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give you the medium, money. Money is the medium of goods and services. Money is what money does. It’s an exchange store, money is nothing but an exchange store. Therefore, don’t ever use money as a tool. If I am telephoning someone and somebody is listening, the exchange starts interfering, will anybody use that line? Money is an exchange, a store. God has given you life; you have nothing but life. You turn that life into labor; labor is bought and sold at a price, that's called money. Therefore in your entire life, never use money as a means to control.

But you want control. Don't you? You all want control. You cannot use money as a control, you cannot use life as a control, then how will you find control? Elevate. The only way to control things in life is to make others successful. Elevate. Don’t control people to make them subordinate. Control people to elevate them; in gratitude, they will be good to you. Never ever try to control anybody. When you control somebody, even the leash on your dog, you are tied in with the dog. You can't let the leash go; you can't let the dog go; you can't let yourself go. Have you seen somebody hustling with his own dog? Dog wants to run, he doesn't want to run. He pulls on the leash, the dog pulls him. He falls down and breaks his butt. The dog runs away. Afterward, the dog comes home without a leash. He has lost the leash. Never be a leash and never put a leash

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I kept repeating and asking myself, "lam not initiated. What the hell I am doing here? I am not initiated. What's going on around me? I am not initiated. Why I am sitting and saying it? I am not initiated—looks idiotic to me." I had to keep on saying it and keep on questioning it and then, finally, the answer came to me: " I am not initiated, I am initiating myself. I am living myself. I am successful myself. I don't need public opinion." Nanak says, 'En janta ke paas kuch nahi. ’ These people are just like you. They just pretend to be experts to take away your money. They are all after your money because money comes from labor and labor comes from life; they are all after your life. Nobody wants you. When you are dead, they box you up and put you in the ground. Don't you understand? Only a few visit your graveyard, on special Sundays, and then only to look good. Nobody does it for you. All these hugs and kisses, has anybody taken the coffin out and gone in and kissed and hugged you? How many of you have done it, huh?

This is all about life. Life is given to you as a gift and life has also been given as a gift of success; so have no fear of being successful. Fear is an instinct to protect your life. Not to protect you from being successful, you mix it up. Fear is an instinct to protect your life. If somebody pokes a finger in your eyes, your eyelid will close. Fear is an instinct to protect life, but it's not an instinct to protect you from success. You use it to protect you from success, because you use fear for anything. But it has no other purpose but for life. And life can always be turned into labor. Don't be afraid of labor: this job I am not qualified for, that job I am not qualified for, and this job doesn't make me feel qualified. You make excuses because you are afraid of labor.

You have the right to charge a price for your labor and you have the right to exchange through labor, others' labors, goods and services. But you have no right to be afraid of labor—or success.

There is one phrase, in English, called crystal clear. Have you heard of that? What do you mean by crystal clear? Guru Charan, stand up and explain to this audience your notion of crystal clear. Now listen to him very carefully.

Guru Charan: Crystal clear is when you tune-in to yourself; in tuning-in, the God exists within you. You are everything and in that clarity, you realize Cherdhi Kala. Maha mantra— keep up! When you experience that clarity, when you experience that 'keep up!', you have faith, you have trust, you have Divinity. You experience crystal clear.

Yogi Bhajan: Great, Sada Sat stand up.

Sada Sat: Crystal clear is without a flaw. Crystal, total

clarity, like a pure white crystal, pure white light...

Yogi Bhajan: Green crystal is not a crystal?

(Students laugh)

Yogi Bhajan: No it's all right. Good, good, sit down. Now ask me.

Students: What's crystal clear?

Yogi Bhajan: That which is clear, like crystal.

(Students laugh)

Yogi Bhajan: That's the difference between me and you. You like to explain things and woman hates it when a man explains anything to her other than what it is. That's why you have such sick relationships. Women don't like you doing that. You have a sex problem, your wife is divorcing you, she callsyou ashit, you sayto her, 'you are an idiot, you are a bitch,' she is calling you 'a dog,' and all this fighting is only because of one thing: you like to explain to a woman the meaning of things that don't mean anything other than simply what it is. Never, ever explain to a woman anything more than what it exactly means in the dictionary, then you will have no trouble. Call "Cut!" Call it quits.

yes" communication, it is involvement. It is called buttering the soul of the mate. No commitment, no involvement, no cost, nothing.

At the same time, if you learn to say it in a way that can rebuke a woman, you can hurt her more than any rebuke you may want to give to her. She says, "It is a fine day." And you say "good enough" and you are found out, you don't have a chance. No chance. You may buy her a billion dollars worth of presents, you can do anything you want, but when you reply with curt language and then you are actually found out? You think she isn't going to wrap you up as a present? If she doesn't, she is not a woman; there is something wrong with her.

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There are ten trillion Gods dancing in you called cells. Each human is a living psyche of the total Infinity and beyond. Holding you back is your being small, your anger, your opaqueness. Your shutters

are shutting you up. Your blinds are blinding you. Let it unfold. What can happen to you? Who has ever lived? You don't want to die now, but do you want to die later? The only way to not die and to live forever—can anybody tell me? There is one way, the only way—my way—let it unfold. You will live forever.

Elevate everybodytosuch fulfillment that they will be left with no option but to unfold. Those who will drop, they will rot, they will stink. Bit by bit it will happen, it's just like a big huge tree. Some things do not ripen; they

fall, they rot, they go away. That is the action of fate. But those who belong to destiny, they shall unfold, they shall ripen, they shall come to fulfillment. When somebody pulls a number on me, I am very happy inside and outside I pretend concern. That stimulates prayer, doesn't it? Isn't this how we work in 3HO?

Every year before Summer Solstice something goes wrong. Heavy clouds come. Everybody starts chanting, meditating, then we go to Summer Solstice, we meditate; the whole summer we meditate. Then comes the fall and we come back and we say, well, we are good and well.

The greatest thing in a human is that which is within you, which leads you to prayer. Prayer is a very humbling experience. But it's the greatest power. What is a prayer? You think it's a great thing or a small thing. It's the greatest thing, because prayer

All that prayer does is put them

together. It makes you fold your hands to unfold your strength.

Whenever you tune-in, in your strength, to Infinity and you do it in a crystal clear manner, you understand that you are part of that Divinity. You manifest you again—and that is success. Prayer is not a ritual, nor is it a right, nor is it a reality. It's an experience of folding yourself within yourself. Prayer is when you fold yourseff within you and unfold your energy. It's a complete action. Prayer is a complete action. You fold within and unfold your energy. You are complete.

If somebody thinks I am a devil, that person is meditating on devil. He is seeing in me the devil in himself or herself, through her eyes, through her thoughts, through his eyes, through his thoughts, the devil is projecting. If somebody sees me as a God, then God is projecting. I am, I am. It will never change. What you are unfolding at any given time, at any given space, is called karma. It is called cause; and for every cause, you shall reap the effect. If you do not want the effect, don't cause the cause. "So shall you sow, so

shall you reap."

Then what should you sow? "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." You don't have to go

to the East, to Japan, to learn it. I mean, it's right with us here. "So shall you sow so shall you reap." If you won't listen to me, you will weep. Just understand that. Cause has an effect, equal and opposite—Newton's Third Law of Force. Or, call it theory of karma, doesn't matter what you want to call it. The question is, what you shall sow so that you can reap. You have to reap; you have to sow. Is that clear? It's clear like crystal? You have to sow and you have to reap; you are a man. You have to turn your life into labor and the fruit of your labor should be excellent. How can that happen? “ Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man..."

Students: Healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Yogi Bhajan: What else do you want? If you are healthy, wealthy and wise, what is the problem then? Is there any problem? Isn't it simple?

always point toward north. What is north? It means nothing. Have you gone to the North Pole? It's nothing, all snow.

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Posture: Sit straight in a meditative posture. Turn your tongue backward as much as you can, touch the soft palate of the mouth and don’t release the tongue. Keep the tongue in contact with the soft palate as you chant in a monotone.

Comments: Keep your jaw as relaxed as possible. These two channels of Ida and Pingala (Yogi Bhajan touches the left and right posterior sides of his head, behind the ears) cross to the sahasrara and start activating. They will be­ come very hot.

Chant: Har Har Gobind

Time: 2 Minutes in class. Practice until you perfect the posture, keeping the tongue on the soft palate.

Comments: Turn the tongue in, turn it really well, and hold it there. The scriptures say it’s a very special kriya; they call it very secret and blah-blah-blah. They say the yogi pulls his tongue, cuts it out and turns it in, fixes it up, if you read the yoga mudra and yoga kriyas, my God! There are so many pages about it, it is nothing. It’s a hatha thing, physical. But in Kundalini Yoga it’s so simple. Turn the tongue in, there is a very soft place there, it is called the zero meridian. You just stick it there, back in the upper palate and if you just keep on doing it, after a while, you will find there is a little hole, then you stick the tongue in that hole. The great secret mudra— it takes 22 years for the Hatha Yogi to do it; well, we did it anyway.

“There are two ways your soul can go: either to rest or to rust, whichever you want. You can cause the cause to cycle and cycle and cycle and cycle or you can cause the cause to end and end and end forever. Why can you not cause the cause to end? Because you do not let it unfold, so unfold yourself. Here is a kriya for it.”

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Student: What's the effect of this kriya?

Yogi Bhajan: Find it. You can find the weather but you can't find the effect? Cause the cause, you will find the effect. There is never a reason to cause a cause and not find the effect. You know what we were doing? What did we say we were doing? Unfold. We were unfolding our Self to our Self. First introduction between the two friends, the self and the Self; it was a meeting of the ways between two friends, the given self and the creative self. We are unfold­ ing the mystery. These two selves react to each other and create a lot of problems and who wants problems? We want peace. There are two ways to go: you want peace or you want problems. You want problems? Have them, as many as you want. You want peace? There is only one thing—let it unfold. Isn't that simple?

I have just fallen in love with you. You have given us a pa­ per today and we will return it tomorrow. This is a lot of work, but we want to put together your personality pro­ file and your projection, along with your possibility. We will write you a letter, and send you a bill also. (Students' laugh) And pay the previous one! It takes long hours of typing and reading . . . those who have bad handwriting, we are going to charge you more. It takes a big magnifying glass to read your handwriting. I don't know what you write. It takes a tot of time. So make it easy for us, so that we can read your paper at least. Answer it very honestly. Then we will identify the profile and keep that letter on file. In case of difficulty, write us, if you want something sometime. We will write you back what to do. Do it or not, it's your problem, not ours.

Tomorrow we are going to talk about the path from unfold­ ing to fulfillment. You know, we really want to do a job. God knows how many days I have more to live. Situation doesn't seem to be very healthy. So the idea is, whatever time we have out of this mess that has been created, we can't waste it on all this nonsense. The only way that we can make sense of it is to play a positive role, let it un­ fold and let the mysteries appear. Not very mysterious. We leave you fulfilled and strong and that's the purpose: to make you men. You are men by birth. I want you to be men by your right. That's the difference. That's the total difference. Thank you very much.

May the long time sun shine uponyou, all love surroundyou and thepure light within you, guideyour way on.

May thy grace bless us, may thygrace unfold among us, may thy gracegive us the clean crystal way oflife. May the word ofthe Guru exalt us and may we share with all. May giving become our habit and our habitat. May we all excelin thyglory, in thy name, Sat Nam.

Let me sum up yesterday in a few lines. You as you have a gift of the pranic value or pranic life. You turn that pranic value and pranic life into labor and through labor you trade for cash, and by cashing in your labor, you have services and the material things to keep your life going. But the problem is, if you do not see the pranic value in everything you have, if you do not see that it is part of your pranic life, then you basically lose the concept of happiness. The majority of people do.

As achildyou grow up, and inthat growth you accommodate yourself with anger, because you feel frustrated, you are not taken care of, things never happen, you were never taught, you were never told. As your passion grows, you do not find an outlet, the outlet, and you begin to feel very clogged up. Your life is not channeled spiritually, even though you are a spirit.

Your sole purpose on this Earth is that you are a soul. Ten trillion cells of you dance with the power of that one soul and you are not successful. Sometimes you hate success because when you become successful, then you have to have responsibility, and responsibility means commitment, commitment means be on time, be on time means everything has to be all perfect, all perfect means a lot of hassle, a lot of hassle means a lot of work, a lot of work means, "Who the hell cares for it? Why should I do it to begin with?" So that's it, right? Plus, when you are successful, when you are great, you are this and that, there is no sympathy. (Students laugh) Oh, yeah.

When emotions and feelings take over priority in work you are doomed. Totally. You have no place. You have gone and done. Tons of money and millions

of friends and extreme power in your position, and still you shall be the most unhappy and upside down human being. If ever, if by chance your emotions and feelings can interfere with your work priority, you are doomed. That's how important work is.

Kirth; kirth takey dey. Jaha dana, taha khana, kirth takey dey.

Where you have to eat, only there shall you eat. You can't eat anywhere else. Time and space shall decide for you. How much you make the opportunity your own, for you, that's your intelligence.

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