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The Global Woman: Women in Training Vol 15
The Global Woman: Women in Training Vol 15
The Global Woman: Women in Training Vol 15
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Recognizing the need to educate women about women, Yogi Bhajan created a special summer intensive training program for women called Khalsa Women's Training Camp (KWTC). The women in training program took place in Española, NM, USA, during summer starting in 1976 and continued for twenty years. Every year he spent up to 8 weeks directly teaching

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The Global Woman: Women in Training Vol 15
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PhD Yogi Bhajan

Yogi Bhajan was declared a Master of Kundalini Yoga at the age of 16. He came to the United States in 1969 and openly taught this transformative technology for the next 35 years, until his last breath in Aug 2004. In the turbulent drug culture of the 70s, Yogi Bhajan first reached out to the youth. He recognized that their experimentation with drugs and "altered states of consciousness" expressed a desire to experience themselves and a longing for family, for connection to their soul and their community. In response to this innate longing, he created a family known as 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization). Soon, 3HO ashrams began springing up across the United States and throughout the world.He sparked a movement whose tendrils have woven their way into numerous aspects of our culture. Yoga and meditation have gained widespread acceptance in the West and the holistic health movement he introduced through diet, herbs, and lifestyle technologies. Born Harbhajan Singh in what is now Pakistan to a family of healers and community leaders, Yogi Bhajan studied comparative religion and Vedic philosophy in his undergraduate years and received his Masters in Economics with honors from Punjab University. Years later, he earned his Ph.D. in communications psychology from the University of Humanistic Studies in San Francisco. Yogi Bhajan emerged as a religious, community, and business leader with a distinguished reputation as a man of peace, world vision, wisdom, and compassion. He founded several food companies that manufacture and distribute natural products based on these teachings. He fostered economic development in communities around the world. He is also the author of several books on yoga philosophy, business, and communication during his lifetime.The Kundalini Research Institute continues his legacy through The Yogi Bhajan Library of Teachings, the International Teacher Training in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®, and the publications of lectures and kriyas to serve the community of teachers, students, and practitioners around the world. See www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org to learn how you can help keep the legacy alive!

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    The Global Woman - PhD Yogi Bhajan

    It is very easy for a man to create a man's world. There is nothing to it. But to be a woman is extremely complicated. It is so complicated that even a woman cannot imagine it. Not having the knowledge to understand what a woman is and how complicated woman is makes it very difficult to live. Try to understand who you really are.

    SUN AND MOON ENERGIES, MALE AND FEMALE

    The earth has one moon in relation to the whole zodiac. You have eleven moons in you, plus your natal and earth moon. When God reincarnates, woman is the vehicle. It is a tragedy that men call you good for nothing, doormat, chick, God knows what. They didn't drop from the sky. You are wronged by those who come out of you. Nothing outside your world exists, not even God. That's why you are Adi Shakti, primal force, the impulse.

    We talk about peace, tranquility and good luck. But, so long as those born of woman do not respect woman, there cannot be peace of mind, national peace or peace in the universe. So long as man does not have reverence for the primal force, his mental attribute will still want to exploit woman, reduce her, abuse her and be angry with her. Every male achievement will be empty.

    If you do not reflect the man, you will be hollow. That tragedy in practical reality cannot be neglected. Do not learn from me, from scriptures or books. Look at the sky. The sun shines and never moves. The moon wanes, waxes and reflects. The moon nurtures the sprout and makes it grow. The sun sprouts it and ripens it. The entire nurturing area belongs to the moon.

    Your primary responsibility is not who you love or how much you love, but whether you can reflect that love. Your second primary responsibility is to contain the man. Containing the man is not enslaving him. Contain him with complete liberty so that he comes back. Don't closet him. He cannot be yours.

    MAN'S PROJECTION

    By nature, man's projection is impotent. He has to be aroused and whatever has to be aroused has to be finished. The law is whatever you start, you have to end. A sequence shall bring the consequences. There is no game to be played. Life has no philosophy, no religion, no manners, nothing. It is a practical, day to day reality of two things: action has a reaction, equal and opposite. As you sow, so shall you reap. If you don't sow right, you shall weep. Your life shall be full of tears. Nothing will be clear.

    The concept is very challenging. When you as a woman commit a mistake, you missed the take which you should have taken, that belonged to you, that opportunity, that moment, those circumstances, that sequence that was yours. You miss-take, you didn't take it, you missed it. There's nothing in life that you have to miss or regret.

    WOMAN'S TRAGEDY, WOMAN'S INTUITION

    A woman's tragedy is when she feels, I am sorry. That kills the heart of God. You are one species born not to be sorry, not to mistake anything and not to mistake anything for anything else. Your power as a mother, to give life to another person, to protect and to be is intuitively sixteen times more than any man ever born.

    Perhaps that is why you don't care, you have more tolerance, you take beatings and you face tragedy. Psychologically, you have no choice. Either you are the pivot of the entire psychological environment or you are facing a tragedy every minute.

    You beautify yourself to look attractive. I'm not saying you should not be attractive. You should be magnetic. When you are attractive you can attract the devil, the saint and the hero at the same time. Becoming attractive or beautiful is not enough. You must have the physical, mental and psychological capacity to contain whatever you attract.

    She contains the he. Man is in woman. Male is in female. It is obligatory in life to contain everything you attract. Otherwise, don't attract it. When you attract your own miseries and contain them, your whole life is a trial. You can't triumph because you never made a right decision.

    Western women have one tragedy. Now doesn't belong to you. You cannot serve now. Now is only National Organization for Women. Now doesn't mean time for you. Everything you think, proceed to think and achieve must satisfy your tomorrow. Yesterday is gone and there's no use crying for it. Today is going, you can't stop it. Tomorrow is the only thing you can prepare for.

    You have a mega-psyche and never use it. A woman's tragedy is reducing herself to the male's magnetic psyche level. Then you have tragedy and pain. You shall be betrayed, insulted, abused, misused, exploited and anything else which I have not said or remembered. Your psyche, by nature and God's will, is sixteen times more than any male. Male has to develop the psyche and use it. You have the psyche and have to use it. So you have sixteen times more projection and sensitivity. You can also be sixteen times more miserable.

    It goes both ways. One drop of ejaculate and you conceive, bear nine months, deliver and nurture till death. The umbilical cord is cut, but psychologically you are never cut from that child.

    I have counseled women for twenty years. They have forgotten their sexual relation with men, but have never forgotten the marriage relationship. They say, ‘Well, I think I lived with 10 men, I had sex with maybe 20, 30.’ They hardly remember names, but marriages, yes, A, B, C, and then every part of them. Because anything you think is yours, becomes you. Multiply anything by zero and it becomes zero.

    In numerology, sixteen reduces to seven. Seven means you can elevate or you can totally drop it. God has three letters, G, O, D. Generate. Organize. Deliver or destroy. There is no other choice.

    Therefore be humble and silent, diplomatic and sweet speaking, good-mannered and self-controlled. Diplomat means dip low on the mat. Don't break your bones. Be nurturing and creative, but have absolute control of your identity. If you lose your identity for any reason, you will never find reality.

    You are a way. Guru Nanak is born out of you, Christ is born out of you, Buddha is born out of you. We can question whether the immaculate conception was immaculate or accurate, but the conception and delivery took place. Whether there was a father or not is not the problem. He was conceived and there was a mother. Earth is mother and father is heavenly.

    You are like a cat. A cat may be very hungry, but when she finds a mouse she starts sharpening her claws, playing with it till she cannot bear it any more and then she eats it. You can't afford that. Anything you contain is what you create. Anything you create you must contain. Any woman who wants to be unhappy, starts playing games. Whether you are rich or poor, black or white, yellow or pink, makes no difference.

    MAN'S LIMITATIONS

    Man who doesn't play games is not a man and woman who plays games is not a woman. Man has learned not to be a man. He doesn't care. It is his limited ego, the mental coercive projected psyche. The first thing that a man learns is his penis doesn't get up when he wants it to. He does not think that he exists. Do you know how shocking it is? You have no idea because you don't have one.

    Look at nature. Try to understand the poor man. You are always bugging him for nothing. Even when he is little he knows it does not go up at his command. He is always careful because that little thing is totally out of his control. He does a million things, including killing rhinos for the horn's supposed aphrodisiac power. Can you believe this stupidity in 1990?

    Every Chinaman, wants a certain deer's powdered antlers, because they eat too much and don't know what to do with themselves. What is the cost of a deer? Nothing. But that horn is costlier than gold, five hundred dollars an ounce. Now how can a two hundred pound man with a one hundred pound belly perform anything? But they don't want to listen to that.

    The tragedy of man starts in the first seven years. He consciously understands that his little thing does not get up at his command. It is called the shock of impotency and until his death he is trying to get up those two tomatoes and one banana. That is his total reality and he goes through total shock about it.

    You can beautify yourself. Have you ever gone inside the man and asked him how he feels? You can powder up, make up and look pretty, but when he cannot perform, he is not pretty. From his seventh year to seventieth year, man is in the era of personal insecurity and struggle. That's why men are short tempered, ill mannered, violent and get drunk. They cannot face one simple reality. Unfortunately, you are not aware of this dire pressure on men.

    In very early times all men masturbated. From the eighth to the twelfth century medical records show million of things prescribed to stop this. Thousand of years ago they started circumcising to prevent masturbation. The religious reason for circumcision I'm not discussing. As far as man is concerned circumcision was done to prevent masturbation or enjoying it. The justifications of cleanliness, religion and God wanted a little sacrifice is a religious sham which, forgive me, I cannot even accept logically. It is recorded history that, at the age of sixteen to twenty-four men were considered impotent because of masturbating so much. The religious people decided to take care of this.

    If you look at man progressively and demand things because of cultural pressures, do you know how much you are asking? Hindus made Adi Shakti with eight hands. Modern man wants his laundry done, meal cooked, full salary brought home, car cleaned, dishes washed. He tells you if the spaghetti is right or wrong. In 1990 not one man with all his manners does not expect you to do eight assets as he does only one, then sleeps and snores. When a woman wants it most, he turns around and snores.

    You are dealing with uncertainty, with what can never be exact. You are expecting something when the other party does not even know what the expectation is. You have to sharpen your intuitiveness and bring reality home. That is one successful way every woman can live.

    SAY WHAT YOU MEAN

    Don't provoke something. When you say something you don't mean, he's mean enough to say you did mean it. Whatever you say is the gospel truth. When he means something it is supposed to be a joke if it ends up wrong. If a man cannot repeat what you said, he's not a man. 50 years later man will exactly repeat what you said, because they learn from the beginning how to listen to the mother. That is the way their machine is. It cannot be erased. If man forgets what woman said, the universe would not exist more than 5 years.

    The entire strength of man is woman and what she said to him. Man has no impulse of his own. His reflexes won't work until you provoke them. God Almighty made it this way to keep balance and harmony. When woman speaks, woman speaks. When a man acts, a man acts. There's no other relationship to understand.

    I have tried to see you strong, fulfilled, competent and complete. That is a woman's own attribution to herself. You don't have to contribute anything. You just have to attribute that these are your attributes. God gave you natural strength and natural reality. Please, don't ever turn it into tragedy. When a man falls, an individual falls. When a woman falls, the family and the future falls. You can do much more damage than a man. You can also do much more good than a man can do.

    MEDITATION

    Let us meditate to be creative. Let us balance our brain. Do it to rotate your grey matter which normally automatically rotates. Today we will do it in our own essence.

    Put the pinky, or communication finger, and the ring, or sun finger, under the thumb, your ego. The index finger is Jupiter, your knowledge, and the middle finger is Saturn, your patience. Your knowledge and patience should always be up front. Your communication and your identity should be under your control. That's what this mudra shows. Normally, the Christian blessing is this Christ mudra.

    Look at the tip of your nose. Move your right arm straight out and your left arm straight out. Repeat and play Pavan, Pavan by Nirinjin Kaur. Move without thinking, with the vibration of the music. Everything else will start happening. Stretch the arms so that you can understand your nervous system. Stretch out your universe.

    This will set the brain's neuron patterns, create a generative power and, recorded by the memory, will help your life. It's like swimming laps. This mudra will give you power to project and get, but be careful what you want to get. Extend to shape up your arm pits to balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in the neurons of the brain so the pattern on the action side can become organized. It's a total science. There's nothing religious in it. Your thalamus will move and the frontal node will vibrate.

    Inhale deep. Put your hands on the heart center, please. Hold the breath, put on the tape Heal Me. Breath slowly and exhale. Inhale very deeply, exhale very deeply, but very slowly, extremely slowly. Consciously breath in and breath out. As long as you can do that you will create wonder. Your entire energy and power can come back at this time. As much depth as you want in your life, that is how deep your breath must be.

    Inhale deep. Hold the breath. Give yourself a chance to conceive the concept of the thoughts you have gone through. Use your self-hypnosis, identify yourself with yourself. Let the breath go and inhale again, exhale deep, inhale again, inhale deep, hold. Identify yourself to yourself with all the pluses and minuses and neutrals. Exhale, deep. Now inhale deep and hold. Identify yourself to yourself with all the pluses and minuses and the neutrals. Exhale and please relax.

    WELCOME TO KWTC

    Welcome to the Khalsa Women's Training Camp. We would like to see you learning purity, piety, self-respect, self-esteem, etc. Those are just words. We want you to learn how strong you can be and get rid of weaknesses. The atmosphere is cozy, the weather is fine, this camp is all for you and if you don't do any mischief it's going to be really good.

    May the long time sunshine upon you all love surround you and the pure light within you guide your way on.

    Blessed God, creator for all creatures and His creation, give us the lens to see the unseen. Give us the lever to move the unmovable. Make us hear Thy will. Give us the chance to be healthy, happy and holy. Give us the strength to be peaceful and have peace of mind. Give us the strength to work for the peace of the world. Give us the strength to be more noble, give us the strength to be outstandingly rich to reach Thy values, Thy virtues and Thy aspects. Oh Lord God, give us this day and make a better tomorrow for all and for us. Sat Nam.

    ARCHIVES

    I would like to request that you collect watches for our archives, so that future generations will know about mechanical watches and not these electronic gadgets. It doesn't matter if the watch doesn't work now. Please add to our collection.

    NEGOTIATING LIFE

    In this country you are all byproducts of sex and love. My article, There's Nothing In Sex, There's Nothing Without It, is one of the best ways to understand the whole thing.

    Life is very cut-and-dried. Life cannot be idle the way you want it, neither it is good or bad. Life is what you negotiate with your own life. You are the initiator, you are the doer, and you are the one who will complete it. Within that triplex you are the one who has to negotiate. Whatever you negotiate with your life, that shall be your reality. Do not have any misunderstanding.

    The inferior, animal nature is to be curious. Human nature is to be intuitive. You can judge whether you are inferior or not. Even an animal becomes curious when seeing his prey. He then feels able to proceed towards it and fight with it. When curiosity is not satisfied, it becomes a tragedy.

    Curiosity is the base of every anxiety. Anxiety reduces you to incompetency. Don't look to anxiety as a plan of attack. It is a hysteria which gives you a constant, persistent experience and a reminder that you are not competent. You have curiosity, then anxiety, inferiority complex, frustration, depression, psychosis, neurosis, then anger. If you do not want these eight stages, then you need intuition. Personalities with intuition remain in one piece.

    CURIOSITY

    In curiosity begins duality. Curiosity is the overriding force of your personality and that is dangerous. People are curious. They just want to know. Are you curious about yourself?

    The left and right breasts change at different times of the month and moon. Sometimes the left breast is bigger, sometimes the right breast is bigger. You are curious about that and about what the neighbors are eating, who has a girl friend or boy friend. In your heart center your mood is controlled by the internal movement of the breasts. The sensitivity changes according to the movement of the fallopian tubes. The circulating movement of the egg affects your hormones and the neurons in the brain. The sensitivity of the breasts affects your eyesight.

    Sometimes a woman can read very clearly and sometimes she cannot. According to the momentum of the breasts you have the power to smell. Some days you can smell a mile away and sometimes you can put a rose to your nose and not smell it. According to the movement of the breast you can hear clearly or not. You are curious about all this.

    BREAST MASSAGE

    Early in the morning massage your breasts under a cold shower. This creates a fresh blood supply. If you want to live and face the day as God made you, massage many times until it feels cold. Then go back again until it doesn't feel cold anymore. You will not have breast cancer or any disease and your circulatory system will feed every tissue. The nervous system is renewed, too.

    A young girl starts developing breasts and crunching her shoulders in. That is where you get messed up and become inferior. Walk with the chin in, chest out and on your paws. Teach your girls that this is definite and very essential.

    In middle age breast cancer becomes a possibility. Normally people who take cold showers do not have blood disease and cancer is a blood disease or depression. Once the capillaries are cleansed and circulate thoroughly through all the organs the blood can defend the body. The skin will become young and beautiful. That's the best skin therapy.

    COLD SHOWER SKIN THERAPY

    You can use any cream or powder on your face, but the best healing is a cold shower. Get under the cold shower, feel cold, withdraw, massage and go back and repeat. By the fifth time that cold water will be warm. Massage the breasts, the back, the kidneys and the back of the neck, which is more essential than anything in your entire body. Then massage your feet. The left foot can completely massage the right foot and the right foot can completely massage the left foot. Then your feet can massage your calves. You won't hurt. This is a very ancient medical system called hydrotherapy.

    To feel young and fresh, towel your bottom. God has provided you with two cushions. Take a shower, then towel it well. You'll be surprised how stimulating it can be.

    Babies are born head down, legs tucked up, in the shape of an ear. The earlobe is like the head and the entire outer circle is like the spine. Inside are all the organs and meridian points of the entire body. Sit in a warm water bath and brush your ears to acupuncture the entire body. It will be very itchy.

    EXERCISES

    Sit on your heels and lie down on your back, putting your hands on your thighs. Three minutes of this can straighten your entire internal, external, parental, glandular or any nonsense.

    Now point your fists to the sky and move them in circles powerfully. You have total control of your spine. Now bring one hand up and down and then the other hand up and down. Fast. It fixes the hemispheres.

    Now put your hands up. Bring your left hand down to the ground and then up, down, up, down. You can control your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems this way.

    Now stretch your legs forward and very slowly put both hands on the ground and apply pressure. The heels are on the ground. Bring the head up with chin in. Count to 108 maximum and your body will burn up extra fat.

    Now relax and sleep. Nap. That is essential. Three minutes maximum for each kriya. Kundalini Yoga is a time-saving factor. It is a tattva yoga. It gives you the essence. It doesn't give you the paraphernalia.

    Now put the heels together with the feet about 18 inches above the ground and do breath of fire from the navel point. Relax. The pranic shakti is circulated everywhere for three minutes. Start with half a minute. Now very slowly get up. Extremely slowly. Bring your knees to your chest. Lock them and hug tight for about five minutes. Do this kriya anytime you are depressed, under anxiety attack, to control yourself or when you are tired to death. Don't move the body. Become like a rock. This is called pritham posture.

    This set is pritham kriya. Pritham means elementary, basic. Pritham bhagaute simar kai, Guru Nanak laee dhiaae. Any woman who can sit in this posture for five minutes and move the navel with the turn of sat nam wahe guru, sat nam wahe guru will raise her kundalini. Men unfortunately can't do it. The mantras sat nam and wahe guru go together. Sat nam is the pritam mantra. Wahe guru is the guru mantra. These two sounds have the greatest power when combined together.

    PRAN SHASTRA KRIYA

    Lie down on your right side. Catch your toe and lift the leg up. Repeat on the left side. Then lie on your belly and do bow pose for the nervous system and to build up your stamina.

    To correct menstruation pull backwards into bow pose. That is how you can set the timing of your menstruation if it is off. Put your entire weight on the area of the clitoris.

    You have a self-healing body. We go to doctors because we don't have time for ourselves. I tried specialists for my sickness because I want you to know what they can do. They told me to get out of town so I would not breathe so much smog. That's all.

    Put the hands on the breast in the same posture. Let it go. Relax. Nap. Get into platform pose. Read Japji aloud. People think that yoga is just a joke. What happens if you say,

    Pavan guru paanee pitaa.

    Guru Nanak (8)

    When a Guru Arjan was put on a hot plate and baked with hot sand, what capacity did he have? Explain what that kriya felt like.

    STUDENT: It was getting harder and harder, but I just had to keep going, though the mind wanted to move to a different place. In Japji or moving out of myself to the Guru was the only way to keep going. But the body was giving in.

    YOGI BHAJAN: This is called Pran Shastra Kriya, through which you can take your body out of your body and merge into another body while still alive. If, in this posture, your Japji becomes perfect, you can control prana, die at will, take your body out of your body, merge to feel the total feeling and understanding of another person and transfer yourself timelessly. You can become so tough that you have no pain and the very touch of you or being within your aura can take away the pain of another person. This is also called naag brahm aasan.

    Shastra means weapon. When you use your pranic energy as a weapon, you must perfect this kriya. Have somebody by your side because you can space out. Sometimes the experience is so real that you need to talk to someone to keep attached to the Earth.

    SAT SIRI KRIYA

    Now sit in a crow pose. Raise both hands straight up and put the palms together. Look at the tip of your nose and do Sat Kriya. This is Sat Siri Kriya. If you perfect this kriya you will have the power to smell friend and enemy within the vicinity of ninety-one miles. The person who perfects this kriya can know everything. Do it as long as your constitution dictates. It's a totally individual thing.

    JAPPA SID KRIYA

    Stand on the left leg. Bend right leg in half, all the way up. Hands in prayer pose at heart center. Recite your perfect shabad from the navel point, such as Har, Har, Har, Har, Har, Har, Hari.

    ENDURANCE

    There are kundalini yoga kriyas that make you a super and para-super human being. There is no possibility that your body can't do it. In your life you have only one friend, endurance. Man without endurance is nuts. And woman without endurance is a bum.

    Endurance has three avenues. One is endurance itself. Second is effective endurance. You pull it when you want, you let it go when you want. Third is perpetual endurance. These kundalini yoga kriyas which I have taught you today can lead you to perpetual endurance. A woman with perpetual endurance knows no defeat, has no weakness, can cover a challenge and win it. So long as you live and want to be respectful, gracious and successful, you need to build beauty in you. The beauty in woman is perpetual endurance. Everything else is a shaky business.

    A woman's soul must accomplish self-knowledge. Self-knowledge doesn't come through philosophy. It is a status of self-enjoyment, self-fulfillment. When self and you and you and self become one, God is found.

    MENTAL KRIYAS

    Let us do mental kriyas. Point the Saturn (middle) finger out like an iron rod, with a straight arm. Chin in and chest out. Play Rakh Rakhanhaar and speak from the naval. Play just a little, not more than three inches. Within that three inches you can win the universe. Sing. Copy the sound. These words are in relationship to the upper palate and tongue that is a stimulant of the brain. It will give you what you need. Do it for eleven minutes.

    Inhale and hold the breath. Synchronize your body, pratiahar. Synchronize every molecule. Synchronize to death, tighten up. Exhale. Relax.

    May peace prevail in your heart and mind, your surroundings and environments, your life and neighborhood, in your self, in your country and in your nation, and may peace prevail in the entire world. God bless, Sat Nam.

    Are you intelligent enough to use your intelligence and are you bright, beautiful and successful? There's no forgiveness for ignoring these things. God did not give intelligence to man because they do dumb things. But, as a woman, you were given intelligence because you have the potential capacity to be a mother. You have a responsibility to protect, nurture and bring to light another life so God gave you super sensitivity. The misfortune is that you are also sixteen times more emotional.

    When a person is emotional, intelligence is not used. You can yell, scream, cry, jump, walk away and rent a hotel room, have intercourse or not, a husband or not, six boyfriends or twenty friends in one hour. You will do things sixteen times more than a man. You will be sixteen times bad or sixteen times good. There is nothing in between for you. You have to recognize that tragedy.

    A woman has only one chance. Understand that whatever you do will be done sixteen times. If you don't want to be exploited, no one can exploit you. Are you willing to stop it? Are you going to wait sixteen more hours, days, months, years? I have met many intelligent women. I appreciate the opportunity that God gave me to be with them. A man can do 1/16 of what a woman can do, yet I always see women in trouble.

    WOMEN IN SIRI SINGH SAHIB'S FAMILY

    My grandmother was in conscious understanding to her death, absolutely graceful, commanding, over-rationally sweet, in a perfect state of health, mind and loyalty. I never saw her utter a word. She looked this way, everybody knew it meant yes, and that way meant no. If she smiled you are blessed, if she said ‘um’ that meant forget it. I saw her deal with a lot of tragedy during the partition when the family was uprooted. Women struggled to keep the family together.

    DUTY AND THE NIGHT WATCHMEN

    My mother was the most commanding woman. One day I was very tired from night duty. I was sleeping and in the middle of the night she woke me up. She had two foot soldiers by the hand. I said, What are you doing?

    She said, They were sleeping on duty.

    I said, What happened to you?

    She said, I just found them sleeping and brought them to you. Will you take action against them or not?

    I said, Leave me alone, I have to get up in the morning.

    She said, What? You can't do your duty because you are sleepy?

    I said, Okay, okay I'll do my duty. Now will you please go and rest? Then I said, You idiots, what you have done to me?

    They said, Well, we were tired, not sleeping, just sitting and Mataji found us and pulled us here.

    DEPTH OF INTELLIGENCE

    So there are many facets of woman in life. You have to learn, in your basic reality, how deep you are within you. That is your beauty. How shallow are you? How easily can you be used and abused and taken away? How fast do you act and react? That's one part of it. But the other real part is how deep are you within your own intelligence for yourself? Against every odd, how do you play even? That is the beauty of woman.

    You may be rich or poor, healthy or sick. Life has comfort and discomfort, good and bad. For every good there is an equal bad. Somebody good is bad for somebody and somebody bad is good for somebody. Life goes on. That is not rational to discuss. But

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