Recent Yogi Bhajan Lecture Articles (Page 2)
Getting Out of Insecurity
Excerpts of lectures by Yogi Bhajan from The Aquarian Teacher Level 1 Teacher Training Manual Each student of yoga must confront the mental attitude of insecurity and doubt. Actually, there are two mental styles we can use to go through life. In one style, we act as if everybody were saints until proven thieves. In the other style, we act as if everybody were thieves until proven saints. Which style of life your mind uses depends on the strength and balance of your nervous system. People who live the first style walk through every wave of life with an even attitude….
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Commanding the Mind
Once you don’t have command of your mind, your mind will have command of you. There is no way out. It is an either/or situation. And when mind has command over you, spirit goes dormant.
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Guidance of the Guru
Excerpts from a lecture on April 2, 1995, given by Yogi Bhajan in Los Angeles, CA There is a balance on this Earth. There is a balance in time. There is a balance in space. There is a balance in Earth. Every moment is in balance. Good and bad are in balance. Light and darkness are in balance. Guru takes us from darkness to light in balance. It is not properly understood what a Guru is. When you are consciously in command of your life, that is Guru. You consciously live, consciously command your life, consciously take your actions. Even when you are conscious that…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: I, the Self, Call on My Psyche
Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan given on March 8, 1995 When we do not have consciousness, we do not have basic intuition. The problem is that intuition has to be developed. It is there but is dormant. Everybody is not intuitive—you can be intuitive but you are not. That’s why they say the soul is dormant. And dormant soul means that you are alive but you live by impulse. When you don’t control your impulse, you have no intuition. And when you have no intuition, you are not human. You are a mammal which walks on two legs and looks…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: The Little Voice Inside
Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan given on July 20, 1994 Intuition tells you what is for you. The little voice inside is a very powerful thing. It tells you exactly what it is. It will tell you if it’s not right, avoid it. Normally you don’t avoid it; you let it slide. Intuition will always tell you what will protect you and what is best for you. If you are not intelligent, you will slide into some pit where you cannot come out. Intuition can only tell you, intelligence can really work it out, and caliber is what will…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Be Contained Within Your ‘You’
In this lecture excerpt, Yogi Bhajan talks about being secure and contained within yourself. This lecture was given in Los Angeles on March 1, 1989. 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…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Inner Guidance and the Mind
Excerpts from a lecture given on June 25, 1987, by Yogi Bhajan at Summer Solstice at Ram Das Puri, NM. (View the full video lecture below). I would like to talk to you about something―if you have mind to listen to it. I know all of you, young or old, will go through every phase of life. With all the energy you have, there will be certain things which happen to you. Can you guide your life like a guiding star, self-propelled? I definitely know that each human being who is alive wants to have control. Some of us are very…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Developing Intuition
Excerpts from a lecture given by Yogi Bhajan on February 21, 1978 When the mind is said to be intuitive and you develop it, it is an investment. It is as good an investment as your hair-do, as your good clothes, as your good language. And then whenever you want the answer to something, you don’t have to call on anything. You have to call your own computer. Just stop yourself. And in the click of moments, your own self will talk to you. You have to concentrate. It is the mind which can concentrate for you. The mind is given as a…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Your Stability Protects You
Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan given on January 24, 1977, in Los Angeles, CA Nature has a system to give a man one thing: authentic living. And what is authentic living? Authentic living is nothing but living in self-trust. Don’t make your place a breeding ground for the garbage of insanity, mistrust, and negativity. Don’t pollute your faith as a human being. Somebody may look like a human being, but when you talk to him, it will smell. His odor will be terrible. His words will come out very negative. He will just pollute you left, right, up and…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Ego, Guru, Guide
Excerpts from a lecture from Kundalini Quarterly, Summer Solstice 1976 Bicentennial Issue The purpose of life is not to find God. I don’t care if you beat me up, you will never convince me that we are here for that purpose. It is the biggest lie that people believe these days. Why do you want to find God? God has already found you. You are only here on this Earth to begin with because of Him. It is amazing what you sometimes let yourself believe. Even if you could find God, what would you do with Him? He is not a…
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