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GURDWARA LECTURE February 20, 1983 (#G-88)
Houston
Conception Unto Infinity.
Transcripted by Anitha Corrections by Vijayalakshmi
Second verification by: S. Niranjani
Side A
Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh. It is, it is very scientific to understand
that life starts with a conception and not to understand what conception actually means
by itself is such creativity which will ultimately doesn't matter what you do, shall destroy
you because after all, anything which starts from something must end in the same thing,
that is the law. Your life start with a conception. You were conceived and you must carry on and
keep conceiving and keep producing, keep growing, keep projecting and keep unto Infinity. That's
the principle involved. I don't disagree with this thing that we don't
have the capacity to do wrong, I simply don't agree to one point we have the capacity to
do wrong because we have equal capacity to do the right. The very fact, the very conception
of this life is based on one thing - what you want to do. If you decide you don't want
to do anything still you are doing something, you are deciding not to do anything, this
is doing too. There is no way that you can be alive and you won't do anything. If we
have to do something, why not to do something so great, so Infinite, so positive, so wonderful.
There is no bar of age. Guru Har Kishan was five year old. Guru Amar Das was over sixty.
So you cannot say, this is right and this is wrong.
The aspect of life has to be understood. If you want any relationship on this planet create
first relationship between you and your soul. All other relationships are not going to work
out. So long your soul is in you and your soul is unattended, don't you understand you
say something, 'Well, that person doesn't give me any attention,' that is what the grudge
your soul has that you don't give, pay any attention.
And soul wants to hear the glory of God because soul is part of the God. Don't you see if
somebody said your Dharma is beautiful, you like it. Somebody say you are beautiful you
like it, somebody say your parents are beautiful you like it, somebody say your city is beautiful
you like it, you think the soul is so dumb if you, she doesn't want to hear the God is
beautiful, the creation is beautiful? Don't ignore the soul to the point that it gets
to what they call is a dormant stage of helplessness. I don't disagree that in the west people are
not intelligent or beautiful and all that, I all agree with that but there is one problem
which I have seen in the west which doesn't exist in the east. People are very temperamental
here. They don't have continuity. Consistency is missing. Consistency cannot be if your
relationship with your own soul because you have to understand the entire strength of
the being, the life of the being depend so long the soul is in the ribcage.
Whatever you say you may flout laws, you may boast, you may talk high, you may talk low,
I am not discussing that, I am just telling you when the soul will enter the subtle body
you will be physically declared dead. I am not trying to complicate the matter to tell
you to relate your all ten bodies, I think it is too much. I am just saying you must
relate to your own spirit which is your soul and try to create a direct communication.
Guru did that, Guru talked to his mind.
'Hai Mana Meriya Sada Raho Harnale, Harnal Raho Tu Mann Merey Dukh Sab Visarna.'
Guru, if your Guru can talk to his mind, 'Harji Har Har Har *** Mere Harji Ji,' Ji soul, Guru
talks to his soul, Guru talks to his mind.
'Hai Sareera Meriy Is Jag Mein Kya Tudh Karm Kamaya?''
'Oh my body, in this life what you have earned?'
Guru talked to his body, Guru talked to his mind, Guru talked to his soul. You are the
Sikh of the Guru, why don't you? Everybody wants to talk to me. What for? You want to
talk to me, I am talking to my soul, why don't you talk to your soul? You want to talk to
me, I am telling my mind all the time, why don't you tell your mind all the time. You
want to talk to me, you think I am very wise, I am this and that, I am just telling you
there is no wisdom. Simply talk to your soul, your mind and your body and create a relationship
and find it out for yourself that you are alive.
You are living. I agree. You are alive, I don't agree. You are living, I hundred percent
agree, I have no doubt about it. You are alive? Umhu. Because the first law of alive person
is when he touches somebody that person become alive and once one is alive, one only gives
you the experience of godhood or the direction towards God because God is the only life sustainer
of this planet. There can be problems and there shall continue
to be problems. Problem will never leave you. There is only one problem, you do not create
relationship with your own soul, with your own mind, with your own body. When we do not
have that relationship we cannot live a pure life.
When we are impure, there shall be problems. It doesn't matter you are an American or you
are a French or you are a Japanese or you are a oriental, you are poor or you are rich,
you have to understand poor have their poor problems, rich have their rich problems. Problems
continue. I remember, fifteen years ago there was a
some guy, he wanted to be a doctor. Medical doctor, medical doctor, medical doctor. Medical
doctor all right. Then I met him when he became medical doctor, then he had a problem - practice,
practice, practice. Then he had practice, practice, practice, then he had a problem
- wife, wife, wife, divorce, divorce, divorce. Then we solved that, then he had a practice,
he got entangled with this medical, I do not remember this name, he charged wrong bill
for right reasons or right reason or wrong bill, something and they put him in jail.
I told him, "Your problem is," I told him fifteen years ago, I said, "Your problem is
you are not together." And that problem continued, he did everything but he couldn't do anything.
Now his problem was from his maximum security we got him transferred to minimum security,
now the problem is still there. He got so mad at the correction system that they put
him in a solitary confinement. They thought he is insane. He would yell, scream and get
angry, they got so uptight they put him in solitary confinement and somehow we had to
approach and tell the guy is mad, he has a problem and now he is in what they call it,
life security environments. Problems shall continue. There is no end to
problems but there is a one problem which can take care of every problem. If you can
relate to your own soul, to your own mind, to your own body. Why I say that? Because
that's the way God made me. That's why the song of bliss Guru talks to the ear, 'oh ears
you are supposed to hear the Shabad, oh eyes you are supposed to see the bounty and beauty
of God, oh Shareer oh body, what you have done in this planet. Oh mind, oh being, oh
Ji.' That's what I say to you - don't try to complicate
the problems, live simple, be simple and that is how simplicity is defined by the Guru - Aad
sach, Jugad Sach, Hai Bhee Sach Nanak Hosee Bhee Sach.
Sometime you are stuck, your Sadhana doesn't work, your flow of life doesn't work.
I was just solving a complication, somebody wants more space. Here space mean room. They
don't understand they have to cater to soul, to cater to soul they need the space with
the Gursikhs, they need the space with Sangat. They don't understand that. To American space
means twenty-bedroom house. In one you will live, in nineteen ghost will live. Any man
I have seen who has got lot of money, he will buy the biggest house you can believe. I don't
know what for. To count the rooms. And there is another ego; 'my seventeen bedroom has
sixteen bathrooms and nine half bathrooms.' That's how they talk. They are into bathroom
all the time. They are not pull themself out of bathroom even in spite of the fact we are
talking on the room. It is a very funny world but know from me,
that's not way it works. You need space with the community, you need Sadh Sangat Lag Tariye.
Those who have problem in Houston, they should make it a problem for themself. They should
come to this place where Guru preside and sit together and decide between themself how
to solve their problem. They shall be in a position to solve their problem, I can vouch
for it. You don't need space. You think you go out
and raise your children in the most negative environments where there is a pressure of
drugs and sex and peer pressure of all negativity your children shall not survive because I
saw a miracle this time in India. I saw a miracle with my own eyes, I am not going to
change that. I saw those young people here who were impossible to stay. We sent them
to Guru Nanak fifth county school. I saw them going into the university, agriculture university
Ludhiana and I saw them singing Jai Teging, then I saw them playing Gatka, they totally
mastermind that martial art and Nanak Dev, how happy and beautiful and wonderful he is,
this seven year old kid beat him to death he ran away. Nanak Dev ran away, he went after
him, seven year old with this (?). I told him, I said, "Nanak Dev were you faking?"
He said, "No sir he got me thrice, I couldn't stay, I ran."
Because we wanted to give our children a place where they could be free from drug and sex
pressure. We wanted to give them a place where they can grow by their own right. It is not
we parents shall say, "I have sent my children at far distance," you have to send your children
to God, which is at a very, very distance.
Side B
If you want to measure the distance, then remember your soul has traveled all the way
to the Infinity to reach God. If that means anything to you. And I pray, if Guru gives
Sikh Dharma money, first job we do is we will build a boarding school where we can raise
our own children in this country. So far we don't have that kind of means, we'll use whatever
we can. We are very international anyway, what it matters. And it is very funny how
people act. This time I had a great experience. I saw
things myself how things can change and I tell you how things change. Whenever your
own child is being told that that child has a manifesto. That child has a manifesto, that
child is with you because of the Guru, the child do learn fast. So long you tell the
child, 'you are my child, they don't grow.' When you tell your child, 'you are the child
of God and I am servant of you,' the child grow, you can't believe it and that's a fact.
Indian community came here, they lost their children. You know why? They told them, "You
are my children, I love you. I want you to be with me." They forgot this is not India,
this is America. I told them the American Sikhs are Americans, they can help you, they
threw us out from every Gurdwara, they threw us out from every house. They lost their children.
They couldn't understand a simple truth. To them their identity not as a Gursikh but as
a individual as Thapar, as Babbar, as Virk, as Grewal was more important than the Guru's
identity. It was a blunder, it was a mistake for which they will pay heavily. What it means,
what the difference is two hundred and twenty five million idiots are running around in
this life, if another hundred thousand join them what difference it makes? That's not
what we are discussing. If there are other ten million millionaires or two hundred millionaires
America's problems are not going to be solved. America problem will be solved when Americans
will learn to live in one logo, in God we dwell, in God we trust and that is America.
America is not going to solve its problem by hairdo, by removing the eyebrows and by
putting the makeup, doesn't matter. What are those companies where you will get all these
stuff? Student: (-----)
YB: Yeah, there is something, they are just bunch of them. America will not become beautiful.
Neither you will become beautiful. Under lipstick everybody know the blood circulation is poor,
everybody knows it. The false red lips does not make you healthy, that's very untrue.
America will belong to Americans when Americans will belong to God and I tell you those in
this Ashram who wants more space get more space with their soul and with their consciousness.
That's where your space lies. Am I right? Student: Sat Nam.
YB: When I came to America... Do you know from last fourteen years I live in a garage
and I have never changed my residence and do you know how much property I own? Do you
know how rich I am? Just learn from me if you cannot learn from anybody that this earth
is very temporary and on this earth you have to do one thing, only one thing, no two things;
how you want to be known? You want to be known as a giver or a man of God or you want to
be known as a egomaniac idiot, you have to decide between the two polarities. Nobody
can decide it for you. You want to be known as saint.
I went to India this time they were introducing me everywhere, somewhere, they had so many
funny titles for me, I never believed that before but this time I saw and it was fascinating
that Delhi Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee wanted to honor me in Bangala Sahib because they
thought I was attacked there once, that this time they should honor me there.
I agreed to it, I said, "All right, it is Guru's house, let me go there again, it is
a privilege." So I went there, I spoke. I came out, you
won't believe they didn't let me walk. They all wanted to touch my feet and I told them,
I said, "This is a sin, you have come to Guru's house, bow at Guru's house, don't bow with
me. Let me walk away." They won't agree. Just like as blind people
can be, as just they want to follow me and some old woman said, "Son, I have to touch your feet because you are a saint."
I said, "You are mistaken." She said, "I don't care whether I have mistaken
or not, just stand straight." (Students laugh)
"Okay, if that pleases you," I said, "I give up," all I wanted is not to fall and reach
my car. It took me more than half an hour. Nobody listens but I have never stopped talking
to you. These all thing is Maya, you are worshipped, you are appreciated, you are graceful, you
become rich, you become healthy, you become pretty, you become young. All is Maya. If
God is not elevated in your presence everything is Maya, it doesn't matter how much you are
elevated, how much you are appreciated, how much you are worshipped, you will be dead
one day. The only living feature of God is God Itself. Praise the God, praise the lord
and praise Him and praise Him with your presence, with your essence, with your security, with your insecurity and that
is what Sangat does. That is the one counsel I give it to you, be
with the Guru and you will be elevated. No other formula will work and nothing can work.
Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa, Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh!
END OF LECTURE 02/20/83 (#G-88)
(c) Yogi Bhajan, 1983.