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October 5, 1973: Part 2
Excerpts from a lecture given by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
Do you rotate this earth? How many of you go to the equator, and run with your feet to keep it revolving? Are you doing it? If you cannot revolve it, then why do you want it to be stationary? Let it revolve. It doesn’t bother you. Don’t bother it. Are you the owner of this earth?
The One who has given you life will take it. Why the hell are you hurrying up, thinking and planning and God knows? He gave your life to you. Did you ask for it? Do you remember writing an application? Paying any fee for it? It was given to you. If food is given to you, chew it. Enjoy the beauty of it. Where is the fun if food is given to you and you can’t digest it?
Look at who you are, your existence, your vibration.
You know, in India there is a problem. I have seen the same problem here. Every young man wants to be an actor. Every girl wants to be an actress. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people in the underworld, who slave away their lives, up to death, are those who wanted to be that way. They run away from schools or colleges. They run away from home. They end up in a totally horrible situation.
Here everybody wants to be a musician. Everybody thinks with one hit song, they will get millions of dollars. It’s a strange world. You go to Los Angeles, you go to New York, you go to New Delhi, you go to Hong Kong. The underworld is the same everywhere. Everything else is different. But the technique of the underworld is solid negativity.
Last year, when I was in Hong Kong, somebody told me, “Oh it is very negative.”
I said, “Wait a minute. There must be a few positive people in abundance here. That’s why they are holding this negativity. It’s the law of polarity. Where there is negativity, and too much negativity, there must be some positive people. Don’t tell me how negative Hong Kong is. Tell me where those positive people are.”
Is there anybody among you who does not know where there is spirit, there is life? To be great is to have the spirit in you. The joy of everything comes from finding the spirit in it. To know, feel and be the spirit of something is the secret of every success. The spirit can take you above the impact of the environments. Even the greatest man cannot stand the impact of the environments. Man is a man. He is sixty percent water. When tyranny takes over and clouds the destiny; when the darkness of slander comes to a person, it shakes up even the greatest people. But there is one spirit in a man, and that is “I am, I am.” Continue reading...
Lesson to Parents
Beads of Truth, Summer 1985 #15
by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
February 19, 1985 Excerpted from a talk in Los Angeles
In childhood you were never taught responsibility. You have been shoved and pushed. The majority of child raising I have seen in this country is very regimental. Nobody uses the heart; it is all a head thing. This kind of childhood is very painful. If I would have been raised as we raise children here, I would have committed suicide at the age of two. True! The way you address your children is so rude, so inhuman, so neurotic! You are so discourteous when speaking to your children. In spite of that fact that you think you are very loving parents. You never say to a child, "Please:' You never call a child by his full name. You never treat him like a person, or her like a person. You just treat them like puppies and you expect them to learn how to live. Impossible.
I remember when I was almost three or four years old, how I was addressed. My full name was always called. My mother never ever called me by a nickname. Never. I still remember my mother would call, "Harbhajan Singh ji, this is the time for you to come and join us at breakfast." Or she would call me by my full name and say, "I have prepared the food you love very much. It is there. Let us go and sit down and eat. I'd like to feed you." There was a great respectability and responsibility. The greatest thing I was taught was that I have a complete, full, isolated, but sovereign identity. Your sovereignty can only be given to you as a child by your mother, by her identifying you as a complete, total individual. What you call 'grit,' the strength of the identity, is given to you by the father. It is all done in the first eleven years. Afterwards anything done or said and taught by the parent is useless, because the base is already built. Continue reading...
Guru Gobind Singh's Birth
An address in honor of the birthday of the 10th Guru by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
The dream which Guru Gobind Singh had, to establish a brotherhood has many dimensions.
My personal feeling is that God had to prepare for a long time to saturate and soak into him the human values, to take a form such as Guru Gobind Singh. If it is true that a man is created in the image of God, then let us go deeply into the facet of the man. If it is true, then man represents God and this shall never be denied. The Theist believes in it and the Athiest denies it. But the fundamental reality remains, that whether he denies or accepts does not mean that it is not a reality. Reality is that man propagates, whether he propagates the existence of God or the denial of the existence of God. Still the pivot of the ideology of communication is man. And man has been created in the image of God – there is nothing wrong in admitting it. Continue reading...
The Highest Meditation
October 5, 1973: Part 1
Excerpt from a lecture given by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji
You always know how and why you blow it. You always question yourself because there is nobody else. Guru Naanak said a very simple thing:
Beej mantar sarab ko giaan.
(Guru Arjan Dev Ji, Siri Guru Granth Sahib, page 274, line 16.)
The very seed of every one of us knows the truth, knows the gian. Nobody can teach anybody. Nobody can learn from anybody. Nobody can tell anybody the reality. Nobody wants to know reality. Reality is reality. The totality is the reality. We are a part of the totality, therefore we are part of reality. But where did the fuse go out? After examining our growth, our existence, and the effect on us in relation to our possibility, the question is: where do we falter? And do we falter?
I want to tell you one thing. There is nobody who can commit a fault. You only miss a chance. This is how the vibration goes. When out of all the cycles of life and birth, a person realizes that his instinct can come under his control, then that is the human body. It is possible to train this human body to any extent. You have only got one unit of energy. You can forgive or you can punish. You can tell a lie, or you can speak a truth. You can be positive or you can be negative. You can be up or you can be down. All of that requires an equal amount of energy. Continue reading...
Legal Update from the CEO
December 14, 2011
Sat Sangat Ji, Sat Nam.
Once again, circumstance require that I update you on the current status in the lawsuit between the former members of the Sikh Dharma International Board and Unto Infinity. Yesterday, the Judge in the suit issued her Findings of Fact, and Conclusions of Law in that suit. A full and unedited copy of which is posted here.
Khalsa v. Khalsa #0909-13281 and State v. Siri Singh #1010-14518.pdf
We are disappointed with the Judge's findings and conclusions, but continue to respect the legal process. The Judge has requested briefing from the parties on what remedies are appropriate in light of her findings and conclusions. She will convene a hearing on that issue after briefing has been submitted. As a defendant in this matter, SDI and the other defendants are analyzing these findings and conclusions, and exploring all available options at this time. We remain confident that the ultimate decision in this matter will be favorable for SDI and all of the legacy nonprofit entities.
Gurfateh.
Ajai Singh Khalsa
CEO/President for Sikh Dharma Internationa