Yogi Bhajan on Calibur & Commitment

“Woman without commitment is like a boat without a rudder. Not only does a woman have to be very committed, but she should be so competent that she can make the time and space situation surrounding her absolutely committed. It is very unfortunate that in the contrast situation of her personality, woman does not think how useful commitment is. Marriage, if it is of any use, is useful to woman when it is a committed marriage. Woman is not a small thing. She is the root, she is the trunk, she is the branches, and she is the leaves of the tree of life. But in contrast to that, she feels she can get away, she can skip away, and do what she wants. She does weird things. She takes help from relatives, friends and neighbors by exploiting them for sympathy because it is the power of the woman to take sympathy. She can take the sympathy whenever she wants. All that exploitation she does only to destroy herself. She doesn't need sympathy.

A woman needs only herself. She needs the commit­ment that she has been born by the blessing of the great Creator, and that she has been created as a woman. She has to live and grow as a woman, she has to die as a woman. A woman is nothing but a woman. The logic and reason, "Whether I should, whether I should not, whether I'm com­mitted, whether I am not, whether this is my destiny, whether it is not," are all things of a sick mind working through a healthy brain.

A woman is nothing but a whole generation. She is the past, she is the present and she is the future. She is everything. These are the calibers of a very ordinary woman. A great woman is a very ordinary woman. Just imagine what a really great woman can be. Woman must not forget that she is a woman, she must not forget in all her dealing and wheeling, that she is a woman. The majority of the women in contrast behavior try to be men. Cheating, debating, arguing, reasoning, finding their way out. The worst enemy of woman is puppetry. Most people have heard women thirty­-five years old speaking baby talk. Don't you feel like vomiting? I do. No maturity. No strength. When a woman does talk the point of view of maturity and strength in her personality, she should die before she falls. Otherwise they are called falling rocks. They just spoil the road. Woman is intended to be a virtuous human being, virtue to the greatness of the God. By her own glory she can create a saint which can turn the world around for grace and positivity. So who can match this creature called woman?

Satiaa shaktee ... power, infinite power. It is an ordinary attribute of a woman. But if she does not use the shaktee in the right direction, then she becomes self-destructive. Woman has the caliber that when she concentrates on something, she knows all the answers. But it is a dangerous situation. Normally, she will choose to be wrong. Why? She needs attention. One of the greatest sicknesses and weaknesses of a woman is she needs attention. Suicidal attention- attention which does not mean anything to her except to destroy her. One third of the total life energy of a woman is wasted by her checking it out to see whether or not she is being appreciated or receiving atten­tion. One third of her life is wasted.

Woman is a totally supersensitive creature to the extent that if one just touches a woman, her sensitivity is sixteen times more than that of a man. Sensually and sexually she pretends to be very shy, but in a normal situation, she is eight times more sexual and sensual than a man. In activity she is thirty-two times more than a male. It is called double sixteen. She also has thirty-­two times more retentivity of sensuality, sexuality and creativity than that of a man. I'm saying that if a man can take one role she can take thirty-two mental roles. She can think fast, she can act fast. That is why a woman matures early and remains young for a long time. In the end, she becomes pig-thick. The word is very clear. Pig thick, because she starts retaining water. She stops taking exercise, sits a lot and puts her circulatory system down. It is all psychological. An active woman who walks two to four miles a day, takes regular exercises one-half to one hour, drinks about thirty to forty ounces of water, swims, eats a good vegetarian food, eats as a prayer, sleeps as a prayer, lives as a prayer, deals and wheels as a prayer, and lives only to glorify her personality because God has given her a chance, is a woman who will live very young to the last day of her life.

These are her three enemies:
• Over-eating is the first enemy of a woman.
• Over talking, & over-eating
• Over-thinking.

Woman has the capacity to think so much that she can go nuts. There is almost every game which she can play, but when she starts playing a game on herself, she becomes self destructive. The worst enemy of a woman is self-teasing. A woman will do certain things to herself to tease herself. Everyone has seen women who are suicidal. They cut their wrists and they do weird things to themselves. Some­times they spread gossip about themselves. These are all the qualities of a self-teasing, self-destruc­tive, and self-vindictive woman to draw sympathy and tell a story. One can brand it all lies. But why should she lie? Psychologically these are not lies, these are necessities. When a woman is not positive, she is a monster to herself. When she is not graceful as a woman, the whole world is disgraceful to her. Woman has the virtue to virtue herself, by herself, within her surrounding and outside her surroundings. Is that clear?

The question is, since she has caliber, and God made her a woman, why does she contrast her own personality? It is called misuse of her potential as a mother. She wants to depend on her son, she wants to depend on her husband, she wants to depend on her living room. But if she does not want to depend on herself, then she can not depend on anything else. That is the main key­note of her destruction, her unhappiness in life and her miseries. She has to be independently self-dependent. She has to know her virtues, her ground and what she is talking about. She has to know her accounts. She has to be confident. Cowardice does not suit a woman. Neither does escaping, skipping, delaying things or postponing situations. A woman of grace should meet adver­sity halfway. She should meet halfway and fight on the enemy's ground so that her fort walls may remain without cracks.”

~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training, July 7, 1978

Prayer for the Heart

"God, give us the power to break through our blocks and barriers in life.
Open us like the open sea to touch the shores of the heart,
And give us the strength of that pleasant breeze,
So that we may hug and kiss the life
            as it liveth among us at this Time and Space.
Give us the values and virtues to be noble, to be graceful,
To be glorious in our strength as a human being.
Change our values and virtues from the wrong path,
So we can determine our own path on which we can walk with sincerity,
And physical existence to cover our journey unto our destiny.
In Thy Name we pray.
SAT NAAM."
~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training, June 30, 2000

The Greatest Thing of the Day

"The greatest thing of the day is? One thing to remember is: all things come from God and all things go to God. For that to be, you must believe it, you must live it, and you must trust it. Nobody has made you a woman. All things are God's creation. God is nothing but the ultimate grace, and those who live in grace shall merge in that grace. That is why Guru Nanak said, "Gur prasaad." Blessed are those who live in grace and live in the Will of God. Your will will be very limited; it will make you very, very sick. God has given the vastness of the earth which you will not be in a position to enjoy. That is not what you come here for."

~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training1977

 

The Power of Self - Image

"If you change the way, you see yourself,
The scenery around you changes, too.
If you change the thought of yourself,
Heavens change around to cover you.
There's no need to change boats
To reach the other side.

Change your direction -
The shores move to comply.

If you change your own mind and your self-image, too,
All your loved ones will change their concept of you.
When there's no longer talk of "self" and "me,"
God is experienced, and you are free!

Environments support every action you do,
When you expand to include All within you.
How can I welcome Thee into my heart?
All people, now and forever,
We'll never part.
Heavens have changed;
Concepts must change
All your affairs; let God arrange.

Yogi, when you're clear in your intention,
There's no personal intervention.
"Thou" - "me" - "us"
Merged into One -
"I" becomes "we," and "we" becomes Thee.
Thee is forever - Victory begun.
Outside mirrors the inside,
As above, so below.
Dimension, direction, extension, projection -
Reflect God's light, make it so.

All we see,
A reflection of Thee:
One in all
Sparkling facets of Infinity.

~ Yogi Bhajan, Espanola, August 1992.

 

Short Quotes From Yogi Bhajan

"You don’t win in the end, your character wins. You don’t lose in the end, your habits make you lose.”

~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training

“But I tell you, the greatest beauty in you is that if you become sacred, your price will go up. If you want to protect your future, never act cheap. If you want to be free, never control anything—it will drag you to death. There’s one habit in a woman, but if you want to be respected, never nag. And if you want to be loved, then deliver. Let you words mean what you say.”

~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training, July 4, 1995

“Woman is a totally supersensitive creature to the extent that if one just touches a woman, her sensitivity is sixteen times more than that of a man. Sensually and sexually she pretends to be very shy, but in a normal situation, she is eight times more sexual and sensual than a man. In activity she is thirty-two times more than a male. It is called double sixteen. She also has thirty-­two times more sensitivity of sensuality, sexuality and creativity than that of a man. I'm saying that if a man can take one role she can take thirty-two mental roles. She can think fast, she can act fast.

~Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training, 1978

"One third of the total life energy of a woman is wasted by her checking it out to see whether or not she is being appreciated or receiving attention. One third of her life is wasted.”

~ Yogi Bhajan, Women-In-Training, July 7, 1978