The Creative Aspect of Woman: Women in Training Vol 19

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: Aug 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781934532324

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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Gurdwara Lectur

JUNE 26, 1994

The Beauty of a Sikh

Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh.

We are called Sikhs. The word Sikh comes from the word shishyaa which means student. We are students of what? Knowing truth is great but that's not enough. Practicing truth is what we are students of. We have a mind, we have a body and we have a spirit. And this relationship is not understood by many people among humans and especially the Western crowd. The Western crowd has been taught religion in a very different way: There is a God who speaks from the sky and He sends the commandments, and we, on the Earth, obey. If you look at the Western religion, that's what it is, which is ridiculously and neurotically wrong.

What happened was that the state wanted to collect people and collect them without giving anything. If you collect an army, you have to pay. But you need the morale, the standard and the dedication, so they collected in the name of religion. And this is how this world became religious. It was not that there was a need for religion. They never believed in religion. They were basically, technically speaking, barbarians. They ate, and if they couldn't get it they hunted, and they lived. And it's not as though I'm talking of five thousand years ago, I'm talking of yesterday. Yesterday they were selling women in auctions and their main property was the camel and the goats and sheep. I must say, excuse me, with all of your civilization, you were the most stupid living earthlings on the Earth.

In 1778 you never knew what a bathroom was—forget about taking a bath. For a century you thought that if you would just wet your spine, you would fall apart dead. If those kinds of theories were the background, we can well understand what a religion means here.

On the other hand, let's go to the East. They were super-stupid. They thought everything is Heaven so they didn't have to move a finger.

When Guru Nanak came, he said, What's going on here? All you wise people who call yourselves divine are just living in caves, and with your occult powers you are producing all you can produce? And what about the people downstairs?

Here, God spoke from Heaven. There, religious people started living off the people. So I don't see any difference anywhere until Guru Nanak came and raised Cain. The fact is that he raised cain in his own words:

Koee aakhai bhoot naa ko kahai betaalaa

Koee aakhai aad mee Nanak veechaaraa.

(Guru Nanak, page 991)

Somebody says I'm a saint. Somebody says I'm a ghost. Somebody says I'm a useless man.

This is what they called him. They called him a ghost and they called him out of tune. They said, Oh, he is just a poor fellow. Forget it. This is not worth anything.

But he said something very truthfully. He said, Learn that you are made in God. And when he said, "Ek Ong Kaar. All is Ek Ong Kaar," the pundit* freaked out. The wise man freaked out. His throne was shaken. The Mullah* freaked out. Everybody who was of established religion freaked out. He challenged on every step of the way and that is how those who followed him learned his path and are called Sikhs.

We are not in competition with any religion. We are not in competition with anybody's reality. We are only acknowledging a reality which God gave us. Whether we have deservingly gotten it or not, that is our problem. That is the beauty of a Sikh. He knows reality. He knows how to practice it. If he does not practice it, Hallelujah! No problem. That's not what we are worried about.

That was the past. Today you have weaknesses. Today you have emotions and today you have feelings. Now try to understand the relationship and learn it once and for all and then there will be no problem. Your spirit can give you prana* and as long as the sohung* of the prana will play in the rib cage you will have emotions, you will have feelings and you will have commotions, you will have attachments and you will have greed. You will have all these things, because they come from the Elements. You can only learn to diversify them. Attachment to nobility rather than attachment to non-reality. Greed to serve people will give you grace. Anger not to be wrong will give you self-control. What else do you want to know? Kaam, desire. Desire to be excellent is a desire—Kaam. Krodh, anger. Anger to give you self-control. Anger is not a bad thing. Don't get rid of it. You can't get rid of emotions, because they come from the Elements. Kaam, kamana; kaam changed to kamana. Desire changed to higher desire. Desire changed to ultimate desire. Desire changed to excellence. It is also a desire to be excellent. And look at anything you do or you are going to do; does it give you excellence? And get angry if it doesn't; that is self-control.

Kaam, krodh, lobh—greed. Greed will give you grace. If you have greed to serve, compliment others. Don't complain. And show the path. People will follow you like anything.

Kaam, krodh, lobh, moh—attachment. Wow. It's a beautiful thing. With all the weakness in the world, get attached to the Guru. God will serve you. That's the only way to control God.

Kaam, krodh, lobh, moh, ahangkaar. Ahangkaar means ego, pride. Don't have false pride. It is only ahangkaar which can let you know that God in all is God at all. Otherwise, there is no God at all. Your basic projection of knowledge is based on your ahangkaar. How high you can think you are and how high you can talk and how high you can do justice. If you do not have self-pride, self-esteem, you are just a melting ice cream; you are absolutely not human.

So, basically prana will give you strength, prana will give you power—Now! You have emotions and feelings and everything, but if you use these emotions to solve the past you are going to destroy tomorrow. Because tomorrow is already coming and today is already there and yesterday is already gone. So if you use all your feelings, emotions and desire to just work out your yesterday you are already dead. And that is eighty percent of you. Eighty percent of human life is wasted in the memory. Now psychologically there's something called Memory Solution Syndrome. Memory solution syndrome is: My mother did this to me. My father did this to me. Memory Solution Syndrome is: I can't handle this. In the past I didn't do this.

Anything which relates to yesterday is a memory. Anything which relates to an hour before–if it is one o'clock or twelve o'clock and you talk about eleven o'clock, you have Memory Solution Syndrome. And all that energy with which you are talking takes away from you any energy with which you can handle tomorrow. And that is what a Sikh has to learn. A Sikh has to learn chardee kalaa. Chardee kalaa means rising spirit, uncoiled spirit. With uncoiled spirit the Sikh can wish good to all.

Sometimes I wonder why you worry about money and having homes and everything, and you are so attached to it. I understand. Congratulations. But where are you going to go with that? With all of your status, if you do not or cannot make a statement of grace your status is worth nothing.

Do you know something? Any time of the day, any moment of the day if you do not have a statement to show your purity and piety you have not understood what a Sikh is. You have not understood what a Khalsa is. Your baboon behavior and monkey actions will not carry you anywhere gracefully. Your money cannot do it. Money can do you in. Oh, he is a multi-millionaire. Let us receive him. And after talking to the multi-millionaire you know he is an idiot. You will never see him again. Oh, he is a very powerful, acknowledged person. You talk to him and in five minutes you would like to go and vomit. Will you see that person again? Never.

Open your mouth, open your lips and you can sink your own ship. And the tragedy is you do it all the time. If you do not have the power to use words which can inspire others or inspire yourself, standardize others or standardize yourself, and if you are such a druggie and drug addict that you are so spaced out that you are not here and your mind is not here, only your body is here—now tell me who is going to acknowledge you?

And the fact of the relationship is that anybody who wants to come to you wants to come to you forever. He wants to know you forever, he wants to like you forever, he wants to love you forever. And you are not there. You do not have the capacity to elevate either yourself or somebody else. And that is what Nanak says.

Palach palach sagalee muee jhootai dhandhai moh.

(Guru Arjan, page 133)

Everybody dies suffering in false entanglements of worldly things.

You are just garbling and muddling everything into false expectations and a false projection. These are very beautiful words: false expectation and false projection. And when you put a false projection for tomorrow and you have a false expectation of today, how can you be happy? How can you have all the opportunities?

It is a very funny thing. Yesterday, I was talking to somebody. He said, My mind is in bliss. His mind was bliss but his shirt was not. It was stinking. The shirt was not in bliss. Maybe a stinking shirt is bliss. Maybe, if that is bliss then bliss has some different meaning.

My mind is in bliss, I am wonderful.

And you are wearing jeans which have seven holes. You call it fashion, you call it a fad, everybody knows that you cannot handle your grace.

Aasa, isht, upaasanaa, khaan, paan, peheran.¹ Six qualities that rule friendship. Aasa the longing. Desire. If desire is not lofty, you do not know anything. Isht, your nucleus. Siri Guru Granth is our isht. It is our pivot. Upaasanaa, the way we worship, the way we appreciate things, the way we are graceful about things. Aasa, isht, upaasanaa, khaan, paan, peheran. Khaan means how we eat, peheran means how we dress, and how we behave. If these things are not together, you are not together.

Now technically if any one of you has an idea, then just understand that the whole world has a uniform and that's called army. Any active part of the government of the country has a uniform. Every priest has a uniform. And you are telling me that we are wrong? Uno form—one form. Uni—uniform—one form. And that is what Guru Gobind Singh brought us as a Khalsa, our purity and piety. He said that if we are pure and pious, then our uniform must show that we belong to it. And that is what he called the Order of the Khalsa and that is what he called the Panth Khalsa, the path of the Khalsa. He laid it out straight. The father always lays out the straight facts for the son. Then he fully understood that the language impact would always be there. Always was, is and shall be. Therefore, he not only gave us the bani, he gave bani as our Guru: isht.

As Guru Nanak learned from this shabad, Guru Gobind Singh bowed to the shabad of Siri Guru Granth, and gave us the isht. There are two very beautiful words.

Jida isht naee auda sab nasht

(Sanskrit saying)

One who has no nucleus, his everything shall be destroyed.

Nashtamee—all gone, finished. So he gave bani as isht. Seva*, that's the lungar*, that's the welcome, that's asking anybody, helping anybody, serving, taking care of the weak, whatever you call it. That is what gives you friendship forever. And simran will give you purity, piety, self-exaltation, self-expectation.

It's very, very unfortunate when people say, Don't be selfish. Why not? Be selfish to your own self. Have a great self-expectation of yourself. It is required of us. You know, it is always easy to get tired and I am a living example of that. And you do get tired, and it's fun to get tired. And when you get tired you know that you have completed a day, so you're tired. And after that there is another day starting. But at about four o'clock you are dead tired, you can't open your eyes, you can't know what to do. Then at that time there's only one personal friend of yours and that is your spirit. Then you call on your spirit, and tell your spirit to flow and elevate you, and that is where that friendship works. One has to go into oneself.

You have always been taught in the Judeo-Christian background to go outside to ask for help. Outside help is obsolete these days. God doesn't speak from the skies, and you are not living in a desert. You are a packed-up, self-eating civilization. You are rubbing your shoulders with each other. In these bad circumstances, the best thing is to go into your own spirit, your own soul. If you have all the problems, I give you a chance to go to any psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor, or religious person. If you get everything solved come tell me. You won't get anywhere. Some people can just project into your psyche and change you. That's a gift. Some people have that gift. Their sight can change you. Their one projection can change you. Their one word can turn you upside down, that's okay. Otherwise, you have to go inside you. This is your pure self.

By always wandering outside and not listening to your pure self and not going to your pure self, you will never make it. These are the things you Khalsa have to learn. This is a style you have to adopt. And this is the way of life.

It is very funny today. Some people are expecting that when I close my eyes for the last time, that they can fight an election. Do you think I'm stupid? I'll nail you so bad that you will never raise your head again. You are not walking with me. You're physically with me but you are not mentally with me. You won't get a thing. Every nickel here belongs to the Khalsa. Not to your emotions, not to your feelings and not to your nonsense. And I am a very kind, compassionate person. But touch the territory of the Guru and I'll show you my real color. I'll shred you like no shredding machine man has made yet. Because the Guru belongs to our next generation. We are the custodians of it.

I watch your drama, I see you. In my lifetime, within my eyes, you cannot live your status. You play games. And there's one law you must understand: once you play games, time will play games with you forever. You will never get out of that net. Show shallowness once and shallowness will get you all the way. Show a crack in your personality and you will have a flood. Isn't it amazing?

Somebody was telling me one day that it's very difficult to relate to me. I said, "I know. I'm just a human being. If you can't relate to me, then tomorrow you can't relate to the Guru. The Guru is subtle. I'm physical. I am gross. If you cannot relate to this gross person, how can you relate to one thing that's very subtle? And how then can you relate to something which is very infinite? You can satisfy yourself that you are very spiritual. You can satisfy yourself but you have to learn one thing which the Guru teaches us. The Guru teaches us that there is no satisfaction. We are not asking for it. It is a life of test, trial and triumph. Anywhere a Sikh is, seva is. Anywhere a Sikh is, simran* is. Everywhere a Sikh is, bana* is. Everywhere a Sikh is, bani* is. Everywhere a Sikh is, Guru is. Everywhere a Sikh is, Akaal purakh* is."

A Sikh is a buoy in the ocean, a lighthouse on the rock. In shallowness, a lighthouse stands by itself as a warning in the ocean on the rocks where all the ships have been wrecked. It gives off light as a warning. Among humanity, a Sikh is a representative of God, among angels he or she is a hope. That's what a Sikh is. That is the standard we have to match. That is the standard we have to believe. And that is the standard we have to fly. Look at our standard flag. Half is white. That is Infinity. Half is yellow. That is a gold color, the color of radiance, the color of the sun. The symbol in the center, that is the symbol of Infinity. That is what Sikh Dharma is.

You can stay here and make a joke. I also want to share a joke with you. When I came here, I had to go to UCLA and go into the library to get a book on religion in order to find a picture of Guru Nanak in Los Angeles. That's a fact.

But still in the archives, we wanted to show students what Guru Nanak looked like. Akaal moorat, we are pictorial gods and we couldn't show Guru Nanak, who gave us the Word? So we took a piece of cloth, put squares in it, started painting and painted a very funny Guru Nanak. It's still there in the archives. That's how we produced the pictorial Guru Nanak.

Today, twenty-five years later, we have no dearth of Guru Nanak's pictures. Within twenty-five years this happened. And if in exactly 527 or 526 years we could grow to be 18 million Sikhs—half-cooked, full-cooked, quarter-cooked, no-cooked, raw—and in the same 525 years, Panth Khalsa has been established and these are the words of Guru Gobind Singh:

Malech Khalsa hosee naas,

Panth Khalsa hosee parkaash.

(Sikh poets of the 18th century, as spoken by Guru Gobind Singh)

When the false Khalsa shall be destroyed, then the

Khalsa Panth shall rise up.

How did I learn it? When we got the stationery of the Panth Khalsa and my office was showing it to me, I was meeting at that time a very saintly visitor from India. He heard the words Panth Khalsa. He said, What is it?

I said, "Our ministry is called Panth Khalsa and we had the stationery printed for that."

He said, Then you must be knowing all.

I said, "What? We are Khalsa and the Panth Khalsa is as simple as…"

He said, "No, no, no, no. In the writings of Guru Gobind Singh there is a word:

Malech Khalsa hosee naas

Panth Khalsa hosee parkash.

This Khalsa, malech. Malech means low, mean, perverted. They shall be destroyed. And Panth Khalsa hosee parkaash.

And he said, I am now about seventy years old, I have never heard this word. This is the first time.

I said, You can see the stationery. We are set for it.

He was sitting on a sofa, and he just dropped down and he bowed. He said, Now I can die in peace. I know what my Guru said is true. I know it will happen.

I don't have to ‘die in peace.’ After my physical death I'd like to go directly to hell to start teaching classes. That's where my audience is. I'm not asking for Heavens, therefore I'm not worried. And I absolutely do not want God to give me credit for anything. I don't need His credit. Neither do I need Heavens. I need somewhere where I can work! Do you understand what I mean?

Creative sense of consciousness in micro-consciousness can elevate and elevate in the centrum of that nuclei to which the nucleus is itself co-productive. In that co-productiveness there's no Infinity which is not realized and in that realization there is no such thing called doubt. When there's no duality, reality appears. And its radius works, no movement is required. It is the seventh law of Yogi Bhajan.

Let's talk this way. This is calculus, folks. This is how higher mathematics works. That's how situations are. As long as you will keep on asking, remembering, projecting on yesterday, that much you are destroying tomorrow. Take the proportion. As long as you talk of depression, that much you kill your impression. As long as you look from greed and insecurity, that much you kill your grace. There are set rules! On which side of the fence you are, that decides. There is not a problem here. You can be a loader or you can carry the load. If you can carry the load, the world will acknowledge you. If you are a loader and free-loader the world will be away from you. There is no way that you can adapt to a wrong karma and practice dharma. There's no way.

Somebody once asked me to define anand. The entire philosophy of religion is based on Sat chit anand. Truth. Chit means the inner mind, nucleus mind, the neutral mind which can take negative and positive mind and balance it. It is called chit. Anand means bliss. So, Sat chit anand. If there's no Sat chit anand then there's a gand. Gand means ugliness, garbage. Life is garbage. The human philosophy says you must reach Sat chit anand; otherwise all is gand—dirt, garbage. Life will stink.

Sat means truth. What is the highest truth? Can anybody tell me in the congregation? I know you'll give me big philosophies. Sat, the greatest truth, is that you are alive. That's the greatest truth. The moment you are dead there's no truth for you. You are gone. You are finished. And all that you are thinking and planning and doing has no meaning. It all has meaning so long as you are breathing. Sat is sohung*. The breath comes in and breath goes out. It is called Sat. Sat is also pavan*. Prana de vahan—carrier of prana. What takes the prana to you is sat. Hey! You don't have to find sat; you found sat and got this body.

Gur seva te bhagat kamaee

Tab eh maanas day-ee paaee

(Bhagat Kabir, page 1159)

Through service to the Guru, devotion has welled up within me.

And through God's loving adoration, I attained this human birth.

With the Guru's Grace you did the devotion and you got through that bhagati this human body. Angels request this body.

Is dayhee ko simareh dayv

So dayhee bhaj har kee sev.

(Bhagat Kabir, page 1159)

Angels worship this body because through this body is the way to liberation. With this body serve God.

So if you want to find sat, you have been miscalculatedly misdirected. Sat you have! You are alive! That is sat! You have prana! That is sat You are chanting Sohung! That is sat! You are existing! That is sat! You have identity! That is Sat Nam. That is Sat. Chit is that balance. God is and I am. I and Thou and Thou and I are what your balance is. These two I have to cover because I am going to cover the third which is called anand, bliss. Bliss is a reserved commodity. It's not for sale. Bliss belongs to those who bless others and bless themselves. In the morning, bless yourself. Bless me myself, I am awake. Bless me my breath, I am awake. Bless me my God, I am awake. Bless me my environments, I am awake. Bless the roof; it never fell on me last night. Bless the bed; it never broke under me last night. Bless everything. You will be in bliss. Argue, logic, curse, fight, reason out, are beyond the territory of blessing. Anything which is beyond the territory of blessing will not give you bliss.

These days I am doing this: bless my heart you are sick. Bless my disease I am tied down to Espanola. I do it all the time. I was talking to myself today. Had I been healthy, you would have seen me only rarely. But the question is, how to find bliss. Bliss you can find by blessing. Blessing yourself, blessing others, blessing the environments. Bless your enemies! I always do. Bless the challenge. There is something to prove. Bless your bad habits. There is something to leave. Bless your crooks. They teach you education to be alert.

Why are you so afraid in this life and can't bless everything? Everything has something for you. And if you bless them back, you will get bliss. That is the theory of sat chit anand. Don't get complicated. There are books and books and books, theories and theories and theories, and stories and stories and stories. You want to know what your test of life is? When you know something is wrong and you are asked to stop, and you can't do it. That's called an accident. When you know that you have to apply the brake and you can't.

I have been talking to one gentleman for the last three or four days. I love him very much; he is a very high-ranked Sikh. He has a problem of not listening to me. He's telling me what to do. He has a vision. And I am telling him, You are stupid, you are wasting your time; you are nobody. The tide is in. Get in it. We need you; we need you to go out and go by the standard.

If somebody tells me to make my own standard of the Khalsa, I cannot last. This good Sikh, this goodhearted Sikh, can't understand that Guru Arjan sat on the hot plate and never gave an inch. He can't understand the Sikh history, that Guru Teg Bahadur got beheaded, never gave an inch. And two Sikhs, Mathi Das and Sathi Das, got broiled and boiled alive, and never gave an inch. We were cut down the center between two logs of wood. We never gave an inch. Do you think this Mukhia Singh Sahib* is going to get anything? Does he understand that Guru Gobind Singh gave his four sons and never gave an inch? Don't you understand that we have a set standard and we never gave an inch, and now we cannot give an inch? It doesn't matter how much I love you, and how much I adore you, and how much I am with you, I can't give an inch. I can bend, break and be vanished but victory is my ultimate. That's why we call it fateh.

The only character of a man of Infinity is that he doesn't give an inch! And that is a human—not just a Sikh. The fundamental of a human is that he doesn't give an inch! And so great is he that he can stand before God and with his bhagati he can produce Him in a body he understands. That's why God appeared many times in the form as a human wished.

Look at that peasant, Dhanna. His shabad* is in Siri Guru Granth. We bow to it. The pundit* told him, "This is a thaakur.*" It was a stone. Wash him, bathe him and feed him.

Now this man who didn't know any scripture just obeyed the pundit because the pundit said, For two weeks I am going. I want to assign you a job. Do it honestly. This is God.

He was so innocent and naive. He understood, this stone is God. It's round, it's pretty, nice. So he bathed it, he put the tilak* to it, and then he brought the food and he said, Eat. Now how many of you have seen a stone eating food? It wouldn't eat. He sat down and he looked and looked and looked, and he said, You are very deceptive, God. You eat from that guy and you don't eat from me. That's discrimination. I'm going to talk to the human rights commission. He sat there tight, and on the third day a little hand broke out of it and it grabbed the food, and this simple peasant-hearted man grabbed the hand. He said, You are a thief also! Come out full size. It's not fair.

God appeared as his peasant mind wanted and sat down and ate. And the moment God finished, Dhanna said, Now you have eaten food, now work. That's all he knew.

And God said, What do you want me to do?

He said, Well, you know. Plow the fields. I eat, I work. You eat, you work. And neither I have worked two days and neither you have worked two days. It is balanced work. Let's complete it. Now for God doing that work was nothing, it was all done. So every day Dhanna fed Him, and every day he told Him what the daily chores were, and all was done.

When the pundit returned, he handed over the duty. The Pandit said, How did it go?

He said, Every day God ate, and every day God worked. Everything is fine. You can check it all out. And that was very nice.

Now Dhanna left, and this pundit brought food the next morning, and just touched it and wanted to eat. Somebody grabbed his neck and he ran away, and the plate fell. He came out and Dhanna said, What happened?

He said, Could you take the food yourself?

Dhanna took the plate and he said, Why are you telling my master everything is wrong? What are you doing? And he fed Him. The God got fed and the situation was normal again and the work was done.

Now the pundit said, Dhanna, you know God.

He said, I feed him everyday. What do you mean, do I know God? We are together, we work together.

The pundit said, I want to see him, too.

"This is your thakur, your God. How can I see Him and not you?"

He said, Well, I was a cuckoo and you are real.

It is a matter of the heart.

My personal apologies if I cannot give an inch. It is too late to argue. Let us walk together. Let us talk together. Let us work together. And stop arguing. Don't try to start your own little thing. Many have tried. Many speak of courage. They didn't make it. You can't make it either. Love everybody, serve everybody, know everybody, bless everybody, but don't become everybody. Don't become anybody. And if anybody has this idea that tomorrow their hanky-panky will work out, they can fool people for awhile, but reality shall not be with them. We are a Panth Khalsa. We have one uno self. We are uni self and uno self. And we have no ego because we have amigos. We are a flow in which we'll go and glow all the way.

That's why some of you are afraid to wear bana. Because it makes you stand out. I understand the problem. It puts you under a candid camera and you cannot stand it because you do not know that God is present. You stand out and God will stand with you. If you don't stand out, remain out. You are out of the realm of God. If you do not have the courage and guts to stand out and say, I am the Khalsa, mighty, mighty Khalsa! how can you understand the Word of the Guru?

Jab lag Khalsa rehe niaaraa

Tab leg tej dee-o mai(n) saaraa.

Jab eh gahai bipran kee reet

Mai(n) naa(n) karo(n) in kee parteet.

(Guru Gobind Singh, Sarab Loh Granth)

As long as you are unique and stand out I'll give you all that you need. I'll give you all satisfaction. When you become a commoner, you'll never have satisfaction.

He said it in his own words. And let it be clearly understood. Some people did say that if we enforce the rules some people would not like it. May I remind you that for 525 years we have enforced the rules and we are still in existence. And we never will give an inch.

Do you not understand that Guru Hargobind's own son went to the court in Delhi and did just one little polite, political thing? The Guru never saw that person again. Purity is a reality and it cannot be polluted. And any effort, because of popularity, acceptability, personal friendship, personal relationship, if it is not desirable to practice, we'll welcome that, but we won't give an inch.

It is not something that you have to learn here about being serious and special. Look at the soldiers! They take a rifle and the commander says, Charge! Everybody knows that out of the five hundred going, only thirty men may reach the target. But there is a duty above self. That is why we honor them. That's why we honor the Unknown Soldier. Whether the cause was right or wrong was not the problem. Whether the command was right or wrong, that was not the problem. Theirs was not to reason why, theirs was but to do and die. Rode the six hundred into the valley of death.

The Light Brigade knew the orders were wrong. The Light Brigade knew that on both sides of the valley there were cannons. The Light Brigade knew that they would just be cannon fodder. The Light Brigade knew that there was a minus five hundred chance out of one that even one person would make it. But an order was an order. That is why The Charge of the Light Brigade was sung like nothing else in the whole World War. And these six hundred men on horseback looked at each other, unified their step and said, So be it! And they charged! And they won!

Where there is no sacrifice, personal, mental and emotional, there is no self. Where there is territory, there is no Infinity. Where there is discrimination, there is no unisonness. These are the rules you Khalsa have to learn. These are the laws you have to obey. If you territorialize yourself into the bondage of self, you will not have unisonness. Your privilege will not prevail.

We are Sikhs. We have to learn. And we are the Khalsa, we have to serve. If we cannot learn and cannot serve we do not exist. Common lot is a common lot. Therefore, please understand. We are walking in the Age of Aquarius. I am sorry and personally obligated to be apologetic. I do not want to hurt any ego, but let it be very clear. You will not make it, and we'll keep walking. And we'll keep on giving that message that there is a chance for humans to experience God now. We'll say sat chit anand. We understand, we know and we practice.

I have explained to you today, and that's the way life has to be. Excellence is the way of human life. Exaltedness is for you! You have to understand. That is why in the West, they say, Your Worship, His Holiness, His Grace, His Eminence. Why? Because they think that God has bestowed something upon these humans, or these humans have earned something special. Why can we all not earn?

That's why Guru Gobind Singh said,

In putran ke sees pe vaar dee-e sut chaar

Chaar mue te kiaa huaa

Jeevat ka-ee hazaar.

(Sikh poets of the 18th century, as spoken by Guru Gobind Singh)

I have sacrificed four sons.

All these sons of mine.

If four are dead and all these thousands live, what

do I lose?

There is a history. There is a tradition. And there is a Guru. All three will decide our actions, our path and our tomorrow and we will not bring yesterday's failures today to take away all our prana. 960 million we shall be. And many who have left will join us again.

Khoar hoe sabh milangai

Bachay sharan jo hoe

(Sikh poets of the 18th century, as spoken by Guru Gobind Singh)

All those who meet in humility

Will be under God's Protection

I gave a talk in the town of Sedona, Arizona. There I met a personal staff member of Jim Baker. He was my son, he was my student. We parted. The staff member reminded me that she was by his side at death and he was not letting the prana go. Every effort was made to connect with me on the telephone and finally I was reached at the airport. There is an emergency call.

And they created such a fuss from there that I went to the telephone, and it was Jim Baker. These are his last words. He said, "Master, I am holding my breath. Chant Sat Nam for me now."

I said, "Jim, accounts are settled. You have found me. Now let Sat Nam take you from here."

Sat Nam, ji, and that's all he said.

I want you to record this. We conflicted. It was a very vital issue. It was not that he was not a powerful student and he didn't have a whole family. The conflict was of the basic principle. I then let him go. But at the last minute, the Press covered it. It is a documented fact, he returned to the Guru's shabad.

Khoar hoe sabh milangai

Bachay sharan jo hoe.

(Sikh poets of the 18th century, as spoken by Guru Gobind Singh)

All these patit Sikhs, all these self-made things, all will unite and merge into the main flow of the Khalsa. Look at the river Ganges. Every dirt of the town falls into it, becomes Ganga. We are honored and we are privileged by the Guru to give us a chance. With our impurities and export of projections and thoughts and ideas and rights and wrongs and judgements, and guilt and fear of God, we are alive. That is the truth. I was, I am, and I shall be. That is the only truth! The rest is exploitation. My identity within my identity is the only identity. If I don't acknowledge it, I do not acknowledge my Creator and my consciousness and all my creativity. There is nothing more to learn. It is so simple.

That is why we call on each other and say Sat Nam. Your identity is true to me, my identity is true to you. When we enter the order of the Khalsa and we wish each other, Wahe Guru ji ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru ji ki Fateh, we say that our purity and piety belong to the Wahe Guru, and our victory belongs to Wahe Guru.

Such a dedication and we are afraid? Afraid of going to hell? I love it! Come with me! Let's all go! It is warm! And there are a lot of people there who need to be taught. Why do you want to go to hell? Go here! It is all around you. Gopal, come with me. See, I'll show you hell everywhere. Why do you want to find a stonehead? You can find them around. You can't even look in their eyes. They are stoned! Look at their character. Their shorts and their pants have holes. They refuse the identification of the self. You call it a modern fad. You call it casual. You call it the ‘in-thing’. I know that insanity is I am fully aware of it. Insanity is ‘in’. One day I was watching a very, very old movie of the past in America and they were showing certain things. So I just said, Where are these people now? Where have they gone?

My God, my Father has many mansions. America used to have many mansions. Now you have card board homes. You can't even afford a mansion. You are not only mentally poor, you are physically poor. You are personally poor. Your shorts and pants have holes and they cost more. They take an actual pair of jeans and rub it in dirt and with dirt to make it look old. You know why you like old, rotten, torn things? Because your soul could not catch up with your grace. But the fact is, you love the strength of the glory of the past. You have nothing to look to. That was the time when Guru Gobind Singh was the father of the nation of the Khalsa. People had nothing to look to. He gave them face, he gave them grace, he gave them identity, he gave them the reality, he gave them Sat Kartar, he gave them Sat Nam, and he gave them Ek Ong Kaar. Then Nanak, in his own words, said, "Jap. Repeat. And never stop repeating it."

Aad sach, Jugad sach, Hai bhee sach, Nanak hosee bhee sach."

(Guru Nanak, Japji Sahib, page 1)

He said it loud and clear!

All is Truth, was, shall be, is now.

Worry only about something which is unusual, unexpected, uncalled for. Everything is called for. Everything is a lesson in itself. Everything is a challenge in itself. Everything is face to face. Everything is going to test your grit, test your courage and test your growth. Life is given to you. Everything is going to test whether you are alive or not, how you act. Are you weak? Are you a freak? Are you real? Do you dare? Do you care? Do you share?

Please understand that we are walking on a path and this path has been laid down with the pure blood of the martyrs. They walked unto the house of God with grace, so we shall be. Let no mind misunderstand that your God and your consciousness never gave you a chance to redeem yourself to enter the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Khalsa. Let nobody misunderstand that your redemption is not here. Let everybody understand you are not to wait to get up out of your grave on the call of the trumpet.

No, you see, it is a very funny thing. Now they are saying people are hearing trumpets. They are so convinced, man, that change is coming. But I have never seen a Jew wearing a real yarmulke as we wear. If we hear a trumpet, we have the right to hear it. We aren't yo-yos; we are different. They have no right to hear a trumpet. They don't know what a trumpet is. Please understand that. There are tons and tons of literature saying, Change is happening, change is happening. They are so blind! They can't see it has happened.

Did you see the Summer Solstice this time? East met West there. New York met Los Angeles. Well, that's our East and West. This is what you all have to understand. There is no sorrow today. Yesterday is gone. It has passed. For God's sake, don't cast it today. Just learn one thing today: don't bring yesterday to today and don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow has to become today, when tomorrow will face you. And understand that you only represent the Infinite Will. Your Creator God will stand with you one hundred percent. One hundred percent! There is no doubt about it. Otherwise, my dear, try, try! Use your little mind. Who gave you this mind? God. Who made you? God.

Somebody was telling me one day, I want counseling, I want a very private…

What private? Let's talk on the side. You are a pervert.

Yes, I know. How did you know?

I said, I know. Because only a pervert takes me aside and says, ‘I want a private time.’ He is a pervert to begin with.

He said, "Well, now you know.

I'm perverted."

I said, Yes, you are perverted.

But I don't want to be perverted.

I said, Yeah, you should be perverted. Why not? It is good to be perverted. And I acknowledge that you are a pervert and you are the best. You know you are perverted. Thank God! There are millions who do not know they are perverted and they are. You are highly qualified. I respect you. And remain perverted.

I don't want it!

I said, There is no struggle about it. You wanted it, you became perverted. You don't want it, don't be.

Can you help me?

I said, I do not know. How can I help it, do you know?

He said, "But I do not want to be perverted. You can give me some sadhana, or something else."

I said, "No sadhana. I don't want to give you anything. I want to make you realize that you are the only pervert I have met who says he is a pervert, and your action proves you are a pervert."

He said, What is that, a good thing or bad? I said, Very good.

I don't think so.

I said, That's very good. You are the only one who knows that you are a pervert and you are the only one who knows that you don't want to be.

What will happen to me?

I said, You won't be perverted soon.

Why so?

I said, Once a human realizes, God has come in. You mean I am self-realized?

I said, There is no more self-realization but you. It came to you through perversion, but it came. What is self-realization? You realize who you are. And you have realized you are a pervert. What is wrong? After all, it is a realization!

But I don't want to be!

I said, "That is a further realization. And you won't be, that is the