This document discusses teachings from Yogi Bhajan on various spiritual topics including: 1) Religion is both a science of reality and an art of life that can make one great and happy when practiced. 2) Reading passages from the Sikh scripture like Kirtan Sohila or Sukhmani before bed can help induce deep, restful sleep without medication. 3) Chanting mantras with the tongue activates points in the palate that stimulate the hypothalamus and entire nervous system, leaving one feeling complete and fine.

1. e THE TEACHINGS OF YOGI BHAJAN
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diseased. You get unfulfilled. You get bored with your sounds are ah aspuui i^i ui...
life,. You are just a big black board because anything remove the headache and relax the person.
you do, after awhile it becomes a custom, a routine Religion is a science of reality and an art of life.
with you. It becomes is a "bored." A n d one W h e n it's a science of reality you become a great.
wonderful thing is, "I am bored," second, "I am W h e n its become art of life, you become happy,
depressed," third, "I am unhappy." prosperous and virtuous. Each person has that power
I used to become pale when somebody said, "I within.
don't know." How can it be? W e are born in the You all want pots and pans. Leam from Peter Pan.
image of God. W e are Gods. Guru Gobind Singh It is all easy. In the West you have so many stories. It
said, "Khalsa mer satgur pooraa." It means we lack is totally Western what Guru Nanak said, "Early to
purity. That's why we don't know. bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, healthy and
So there are three words in economics: brain, wise." Why don't you go to sleep early?
brawn and bouillon. Bullion means gold, wealth. Somebody said to me, "I can't sleep at all."
Brawn means territory, power, influence, reach, or I said, "Read Kirtan Sohila." Next morning I said,
"brass." "This is the army's brass." T h e canons and "How was the sleep?"
artillery is called brass. It's the central nucleus. She said, "I feel so guilty."
You don't want God. God got rid of you by giving I said, "What happened?"
you a brain. You got rid of God, and God got rid of "I couldn't complete Kirtan Sohila. Sir, when I
you because you were such a pure soul. Angels got up the gutka was on my chest."
worship that body. You got this body with brain I said, "Far out. No pills, no doctor?"
intact, though you use only three percent and waste "No. I'm going to read Kirtan Sohila every night."
ninety seven percent. It was given for a purpose. I said, "If Kirtan Sohila is not enough, start
There's a purpose for long hair on the head. There's Sukhmani and you'll sleep twenty-four times." T h e
a purpose for man's beard. highest tranquilizer ever created by man for divinity
W h e n you have a brain you need two things. You and for Infinity is Gurbani. Gurbani is penetrating,
need territory to be recognized, identified and powerful and takes away stress.
acknowledged. You want bouillon to accomplish
your ambition. You get bouillon or apply your mind HAR LINGAM
and let God do it. Guru Nanak said, "Let God do When you read Gurbani you pronounce with the
it." tongue. T h e tongue is called 'Har Ungarn' because it
has a capacity to pronounce God's name.
Hukum razaee chalnaa W h e n you chant with this tongue you touch
Nanak likhiaa naal. eighty-four meridian points on the upper palate
Guru Nanak under which there's a hypothalamus. T h e moment
the hypothalamus get activated it sets .up the neurons,
Walk in God's known and unknown will. medulla and the entire motor gets activated. You are
Nanak, this destiny is written for you. fine and complete.
Let us accept the will of God over our will. Let us Eh jag sachai kee hai kotarhee sache kaa vich
de-will ourselves, Devil. W h e n we are in our will, vaas.
God's will shall not prevail and we shall be in Guru Angad
command. W h e n we let God's will prevail, then
God shall be in command. T h e n God has three This universe is the house of he True One
aspects - G - O - D , generator, organizer and And the True O n e lives in it.
deliverer/destroyer. If God destroys us, He'll accept us.
If you cannot see God in all you cannot see God at
If He delivers us, He'll give us the divine assignment.
all. You are God. God created the vegetation to teach
It serves both ways.
you absolute obedience. God created the animal
You need prosperity, position, identity. Of all kingdom to teach you "Live and let live" and
those things that you want, have you accepted them harmony. Mess yourself up and miss the chance or
in God? You know why we accept God as a make it. People say, "Haree har, haree har,
Almighty? Not out of imagination. W e know we haree har haree." God creative Hari Har. God
live by prana. Pranpati, the Master of that prana, is creative God. The green God. T h e haree God. Haree
something unknown to us. So we start calling that means creative God. It also means God of maya, the
unknown 'God.' Muslim call it Allah, others call real God.
Jehovah. The Hindu religion will never give you a mantra.
A Hindu must do many weird, inhuman things to
RELIGION get one. A Jain gets one mantra, 'Ong Kar.' That's
First religion in the west is Judaism. God is all. He sits and puts hot ash on his body. He pulls
Jehovah to a Jew, beginning with the sound "Jeh." his hair out with chopsticks, because hair is the
T h e Christian Hallelujah, begins with "Ha." T h e divine energy. It is the purest protein contained on
Muslim Lallah, beginning with the sound "La." T h e the skull. If you understand your hair you understand
Hindus, out of which everything came, call on Ram, everything. What is in you is in your hair. A few
beginning with the sound "Ra." Then came Nanak. hairs can give a record of your whole health and
He said, "Sat Nam," beginning with "Sa." These faculty. A Jain pulls all the hair from his body, head
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2. and beard. If he does it all with that hot ash, and he I said, "You are wrong."
doesn't show that he's in pain, then they give him "Why?"
the mantra. I said, "You create a man in his own image and
I have lot of Jain friends. Whenever I meet one I then you gave him his will."
"I gave him his will so he can find My Will."
say, "Ong kar." I said, "Again that ego. This little thing is never
He says, "Secret mantra." going to find what Your Will is."
I say, "Guru Nanak said, 'Ek Ong Kar' to the He said," Okay, let them go in circles. I want to
whole universe and it's still a secret?" enjoy the three ring circus. Don't you enjoy it?"
WAHE GURU MANTRA I say, "I know."
You have been given all. You're all complete. You He said, "Well, you are not coming home. Stick
think you are small. In English if you spell small s- there. You are not complete yet."
m-a-1-1 it contains 'all.' As she contains he. Woman I said, "What is wrong with me?"
contains man. Female contains male. As sun reflects "You just start sometimes talking about me."
through moon. As psyche reflects through magnetic I said, " That's reality."
field. As magnetic field with the ray of the sun He said, "No, I like to hear good things. Not the
reflects the psyche way you speak."
You have Wahe Guru mantra. Wa He Guru. I said, "Okay."
Water, prana and sunlight. Three elements makes He said, " Even when I choked up your throat,
this a trikuti mantra. Don't hurry it. This is Guru you still talk."
mantra. Just say it once. It will work.
Some people ask, "Why doesn't it work?" When Every breath of life comes from God and fifteen
you speak you don't listen to your words. In the times a minute the breath of life kisses you. That is
beginning there was a word, word was with God and the love of God for you. He is the master. He is the
word was God. Tune your ears. The moment you boss. That is why in business, business is the boss.
can listen to your own sound then, between you and THE NATURE OF BUSINESS
divinity, there's not much difference. You don't understand business. You think business
Your own divinity lies in your own word. It gives is yours. Business is your past. Business gives you
you your own Infinity and own reality. Passions, money, maintenance, projection and
feelings, insecurities, imaginations: keep them and acknowledgment. Because it is silent like God, you
suffer with them. God bless you. If you want to be don't accept it as your boss. After a while, when you
happy, healthy, prosperous, fulfilled, and understand are successful, you get lazy. "It is my business. I'll deal
Anand-bliss, then do simple things. Be yourself. with it anyway I want." Business belongs to nobody.
In the beginning, middle and end, it is you. Everybody belongs to business. Do your business.
Where is the problem? In the beginning you depend Business is the boss. It is the silent boss. It will never
upon your parents, friends, colleges, status and speak, but it will do you in. Neglect your duty, your
territories. In the middle you depend upon your homage, your privilege, your answering to business.
family, children, future and pension. In the end you Don't keep the time, the space, the analysis, the
depend upon "Metier pial sakh san." profile. Don't understand the scheme, projection,
Then you depend upon what you have done for profile, cash flow, inventory, projection of the
others and what you should be repaid. God gave you inventory. Don't read the weather report. Don't
everything and you didn't return anything to Him. understand the fad and facets. You will be done in.
Do you think that all these people are going to return Business is a very sweet, darling well- featured
anything to you? woman. She hates to walk naked. Those of you who
You return to God and in seventy years, you have make Miss Business walk naked, you can do it once,
forgotten which way to go. In twenty-five or one but it will never come to you again. If you have
hundred earthly years you have forgotten your gain of business appointment, it is absolutely a divine
zillions of earthly years. You have forgotten not your appointment. Your first business is
soul. You have forgotten the sole purpose of life.
Whether you forget your soul or not doesn't matter. Amrit vela sach naoo vadiaaee veechaar.
But when you forget the sole purpose of life, it will Karmee aavai kapraa nadaree mokh duaar.
totally nail you down. You passionate, blind, Guru Nanak
insensitive human being.
You are born to be sensitive, absolutely intuitive In the ambrosial hours of the morning
and you have got all living units in you which can Rise and praise God to be covered.
serve you. God, the complete, the perfect one, made
you in his own image and he made you perfect. You are your own enemy. You are revengeful to
Perfect cannot make anything imperfect. Therefore, yourself. You are angry with yourself. You are
not to take the blame of perfection and imperfection, inhuman to yourself. Your first business is to get up
he always create things in two. Darkness and light. in the ambrosial hour and read your banis, do your
Perfect and imperfect. And give you a will. How yoga and unite yourself with your God. If you keep
clever God is. Sometime I talk to Him. that first appointment, you will feel the path of
I said, "What is wrong with you?" liberation. All things will be taken care of and you
He said, "Nothing." shall be covered. You cater to that bank manager.