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The Power of Woman: Women in Training Vol 18
The Power of Woman: Women in Training Vol 18
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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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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 Power of Woman - PhD Yogi Bhajan

    1

    Living by the Law of the Age of Aquarius

    June 27, 1993

    Gurdwara Lecture

    Today we are here with our Sikhdari, with our basic established elementary personality. The fact is that a person has an elementary personality; the fact is that a person has a mentality, a personality and a reality. These three things will make your personality one which people will look at, and these very three things will be that which you look at. That's why we pray for the guidance of the Guru, I want to hear your words, Oh Guru. I want to hear guidance. I want to have advice. I want to have counsel.

    Because once a person forgets his basic elementary personality then that person is not all, he is just a small of that all. He is a part of the play. He is not the main player. What happens when in your life you start catering and making understanding with your ego, when it comes to you that I come first, then you become cruel. The forgiveness, the kindness, the compassion: that you lose. Your vastness is lost. Your fear takes you away from you.

    I don't believe that you understand religion. Religion in the West has been taught very differently than it is. Religion has been taught that it is a matter of prayer. It is a matter of being good. If you are good you are all right. No, you're not all right. Even if you're very good, you're not all right. Food is very good. It's on the table. You can eat it, it's good food. And if you eat it but you can't digest it, being good food, doesn't solve the problem. To be very good, to be very divine, to be very perfect, is not good enough.

    Good is to spread goodness. All parents who loved their children when they were young will feel very frustrated when they grow up. Because parents became the shield, not the teachers. When you're not a teacher to the child, your child shall revolt. Because at a certain age, your child needed a teacher, not a parent. That law you can't change. Exactly in your life when you reach forty, your decline is because you have not taught yourself. You did not become your own teacher. Your decline must take place. If you had taught your own self-discipline, you would have become your own teacher.

    You cannot teach others that which you don't practice, your words will be very shallow if you don't have experience. You can only have depth if you are practicing; you know, you experience and you are an expert. Then you are effective. And in your life you want to be effective. If you do not get up in the ambrosial hour, you can tell the whole world to get up and take a cold shower, they don't care. Because you do not know the joy, the essence, the feeling, the experience, the pain, and the pleasure of getting up in the morning.

    You are dead asleep. That's the best sleeping hour. You can't wake yourself up. You have no discipline. Your mind has no alarm. You are dreadfully afraid to go under the cold shower. It will hurt. Do you understand how cowardly, how incompetent, how miserable, how un-attendant to your own needs you are? It's not that by getting up in the morning you will become God. No, getting up in the morning, you will become you. When you will be always less than you, you will always lose. You don't have to become more than you; you have to be you. And that fulfillment, that joy, learning that joy, is a Sikh.

    Sikh means student. And that Sikh who learns to be himself or herself, and learns that reminding self in the discipline and in the strength, does not need anything from outside. As long as you will need something from outside, you are a slave. You need help. You are a cripple. And whenever you need help from outside, God is not with you. If God is with you, the Infinite is with the finite. It is the complete cycle; then you don't need anybody. Then things will come to you.

    It's a Catch-22. You are poor, you are bankrupt and you are crippled by your own right. It is not that God made you that way. You have to learn to be a student, to become your own teacher first. You have to become your own teacher rather than teacher of anybody else. And you have to teach yourself first that you are a teacher. You have to teach your children that you are a teacher. Husband has to teach the wife that he's a teacher. Wife has to teach a husband that she's a teacher. It is the teacher in us which is unfulfilled. And as long as the teacher in us is unfulfilled, we are never ourselves. The teacher in us should never be separated from us. Otherwise it is very empty living.

    The idea to become a Sikh is to learn. Sikh has to learn what? To stand on his head? To have wings in his armpits and fly? To talk very wisely and graciously and kindly to everybody? Is it that all the qualities of a Sikh will make him a Sikh? No. With all the qualities, if a Sikh has not taught himself the self-discipline and has not accepted himself to be his own teacher, Sikh has not yet become a Sikh. And that's a big classical question. If a father has not taught himself to be a father, and has not fathered the entire family, the entire neighborhood, and the universe, father has no right to be a father to his children. Because he has not learned the basic practice of being a father. Mother can be anybody. But if she has not learned to be a mother, and if she has not practically become the mother, and if she has not come to the fact that she's recognized as mother, she's no mother. Sister is no sister, brother is no brother, son is no son, daughter is no daughter. The elementary personality has to be practiced and recognized by the person within his own spirit, within his own mind, within his own self.

    This process of learning is what Nanak gave us as the way of a Sikh. The rest is phony. Why identify ourselves? Why have we decided that we should wear white? We wanted to be sitamber. We wanted to have the color of all colors. Sarang – why did we decide that we would wear it this way? Because the father of the nation of the Khalsa, Guru Gobind Singh, gave us the Khalsa, the purity and piety, and he told us to identify ourselves. We decided we'd identify ourselves. I'm not saying that there's not weakness. There's a tremendous amount of weakness not to identify, because nobody wants to be answerable. When we don't want to identify ourselves we don't want to be answerable. One who's not willing to be answerable cannot carry the trust. When parents do not want to be answerable to the children for their action and for their freakiness, children find out. You lose your grace and trust forever. After that you have no relationship.

    There are things on this planet which are happening. It is called cosmic psyche. Cosmic psyche is vibration which is read by every soul and known to every mind. Everybody knows everybody. No curtain is a curtain, no cover is a cover, no shield is a shield. If you are not becoming a teacher to yourself, you cannot become a teacher to your children. If you are not becoming a teacher to your family, you will not be in a position to fight and you will not be in a position to fight for what is right. And when you cannot fight for your right, you shall fall into the pit of wrong. That's the principal effect which ruins the family life for which we work and sweat so hard.

    When we are in middle age, we freak out. When the children grow up to the first cycle of eighteen, they freak out. What is the reason of this freak-out? Is it essential? No. Is it necessary? No. Is it required? No. Should it happen? No. Why is it happening? It is happening 99.9 percent of the time. Why? No person wants to be a Sikh. He doesn't want to or she doesn't want to learn to teach herself to become the master. If you have no self-mastery, you can't create impact. You try to create effect, you try to get an effect, others will try not to have the effect. It's a war. Why do you want to create war with your dear ones? Create impact. Do yourself, believe yourself, be yourself. Do not ask God for help. Help God to practice the standard. You are all the time asking God, Help me! Why don't you help God? Be godly, walk godly, talk godly, relate godly. If you have the impression of being God, why do you need God? Has God not done enough for you that He has created you in His own image? Do you not understand what Akal Moorat means? Akal Moorat means exactly what is in the Bible: God created man in His own image. Guru Nanak said it in two words:

    Akal Moorat, ajoonee, saibhang, gurprasad.

    Guru Nanak, Jap Ji Sahib

    Undying image, unborn, self-illumined, revealed

    through the True Guru's grace.

    Are you afraid of an image? Do you want to create your own image against God's image? Do you want to create your own philosophy against God's philosophy? Do you want to create your own reality against God's reality? You thought you were a man and she was a woman, and you had intercourse and you created a child. But do you remember that when you created a child that at that very moment you became parents? And at that moment you started training the child, potty training, food training, sleeping, and all that. Don't you understand? You taught only physical training, and you forgot to teach mental and spiritual training? Who's going to teach that? You gave the child spirit, mind and body, and you taught only physical. So when the child grew up, he found out he has no mental training, he has no spiritual training, he started asking you questions, you started avoiding the questions. And finally, the majority of what I am seeing these days is that parents have no relationship with their children when they are teenagers. And the main question these stupid parents ask is, What should I do?, Where have I gone wrong? You have gone wrong. You have fed a child with all this sweetness and now he's suffering with pimples and acne and you say, Where have I gone wrong? You gave the child a pacifier. You did not tell a child to grow and to control, at that time, with the simple mental vibration to be in peace. You couldn't do it.

    Mom, you gave him a pacifier. The rest of his life, keep on giving him a pacifier. You lost your one chance to become a mother. You did not control your child with your psyche. You can never become mother again. You started a tradition to give him a pacifier. Now keep on giving him a pacifier the rest of his life to your grave. He or she will ask for the pacifier. You will give; otherwise, there will be a fight. Because you made that human being, that soul, to lean on artificiality rather than reality. You prostituted your own child. You did not teach your child. The child has a mind, the child has a soul, the child has a destiny, the child has tomorrow.

    Child today has to learn that strength is the way. Courage is the way. Dignity is the way. Personality is not that which does not have all that totality of reality. And plus, more plus, so that that child can attack and be and give. You made the child go and get it. You made him a taker. And, if nobody else is going to give because everybody is guarding his own estate and territory, that child is going to come after you. So the first victim of that child will be the parents.

    It's a natural social reality. Man is a social animal. You didn't control the child with your own prevalent, benevolent, beautiful psyche. You couldn't control your radiance as a mother and the father couldn't have the courage to control. You both thought that your job is only to raise a monster and to just be physical. As long as the child was innocent, the first forty days you obeyed the rule. Though there are rules to first nine months as to what you have to do, the majority of you do it because you are afraid something may go wrong. You only serve the possibility of a wrong. You do not deserve and serve the right to be right. You do not feel that you have the right to have a child. You do not feel you have the right to have a saint. You feel a saint is just a beggar. So your child should be debauched and bankrupt with no discipline and an absolutely foul player, but he should have money. That's what you told your child. Go and get it. Become rich. You ask him to have grades, school grades. You never taught that there are mental grades, spiritual grades, and social grades. There are grades in etiquette and manners. There are grades in courage. You forgot all those thirty-five other things and the thirty-sixth thing you remember. My child is an A student. A student in what? Your child is an A student. Your child is making a million dollars a minute. Have you gone inside and sat in the mind of the child and seen how miserably, horribly, negatively, and mostly, absolutely painfully that child is living? Have you seen in the child a rich man who refuses to hurt anybody? You will not find one person. Rich must hurt! Poor must revolt! That's the law of psychology. It will never change. A rich man hurts because whenever territory is threatened, he goes wild. And with the power of the richness, he hurts!

    That's why they say, absolute authority is no good. Authority corrupts. Absolute authority corrupts absolutely. It's no good. That's why the Constitution of this country was based on a system of checks and balances. Even the minority in the Congress can go on a filibuster and stop the working. One man can keep talking until Infinity and not let the Congress move. He has the individual right. But you did not tell your child, My child, you are an individual; you will always be judged by your individual actions. You always told your child, You will be judged by your collective actions. That's why they created gangs.

    When fundamentally and basically we do not do what we are supposed to do, then time becomes the teacher. Time leaves no space. That's why we want the Guru. With Guru we have a space. There are only two teachers: the Sat Guru and time. With time you have no space; with Sat Guru you have all the space. You can flirt by sentiments and emotions, being ready to sell at a reduced rate, putting yourself on the market twenty-five to fifty percent off. You can sell well. You can grab the opportunity. You can be great but there will be no grace. You'll be prisoners of your own high walls. You'll be prisoners of your own high standards. You will be prisoners of your own high talk. You'll be prisoners of your own status. You'll be prisoners of your own statements. Nobody will ever love you. Therefore, without that love and without truthfulness you will be suffering in your soul.

    These are the basic human sentiments. Why cannot you people who have been created by God, in the image of God Himself, learn this? That being a doctor, being an engineer, being a millionaire, or being a businessman also means there is a way to work! There is a way to work also being mentally clear and spiritually bright! Darkness of yours will take away your worldly pleasure and bring you to ashes.

    That's why he was singing, Guru, I want to hear your words, so I can be reminded. When I am not reminded that I am part of this universe and this universe is part of me, I am not reminded that when I can see all, only then can I see God in all. Otherwise, I can't see God at all. Then I become my turf and my territory, I become cruel. I become an animal, pouncing and guarding and attacking. What are they going to attack? To protect my family. That's why I hurt. This home is for my family. This food is for my family. This thing is for my family. I am doing for my family. You are not even familiar with your family! Family is what comes from being familiar! You're not familiar with what is going on with your wife and husband and children and the surroundings! You are not even familiar with your pet dog! You call yourself a family man? No, you're no man!

    You have never understood there are three things in a human: the body, mind and soul. When you're bound only by your body, you lack the development of your mind. You have become limited. Every limited person has nothing but a natural way to attack. That is why you talk and laugh at each other. That's why we surrender with each other. That's why we gossip against each other. That's why we do all that we are doing. Because we are not fulfilled. We are afraid!

    Once there was a saint. The king traveled all the way to that saint and said, My lord. You sit here and meditate. Wherever I have gone in my whole kingdom people talk ill of you. You are my Raj Guru. You are my teacher. I love you. What's going on?

    Teacher said, Shut up. Don't you have something else about which to talk?

    The king said, Sir, I brought you news!

    He said, Keep it to yourself.

    Sir, everybody talks ill of you.

    He said, So what? They talk ill of me. You listened? What did you do?

    I couldn't do anything. Order me what to do.

    He said, Stupid, you should go back. Whosoever talks ill, tell them to talk good. Go.

    It is very difficult, my Lord.

    The saint said, It has taken me twenty years of acting berserk so that people talk ill of me. For twenty years I have acted wrongly. So people now are talking ill of me. Now you have confirmed. You are my student. Am I not your Raj Guru?

    He said, Yes!

    Now go and correct the situation.

    The king said, If I would have known, I would have asked you not to do anything wrong. Now I have to clean it all out.

    He said, That is the way to learn. I did my part; you do yours.

    So the king went and said, Don't talk against my Raj Guru. He is testing you out. Don't be fooled or you will be cursed.

    In three days everybody started appreciating. On the fourth day he came back. Now my master, my lord, everybody is talking well of you.

    The saint said, Stupid!

    The king asked, What have I done wrong now?

    He said, They should talk good of God, not of me and you. You are still stuck here.

    What should I do now, my Master?

    He said, Go back and tell them to praise the Lord.

    The king went to the Grand Vizir. He said, This I don't know. The first thing I ordered worked. Now what should I tell people?

    He said, Very easy. Tell people this is the miracle of Almighty God, that people have understood to be good. And in my Kingdom, whoever spreads goodness, joy and happiness shall be rewarded.

    The king said, Grand Vizir, you do this.

    My king, why?

    He said, To be too good is dangerous. I don't have all goodness in me.

    The Grand Vizir laughed and said, Goodness doesn't require time. You are still subjecting yourself to time. You have a spiritual reality. Your orders are from your teacher. Just go and do it.

    He took his chariot and went from place to place, gathering to gathering. He said, People, praise the Lord! Our Raj Guru tested us. We came through. Let us acknowledge the very miracle of God. It was the miracle of God. When he came back, he went to the Raj Guru.

    Raj Guru said, Bless you, bless you.

    The king said, Will you grant me one request?

    He said, If it is reasonable, it shall be granted.

    The king said, No sir, that is not what I am asking. I am just asking one wish to be granted.

    Okay, what is it?

    He said, Now you go and rule. I am going to sit here. This is a better place.

    He said, Why?

    He said, I was a king and I couldn't understand. You were Raj Guru. You understood. I want to be a man of understanding.

    He said, Raja, O King, you have learned to stand under the instructions. Instructions are what give a human the strength of practice.

    That is why in Sikh Dharma, there is a Rehit Maryada and Guru says:

    Rehit piaaree mukh ko

    Sikh piaaree naahe

    Guru Gobind Singh, Amrit Kirtan, p. 1015

    I love the Rehit, I don't love the Sikh.

    In Rehit there are rules and regulations, and those are not for impressing others. Those rules of Rehit are for myself. My Rehit is for myself. And my Rehit is given to me for myself along with everybody, so we stand equal at that platform to practice Rehit. With our personality, with our ability, with our capacity, with our spirituality.

    The moment we have the spirit to practice our own discipline for ourselves, we are the incarnation of God. Then you don't need anybody. Your purity and piety have come home. I am not telling you that suffering is a good thing, but suffering does not affect. Suffering and good luck and bad luck, great and nothing great, right and wrong will always prevail. That is the rule. That is the biorhythm of the planet's psyche. Because every moment in life is a moment of challenge. You don't like it but time likes it. Time has to take away your space. That is the law of life. I can't change that. Time has to take away your space. Your space has to be taken away by time. The only thing time can do is to challenge you. God never challenges you. Time will.

    You say, I don't know how to make my priorities. Deadline. You draw your own deadlines. This is my deadline. That's my deadline. This is my dead, dead, dead. One day you will be dead and still your deadline is not going to go away.

    Why did you start taking drugs? And why do you sometimes steal, cheat, and lie now and still try to take drugs? Do you know why? Your mind is not with you. Your spirit is not at your command. You cannot face the time of the challenge. As long as you do not face the time of the challenge and win it, you live in hell. That's what hell means. You live with the devil. De-will. De-will means you don't have your will.

    I say, Welcome. Come only when you are well. Don't come when you're sick. There's no welcome. Wel means be well. And come. But if a person is even sick, we say, Welcome. Then we also know we have no time left; we have to start healing that person.

    If you know only how to deal with a person and not heal the person, you are no friend. You are the worst enemy the person has. Whenever you deal, you must heal. Every person's psyche needs to be healed. And you do not heal yourself. You do not discipline yourself. You do not have self-control. You do not have self-capacity. You have nothing to spare. You can't heal. Therefore, you can't deal. Your deals are all phony. They are hookers’ deals. And you prostitute everybody! And you get away with it! Heal! You can tell your dog, Heel! Conscience is telling you, Heal! Spellings are different. You have to come down to senses. Whosoever wants to deal, you can heal that person first and then keep on dealing the rest of your life. When you do not heal and you only deal, relationship will end in the bitterness of fight.

    You think you are free? You are free to live with your miseries. Hallelujah! Have fun. God bless you with you and your misery. You say, I don't want to have a teacher. I don't want to listen to my teacher; it's too boring. All the time he tells me to have spirit and all that.

    Time is your teacher. And you shall be time-bound. And time-bound has no freedom, no peace, no happiness, and no reality at all. All souls were given the body within the specific time, deadline, to free themselves from being time-bound. Spirit is time-free. Man must be time-free. And that's what a Sikh has to learn. A Sikh has to learn not to have a teacher as a yoke. Sikh has to learn to have a teacher to be a teacher to one's own mind.

    Man jeetai jag jeet.

    Guru Nanak, Jap Ji, #27

    Conquer your mind, conquer the world.

    If a teacher's mind minds the control of the teacher's own discipline, self is controlled, self is taught. Then you can speak these words:

    E man meriaa too(n) sadaa raho har naale.

    Har naal raho too(n) man mere dookh sabh visaarnaa

    Angeekar oh kare teraa kharaj sabh savaarnaa.

    Sabhnaa galaa samarat suaamee so kio manoh visaare.

    Kahai Nanak man mere sadaa raho Har naale.

    Anand Sahib, Guru Amar Das

    Oh my mind hold fast to the thought of the Lord,

    Yes, in this way be ever with Him and He will make you free from all sorrow,

    Then He, the Lord, will be your support and He will guide your affairs.

    The master is all powerful, so why forget Him?

    Says Nanak, oh my mind hold fast to the thought of the Lord.

    You have no right to speak these lines! You don't understand these lines. When you do, then your mind is yours. It won't tell you anything, it will serve you.

    Your child is your child. Child will obey you. Child will not obey you because you never taught your child anything. You were the coward giver. Out of fear you gave, you gave, you gave. You never gave the discipline which the child needed most.

    There's a story. Once a man was given the order to be hanged so they asked him for his last wish. He said, I want to see my mother and I want to say something in her ear.

    So they brought the mother. He had handcuffs and all that, so he went to the ear of the mother and ate up her ear. Bit it off.

    She said, Why, why do you do this to me when you are being hanged?

    He said, So that you may not tell all that you told me to anybody. You made me stand up today before the gallows. You never taught me humanity, personality, Infinity. All you told me was to go and get it by hook or crook. I developed to get it and at that you were very pleased. You never cared. All you cared about is what I brought, how big I am, how macho I am, how successful I am. You never learned that your pressure made me a criminal. It is your pressure that has put me before this hanging rope now. I can't do anything. This was the last chance. I ate up your ear, so now listen: don't tell any other child what you told me. I don't want my other brothers and sisters to go to the gallows.

    My dear students, Sikhs of the Guru, you have not yet learned, ego is to expand you, not to contract you. In the middle age, if you need outside help, you're a cripple. Because your inside help cannot come through. Many people tell me, if I say something, it will happen.

    And I tell them, Why don't you say it?

    No, people listen to you, they don't listen to me.

    I say, What? Am I a unicorn that I have a special ornament for it? If you say the right thing, say the right thing. It will happen.

    But I know it won't happen. Power to give is unmatching. And power to give is infinite. Then you can give orders too. People will obey. If Yogiji grabs everything to Yogiji and becomes Yogiji within Yogiji and there's no Yogiji for anybody, nobody is willing to love and listen to Yogiji. If Yogiji is not just for himself and he's just Yogiji, nobody shall refuse even if it is a danger to one's life. Those who love God live for others. Those who hate God live for themselves. These are very simple rules.

    Those who only live for their family, destroy their family. Those who live for their lineage destroy the family and their lineage. Those who live for legacy where all will be remembered, there will be a light for others. You can have as many tides as you want. Come on. I will put you for a few days being Siri Singh Sahib. Enjoy it. See which way the wind blows. It will blow the mind of the ordinary working person. Because you have to sit at that seat and decide exactly what it has to be, not what it is.

    In your whole life the question is: to be or to be, got to be and it is what it is, not what you want. So long as your want is attached, justice is not done. Then there is a tilt to it. Your actions are not yours. Your action is above you. Those who do not learn to serve the status shall have no state to rule and have no statement to make. It is a law of karma which shall never go wrong! Those who do not feel the beauty is in the duty will live in the fire of hell within their own consciousness. You don't have to make them suffer.

    Paapee ke maarne ko

    Paapmahaa balee hai.

    Indian Saying

    Paapee means ego maniac. To kill an ego maniac, his ego is enough, you don't have to send troops for it. Have you seen in Sikh Dharma that some people rose to a great height and then started freaking out? They couldn't handle it. You go to the airport and you have a bag with wheels and handle. If that handle breaks, what becomes of that bag? It becomes a load. That's life. When you lose the handle of your own life and it is not under your grip and control and you can't run it, then you run away from life. Then all these excuses you are making – you can't get up in the morning, you can't do your sadhana, you can't take care of your children, you can't teach everything… you are stupidly intellectual and intellectuals are never intelligent. You are just killing the time and time will kill you one day.

    How many fathers have got up and said, Son, I am dressed up. Let me dress you up and let us go to the Gurdwara. Then they sit there like saints. This is how to come to the Gurdwara. It is the Darbare¹ Khalsa. This is how we sit as courtiers. Answer me. Learn by action.

    Karmee aapo apanee, kay neree kay dur

    Guru Nanak, Jap Ji Sahib, Slok

    By our own actions, we draw Him near or far.

    Your actions will decide whether you are near God or you are not. Death is inevitable. Die you must but if you don't leave a legacy behind? and only serve lineage? you have already limited your soul condemned to time. And that is the worst of the greed. It is for you to decide. It is for you to remember. What has Guru Nanak said to you? How much total ecstasy and how much freedom and joy and beauty has he promised you? He has laid it out for you so that you can listen. You can grow. You can be. Because of all the goodness you have learned you, have time to learn, you have time to be. You're wasting it for what? Have you not seen graves in graveyards? Have you not learned that there are very few gravestones on which anything is written? He was born on such and such date, and died on such and such date. He was a jolly good fellow. And that is what will happen to you. You are a jolly good fellow, you are hollow and shallow. You are stupid and mellow, you are a jolly good fellow.

    And this is as it is. Hollow and shallow. Stupid and mellow. No courage. No spirit. No strength. No truth. You neither know your will nor God's will. And you shall not

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