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Yogi Bhajan Quotes on Giving and Seva
Yogi Bhajan talked and taught about what it means to serve selflessly, to do seva, and to give from the heart in many, many lectures over the years. Enjoy these quotes on his key teachings on seva, service, and giving. If you do not do seva—selfless service, you have just let your soul go hungry. Selfless service to others is the food of the soul.9/16/90 Inhale deep and just pray on this breath that it should give you right consciousness, righteousness in living, and selfless service towards all living beings. Exhale.5/7/74 When you do selfless service, you will be liberated. What is the biggest thing you…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Pioneers in the Age of Aquarius
In this lecture excerpt from Summer Solstice, Guru Ram Das Puri, New Mexico, on June 20, 1993, Yogi Bhajan inspires us to keep up and serve humanity with love and compassion. You have come here from all the lands, and you will keep on coming here from all the lands for centuries to come. This land has its karma, and this land has its dharma to enrich you whenever you come here, as it has done for centuries. It has a practice, it has a habit, and it has blessings. It is the dwelling place of the guardian souls of…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Seva is the Food of the Soul
In this lecture excerpt given in Espanola, NM on September 9, 1990, Yogi Bhajan explains how doing seva elevates your spirit. Now, why are we not successful spiritually, and why are we suffering? That’s the point in question. Well, like a beautiful house, we collect dust. Like a beautiful mind, we collect dust. Like a beautiful lamp of light, we collect dust. After five, six months your bulb needs to be cleaned. You may not do it, but if you say it is not collecting dust, that is not true. Soul is dormant; it needs to be cleansed so it…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Prepare to Serve the Age of Aquarius
In these lecture excerpts given on December 20,1997 and June 21, 2001, Yogi Bhajan talks about serving from the heart to uplift humanity. Kindness knows no defeat. Caring has no end. And touching a person’s heart is the only language God knows. The most veteran, courageous, and pious act of a human is to be with another human, because we are like stars in the sky, born at one time and space, to be ourselves. All we have to do is say, “I am with you.” When you start being one with everybody, then you are actually with God, because if…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Expand – Now is the Time
In this lecture excerpt from a Teachers Course in Santa Cruz, California, on March 23,1974, Yogi Bhajan says we are all responsible to serve and uplift those who need it. You must have one door of your home open where people can call on you, people can trust you, people can get help from you, people can approach you. There are many reasons why people will need to relate to you. The coming times are going to be very hard on the society as a whole. There may be 10 casualties, 50 thefts, 20 robberies, 100 rapes—all that is going on…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Become a Giver
In this lecture excerpt from September 4, 2001 in Espanola, New Mexico, Yogi Bhajan talks about how to become a giver by letting go of our ‘couldn’t’. You will never find a community leader who doesn’t know how to give, seva. Giving is the only way. Don’t only give to those who ask, give to those who don’t ask. Keep on giving, become a giver. Your faculty and God’s faculty will become the same. That’s divinity. That’s absolute divinity. Dayndaa day lainday t’hak paa-eh. “You, Great Giver, keep giving to us and we grow tired of taking” (Japji Sahib by Guru Nanak, Third…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Be Contained Within Your ‘You’
In this lecture excerpt in Los Angeles on March 1, 1989, Yogi Bhajan talks about being secure and contained within your ‘you’. Take any religion, take any teachings, deal with anything—there is only one thing: you should become you, complete and competent. That’s the process. Life will have no other process but that. Your problem is that to keep alive inside, you use emotions, feelings, sex, and all that you can feel. Those who know the inside, know the entire outside. Those who know outside do not know the inside. That’s why there is an emptiness. Life is empty, hollow,…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Calm Like a Mountain
In this lecture at UCLA on January 3, 1972, Yogi Bhajan talks about being calm and peaceful. “What is a great man? You go to him with a great problem; you are upset and go with a great problem. He is calm and smiling. “Yes, what can I do for you? Everything is all right, don’t worry. We will pray and everything is going to happen okay.” You are visiting for fifteen or twenty minutes. Talking to him has not gone to waste. If he is a really calm man, he has practiced calmness; his vibrations are calm. He can vibrate calmness through…
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