Rhythmic Intelligence: Women in Training Vol 16

By PhD Yogi Bhajan

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kundalini Research Institute
• Release date: Jun 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781934532287

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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How To Become A Woman

June 27, 1991

Psychology is a philosophy. It’s ninety percent emotion, commotions and feelings and ten percent real subject.

The teenagers were talking about relationships. One girl represented a man and another represented a woman. The woman wanted her way and the man was refusing. They were very intensely into it. I said, Wow, this is fantastic!

They looked at me and said, Oohh! He’s here!

I said, "What are you doing? People call you teenagers. Has anybody taught you how to become a woman? I was a teenager once. Then my beard grew and it was all new to me. Similarly, you are first flat chested and then there are some bumps. You wonder what this means. You go through this physical menstruation and know it. Men go through mental menstruation and don’t even know it. You protect yourself with a pad, but they don’t! They crave crazy things in those three to seven days of biorhythm interception.

Every man commits basic mistakes during those days. Five thousand years ago the scriptures said that man only has a right brain. Woman has a right and a left brain.

You will grow up, become romantic, be in love and have a man. You will demand to be heard and to be loved. How will you make this happen when man is the most brutish, bullying exploiter that God ever created?

CREATING MAN

Once He created man, God fell in so much love with him that He said, Everybody should bow to this man.

Lucifer told God, You are crazy! I should bow to this man?

God said, Yes. These are my orders.

Lucifer said, No. So God threw him out of heaven and now he is known as the devil.

Lucifer said to God, I love you more than anybody else. These angels are stupid. They agree with you all the time, but I am going to test this man. Your best creation will be tested until he is lost.

WHY MAN NEEDS WOMAN

Because man has half a brain he needs a woman to survive. It’s not that men fall in love with you. You are his survival kit. You say, Be very sweet to him.

I say, Be sweet and he’ll eat you up.

You say, We should be very obedient to him.

I say, Give him one inch and he’ll want three feet. Man doesn’t love you. No man is born to love a woman. They play it.

Man is not born to love. Man is born to live. He cannot produce another life. Man can only be the cause of another life. Man is an exploiter.

There is no way for man to be truthful. If you match up with a man in harmony, he will give you romance. Seduce a man with comfort, coziness and tranquillity. At night when the light is off, no one cares what kind of eyes you have. He wants you to respond to him so he can respond. After that he turns this way to sleep and you turn that way to sleep. Who’s fooling who?

GETTING HIS WAY

In the morning you are his honey. Then he comes home at five o’clock to ruin you. That’s man’s faculty. He’s a hunter. He thinks while he’s driving the car. He’s tired, aggravated, excited to come home. Normally you like his attention, but when you open your mouth this time you get it.

What about my day? Did somebody call you? The guy is cuckoo. You say, No, I didn’t get a call, I’m just asking about your day, you look very tired. You start conversing to avoid a fight. He doesn’t want to fight but he wants his way and you do not want to give him his way. Finally you end up with a fight, a smile, or nothing happens.

You walk on the razor’s edge every day. If you are unmarried, you want to be married. If you are married, you want to have harmony. When you are in harmony, you do not know when somebody is going to snatch it from you.

A man changes consciousness every seven years, intelligence every eleven years and the life cycle every eighteen years. A woman totally changes her identity every nine years. It’s her biological rhythm. She becomes uncooperative and he starts yelling, getting some other woman or withdrawing.

CONSCIOUSNESS, CAREER AND COURAGE

There are three ways for a man to be ever yours. You should have a consciousness, a career, and the courage to be you. If you want respect, you have to be spiritual with your own social and personal security. Man doesn’t know who you are. Respecting a woman is not in his nature. What can you offer a man to honestly be yours if you have no status, no career and by yourself you are not socially and personally recognizable?

There are only two ways man and woman can work together. One way is that he socially and personally recognizes your status. You have to have a status. You have to have a career. You have to have courage. You have to have your conviction. Otherwise no man can respect you. That’s a law of nature. They have to be aggressively conflicting and coordinating and cohabiting to produce babies. Man and woman have to come to each other politely or aggressively.

Look at this example. You marry your daughter, give the dowry, find the boy, feed everybody and send them on a honeymoon. If a man otherwise looks at your daughter, you take a double barrel gun to shoot him. That daughter whom you give to one man voluntarily with a lot of money and respect is the same daughter that another man wants and you take a double barrel gun and shoot him. One is a socially acceptable situation and the other is not.

You have your terms. He has his terms. You meet in certain circumstances. It’s not practical with every case. Some women just want to be at home as wife and mother and enjoy their life. Some men also want that security.

WHAT CAN A WOMAN CAN OFFER A MAN?

What can you offer a man so that he will be yours forever?

STUDENT: Constancy and stability.

YOGI BHAJAN: That is the property of a good slave. If a woman can be constant, right, righteous and great, it is cheap slavery with free sex.

Man wants woman to have an anchor. He wants his left brain. He knows that you have it. A ship travels on the breast of the ocean, tears it apart and takes the storm. When a ship is anchored it doesn’t move. Everything goes over it. An anchor is a trapped strength. It is not a big thing until it digs into the ground to hold the entire balance of the ship. Man needs an anchor. He knows he doesn’t have a left brain and you do. Dating is based on this.

STUDENT: I’m confused. I thought you told us that he has a left brain and not a right brain.

YOGI BHAJAN: He has only the power of projection. Elementary base, man doesn’t have. That’s why you can manipulate him as woman.

You are willing to agree that he has a half brain. Man at a certain time in the womb goes through the acid bath and starts developing his penis and testicles. That way his half brain, left or right, becomes subject to his left and right, whatever it is. We are confused on one issue. Whether it is the left or right. But the fact is, he wants that brain which he doesn’t have.

INTUITION AS ANCHOR

Man knows that he can tie you with security, sex and social future status for his children and family. What he wants is not you. He wants you to be in good communication with him, good understanding with him and in good love with him. You give a basic anchor of life. How do you give him that anchor and how to get that anchor first yourself?

Intuition is the only way that you can get your anchor. How do you get intuition? Quickly. Your mind can give past memory, be with you today and imagine a tomorrow. Your mind can, if developed, also give you intuition.

I taught kundalini yoga to give you mental intuition. Sikhs leave 3HO when they do not do sadhana. They do not have the taste of intuition in their life. They become bored and berserk with the all the extremities of their life and they lose hope. That’s why I say sadhana, araadhanaa, Prabhupatee.

Do sadhana and be the master of God. Love does not pay the bills and romance does not cook the meals. You have the right to live happily. To do so you need a complete unit. A complete unit is man and woman, children, future, relaxation and nice things. This comes if you provide an anchor to a man and he provides a lot of sweat for you in return.

FINDING INTUITION

How do you get intuition? Meditation takes a long time. Tantric is quick and fast. After that, if you do not maintain your sadhana, you fall apart and be in trouble. You cheat. There is nothing I don’t know about you. If you rise in the ambrosial hours, do your sadhana, chant the name of the Guru and your Guru mantra, you will be in ecstasy.

With totally psychotic emotion and commotion, you are insane or you are in ecstasy. Lovers, philosophers and mad men all belong to the same category. We call them lunatics. Until your mind is totally one pointed you can’t achieve anything.

DIVINE SAGE MEDITATION

I’m going to do a three minute exercise with you today. Pretend that you are a very precisely divine sage. Forget about who you are. Imagine that you are a perfect, holy, divine, educated, pure, noble person. It’s not essential that you are. Just imagine that. Pure commotion is called ecstasy. Khalsa is purity and divinity. You are very pure and perfect. Perfect, pure, complete.

Now open your eyes as wide as you can. Make bigger eyes than you can ever think you could have. Keep them wide open and solid. The optical nerve will correct the balance between the neurons of the left and right brain. Eyes have a very direct connection with the brain. The optical nerve is the most powerful nerve. Now, see nothing, feel nothing, know nothing and you don’t want to know anything. Your eyes are blank.

Open your mouth to its maximum. You are putting pressure on the seventh vegus nerve, bringing the back brain into activity and harmony with the frontal brain. You are in total zone control. Blank eyes, open mouth, nothing to be said, nothing to be seen.

Now, between the ears, feel a white tube of light connecting the left and right ear. Stay solid in this. Thirty more seconds. Now close your eyes and open your mouth slowly. Solid control. Close your eyes hard! Close your mouth hard! Get rid of lifelong headaches.

You have two powers: the seventh vegus nerve and the optical nerve. And you have the ear, or sound nerve. You are in total control of all three at this time. Keep the mouth tight like a solid rock and eyes tight, so that if somebody punched you the hand would break and not the face. Relax.

FOUR POWERS OF WOMAN

As a woman, you have four powers. First power is gul. Gul means how you talk, your word, communication. In the beginning there was the Word. Word was with God. Word was God.

Akhree naam akhree saalaah.

Akhree giaan geet gun gaah.

Guru Nanak

With words we utter Thy Name and excellences

With words we sing Thy hymns to Thee.

The second power that you have is vul. Vul means technique.

The third power is called hul. Hul means solution. You can solve yours and any body’s problems. You will be respected and well regarded.

The fourth power is chal. Chal means conceit, making a fool of others and getting your job done. Chal is putting up a facade, conning a person, skinning him alive. You need only practice chal once to lose respect and trust for the rest of your.

These are the four aspects of a human. Vul, gul, hul, chal. These are three positive powers and one negative power. First, you will be respected if you know how to talk. Second, you will be respected if you know some specialty, some technique.

Remember all your life how the life is, how the life can be and how the life should be.

PERPETUAL ENDURANCE

Happiness and sadness go hand in hand. A person needs perpetual endurance, not just endurance which is timely. Sikh Dharma is a fundamental science called dharma. We call it religion because there is no other way to describe it. It is a way of life of perfection. Akaal moorat. The mool mantra says you are a pictorial God, which is the explanation of akaal moorat. There is a Nirgun God and you are sargun God. There’s a whole science to it. Living is an art.

The Sikh religion is based on Sat Nam, the panj shabd. It is a combination of five sounds of the five tattvas: Saa, Taa, Naa and Maa with Aa.

Wahe Guru is our mantra, I am in ecstasy. It means that nothing can affect you, you are with your anchor.

We greet each with, Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa. Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh. It means our purity and our victory belong to God. It is exactly translated, God and me, me and God, are One. That’s the base.

Humee hum, Brahm hum means We are we and we are God. Our purity and victory belong to God. When you take victory and purity out of your life, then you are a dead being. With purity and victory you are somebody. A lighthouse is a lighthouse. but if it doesn’t shine, what is a lighthouse?

MEDITATION

Let us do something very simple, ancient and religious. Choose a partner and sit face to face. Hit your partner with a flat hand at the fifth meridian area, by the chest and shoulder. Don’t push. Bring the one hand back and put together with the other. The hit has to be absolutely gentle and polite, but forceful. Just stimulate the area. Continue like a machine.

This fifth vegus nerve controls the total power of your brain. It lies in a patch under the thymus. When this area starts paining the doctor says thirty days and you are going to God. When it doesn’t hurt, you have the absolute chance of survival.

Put on the marching tape Ang Sang Wahe Guru. It will take care of the body and the words will take care of your soul. Mind will come through. You have to chant with it exactly as it sounds. This is eight beat music. Ang. Sang. Wha. He. Guru. Five words makes it a panj shabd. Wahe Guru is trikuti mantra. It’s a mantra of the sixth chakra. Ang Sang Wha He Guru becomes five sounds. Five sounds is basically Saa Taa Naa Ma. That’s very subtle, it’s difficult to relate to it. When you stimulate with Ang Sang Wha Hey Guru, see what happens. First three minutes you will be laughing, crazy, dancing. Fifth minute you will be set. After that it is the road to joy. Meditate.

Inhale deep. Hold tight. Hear the mantra through your mental channel. Let the breath go. Inhale deep again. Hold it tight. Listen to the rhythmic, inner channel you were chanting. Let the breath go. Inhale deep again. Listen to what you were chanting. Recreate it. Five more seconds. Relax.

SECOND MEDITATION

Put on that spiritual rock concert of India. It is saying,God, don’t separate me from my love. I can’t take it any more. My eyes are frozen cold.

The sound combination is affecting your central brain. Go deeper. Don’t fight. Don’t move. This music shall excite your emotions. There is no way out. Control it. These are professional musicians and entertainers. They have perfect control of the sound. Master your emotions. Don’t move. Inner ear hammer bone is consistently beating at the constant rate. Normally you will like to dance with it. Become solid. Meditate. Experience self-control on all organs. They are using sound current. You have qualified. Open your eyes.

If you promise happiness, the only way is the chaotic chaos of the word and sound. In this particular music, they have used seven basic sounds and created a multiple rhythm, plus a one and a half cycle psyche tone. There is no defense against it.

The inner ear has three bones, left, right and hammer bone. The hammer bone has to be constant and consistent and take the beat with the left and right tone to sound the words in. If you fight it, it is nerve-wracking. But if you go deep, it is enjoyable. Put your hand up and dance your hand with it. Play it again. Watch how chaotic you become. Move the upper body.

Do you understand the difference between rock and roll and meditation? You were you dancing to the tune and then you were you, watching the tune. In one you are perfect master of yourself. In the other you are a perfect slave of yourself. You dance or you look at it. The mastery is to look at things. Slavery is to dance to things. Mastery is to receive it from God. Slavery is to sweat to earn.

EIGHTY-FOUR ASPECTS OF GOD

(Number fifty-six of Eighty-Four Aspects of Siri Singh Sahib is read.)

These are eighty-four aspects through which you can know me. I am not the will of myself. I am not the will of my time and space. I am the collective will of my being to serve. When you make the collective will to serve, then God has no alternative but to fill in the strength to serve.

All things come from God, all things go to God. That is pauri thirty-three in Japji. This is the ultimate truth to understand, believe and trust. You shall become rich, respected and resourceful. That is the mahatam, the essence. That is the gift of this thirty-third pauri of Japji. God created the earth, God rotates the earth, God rotates the planet, God can plan your daily routine and your route. God is a present Master. We don’t remember it. That’s our problem. Let us solve that problem forever. All things come from God and all things go to God. Perpetual strength comes from intuition. Imagination is imagination. Intuition is the truth.

YOGIJI’S SURGERY

The date was fixed for major surgery. The chief surgeon said, Yogiji, we love you and we don’t want something to go wrong. We need your prayers. We want this to be very successful.

I said, Thank you. I’ll be on time. I had a vision. The surgeons cut my legs, took the veins and arteries to fix my heart. When all the patching was done, a circle of light moved very fast, starting from my toes and engulfed my whole body like a wrap for a long time. And then it just left. Those doctors looked at me, but they were different faces. They said, Oh my God, where did we cut him? There’s no sign. What happened?

They were very shocked and Shakti said, Just ship him to intensive care for two days. We will not talk about it.

Then I saw Doctor Saram and Doctor Weiss saying, You’re all right. Let’s go home.

I said, Where did they cut me?

They said, We do not know. But let’s not talk about it.

This is exactly what was seen and this is exactly what you are seeing. Therefore it is absolutely true to say,

Dhan, dhan Ramdas Gur

Jin siriaa tinai savaariaa,

Pooree ho-ee karaamaat,

Aap sirjan haarai dhaariaa.

Guru Arjan

Blessed, blessed is Guru Ram Das

The Lord who created thee adorns thee.

Complete is thy miracle.

The Lord has put thee on the throne.

I don’t know a lot of things, but this line I never forget. I hope you’ll remember it, too. Sat Nam.

Happiness

June 28, 1991

Certain things in life are the fundamentals of success. Be courteous to yourself or you will never be regarded as a woman. A woman must be five minutes ahead of time. When you're five minutes early for an appointment the other person will apologize. He will receive you well; he'll be obligated. You win fifty percent of the game just being five minutes ahead of time. Make a budget with a ten percent buffer to have a smooth life. Take fifteen minutes for yourself each day. Take twenty minutes to schedule your day and take thirty-one minutes for meditation. Without these five things you are not a woman.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

STUDENT: When your character is in balance with the environments of your destiny.

YOGI BHAJAN: Good. That is from Siri Guru Granth Sahib. True. You are saying, I can find God in the entire cosmos.

STUDENT: Peace of mind.

YOGI BHAJAN: Peace of mind comes piece by piece. Very difficult. You have been taught all this.

STUDENT: Using your time and your gifts wisely.

YOGI BHAJAN: That will give you success, not happiness.

STUDENT: Following your intuition.

YOGI BHAJAN: Doesn't work. The purpose of life is happiness. The purpose of being religious is happiness. The purpose of being graceful is happiness. Everything what we do is based on happiness. Forget about God and prayers, synagogues and gurdwaras, banis and bana. People who are with God aren't happy. They are neutral. They don't care. The purpose of having intuition is to be happy. It is the will of God. You can't do anything.

So what is happiness? You can be happy or it can come to you. Happiness has a double relationship. You go to it or it comes to you. There is nothing in between.

STUDENT: Happiness means to be kind to all creatures great and small and to yourself.

STUDENT: I'm happiest when I'm content with what I'm doing.

YOGI BHAJAN: I very happy when I am most miserable. Then there is something to do.

STUDENT: Happiness is no matter how long your day is, before you turn the lights out you can release yourself to God.

YOGI BHAJAN: God, I have wasted twenty-two years. I have taught you everything about God but not about happiness. We are Sikhs. We are Khalsa. We are 3HO. We are Aquarian age. We are new age.

We are talking about Piscean, Judeo-Christian stuff. That won't work. Come on! What is happiness?

STUDENT: Happiness is freedom from fear.

STUDENT: To be giving.

YOGI BHAJAN: Well, give it away. Who cares?

STUDENT: Having your soul as your best friend.

YOGI BHAJAN: Give the soul a chance to break.

STUDENT: Doing what you enjoy doing.

YOGI BHAJAN: Do what you do. Eat and

become fat. Work like me and have a heart attack.

Are you crazy? Every action has a reaction.

STUDENT: Happiness is a job done.

YOGI BHAJAN: Well, that is just momentary.

Happiness is Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Happiness is all the knowledge of the world. Happiness is God himself. Perpetual, intuitive strategy is the key to happiness. It comes from your spirit, your intelligence and your intuition. The three must mix. Happiness is not in sex, money, houses, power, being spiritual or successful.

Some people are happy with good food, jewelry or a big home. These are only expressions of happiness, not the key to happiness. Expression is biological, physiological and mental, but not productive. When you say, Are you into it?, you are asking if your soul is into it. Do you ever consult your soul?

EXPLOITATION OF WOMAN

You don't have to declare anything. You don't have to have duality about anything. You are not human. You look human. You fake it and you'll make it. But God knows!

Five percent of you have not enjoyed being a woman because nobody has taught you how. Nobody is interested. If you start enjoying being a woman then you are not exploitable. Without exploiting you, man doesn't have an anchor or a relationship to that anchor. A man has a biological need during his life to relate to seventeen to twenty-seven woman, not sexually. This includes his mother.

Some men are very thick with their sisters, aunts, neighbors, friends, or college mates. It is called psychic interlock. A man needs seventeen to twenty-seven woman to interlock in the two and a half cycle of frequency of psyche, to keep his neurons in balance. Sex is the end of a drama of creativity and a beginning of romance. It has nothing to do with enjoying your own identity as a human being.

PURPOSE OF RELIGION

Religion once played a most important part in motivating people. The religion started playing politics and forcing religion on conquered people. Eighty percent of the wars were in the name of religion. Religion has lost it's purpose. The purpose of religion is to give you your own identity and reality.

The purpose of religion is to make a reality in man to enjoy his reality, not to reach God. God is everywhere. You are on a vacation from almighty God for a time. He wants you to experience His infinity. Religion is to make you understand your own individual, identical reality. If you are a woman, you should be woman. If you are a man, you should be a man. God created you as a man and a woman. I don't know why. He doesn't know either. He creates men for the purposes of