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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 excerpt, Become a Giver, from a lecture given on September 4, 2001, in Espanola, New Mexico, by Yogi Bhajan, he 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…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: Calm Like a Mountain
In this lecture excerpt, Calm Like a Mountain, Yogi Bhajan talks about being calm and peaceful. The lecture was given at UCLA on January 3, 1972. “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…
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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
In this lecture excerpt, Guidance of the Guru, Yogi Bhajan explains the concepts of Guru and inner guidance. This lecture was given on April 2, 1995, 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,…
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Yogi Bhajan Lecture: I, the Self, Call on My Psyche
In this lecture excerpt, I, the Self, Call on My Psyche, Yogi Bhajan gives us a way to tune into our intuition. This lecture was 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…
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