The One Who Rotates the Earth
In this lecture excerpt, The One Who Rotates the Earth, Yogi Bhajan explains how to develop a healthy, happy, and holy life. This lecture was given on July 20, 1996, and can be found in The Master’s Touch.
Your Infinity is you when you stop thinking. Have you stopped thinking? That’s the end of it. Awareness takes these things away from you: thinking, reason, logic, argument, fantasies, planning, scheming, knowing and worrying. These nine things must go before you can say that you are on the path of awareness. Do you know why? Because the One who rotates the Earth can take care of your routine. These nine things you do are unwanted. They only satisfy your ego. Where there is ego, there is no amigo.
Happiness & Discipline
Mind is given to you as a servant, don’t let it make you yoyo. Mind is your servant, body is your vehicle, and soul is your residence. Do not make yourself cheap, and do not live like a creep, and do not weep. God made you in bad environments, in worst environments, in tragic environments, in horrible environments; all calamities, insult, tragedy is just for you to face it and win it.
Without grace, there is no discipline, and discipline is that you keep your grace in the most disgraceful environments. And not having disgraceful environments is no discipline. Calamity is to set the climate, tragedy is to set the target. Your fear is your enemy, not your soul or strength. You are afraid of your own fear.
For thousands of years, the Piscean Age has lied to us to make us find God, while they knew that we are gods. Now we cannot take even two days to remember we are gods.
So we are talking about happiness. What is the principle of happiness? We started 3HO—Healthy, Happy, Holy. Right? Healthy you are, one way or the other. As long as you are not in the graveyard pit, you are okay. Holy you are. Anybody who has nine holes and controls what comes in and goes out is holy. But happy? What is the definition of being happy?
That existence which does not have discipline cannot deliver. That deliverance is the measurement of personal happiness, and that needs discipline in every facet of life. Within your discipline, whether you serve or you de-serve, within your discipline, you live or you don’t live, within your discipline, you eat or you don’t eat, within your discipline, you are the discipline. If you are master of that discipline, which is you, you are all God. There is no other.
Aad pooran mudh pooran ant pooran parmesureh
-Guru Arjan, Siri Guru Granth Sahib, page 705
“The Transcendent Lord pervades in the beginning, pervades in the middle, and will pervade in the end.”
I tell you today and I’ll tell you tomorrow and I’ll tell you every day: You have only one friend—you and your discipline which will give you all that you need. The rest are all promises. After studying every scripture of every religion and what I went through, I have found that there are three words: sadhana, aradhana, and prabhupati. Sadhana means discipline, aradhana means perfecting the discipline, and prabhupati means you will become the Lord Master of God Itself. Now, should I bring you any other news?
Attitude & Altitude
In the beginning you are you, in the middle you are you, in the end you are God. There’s nothing else. If you can’t close your eyes, you can’t open your eyes, that’s the end of the eyes. There’s nothing to it. Nothing was, nothing is, nothing shall be.
In every challenge, mind has to be trained. We are going to train you so that in every head on confrontation, you take the altitude. The moment you take the altitude, things become little. I know you don’t care for little things. You are looking for big things. You have come here not to look for big things; you have come here to become big, so big, so big, so big that you cover everything. You cannot say no, so big. Like sunshine, you can’t say, “I shine on this, I won’t shine on that.” No.
Longitude and latitude are given to everybody. Altitude and attitude are given by Kundalini Yoga. When the spiral rises to penetrate through all the chakras, the man knows he’s Brahm. That’s why they say Kundalini Yoga is dangerous. It’s dangerous because it takes away from the man the ability to be exploited by another man. And for some, life without exploitation has no juice.
You must understand, if your presence doesn’t work, nothing works. First principle: if your presence doesn’t work, nothing works. Number two: if you are not you, nothing works. If within three sentences you cannot prove that you work, then nothing will work. And if within three sentences you cannot gain the trust of another person, nothing works. If, in the first sentence, you cannot make the person understand you are wise and loving, nothing works.
You will be strong, brave, and courageous, and remember what I say: It isn’t the life that matters, it is the courage you bring to it. Do not give up courage, you will always win. Do not give up hope, you will always have a scope in life. Do not give yourself, God will always be there in you. Don’t pull down the shutters of hopelessness and discourage yourself. God doesn’t dwell outside of you; in God you dwell.
©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
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