One, two, three," and then he said, "Turn," and then on belly, "One two, three," and then he said, "Out." I looked at him and I thought, "What right he has got to charge $90.00?" But that's what it is. They put kind of oil which disappears in couple of minutes. But normally body massage means the every part of the body should be pressed to relax and relaxed to press so that circulation may take place and nervous system may be strengthened. That is the idea of massage. Idea of massage is not you feel good because somebody's touching you. If somebody just touches you and you feel good, don't pay for it! Go lean against the wall and rub your side. I mean, that's touching, too. If touching is the way. Massage is a very systematic, harmonious system through which the body is very elevated. It's a physical elevation.
What else you can do? Yeah, you can stand under the shower, put your hand somewhere to secure yourself, definitely, and then you massage your own feet with one left foot, the right foot, back, front, every corner of it. Every inner organ... all the meridian points are right there. Whole universe of yours is there. Back, forth, this, that. And you have to massage yourself. And you will reach a stage where you don't like that. You don't feel that you should massage anymore. That means you are done.

What else is good for you? You have a basic problem. When you get sick you start taking Vitamin C, right? And you gobble it. You think it is a pancake. You just take it so much, you know? They say taking too much Vitamin C is as bad as not taking any Vitamin C. And they say the best Vitamin C is kiwi. Yeah. That little green stuff. It's pretty costly. But it has... I do not remember the figure, does anybody remember the figure? It has certain very excellent numbers.

Those who feel they are not right, and they don't want to treat themselves and they do not know how to take care of the liver... this California should be very lucky because you've got the artichoke. And do you know in Germany now all these things are medicines? And they openly say: "This is for this. This is for this. And this is for this." And you just go and buy it, come on home and take it.

Most distasteful thing was... what? Those berries? Juniper berries! That's for kidneys... they describe it. But there is a new system, now: "Heal Through Food." And they are very good at it. They are very pioneering in it. And they are out to get you. So maybe in America, a hundred years from now, we'll start doing the same thing. It is a very funny thing to go to a doctor who is a naturopath (they call it 'the healer') and look at their medical prescription thing... how many drugs they have got and how patent they are. It is amazing. I mean to say, our allopathic, regular doctor here doesn't have that range of medicine. They have such a vast range of medicine, it is unbelievable. And they are all well-done, dated, stocked, packed and whole thing.

Hallopathy is very important there. But you will be surprised in Germany that you will go to an M.D. and he writes a Chinese formula. Chinese tea. Can you believe this? An M.D. writes a Chinese formula of tea. You go to the pharmacy and you give the thing, and they give you the tea. They make it every day and they know people who come and take it, some of them. Medicine is very well advanced in West Germany. I do not know what East Germany will get to. But I think they will adopt the same thing.

Natural healing is very important in Europe. And do you know in Russia, they totally believe in natural healing? They have a very advanced situation in that. And they do... I admire those people with that cold... I mean, just... I think Napoleon should have been wise up enough to send somebody in advance. If five soldiers would have survived, then he should have attacked. It is not that that much cold is in Alaska even. That much cold is everywhere in the world. Don't bother about that. But it's such a biting cold, nobody can explain why it is so. It is extremely biting cold.

All the cars which you think are junk cars, you will see them running in Moscow, left and right. It is amazing that I asked the driver, I said, "When was this car made?" He said: "In the 18th Century." And he was very proud of it. They manufacture... one thing about Russia is very good, the mechanics. There's not a one part in the world they cannot re-manufacture exactly and can keep the car running. This car which that driver was driving was actually 18th century because it looked very funny. So I thought, "Let me go in it." And I asked him -- he spoke very little English, I asked him: "Is this very old?" He said: "Older than me and you." Because that was really an American car which we must have made in somewhere near 18th Century. And finding that kind of car running in the streets of Moscow was a great experience because I wanted to go really to the next hotel very fast because there was a meeting and the car won't go that fast. It went to a speed of 45 miles maximum, so I understood it is really old.
(Comment from student: Like your jeep.) Yeah, my jeep doesn't run... because that is my joy that I don't have to rush to anything. Now, are you all right now? You can go home? All right.

May the Long Time Sunshine Upon You....

God bless the entire mankind to preserve their mental peace, the peace of the planet. Thy given gift, the Mother earth, may all have respect and reverence for all what they are doing. Give them the consciousness, prosperity and grace to deal with their own environments in a graceful way as they want to deal with their own self and personality. Sat Nam.

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2/7/90
YOGI BHAJAN
Transcript by Tej Kaur Khalsa, Los Angeles, CA

Above Article Copyright © Yogi Bhajan 2002. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Patient Really Pays

It was damn terrible this morning. Not only that I've made my dad angry, I might have just caused my whole family to be in the bad mood because of this.

It started off like every other morning, but today is special for me. Wait, is it my birthday again? certainly not. I was going to taking my law test today. Its no biggie. The only thing is I think that i was uncertain to sit for the test. After sending my brother to school, then my father send me to the place where I am going to take my test. It is not very near to my house. Its about 13 km away. Now here, the problem came....................

I FORGOT TO BRING MY IC. Oh my god, what am I thinking? Wanna sit the test without an IC? Impossible!! I asked to do that, but they won't let me do so. My dad yelled at me. Luckily there were only a few people there. So, he asked me where i kept my IC.
i told him it was with my mom. This is because my mother usually handle with this kind of documents.

Guess what, I've gut it all wrong, I was the one who last hold the IC. Damn. Where did I put it? The only thing that I know is that I lost my wallet 2 months ago, but it should be somewhere in my house(more precisely it should be in my room). I have the habit to misplace my things. And i suddenly remembered that the IC is in the wallet. Oh, I am doomed. Where did I put it?

My dad was scolding the whole family the whole morning. There was no peace in the house until he went to work. To take the test today, I must be in that center before 4pm. I didn't know what to do. But I was not afraid. It all come down to one thing, patient. I heard the lecture from Yogi Bhajan Ji, entitled patience pays. It is from somewhere. Can't remember where.

Click here to listen the lecture in Mrsikhnet.com. The one that I heard is not from there. Just can't remember where. But it is the same lecture.

After my father went to work, guess what, after 2 months, my wallet finally came back to me. I've finally found my wallet. And yes, my IC is there. It was almost 2 pm. There were no transport for me to go. So, I took a bus down and sat for the test. Thank god that everything was in time. As well as the result, I've passed it. Really lucky.

I am lucky to be patient, and did not fight back or just sit at one place and do nothing. I've finally understood why we must learn to be patient. Only with calm heart everything will be done by itself. No worry is needed.

Na kar chin't cinta hai kartay.

That is the most important part, not to worry and stay calm.

Through this I've learn one important lesson, that is not to look down on the IC, its very important. Hopefully I won't misplace it again.

And one more thing, keep your faith with god, He will show you the way.

I found my wallet and IC through meditation. The power of meditation is limitless, that is why we must always meditate. I believe, no i have faith that by meditation I can meet my spiritual father.

Something I've picked up from sikhnet

the artical below is something that Ive picked up from sikhnet which i think is very interesting but it is quite long. here it is. there are some typing error so please forgive the writer.

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BIRTHDAY OF GURU AMAR DAS JI

NOTE: This is the birthday gurdwara where the Siri Singh Sahib started a tradition of "bring a dish, make a wish." So every year in Los Angeles on Guru Amar Das' birthday the sangat has the opportunity to make a dish of food (husbands have to make their own dishes! They can't have their wives make it for them) and as you present your dish to the Guru, you can make a wish -- which it is said will be granted.)



WAHE GURU JI KA KHALSA, WAHE GURU JI KI FATEH!
We are very religiously having a gurdwara. It means we enter the door of the Guru. There is a possibility that we may have entered physically but not mentally. There is a possibility that we have entered physically and mentally and not spiritually. There is a possibility that we have entered physically, mentally and spiritually for this time being. Each time when we come to the Gurdwara, we understand Sikh Dharma. In all religions, eight major religions and about 14-15 other religions, it is a temple, it is a synagogue, it is a church, it is a body of the Christ, it is a place for worship and there are different names we give to everything. Among our Dharma, the Golden Temple is called "Harimandir," the temple of God... creative God. But normally in essentialness, we call 'gurdwara.' It used to be 'dharamsala,' where Dharma was taught. Always known in the early times, 'dharamsala,' then from that onward it changed to the word called 'gurdwara.' Why we do not call it 'Guru mandir?' Why we do not call it
anything else? Because it was looked into with the essential faculty of quality of intelligence to the extent of the permanent essence to understand God in action. Gate. Guru's gate. Either you are in or you are out! There is no space in between.

The directness between the Guru and the Sikh was realized, so the faculty of training, the faculty of worshipping, the faculty of understanding God was left to it's own reality. The understanding was, let us practice a meditative attitude of physical, biological, psychological, sociological, and personal attitude. Let us get in the gate. Let us walk into the gate. And then feel there is a home, there is a house, there is a self. The dignity of the purity and the nobility of service are two essential features of Sikh Dharma.

People are afraid of death because they do not know where to go. People are afraid of relationships; they do not know how to nurture it. People are afraid of psychological, biological confrontations because they are insecure. They know God is everywhere. They know the word of Guru is with you. They know you have a bank balance. You know you have a home, you know you have a credit card. I believe you have everything except one thing: you have no trust in yourself and no trust in Guru and you have no trust in God. When three trusts are minus, your everything else does not even form a trust.

Everything comes three: self, Guru and God. You know it there is a God everywhere. You know there is a Guru everywhere. And you also know that you are everywhere. Your quality I can understand. You are like a fish in the ocean, and in this quality in the ocean you want to know the ocean. Fish has the right to know the ocean because it lives out of water, it is a part of the water. Fish has the faculty for the longing of the water. Siri Guru Granth says if you take a fish out of water it dies... dies... dies most painfully. The longing for the water is so much. It jumps, it asks for it. And it's death is very painful, even to the eye which looks. Until we are really crazy we can see a fish on the hook and can imagine how painful it is for the fish to die. And then you take it out, you clean it, you chop it up, you chew, you eat it. It does not leave the relationship with water. if you eat fish you shall be thirsty. If you cannot at night get up and take water, it will reverse
the biological system and ask water depositing tissue of the colon to reverse it. Nothing else has this power except fish. So it's relationship with water is an infinite relationship. But it cannot know the height, strength, depth, shores of the ocean. So every fish makes it's own little ocean. Every fish lives in the real ocean but makes it's own ocean.

Exactly so, human lives in God. "In God I Dwell," but it makes it's own God. If Allah has told you something and Jehovah has not -- if Wahe Guru has told you and Ram has not -- if Sattva Buddha has told you and Praan Shakti Maha Atma Param Paramatma has not, there's a conflict. Conflict is not between God and God (because there is a One God), conflict is not between man and man (because there is a one man, there's a one light of which we are all born.) Conflict is between security and insecurity. There are two riches in the world. Those who are rich, rich, rich, and they earn, and those who have rich, rich, rich, they have learned to not be a part of. There is a "bhag" and there is a "tiaag". Tiaag is not unattachment, no. Tiaag is when you earn something... you are not attached to it, but you share, you give, you give away. That's tiaag. Denunciation. But there cannot be denunciation if there's not enunciation.

The power of earning knowledge, having knowledge, knowing truth is not enough until it is not applied and experienced. Nothing becomes yours. Wisdom you may have, as much wisdom you want, but if you do not have APPLIED WISDOM, you will always be miserable. So in life you set limits and Guru Nanak does not agree with limits. Whenever love has a territory...whenever love has a definition.. whenever love has any situation in which it cannot be other than Infinity, there shall be no understanding between the lovers and the beloved which shall not be painful. Because you are committing the biggest sin on the planet. You are trying to take the Infinity and make it finite. You are taking the elephant and you take a drawer out of you cabinet and you want to put the elephant into the drawer. How can that be possible? How can a fish which lives in water, makes its own small little circle and ocean, say: 'this is my limit?'

When you say, "This is my limit on compassion, this is my limit of passion, I cannot take it any more, I cannot go beyond that.", that is the moment you have incurred a sin. That is where you have denied God. That is where you have denied Guru. That is where you have forgotten the God is.

Naaraayan, Sad Sad Bakhshind

The Lord is ever, ever the Forgiver.

--Guru Arjan Dev

That is where you have found out the God doesn't forgive. That is what you have found and you have expressed your debauchery of your incompetency and you have shown absolutely your limit, your poverty as a human being. You mentally go bankrupt so you can go to a psychiatrist. You can physically go bankrupt, you will be under chapter 7 or 11, God knows, whatever. But when you go spiritually bankrupt, then where you will go?

You are the product of the spirit. You are part of the Infinite God and in you is the finite, defined soul, spirit. You cannot do this to yourself. When you say, "I cannot take it," you are not saying, "I cannot take it." You are saying, "I cannot GIVE it. I cannot give it a chance... Therefore, I cannot take it." Whenever you say, "That's it. That's the end of me," you have denied God, you have denied the Thou. You have denied the factual fact that God is everywhere. And when you have no relationship with God... then who you are relative of, who you are related to? You cannot trust the One who is everywhere??? How you can trust those who are somewhere? And how can you even relate to those who are nowhere?

So you have created a class, a mental class of spiritual limit, whereas soul is unlimited, man is unlimited, God is unlimited, planet earth has given you the visitation right. It never gave you ownership. It was a place to come, love, pay off the karma, learn the dharma, leave the parma (doubts), and go happy, dancing, "Hi, Halleluiah, how are you my Jehovah, how are you, my Ram, how are you my Krishna, how are you my God?"

Here we fight. Allah fights with Allah. And these days Jehovah is fighting with Allah. And Protestant God is fighting with Catholic God. Christ is fighting with Christ and perhaps Guru Nanak is fighting with another Guru Nanak. Man is fighting with man and Prakirti is fighting with the Purkha. Creation is fighting with the Creator. And the question is, who is who? Student is fighting with the teacher. Teacher is fighting with the knowledge. Knowledge is fighting with the compassion. Compassion has left kindness. Man has left manners, grace, nobility. We have become garbage grabbers. We insult God moment we open our eyes. We open our physical eyes but not the eye which sees the everything. The conscious eye which tells me, which tells me I am a part of Infinite, which tells the Infinity I am part of Thou.

We always see with these eyes which cannot even read. After forty you wear glasses, after seventy you are almost dead blind. These nine doors, "Nao dar vaaje pargat keete dasava gupat dakaiaa." Nine doors are in appearance. Tenth is the secret door. The door of consciousness. There is always the idea when you see that between these two eyes there is a third eye open, or it is closed. The idea is to see the unseen. The intuitive eye. Man without intuitive eye is dead blind. Man without the intuitive ear is dead deaf. Man without the intuitive tongue is a dead dumb. And man absolutely without its own sacred Infinity in its subtlty cannot have the fragrance of all creativity.

Creativity has its own fragrance. We are afraid of hardships. Tell me one great man and his history which has not gone through the challenges of the time. Tell me one man who has not been put on the cross. Tell me one man who couldn't sit on the hot plate. These are men who are qualified to be known to create miracles. They not only controlled the mind of their own, they could also serve. But why they went through that pain? Because their mind was painless. Their soul was bright, their body was temporarily not willing to accept torture. It could immune itself from the torture.

Normally when you are in a terrible pain, you take Tylenol or asprin or something, you don't feel pain. You think the pain is gone? That's not true. Only in the brain, that alertness which tells you the body is in pain, the alertness which tells you the body is in torture, the alertness which tells you body cannot go one step further. But you don't want to stop. You don't go by the natural way that is you are in terrible pain, you don't have the guts to take a very heavy cold shower! Then the entire tiredness goes away in seconds. Or you do not go in a hot tub. A relaxation can happen and things will change. You don't want to do that. You want to continue. So you take a tablet and you cut out that signal, that sensitivity and you become immune from the sensitivity. And you allow your immune system to fight that terrible thing which body is telling, "I can't go. Please leave me alone. I am here." And your irrational situation goes on, goes on, goes on, until there's nothing to go on to.

Similarily your mind comes of the realms of kindness and compassion. You use mind with kind words and compassionate ways to struggle people to death, to suffocate people, to exploit people. You hurt people because when you betray somebody in trust, whether it's right or wrong, you are hurting your consciousness at the same time. But with commotional satisfaction and with emotional attitude, you keep going. Where you will go? Every person knows that all he can reach for is a grave, which either he can dig it or somebody can dig for him. If you dig your own grave, you've got to lay in it. And that is called "karma." Action. All those who will have parma (doubt) shall live the life of karma! They will dig their own grave, they will lay in it, and some of their relatives for taking little estate out of them and all put a little stone, "Mr. John D. Smith," "Mr. Hari Singh," "Mr. This and This." That's the end of it. A memory comes down to ashes. Do you believe that as a human being your fifty years on the earth comes to a
bunch of ash? Just dirt to dirt? In fifty years you couldn't perform an act which fragrance couldn't be forever? This incense, this agarbatti, this little stick you burn, it fills up the room with smell. Little light of soul, the light, it doesn't fill up even the city? Because you are totally worried for your yesterday, you are insecure for your tomorrow and you live in the doubt today.

Now question is, this all is true... What's the answer? What is the answer?? Answer is: TRUST GOD, before you! That is what is meant by "Ik Ong Kar." One, must come ahead of me. One, must come ahead of me. And One must come ahead of me. That means very simple, "A love style in which mission is preferred over emotions." Emotions can be tackled because emotion has a reasonable logic in it. Commotions have no logic and next step of the wise person who has the right to vote and change make the fate of America, is neurotic. 80% Americans live in United States, and every third man is a lunatic by national statistics. And only 15% feel that they are happy. Just 5% feel that they have achieved something. Look at this joke! Hooray, the very fact that you are alive is an achievement itself. Give it a touch of God and there shall be nothing but grace and success. There is a candle. Just put the match stick to it. Let it be lit... All darkness will go.

You think this kind of religion that you have to tie your legs up and head down, hard discipline will control the mind...no, my dear. Hard discipline will not control, and soft discipline will not serve either. Mind has to come to a balance to decide a fact of life. A relationship has to be established between a man and his mind. A friendship has to be decided. A... categorically... a dialogue has to be established between a man and his mind, and judgement should be left, in case of dispute, to the soul... to Infinity. It's a simple religion. You can call it, "Bhajanism," you can call it, "Knowism," you can call it any -ism. It's a simple thing. It's a recited fact which will sing forever. It's a song divine, it's a gospel truth. This is the ONLY religion of tomorrow! All other men shall suffer! And that is, that in all cases, man by his nature, by his reality, by his faculty, by all his facets of life, has to relate in relationship to one's mind, first. Ik Ong Kar.
And, all creativity of the mind with the faculty of the situation, when a dispute takes place, it should be left to the Infinity of the soul.

When there is a "May I, May I not?" see to which direction Infinity directs. Go for it. You shall never be poor, you shall never be in trouble, and you shall never be unhappy. Physical body will get sick and unhealthy, mind will freak out and slip here and there... It's more powerful than space and time. And soul will sometimes will not give the light of the courage, (because it's dormant). Then what should one do? One HAS to build a sadhana, an attitude. Longitude and latitude divides the world into portions. You must have longing to have God first. You must give latitude to insecurity to let it go. You have to be honest for a change! You may be few people sitting here and you may be listening to me and you may not understand what I am saying, and you may not do it, either... That's possible.

There are 225 million people in whole United States. There are 4.5 to 5 billion people in the world. You may practice five billion sides of all. The easiest, the most practical and most fascinating way is simple but Guru Nanak said it in two words: Ik Ong Kar, Sat Gurprasad. That One must come before the creativity of God in relationship to the creation. There are two words, Ong and Kar. Before them must come "Ik"... "One," in the creative relationship to the creativity of the universe, the earth. When you deal for yourself, deal it any way you want it. But if it involves anybody else, then it must be with the judgement of the divinity within you. Not the wisdom in you... Not the knowledge in you... Not the power in you... No! Your strength, your wisdom, your diplomacy, your cunningess, your straight forwardness, your truth and your lies have nothing to decide. They are for you... That's your concept. But when anybody else is involved, then your divinity should decide, in the realm
of your nobility, so that you can give grace to others.

WHEN YOU GIVE GRACE TO OTHERS, GOD SHALL GIVE YOU GRACE: Gur Prasaad. That's what Gur Prasaad is-- when God is bound down by the law of It's own Infinity to give grace.

Jis nu bakshe sifat salaah, Nanak paatishaaee paatishaah.

That man should be graceful king of the graceful kings. It's a song of Infinity. Japji says few things...

Jis hath jor kar vekhe soeh

One who thinks in his hand is the power, let him try.

Naanak utham neech na koeh.

Nanak, God is highest of all, and there is nobody below Him...

Because in the ocean, fish is contained in the water and water is the life source of the fish. God is contained in the man... Man is the life source of God.

So please understand Sikh Dharma in it's very dismal situation. It's a religion of reality, of subtleness and sophisticatedness. It is a religion of the Rishis. I am not putting down other religions. I am not putting down the county road which is not paved. I also do not have any misunderstanding on the trails. Relgion has developed through trails, through mud roads, and through freeways and boulevards and streets. It has come now to the highways. And it has come to the skyways. It has come to the space ways. Religion has reached its zenith. Man has reached his tragedy. Religion offers a technology. Man doesn't have a time.

I went to see a doctor that day and I saw the nurse and I looked at her. She said, "I am very apologetic." I said, "What happened? I couldn't recognize you." She said, "I used to have very long hair." And now she has very short hair. And I said, "You were very lucky you had a very long hair." She said, "My God, you do not know! My husband is mad with me. Perhaps it will break our marriage." And I said, "Your husband is mad at you, you love your hair, you were very fine, it was beautiful God- given gift. Why you got rid of that?" She said, "I couldn't take care of it." If you can't take care of your mind, should you cut it? If you cannot take care of your soul, throw it away? If you cannot take care of your body, do Hari Kari?... whatever that is? Do something, for God's sake!

It is not that I am fanatic. It is not that I am insecure and I am upset. I know I am travelling my last mile. I am aware of it. Give me credit. And also I am not upset. I know where I have come from and I know where I have to go. And with you and me there is a relationship and you can ask the question which somebody asked, and the person who asked this question is Bhai Jiwan Singh. Nobody less than that. He said, "How come in one minute you take a man and put him to the Guru, and after 15 years or 18 years or 12 years, after doing the Dharma, practising themselves, rising to the point of a Mukhia Singh Sahib, people leave?" And I said, "It is very simple. My job is to bring the horse to the water. It's not my job to take a syringe and pump it in his stomach." He said, "Why not? You are a yogi." I said, "I leave the man to his dignity, nobility and grace, that each born of a woman must realize God by his own grace." Nobody can be more fortunate than to share the
experience that -- One God lives within me. Each one of you are here, those who talk ill of others, those who mercilessly insult others, those who make mockery and scandals of others, I'm asking you. You... those who deny others, painfully. Those who are insecure to give others even a helping hand, if not even a smile. I'm asking YOU... Has God left the planet earth? Is the God not Infinite? Is it that you have not understood Gurprasaad? It is the highest prayer and the extreme powerful realization.

I had a very funny idea... Somebody called me that day and said, "I am miserable." I said, "Well, what are you miserable about?" "I never get to see you." I said, "Have you tried?" "No, I can't see you." I said, "There must be a picture around somewhere... look at it. That will do." The person said, "No, no, no. I, me, personally!" I said, "Yes, personally. Is there that picture around?" Person said, "Yeah, it's all around me." I said, "Then, what is the idea?" "But I want to see you in physical body." I said, "That's very easy." Person said, "Right now?" I said, "Right now. Close your eyes and perceive me and receive me in the perception and conception and projection of you." It was more blissful than ever shaking hands with me. And the person said, "How it is possible NOW?" I said, "You have never tried!"

The conception of life is in perception, reception and projection of totality which is the Infinity into the practical style of life. That's why Sikh Dharma is a simple religion of the platinum age. It is the Akal Takhat, the Undying Throne of royalty and sovereignty. It is the throne of living Infinity. That's what we celebrate. And it is the third Guru, Amar Das, the Infinite Servant who was liberated. His destiny was given like Amar Das. He will serve the Infinity because he was the Infinity. He used to go to do the pilgrimage... good deeds, nice, very nice... thorough gentleman... absolutely righteous... beautiful, very fatherly... sophisticated. One day he invited a sadhu to come to his house. He fed him, gave him everything, and the sadhu, after eating and having everything, he said, "My dear, your name is Amar Das?" He said, "Yes, my name is Amar Das." The sadhu said, "You seem to be a very noble and religious man." He said, "It's God's grace." The sadhu
said "I have eaten, I am happy, I have to do prayer. Your name is Amar Das. What is the name of your Guru?" He said, "What Guru? I only know God." The sadhu said, "You dirty fellow. You brought me, you gave me food, you served me. You don't have a Guru?" Amar Das said, "No." The sadhu said, "Then you have nothing." Amar Das said, "Why?" The sadhu said, "Where there's no altar, there's always an alternative. And if the altar is not supreme the life is sacrifice on the altar of duality." There are two altars, my dear folks. Altar of reality and altar of duality. Both are altars. Those who secure the earth, let heavens go by them. Those who secure the heavens, earth serves them. Domain of the Guru is heavens and earth in balance in creativity. So Amar Das asked the sadhu, "Can I be forgiven?" Sadhu said, "No, no, no. It is all right. I'm sorry. I will not do the prayer... Nirgur... You don't have a Guru. Who are you?" Amar Das said, "I worship God, I visit holy places." Sadhu said,
"That's all fine." Amar Das said, "But I want to understand what is the problem?" Sadhu said, "You do not have a degree. You are the one who started in the college and will die in the college. You will never be there to sit in exam." Amar Das said, "Why not?" Sadhu said, "Somebody has to examine you. Somebody has to question you." There must be one thing which should be above you. It is you and within you. The capacity that if you want to be Infinite, you should also be in the capacity to become 'shuniaa'. Between the one and zero you must understand the reality of life. In the simple sense, people who shall follow you will understand it this way. When the magnificent attitude of the totality of reality into the magnetic attitude of the wavelength will create layers and lasers, its lasers to act and affect the creativity of the human brain into the reality of its own existence, man shall understand that his nobility lies in his infinity to say 'no!', and say 'no, never!' That positive attribute of a human mental creativity will
create a spark of light to which the Infinite rainbow of Godliness of Divinity shall come, kiss, bow and surrender and give it a grace. There's no other way! Neither there was, nor there is, nor there shall be."

Guru Amar Das, poor thing, got up. Started searching. Heard the word of Gurbani. Went to Guru Angad, which was the limb of Nanak. And went there, with a silken shirt... with a beautiful silken bana, regal. Came from a well to do family, had a well to do social life, had a good economic life. And the Guru said, "Hoo, you have come to see me! I needed a help. Take that other bundle of fodder and let us go home, talking." Naturally the water and mud was coming out of that whole thing and it all fell on that silken suit. Came home and sat down and there was a respectful relationship for him. And question was asked to Guru Angad, "Why we did this to him? Why the consideration to silken suit was not paid?" And Guru Angad laughed. He said, "It's true!... his suit was silken and it was visible. I have good eyesight. But something else was to be purified. Ego was to be purified."

Question is not to challenge the man. Question is to challenge the ego of the man. And if a man has no technology to bring ego to zero, man has no reality to find the One. Please remember this:

If man cannot bring his ego to zero, man has no power to find the One.

And between zero and one is the ten. Put it wrong way, it's total minus. It's chaotic. It's a chaos. It's unhappiness, it's insecurity, nothing! It doesn't mean anything. If you put zero first, one later, forget it! It means nothing. But if you take one first and put zero with it, it is ten. That is what

Bhale Amar Das gun tere
Tere upamaa toeh ban aavai

Sublime are your virtues, Oh Guru Amar Das Ji
Your praises are worthy only of you.
--SGGS, pg. 1396

Oh Guru Amar Das, your grace only belongs to you. Why? Because he, in his age, served. Can you imagine? Man from a great family with all his means, comes to serve his Guru, goes early in the morning, 12 miles to the River Beas, brings the river water to bathe the Guru. Is there anybody among you who has even the capacity to do it one day? No, you don't! Because you do not have the capacity nor the infinity or the grace of the service. If you prayed today, you brought a wish today, it all shall be granted. But if it doesn't get granted, you all will be mad. That's how quick you are. Guru Amar Das 12 YEARS went! Each year he was given one turban which he tied over the other turban. One day after 12 years, day came... It was a storm. It was a very unhappy moment of weather. But Guru Amar Das had the mature, steady, steady saddhu -- man of sadhana -- who had zeroed his pain. Zero is very powerful. He zeroed his pain. He zeroed the fear of storm. He zeroed the power of the
river. He zeroed his old age and went twelve miles into oneness of motive, project, process and he took his 'gagar' (pitcher), he went to the river. He brought the water. While coming, he just missed the path and fell into the ditch of the river. Because when he used to go he used to do Jap Mantra, which is the strongest way of mantra, than all. That when your foot touches the earth, the sole touches the earth, soul under foot is called sole. When your sole touches the earth, you utter the Guru Mantra. And Guru Amar Das used to do that and everybody knew he is going and coming. When he leaves he used to chant the mantra on each step. When he used to come he used to chant mantra on each step. Guru came in. He fell in the ditch. But in that struggle, he did not let the water fall. And this weaver and his wife woke up. They didn't come out. And the weaver said, "Who's there?" His wife said, "Sleep. It is that Amaru naa thaavaa who has come to the house of the relatives. He has no shame, no sense. His
daughter is married to this guy in the house. He is living with those people. He has left his wealth and everything and he comes and does the service." They were relatives. 'Amaru Naa Thaavaa' means: Amaru who has no place. Amar Das got up with that pitcher on his head, came back to the Guru's place, and started preparing that Guru will come and he will bathe the Guru. Guru Angad arrived and said, "Amar Das, today you sit on that choki, where I used to sit and take bath for last 12 years, and today I'll bathe you." He said, "My master, I am your slave. I just fell today, but water is okay. I didn't do anything wrong." Guru Angad said, "No, you didn't do anything wrong. Today you have done right for the entire universe. Service will open the path to urge. I urge you to sit and merge in me." There was a power of meditation. He zeroed his mind. He obeyed. He sat on that choki. Sikhs started unwinding the turbans... turban after turban. And they said, "Lord, the condition of the scalp is not good."
Guru said, "Don't worry. Put the water." Moment that water touched that body, there was a radiant shine of thousands of suns. It blinded everybody who was there! The touch of miracle happened when Guru Amar Das was decorated by Guru Angad himself.

I know in your shabby mind you can't believe. If there are pimples, 12 years old, they can cure. A little medicine can cure, miracle can't? Miracle is worse than medicine? You little rats! You always think you know all better because your brain is just little. You have so tiny brain! Rat has a bigger brain than you guys. Sometimes you cannot understand. You think miracles are just a facade, being talked and told just to convince people to believe. That's not true! Your shallowness of the soul shows up in your auras. It's a tragedy... human tragedy that you can lie, your auras can't.

So when the touch of that water enlightened the universe, a miracle happened. And the same Guru, which used to be bathed, same Guru which was served by the servant, this homeless, this meritless, was enshrined on the same choki and was bathed and decorated and dressed. And then Guru Angad said, "Amar Das, you are home of the homeless, you are honor of the honorless." He bestowed on him all virtues. And the highest virtue is if you read the bani of Guru Amar Das, you will understand how nearness, oneness, and totality of God is in his grasp. It is not that the wealth and the power of the earth is in your grasp which makes you a great man. No! You'll be a part of a great history of the earth. You have nothing to do with heavens. But if the grasp of Infinity, it is your totality and your mind, can be zeroed and brought before the One, and One is placed before your zeroed ego, you will learn the Infinity of ten, and the totality of eleven, which is the only one non-changing
number. One plus one makes two. One divided by one has nothing to do. But when one sits with One, it makes the eleven. That is the only way to understand Siri Guru Granth.

"Paragat gura(n) kee de". Paragat means: creative, known, understood. It is living. It is the body of the living Guru. Through the word it tells you that to rationalize yourself into the character of the creative Infinity is possible through the control of your own relationship, with your own mind. Everybody is seeking a relationship these days. "I want to relate. I want a relationship. I'm lonely. I can't do this. I can't..." Sometimes I wonder, what happened? The mind has gone for a shopping? And the soul has gone on a vacation? Don't you understand that the only thing you are born here on the planet earth for is to create a relationship with your own mind and your own soul? And the highest yoga is to bring your ego to 'shuniaa', zero. Partaahaar. Pranayam. Expand to the compassion of the kindness to Infinity. Be so kind that even your arch-enemy may feel the pain of the totality and may understand the weight of your personality and see the light of your reality. Your friends may forget you but your enemy
even will wake up in the middle of the night remembering you. They may feel you... because as fragrance does not have any boundaries, subtle body does not obey any boundary. It is the subtleness of your behavior and kindness which in the grace of his age and maturity, Guru Ram Das represents to us and to all of us. And THAT'S why we visit Gurdwaras.

These days it is getting out of fashion to come to Gurdwara. People start going to heights. People start going for other jobs, when they can come and pay their respects to the Guru. I have seen people walk away from the House of the Guru, thinking it is just another house! No!

IT IS WHERE THE INFINITY AND DESTINY
FOR THE MAN WHO BELONGS TO THIS HOUSE LIVES!

Each brick of this house commands reverence and demands respect because it has your identity in it... the walls of this place. It is just one place. They say every mother is divine and beautiful and wonderful, but my mother is supremely lovely. What is this House of Guru Ram Das? Guru Ram Das Ashram? It is where our prosperity... it is where our tomorrow... it is where our comfort lives forever. It is an infinite storehouse because it has concentrated vibrations to purify our shadows, our darknesses and our limits. It gives us the unlimited acknowledgement of our relationship with God. That's why all those people....I'll beg of those people. I'm not trying today to say something, because these days it is very difficult. Those idiots, lunatics, are making these jokes these days... "Oh, ANOTHER Gurdwara? Oh God, how many Gurdwaras in a day we should have?" Let the meditations teach them what a day in the hell will mean to their soul! "Hey, what we are going to do today? We can't have a free evening? God,
our Sunday, since I am a Sikh, my Sunday is killed. I can't go to the beach. I can't do anything. Every morning! Let us not go to this Gurdwara. Well, you know, Yogi Ji comes every Sunday. Then it will be difficult... He'll figure it out. And I don't want to face that."


Band khalaasee bhaanai hoeh.
Hor aakh naa sakai koeh.
Je ko khaa-ik aakhan paa-eh.
Oh jaanai jetee-aa mo-eh khaa-eh.
Band khalaasee...

Sanskaar and karam will join and there will be an imprisonment... confinement. Mockery of the reality brings confinement. And now people say, "Don't try to curse people. Don't try to push people." No, nobody's cursing and nobody's pushing. Your reality and your shallowness is being challenged. That's about it. "Oh God, another Sunday?" I was told that day that we should have three Sunday Gurdwaras, and one Sunday should be half. I said, "I can accept the proposal provided THAT week, all five days there will be a Gurdwara." "Why?" I said, "To cover your mental mischief, your spiritual defunctness, and your physical lethargy."

I am not promising you anything. It was my privilege to share with you my innermost acknowledged conscious feelings. When you are beyond you, the children of the Dharma will rule and live on this planet in the most saintliness of their most compassion and kindness, grace, totally bewitching and enjoying the height of oneness with God. And the understanding of "Ik Ong Kar" shall ring like a bell in every beat of the heart. I mean, just let them understand... it is we, the misunderstood idiots, who took to the path without knowing that many many lifetimes we have prayed and prayed and meditated and have earned this privilege to be in the House of Guru.

Sometimes I understand your position is like friend of mine, who once was traveling with me and we were caught by the storm and we drifted. And in that drift we were sheltering ourselves. But when everything came to calmness, I woke him up, I said, "Let's go." He said, "I can't proceed." I said, "What do you want?" He said, "I want my cha (tea)." And I said, "Well, entire wood is wet. And, yes, in the horse saddle there's every arrangement, but then you get up and make it." He said, "All right." So he gathered together some little wood, here under this tree, under that tree, and did all that. And surprisingly took the match stick and started burning it, but when it didn't work it out he took lot of rupees which were always there and started burning the money. Finally, you know, those rupees were not that many tons of it, it all got burned. And tea didn't come through. And I cracked up. I laughed. He said, "Why you are laughing?" I said, "You burned your credit and tea didn't come. "Deen gu-aayaa doonee to(n) doonee
na chalee naal". You lost your patience and your faith and energy of infinity just for this cup of tea, and the tea didn't happen either." I said, "Do you know this cup of single, cold tea, how much it costs you?" He said, "Yeah, I must just have burned 200-300 rupees." In those days, my dear, one kilo (two pounds) of milk used to cost one-sixteenth of a rupee. Two, three, four hundred rupees which he burned could have bought five acres of land totally implanted with trees, tea trees. And then in the end I said, "Are you willing to walk?" He said, "Yes, I have to go." When we travelled the journey, we came to a rest-house and I asked him, I said, "Could you tell me why tea was essential?" He said, "You tell me." I said, "It is a habit to deny yourself the Infinity. You lacked courage. You brought your insecurity before you." He said, "Well, what is wrong now?" I said, "How we are going to pay this? You burnt all the money." He said, "Well, why didn't you stop me then?" I
said, "I was not stopping, I was watching. I was surprised that with all that education and all that knowledge and all that what you talk about, you were burning the money. You were burning your credit. Ability to buy. Ability to be comfortable tomorrow. You burned it for a lousy cup of tea which never happened. And you still walked, and you still come here and we both are standing here paupers." He said, "You have your money." I said, "No, you took mine, too. You took mine, emptied my sack, your sack, and you burned it." He said, "What should we do now?" I said, "Now we should tell them who we are." He said, "What that will do?" I said, "Watch... Now you don't have to worry about it. No, let me handle it. The problem is, now you will be silent and I'll be talking in between. Is that the decision?" He said, "Yes, Ok." I went there and I asked the man, I said, "We need a rest, we need a room, we need this." He said, "Oh, thank you. I recognize you. How are you? How's your this?" You know,
it was all done. And when we did all that thing, I told him, I said, "At the moment it is not possible to pay you." He said, "I never asked. Oh no, no, no, no, Sir." I said, "Then all the things we need should be provided, and a messenger should be sent home to tell that we have reached such and such a place, and a letter should be delivered in which I wrote... these are my words, I still remember." I said, "Today, such and such thing has acted totally insane and we have absolutely no way to pay, but our self-credit has worked it out. We are very comfortable. This messenger may be honored and respected and along with that, help and money should be sent to redeem us from this place." And I sent the messenger. Well, you know, a man came, money came, everything was fine. And he told me, "What difference it makes?" I said, "Without credit, everything is a debit." The means must be available. Manners must be available. Maturity must be available. Mentality should be pure. Objectivity
should be right. These are the ways of the kings of the kings.


So proud it became Guru Gobind Singh. As Guru Amar Das was told, "You are the honor of the honorless. You are the place of the placeless. You are the forgiveness of the forgiveness.

"Guru Amar Das, Nithaaniaa nithaan.
Ni Otiaa di Ot.
Ni aaseray de aaseray.
Dhan Dhan Sahib Guru Amar Das."

That's how Guru Angad blessed him. I said, "That is how Khalsa was blessed by Guru Gobind Singh."

Khaalsaa mero roop hei khaas.
Khaalse meh ho karao nivaas.
Khaalsaa mero mukh hei angaa.

Khalsa is my special form.
In the Khalsa I reside.
Khalsa is the fiber of my being.
--Guru Gobind Singh Ji

All personal objectives were given to the Khalsa. Blessings were given to Khalsa, but put one simple condition:

Jab lag khaalsa rahe niaaraa,
Tab lag tej dee-o mai(n) saaraa.


So long as the Khalsa will be distinct,
I will give all the light to it.
--Guru Gobind Singh Ji

When they will be in their identity, away and above (niaaraa), I shall give all the light.

Jab eh gahai bipran kee reet.
Mai(n) naa(n) karo(n) in kee parteet.

If they adopt the common ways,
I will not satisfy them.
--Guru Gobind Singh Ji

When they shall follow the commoners, they shall have no satisfaction.


So what is the order of the day? It is the order of the day to be compassionately working with your soul and living in the simple, high horizon of that God's grace. You must go up... and see the little hurdles in the life will go away.

I know these days I'm being accused of inaction. For a long time I do not act. I do not tell this, I do not tell that. What is there to tell? Why to tell a person the Infinite gospel truth who cannot hear even the earthly things through these ears? What is there to tell? We are all in a learning process but we are very fortunate that somehow there is something which has brought us to the lotus feet of the Guru. And Guru, Shabad Guru, which is always, shall ever be, the same, which has no distinction between the poor and rich, healthy and the unhealthy. That day the hukam came... very beautiful, and I was very rejoicing. I said, "Hukam came... wonderful!" And somebody said, "Everyday hukam comes beautiful. Guru doesn't speak anything other than that." I said, "You bet. All right." I said, "One to ten. Let us go and take another hukam from the Guru." Hukam came:

"You idiot who doesn't have any understanding. You who live in the filth. You who does not have any demarcation. You who's wasting the precious life of these emeralds and diamonds and all that for a shell."

I said, "Are we going to stop or you are going to read further?" I said, "Guru speaks as a God, and God speaks the praises of the Guru."

We are very grateful to Guru Amar Das to give us the guidance of nobility of service and humility of compassion, and kindness as the dignity for human nobility. We belong to that Guru. That's a part of us. That's a third part of us. We have ten parts. Five on the left, five on the right. Five bhagatee and five shakti. Look at the beauty of this Dharma... Five bhagatee, five shakti. Guru Hargobind is our sixth part. Chetaan. He wore two swords, the sword for living righteous and tolerating not the unrighteous. We have ten parts, and the eleventh tells us that seva, simran, bhagatee, shakti, naam, bana, banee are the attirements which we have achieved and which you share.

Somebody just wanted to go somewhere and the person said, "Should I wear bana or not?" I said, "Je manere bana, ta too paale bana." If you want to look to the will of God and you are going as a representative of God, and you are going to represent the Guru, then go in a bana. But if you are going to represent you, then wear anything." Person said, "No, I want to represent the Guru." I said, "Then what is the question? Then go and let be known." And I said, "Once you get known then there is a responsibility. Then behave also, and then honor the Guru, and put Guru before you, not you before you." The situation was very successful, came very praise worthy and jumping... "I am very happy." I said, "Do it again. Do it again. Do it again and do it forever."

So my dear ones, we have ten parts of our life. One, and zero. And we have life before us. Let this day bring us the totality of that compassion, kindness and devotion... that whatever the world says, world says. But what we say to ourselves is that God is great and with this every limb of us, "Ang Sang Wahe Guru!"

If you have come crying, go smiling. That's the bottom line.

Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh!

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Copyright by Yogi Bhajan, 1988
transcript by Tej Kaur Khalsa, Los Angeles CA

source: www.sikhnet.com

Teacher's day in my school

last friday was the teacher's day in my school. i really can't believe that i actually get the chance in my final year in S.M.K Penrissen No. 1 to attend such a function. this is the first time i go to school during teacher's day. I am really glad that i went to school on that day. really!

although that day i said that i should be quite boring but guess what, i really did something great there. Its the first time that I've become a cameraman. Mr William he let me handle his camera. Oh damn, i took plenty of photo's, but i did not take much with my mobile phone. this picture is the teacher's choir.

this is the only picture which is clear.

i was really lucky too, because I've gut my chance to follow the physics olympiad competition. Even more is that that was the last day to register myself for the competition. so lucky.

Wrote a poem during exam???

Today during my PJK examination, I've wrote a poem. Isn't it weird for a person to write a poem or do something else during the examination? Well, I've just break the 'rule' by writing a poem. Before I start my poem, I'll just brief a little bit on my class at that time. It as suppose to be a one hour test but well, the whole class finished the test paper within 20 min. Its just very easy. I quote one question. Q.40 When will SUKMA 2008 take place? Can you believe, this kind of question asked in the exam papers! there are a whole bunch of weird questions. but i won't post them. Copyright should be preserve.

Ok, now about the poem. I was just a little bit too free in the classroom at that time and didn't feel like sleeping, so I've wrote this poem. It does not have a title yet. Those who read this poem can suggest a title for it. Oh ya, this can be said as my first poem. So, please forgive me if I made any mistake. The poem goes like this...............................


Everything goes by,
not a single one stops,
as change never stop,
and you can never meet the end.

Only one that I would say,
remains the same,
not effected by time,
not now, not in the future as well as the past.

He touched my soul,
He shows me the way,
the road to His sanctuary,
and be one with him.

Love is His name,
Pain is his name,
Merciful He is
Which forgives everyone.
He gave me so much,
and yet, do I love him?

Its only Him,
my one and only friend,
my family, my supporter.
by leaning on Him,
I don't have enemy,
by leaning on Him,
everything will be fine.

Just one step it takes,
and yet we don't take it.
Wasting our life,
and attracted to worldy things.
Why don't the fools realise this?
He is in everyone.
Why can't the see him,
in every being?
Why??

Only one step will make it,
to open your house door.
Open it!!
Welcome Him as he is in you!!

Everything that can goes by,
are illusions, are traps,
don't get into them,
or you'll stuck in the mud forever.
Never will there be a place for you,
in His wonderful sanctuary,
in your life ahead.


Praise Him,
The Creator,
with all sorts of names.
But see Him as one.
Allah, Jesus, Buddha,Waheguru..............
Live in Him!!!!!

One More Week Left!!!

1 more week left, and everything will either go good or the other way around. Both in school and sports.

Only 1 more week of headache and i will be free. Hurrey!!!

But o damn, biology is coming up this tuesday. Damn! and the wednesday got PJK exam? Never even touch my PJK book at all. Don't know why we have this exam paper. The question that are being asked in this paper is just so stupid(refer to the past questions). I think a standard 6 student can answer those question without a problem. Its just too easy. Mostly general knowledge. Its nice to have the lesson but really exam paper for this subject is just a waste of time. Enough about that.

Then that afternoon i gotta attend my taekwondo class. Can't find a reason to escape the class this week. Helpless me. I was chosen to take part in state-level competition. But I can't really find time to go for the training session in town. Plus the training takes place on Sundays. Damn! if I really follow that training, i think i am going to be exhausted till dead. Too much activity but too little time to finish everything in time. Just which I can follow that class. That will be a challenging class so i am interested to go.

Then on thursday, the subject I love most............Chemistry. Why do I love this subject? Well i think it should be my teacher who has influence me. My chemistry teacher is just so cool. Can't really believe that i have such a good teacher who likes to curse people. Curse people? Yup, she does curse us. It was a long time ago, and the curse, well, she took it back. Only one curse she remains in with her science class students(those students are poor in their study). She cursed them to pass their SPM if they finish their homework. In my life until today, only 2 teachers I really admire. And my chemistry teacher is one of two.

Friday will be the worst day of my week. Gotta go to school for duty. My school celebrates teacher's day on this friday. And I am one of the prefect in my school, so i need to go. It is really a waste of time. But at least there are some entertainment there. Can't wait to see the teachers' choir. At least I have my last chance to see that. Its my last year in secondary school. I'll post more about it this coming Friday.


Then comes THE FIGHT OF THE MONTH. This sunday is the inter-school sparing competition. This is where we will be able to whack someone. As the best sparer(sp?) I will certainly lead my school team to get some medals. The fact is my school sparing team have too many new faces. That is the main reason I am the best in school. Hehehehe. Although not that good, but still a senior in the club, so its my job to help the school bring these new talents out 4 fights.

And lastly, I really need to put this picture up.
Its name is Tiger. Beware there is a wild but tamed and cute cat staying in my house. Be sure to try to keep yourself coming to my house.

Just kidding.........

New plans

i will move all about gurbani stuff in my new blog. you can visit it at www.a-fools-blog.blogspot.com

The law of life

The law of life??
What are the law of life??
Never heard about it!!
Well, to those Sikhs around the world, we often listen to it. We even know the name of the shabad, but the only thing is we don't understand it.

Where can I find the Law of life? Which part of Guru Granth Sahib does such thing exist?

The law of life is actually the Asa Di Var path. It is written there. It touches the element heaven and hell, the life that we should life in. Some Sikhs choose to believe in it, and others don't give a damn of this. Let me put it this way. Those who fully understand this path will gain more knowledge if they practice it.

I will interpret on this next time.

pls go to www.a-fools-blog.blogspot.com

About myself

i am a guy, 17, as you know. studying in SMK PENRISSEN NO.1. i m a Punjabi, whose religion is a Sikh. i have a lot of interest in gurbani. wat is gurbani? some of you may not know.
gurbani actually comes from the word guru and bani. guru here stands for the savior, the lord, aka god. while, the word bani, is the scripture or in christian, it is more commonly known as the bible. it is easier to understand this way.
i like to sing. but i will only sing hyms.
my favourite subject is emm... should b chemistry. well, chemistry is a subject where i feel that it is very interesting. no doubt that i never score more than 65 marks for my chemistry in school, but i just love this subject. by the way, my teacher is also very cool. this encourages us to learn more.
if you wanna know more about me, you can always send me an email at satsimran_na2so4@hotmail.com