Man to Man

I need to tell you that your concept of health is incorrect, Health is flexibility. Health is not muscle, not macho, not size. I am 54 years old and I have more flexibility than any one of you. Health is flexibility and you should be prepared to take the worst. This is called health: when you can take the maximum and your body makes it the minimum. You can't avoid impact. You must remember that. Impact is when something hits you. Impact can be made by a person, a bacteria or a virus. There's no difference, the impact is there. You have to deal with it.

People are more difficult to deal with than a virus. Bacteria is all right, you can take penicillin; it will save you temporarily and your body can heal. But for people, we have found no penicillin yet. However, there is a remedy you can use to deal with people. Guru Nanak provided it. He said, "Name of the God." The scriptures said sadhana, aradhana, and prabhupathi. You are thinking that I am pushing myself to make you great, to make you something, but that's not true. I am not interested in people. I am not interested in students—and t don't love a neurotic.

When you are neurotic, you are your own enemy and you have lost track of the godliness, the divinity within you. When I think of Guru Ram Das, I say, "His Divine Majesty Guru Ram Das." That's how I look at it, that's how I feel it, and that's how I understand it. I feel that every human being, in consciousness, is a Divine Majesty. You have to recuperate yourself to be with me.

When people communicate with you emotionally, and you become emotional because of their emotionality, it is as : though you are in the ocean and you can't swim—you drown. Each emotion drowns you and each time you have to rescue yourself.

Look at your behavior, How can any woman live with you? You think she is impossible, what do you think you are? Look in the mirror. See how you are talking to me and how I am catching you."

Your power, your penetrating power, your personality, your majesty lies in what you say and how you say it. However, by the way you speak, the way you communicate who you are, you commit another blunder. Communication can give you a lot of flexibility. You can interpret and you can change the ideas, you can apologize, you can analyze, etc. because a discussion is a discussion. But you must be more careful when you write. Sometimes you write very neurotically. Written words are very heavy* If I make a statement issued by my pen, under my seal—that's it!

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Your behavior is very emotional. This is dangerous, because only the emotional person can be exploited. The intuitive person can never be exploited. The whole Western society, the whole woman in society, the man in society is made to be exploited.

You are an intelligent and beautiful people. I had a great deal of trouble in India. I was a misfit there. The people there are hypocrites. They say one thing and do something different. They say, "Sweet this and sugar that. . . '' but underneath it is, "I can't deal with this." Here, ail I have to do is provoke you and you will come out immediately. In two minutes you are out. Your mind can be brought out in one second. You are wonderful people, a vomiting caste—it's called Elephant Kriya. You take in water and throw it out just the way the elephant does. All I have to do is put a hand on your shoulder, you feel it, and I can read everything that is going on. There's no smiling face with a knife underneath. You're good. I also like your attitude about time—you worship time. Everything about you is wonderful. I have no complaint. That's why I am sticking around. Otherwise as neurotic as you are, it would be impossible to deal with you.

I understand that you have been shackled. One time in France I saw a 15th century torture chamber. It was unbelievable to see all the instruments of torture. One particular machine operated this way: A weight was put around a person from his shoulders and each day another weight was attached. In this way, the vertebrae were broken as the spine was stretched millimeter by millimeter. When I saw it, I said to myself; "This is America!" That is how you are mentally pressured in this country, each day, one millimeter more neurotic than the next. Each day you become one millimeter more neurotic so that by the time you are 50, you are super-neurotic, and by the time you are 75 you are neurosis itself.

Let us consider one typical example of this: A person lives in a 13-bedroom home with 5 acres of landscaped grounds. He retires. He leaves the whole thing and goes to live in a retirement home. Only a person who is totally insane would do such a thing. Yoy Americans have money, you have environments, you have earned all your lives, you live well, your children are grown and gone, you want to enjoy the peace of your whole life, and the moment you retire, you move to Miami where you sit in an aluminum chair on the beach with the other neurotics.

and to restore mental equilibrium. They are called mirror exercises because they are always done in front of a mirror, or in the presence of a supervisor,

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I don't think anybody in this country should be sick, including me. Everything is available to us. But we have been pressurized. We have been so pressured mentally that our minds are overstretched. Perhaps you have learned to control your mental and physical body. Let us get into your system and break up the neurotic deposits. We are going to do some very special exercises. They are therapeutic exercises. They are done to take away stress and strain

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I. Sit very classically in Easy Pose. Bring your hands up in front of your eyes with your palms facing each other. Your hands are rigid and your thumbs are in alignment with the other fingers. Your hands are about 8 inches away from your eyes. Imagine that your hands are knife blades and position them so that they could cut your eyes exactly in half.

There is a specific movement to this kriya. When you do it, it must be so precise that the optical nerve takes a message to the brain that the eye has been cut in two. The cut must be clear and perfect if you want to stay young and avoid becoming old and dumb.

The movement is a pattern of exact angles that has four parts:

a. Begin with your hands in the starting position— 8 inches in front of the eyes (

b.Bring the hands directly in toward the eyes

c.Return the hands to their starting position

d.Turn the palms to the front and move them 8 inches left and right

Repeat the pattern: one, two, three, four. You are moving on very straight lines. You .are making the turn at a 90° angle; this angle must be very precise and sharp.. The first position acts as your balance. From there, you make all the other movements of the pattern. The movement is very tight. When it comes back, it must come to the center of the eyes, not a millimeter of the body’s muscles should change. The brain must form this pattern. You are directing the secretion of the brain to form the blue pattern. The muscles must obey. Each time the distance should be equal. You expand as you contract; you come back as you go. 5 Minutes

Comments: These mirror exercises are called Chitra Kriyas, the most sacred secret of India. They can change the entire chemistry of the brain. The beauty here is in making the kriya accurate. It’s an electronic shock treatment. You are manipulating your electromagnetic field. You are using your nervous system to make a pattern in the brain. The pattern is making a movement and the movement is, in turn, making a pattern. It is very correlative. I won’t promise you it will make you fly, but I can tell you that all your neuroses will fly, if you just go through this pattern

2. Sit on your heels. Continue the same pattern as in Exercise I, with one addition: As you bring your hands to position (d), raise yourself up off your buttocks 6 inches. When your hands return to the starting position, you return to the sitting posture. 8 Minutes

Comments: Do not misunderstand. Six inches is 6 inches, if 6 inches means 3 feet to you, you will blow up the whole universe. You must use your legs to do this kriya. The thighs will be very powerfully affected. >bur legs and your hands move together; it is a rhythm. If you cannot do it, you are condemned as unserviceable. It means that you cannot kiss and cling at the same time; you are partially impotent. Coordinate! You are working on your brain, not your muscles. Make the kriya as exact as a gun shot. Measure it as precisely as a carpenter’s measure. If one millimeter is wrong, the whole thing is going to be wrong.

As you exercise, your breath will regulate itself. It will give you a special Breath of Fire. The Breath of Fire will change the blood chemistry and the lungs will receive the maximum oxygen. Endeavor to complete the whole thing in one breath. Shoot the breath out as the hands come in towards the eyes. If you cannot complete the exercise with the breath synchronized, just continue to let the breath regulate itself.

I want you to go back in age ten years. I want you to feel very, very potent. Do it for your own sake, not for your neighbor’s sake and not for my sake. No matter what it takes, you must coordinate. Totally time it and coordinate. Make the breath like a shot. You need that powerful breath because you may begin to experience stomach cramps. Also you will find that your calves are not accustomed to holding this posture for such a long period.

You have this mental block. >bu think that physical exercise is only for muscle building. This is an exercise of the brain. It has nothing to do with your muscles; they are only being used to create a chemistry. The muscles and the movements work together to create a biochemical action in the brain. I am teaching you these exercises so that you can teach them to your children and you can all be healthy, long-lived, and perfect.

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Since I arrived in the United States, I have done two things out of frustration: One is teaching Tantric Yoga. I had decided that I would never teach it because it's very painful personally. Once the Mahan Tantric starts teaching anywhere, he must project the diagonal tantric energy and it is a costly business. It dries up your marrow and cracks your bones.

The other is Naad Yoga. Unfortunately, my experience here is that this is the only country where the employee thinks the employer is a fool: A person who works for you, whether he loves you or

not, can insult you for nothing. There is no reason and there is no recourse. We have to develop a society where our communication can be heard so musically by another person that we can have a relationship of harmony and peace. This is what this Naad Yoga is about.

The idea is to make you understand that your life isyour virtue. These days, I am trying

to teach so that you will understand. I have said that you are not to transfer mood. Some of you men should understand, you have fallen apart for a woman. Your marriage fails and you fail with it. That is not a true response. A woman can be your partner, she can be your love, she can be your life, she can be your anything, but she's not you. You have to understand. Anything you subject yourself to will take away your freedom and give you slavery. Then you are not a man, you are a donkey.

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childhood, their fathers were abnormally rude to them. Any woman whose father has been rude with her will pretend to be loving and perfect. That's the way she gets to you. This type woman gets to your guts. When she gets in there, she closes it and twists it. Whenever a woman wants to get into you, your bad days are ahead. Never let anything get to you and don't you get to anything. Life is co­ existent and mutual. Anybody who breaks the co-existence is a snake. A cobra is going to bite you sooner or later, no matter how colorful it is. I know as afact, as a counselor, as your spiritual father,'as your spiritual teacher, as your friend,

as your servant, as one who sees you that you are all in that danger.

There is one man who totally freaked out. His wife took' awayhischildren. He’smarried to another woman now. He can produce another four, and run after those children. It's crazy. When these children become 18, 19, or 20, they are going to say," Papa, where are you?" When he says,

I'm here," they are going to spit on him. They are by their own right who they are. There is no qualification in life. Live in mutual coexistence and understand one thing: There is never a time when you should not be compassionate, tolerant and forgiving, and there is never a time when you should be angry and revengeful.

On many occasions, people have insulted me to my face. Sometimes we sit together family style. I open myself up; I don't pretend to be such a holy man that no one can talk to me. I allow people to play the game. I enjoy it because when somebody speaks insultingly and neurotically to me, I think, "Oh, God, thank you, Dhan Guru Ram Das. Almighty God, thank You that it is not me. Thank God, I don't have a trace of it." It is very fulfilling.

I want you to understand what I went through when I came to America. There were many women who brought me gifts. They were rich women and they ran after me like I didn't exist. They put money and sex before me.

One day I was sitting and talking to one of them. I said, "I would like to ask you a question."

She said, "What?"