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is. Remember: there is no substitute for success and to succeed there is only one thing to do. When there are emotions andfeelings inthe way, jump over. Justremember, emotions and feelings are yours, but performance is also yours—and performance has to be

perfect. Don't let your emotions and your feelings and your fears and your needs detour your performance. Let it not be diluted or polluted. Your life is meant to succeed. The power of success is such that, if not in this lifetime, somewhere else, some other

time, somewhere you must succeed. The purpose of the soul is to feel success and experience it and be satisfied. That's the price it paid for separation from God.

Success is very vital to you. But I know you have lot of garbage, which stops you from being successful. For a few minutes, we are going to go into a trance. We are going to explore right through the subconscious mind into the realm of success. We are going to tap in; we are going to drill a well through our neuroses, through our weaknesses and through all our subconscious garbage. We are going to go all the way—deep—to fill our well, our self, with success, because success is not from the outside.

Success shall never come to you from outside. There is no such thing as success outside. There is no such thing as opportunity. We made it up. There is no such thing as luck. It's all in our imagination. There is one thing: we are born

to succeed. And it doesn’t matter what we do, we can't stop it. Whenever we have tried to stop it, we become miserable, more and more miserable. Why can we not fail? Because God never fails. How can a soul fail? Then why isn't everybody successful? There is water always there in the ground, why isn't there a fountain everywhere? We have to drill the pump. It is not that you are not making an effort, it is not that you are not trying to make an effort, it is not that that's not your whole motivation, it is not that that's not your

meditation, it is not that that's what you want the most.

There are three things that everybody wants: love, success and good health. Everybody wants it. You can charm everybody just by saying. I'll make you the healthiest. He will be just like a puppy dog behind you. 'Oh! I love you.' In spite of the fact that you have a history of killing people in the name of love, still people will follow you. So don't misunderstand that these things don't have power. But success is a virtue which is ingrained in you and it has to be tapped.

If you are a yogi sit like a yogi, if you are a bhogi sit like a bhogi, if you are a dogi sit like a dogi.

Posture & Mudra: Sit straight. Chin in, chest out. Bring your hands in front of the chest, right hand on top of the left, palms up and flat, with the thumbs pointing forward. Forearms are parallel and the hands are between the Heart Center and the diaphragm.

Eyes: Closed

1. Breathe powerfully. Breathe in as deeply as you can and exhale powerfully. Give yourself a chance. 1-3 Minutes

2. Maintain the mudra and relax the breath, just breathe normally and meditate. Listen to the visualization as you maintain the posture steadily, like a stone:

"Start sinking in you. Sinking in you. I am the soul, I am the light and I am the success. Just concentrate, meditate and go through a self-hypnotic stage. I am the soul, 1am the light, I am the success. I am the soul, I am the light, I am the success. You have to go into self­ hypnosis, nobody can hypnotize you better than your own self. I am the soul, I am the light, I am the success. Penetrate deeply in you. Whatever thoughts are crossing you, penetrate through them. Drill through it. Hold your posture, hold your body like Earth. Take the mind and penetrate, tap into soul: I am the soul, I am the light, I am the success. Unfold your strength of reality, your power of Infinity, your mission to accomplish, to succeed. You are the perfect projection of success. That’s why success is the one, you are the two, and achievement is the three. Within those three selves penetrate, concentrate, deep, and deeper.

“ I am the soul. Go to sleep on it. Sleep, nap it. Nap it: I am the soul, I am the light, I am the success. Nap it, go nap on it. Take a nap on these three words. You hear nothing but success; you know nothing but success. You feel nothing but success. You are nothing but success. You are nothing but success. Delightful success, success forever. You. Success. You. Success. Success. >bu. Forever, everlasting. Honest, truthful, straightforward, direct, you are success. You were, you are, you shall be nothing but success. You are succeeding in napping. In your whole being, in your whole being feel the “ Full-Fill-Meant” of success. Success is in you, coming to you, fulfilling you. Succeed, succeed, succeed! Excel! Obey, serve, love, excel! Obey, serve, love, excel! Excel to succeed, succeed to be success. Be success. Beyond you, within you, behind you, all is nothing but success. Obey, serve, love, excel! Take a nap on it, successful nap. Drill in, deepest, to reach it.” 8 Minutes.

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4.Keeping the tongue on the upper palate, chant in a monotone: I am Successful. 30 seconds

5.Hypnotize yourself and meditate silently on “ I am successful.” Whatever comes in the way, the anger, the question, the doubt, the duality, reality, non-reality, forget it, pass through it. Hypnotize yourself with these words: “ Know me, I am successful; feel me, I am successful; look at me, I am successful; desire me, I am successful. Success is my essence, success is my being, success is my Self.” I Minute.

In our day to day life, whether we like it or not, there are challenges. The main challenge for any of us is: Is there something that can shake us from our self? You see New Mexico had a tornado? Mexico had an earthquake? But what is an earthquake, something came,

shook the ground and the big buildings and everything tumbled. Exactly you are hit by the same energy all the time. It's my opinion, my counseling, my telling you, my reading you the newspaper, the radio, the television, your wife, your friend, your

children, your neighborhood, your congregation, call it anything. Between me and you, there is one very important thing, can you tell me what that is?

Between two people one thing is very important. I am telling you the secret, the key to success. Between me and you there is the unknown. You and I make it known through communication, through feelings, through desires, through circumstances, call it anything. Two people can only create the known. But there is always a third power, which is the unknown. If the unknown is considered sacred, success is there. If the unknown is forgotten or not considered sacred, failure shall be there. That is the deciding line. If between me and you the unknown is sacred, we can't fail. Anything you do, anything you say, anything you feel, for God's sake, don't take away the sacredness of it. Whenever you do, you shall fail and you shall suffer. The consequences will be so heavy that you will not be in a position to handle it. But if between you A, and between you B, you respect the sacredness, then you will succeed. Everything will manifest.

Lack of sacredness is nothing but a disaster. It is defeat. Between you and you, there is sacredness. Between you and me, there is sacredness. Between you and in this room, there is a sacredness. Anything that takes away the sacredness from you, let that thing go, period. You are born to be sacred and you are born to be successful. You want to know why you are not successful? Because you forgot that you are sacred. You always question, "Why am I poor, why am I failing, why aren't things happening? Why? Why? Why?" You

have a hundred questions, but there is only one answer. You forgot you are sacred.

You forgot that you received the sacred trust of the pranic breath. You forgot that the body was given to you as a gift, a sacred gift. You were sent to Earth on a sacred mission. You were provided all the environments. You were born, you were in a very, very cozy pouch. After you were born, you had beautiful milk; you can't buy it, can you? Even if you try, you can't. You have a priceless nurse, later on you may hate her or like her, I am not into it. But at that moment, when you were innocent, she was a divine nurse, and there was a father, no matter how much of an S.O.B. he was, at that time he was the representative of the Divine and you called him pitha, papa, whatever. You had that.

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We have a basic creative caliber. It is not only a basic creative caliber, but also basic human criteria to create the environments, and be so bountiful and so beautiful, that we can profit. God knew. We may forget, but God knew that every pranic life has to be transformed into energy and services and must have the criteria of desire—to want more, need more—and these must be paid for. This way our livelihood is taken care of.

We went to collect roots, fruits, and wood to live. Then we started going out and hunting. We never wanted to go collect roots and fruits and wood every day, every week. So we started hunting, killing other beings, breaking harmony and in this way, we began creating our own domain. When we started hunting, we were hunted, too. Tribes would come, take over the other tribe, run away with their children and their women and kill all the men. Or, men who could be subdued were shackled and turned into slaves. So we started manufacturing inferior humans out of ourselves.

That was the game then; but today, in the modern world, we are creating inferior children. We are unhappy, we rock our marriage, we come from broken homes, broken hearts. We have neurosis to deal with, we have a life full of duality and then we have children who do not know what is tomorrow, what is today, what was yesterday. "Who is my father?" "Who is my mother?" "Why is my father doing this?" "Why is my mother doing this?" "Why are my neighbors like this?" We have created a generation of questions and no answer. No answers, no insight. We belong to the era of the most selfish, self-centered, angry, unsocial hypocrites. That's what we are. Our smiles are not real, our talk is not real, our relationships are not real, our commitment is not real. We are just passing the time.

We want to know who we are. But even when we are told who we are, "you are the light of God," the tragedy is, we say, "What do you mean by light of God? What is light? What is God?" You have duality about every reality. You have a question about everything, because you have a potential fear. You are haunted by fear all the time. You never believe and you cannot be made to believe that God created you in His perfect image and God is in love with you. You don't believe in love, in God. How can anybody else believe you are in love with them? If the glass is empty, what can it give?

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on. Ultimately you will find some scummy little rat, twenty cents worth, wrapped up at the bottom.

Somebody was listening to a conversation, he was going on, wrapping the words and you go on unwrapping, and he goes on rapping, ultimately, at some point, you say, "What do you want to say? What is it?" Because you are scared, you can’t say, "I am through, I am done, I don't want it, I can't do it." You don't want to take the responsibility andyou feel that by spinning the lies, and gaining time, and twisting things, and manipulating the situation, you will get away. But you don't recognize one thing, you are nothing. All you have is your reputation. You have to learn one fundamental thing: all your cleverness and all your wrapping and all your talking and all your gaining time and all your scheming and thinking and playing games, your saying and not saying, your undertow and over-tow, within the lines and over the lines, and right on and not on, and all that, it's just bad communication. There is no need to talk. If your presence cannot work, you cannot work. If your presence?

Students: Cannot work.

Yogi Bhajan: You cannot work. If your presence cannot move, you cannot move. If your soul doesn't shine, you are a dead person. With all this manipulation, which you can do because you have the most fertile brain, you can work and talk and cheat and play and tie the knot and do the whole thing; you have to do it.

You know, one evening I told somebody in confidence, I said, ''Hey, you have some time?"

He said, "Yes sir. What I can do?"

I said, "Take me to a bar, a single's bar." He said, "Sir!"

I said, "This 'sir' is a very difficult person sometimes. Take me to some single's bar, if you know any here."

So we went to a single's bar. To begin with, the entry was horrible. We arranged to sit on one side; there was so much noise, so much talking, and nothing meant anything. They were all drinking, all talking, talking and drinking and drinking and talking, but there was no juice in it. Why? Because evenings are very painful, evenings belong to honest people. Evenings belong to strong people. Evenings belong to people who are pure and self-possessed. Otherwise it's very difficult to pass an evening. Evening belongs to those who have gained their strength in the early morning.

You store energy in the morning just to pass an evening. Your destruction is by night; your prosperity is from the morning. Every fault you have ever committed, every mistake you have ever made, you've done it from 4 pm to 12 am, watch it sometime, circulate yourself, put it on your own computer, check it out. It’s very difficult to make a man commit a mistake at 11 o'clock in the morning if he is not dumb. If he had a good night's sleep and he woke up as

a normal person. You meet the guy at 11 am and askhim to commit a mistake, forget it. But if you get somebody at 11 pm, you can twist him around like a yo-yo because there's nothing there.

So to be prosperous, which you want, you have to balance your energy. You have to gain it in the morning and you have to lose it in the evening, not to the extent that you lose your case. There is one thing that you all need—and it's called freshness. When somebody talks to you and

somebody is with you, you should meet and feel fresh. If you talk to somebody, yes, yes, what do you want to say? "Oh! You want to talk to me about God?"

The guy will say, "Hell with you, I don't want to talk about God; you give me a God? I don't want it from you." Why this reaction? Because there is no freshness about you; it is called the vibrant self. We want to test it out.

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Posture: Sit in Easy Pose or other cross-legged posture.

Mudra; Cross your arms across your chest and lock your hands under your lower ribs.

Eyes: Closed.

Movement: Jump like a fish. Jerk your whole body, keeping your hands locked onto your opposite ribs. 1 Minute

Rest and Repeat the exercise for 3 Minutes.

Comments: It is just spinal energy you are going to create, that’s it. Come on, do it! If this exercise were easy everybody would do it. It’s pretty difficult. But jump up, give yourself a chance.

Do it during the day sometime or at night or in the morning. It reduces chances of insanity. It is very powerful. But just remember: there is a rib here, it’s called seventh rib, put your hands on both sides, lock it and then do it. When the hands are locked on the lower rib it means there is no space for you to stimulate your own insanity. )bur problem in life is that your main movement in life and the majority of your movement and purpose in life is your own insanity. It is called purposeless pursuit. It’s an emotional non-reality. It’s a commotional release. And it’s a total waste of time— a total waste of the most beautiful life.

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Sometimes people go back and forth to the same place to look for something that never existed. It was just athought, It's called pursuit of non-reality. You know how much it is in you? Eighty percent.

"Aah! I saw that girl." "Where?"

"Oh on 7th or 8th Street." "When?"

"Oh, just a while ago; let's go."

Idiot, it costs gas, it costs time and she may not be there. But no, you are stuck on the idea to go. And now that guy is going to lie.

"Hey, there she is." "But let's go anyway."

Eighty percent of you pursue imagination and then you pay bills, you burn gas, you have wear and tear, you have laundry and you have clothes to fold and iron, you have to eat, and on and on. Eighty percent of you pursue dreams— 80%. And then you complain that you are poor? How can you be rich? Who can make you rich? Every pursuit has an expense and every expense should be exactly two percent of your gross income. There should be a minimum of 30% profit. It's simple, damn economics. Otherwise don't move; don't do anything.

"I love you." What for? Take her to dinner, take her to this, take her to that. For what? So you can sleep with her once? Spending $280? That's one week's worth of work.

I asked somebody, "You went to a movie?" He said, "Yes sir."

I said, "What did you learn?" "It was good."

I said, "What? What was good?"

If I am going to spend five bucks, I want to see what's what. I want to see something. If you go to a movie and you don't come out with $15 worth of an experience, don’t go to the movies. You have to get three times your actual expense; and if you get popcorn and a soft drink or cold drink or nachos, whatever, then it should be five times. I am not kidding. I am telling you, don't change clothes on the day you cannot earn $50. Because it takes $5 to change clothes, $1 to take a bath, and you must earn $30 that day. Otherwise you have wasted precious city water. You have no right to switch on the light if you cannot make $100. Don't make a phone call that is not essential, otherwise you have to fly and go and talk to that person, that’s when I talk. When I feel the situation has arisen that I have to fly, take a plane and go and talk to that guy, I will pick up a phone. Every expense where your actual money is spent, 15% must produce 250% gross. It's simple damn economics. Your emotions, your dreams, and your desires included. Don't follow shadows, you are the sun, you are the light, and you are the success. Wasting pranic energy on non-productive, non-profitable ventures is a treachery to

God. It s a betrayal of the gift of the pranic values, which is life. You betray life, you won't be happy.

Multiply doesn't mean produce babies. Multiply means to produce profit from your time and your space. Every breath you consume, inhale and exhale, should produce ten bucks. You are thinking what's wrong with me? You want to know what's wrong with me? You are idiots. Out of $10, you pay Uncle Sam the tax, you pay the pension fund, you pay the insurance. Just look, if you make $100, you pay $50 federal tax, $11 state tax, $9 you pay to the accountant and CPA, $10 for the insurance, $10 for the wages of your staff, you are only left with $10 per every $100. So when you give somebody ten bucks you have paid him a hundred dollars. It took a lot of pranic breath to create that hundred dollars; it took a lot of pranic breath to get $10 for you. And you go and take a neurotic, idiot girl who has no values, who doesn't understand what the hell she is doing, and you waste a dinner on her? You must be blind and crazy. Whosoever doesn't produce, doesn't get paid. And if you pay them, you are nuts. It's a simple law of life.

If you give, then don't call it a business. Give because you want to. Give and then forget it. Give as much as you can, because God gave you a gift, then don't do business. Don't mix giving and business. Giving is good, give as much you can; give yourself. No problem, but that's not business. Business is for a profit and giving is for satisfaction—divine satisfaction. But what do you do? You mix it. You give and take and take and give and give and take. You give, and if you can't take, then you look around for when you can. You become thieves, you become cheats, you become liars, you become dishonest, you become dishonored and that is not a man. Don't learn treachery. Give—give and be graceful about it. If it's a business, it's cut and dry, straight and honest, absolutely productive and profiteering rules. Is that understood?

You want to do seva, do seva and leave $20 for having the opportunity to do seva. Nobody is going to bother you. But if somebody says, "Come and work for two hours," just tell the guy, "Okay, for $150 an hour." "Why?" "Well, don't hire,me." Or, if your value is $10 an hour, take $10 an hour, whatever, but be exact. Don't waste any time in non-productive ventures.

You are wasting your life. Emotional and commotional feelings, imagination, and all that, do not bring profit. If you sit down on water and start writing scriptures, who will read it? Who will read your writings on the water? You need paper, you need a pen. Just please remember, life is nothing but a gift of pranic life from God and life can be transformed into labor and labor can be sold and bought and it will give you money, the medium of exchange, and through the media you can buy material and services to keep life going. So each life has to be sold profitably. Each labor has to be sold profitably and every venture has to be

business-like, honest and straight. Any work you do must make for you between 10% and 30% profit. If the capital is 10% and you make 10% profit, you make nothing; you are going to die hungry. Because 10% is the interest and 10% is the wear and tear of you, you need 20% on top of the 10% in order to live—that's 30%. So everything you do must give you at least 30%.

If I am willing to go to dinner with somebody, the person will spend money on the dinner right? Number one—that's 10%. Then the person should give me enough company that I should be totally recuperated within my work load and I should feel fresh and young, that's another 10%. And the final 10% I should feel that it was really worthwhile. That is my 30%, that's what going to dinner is worth. Otherwise if I start going to every dinner, I will be dead in six months. Because I'll eat like a pig and I will become a pig; and I am already pretty fat.

But I am just explaining to you that for going, for making small talk, for being with somebody, just find out if it's profitable, spiritually, mentally, physicallyfor you. Otherwise don't move. Shallow talk, pep talk, table talk, this, that, is a pure waste of precious time.

Somebody once asked me, "I cannot think, I cannot plan, I cannot talk, I am not successful, I don't know how, nobody taught me. You came in such and such town, I met you, I happened to be there, I made you my teacher, now tell me! I want to be successful." Now can you believe this dialogue? But there it was, a lot of pain, a cry for help.

I said, "What do you do best?”

He said, "I can sleep. That's all I can do." I said, "Then all right, sleep."

"What will happen?"

I said, " I don't know. But whatever you can do best, just do that. Be at your best."

He slept and he had a dream. Watch this: he had a dream that he had a grandfather who is very sick and is dying and he is remembering him and he should go wherever he is. He first took two to three days to find where his father is. He never knew what a father is, or where he was. But somehow he found it out. Then he found from his father where his grandfather is. He said, "I don’t know where that old man is. He must be dead; he used to live in such and such...” Somewhere remote. So then he asked his friend, "You want to go on a trip and hitchhike?" He said, "Yeah."

Well, he is pretty rich now. His grandfather met him, felt him, called the justice of the peace, wrote down the whole thing in his name. Told him he is my grandson and he is going to inherit everything. On the third day he died, leaving him a chunk of money and land you can't even buy today. So, even if you only know how to sleep, sleep good. That will serve you. Don't do things halfway.

When you motivate things emotionally and try to make a business out of them, you have already failed. When you motivate things because of your ego and you want a business out of it, you have already lost. This is not a business course, I am not going to teach you all that. That I'll teach in the business course. Now, today, I am teaching you as a man, as a successful man. You are born to succeed. God wanted it that way. Then why do you fail? You fail because your motivation is wrong. You love and you fail, love can fail? Never. Love can never fail. How can love fail? Love is giving, not taking; you take, you don't love. You fail.- Love is the name of giving. Not giving as charity but offering. Giving voluntarily, to feel honored, that's love. Love is not taking. If in love you take, you shall fail, because then life shall turn into a poison. Peta they call it.

Bait pranan ki ahuti deit, prem ke sagar mein aisa tartayiye, sada sukhjeevan, subhaydaan, hoye sang, apne sang, apan navariye.

".. .in the game of love make yourself and make the whole self an offering, in this there is no limit, no thinking, no feeling and no defeat."

But in business, as a man, you must have 30% profit and 20% margin. You know, you go to a wholesale factory, they don't even bother. They jump the price 100%. You come to a retailer, he will try to jump it 100% and then, when he cannot make it, "sale," some kind of sale.

What kind of sale is that? There is no sale, it's just to make you feel that you are gaining something. The one who wants to make a profit from you is telling you that you are profiting from him. You know what this gimmick is, this sale? He couldn't reach your pocket in a straight manner, so he reached it in an indirect manner. He is telling you "I am reducing the price 50% for you," because you are his cousin's uncle's brother-in-law. That's not true. He is really telling you, "I am sorry I couldn't make an idiot of you. Come in, though I couldn't get you totally, half is enough, come in, there is a sale." When there is a boarded up sign, "going out of business", you go in the shop and look at their faces—they are sitting shiva. Oh! I We have to sell it, the bank is tight on us; they make every excuse to get sympathy through apathy. But the fact is that the price was originally up 200%. Only an emotional creep will sell at no profit.

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you can sell everything, and if you can be sacred, you can sell everything anyway. Because if sacredness gives somebody junk, it is called blessing. When somebody gives somebody something it is called a thing. Things are questioned. Blessings are never questioned, gifts are never priced. Selling is a gift. Value yourself. Add your values, price yourselves, add profit. Negotiate and sell. You are priceless anyway, you sell your pricelessness.

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To end: Inhale and relax. Shake up your hands.

The United States is a beautiful country, very beautiful. It is a democracy/ it's a beautiful country, it's the "home of the free and the brave", and whatever. There are so many adjectives. We agree that the United States is great country, and the USSR is a great country and that Luxembourg is a great country. It's not the area, it's not the people, it's not the geography, it's not the politics, it's not the economics, but you Americans should not forget one thing: We discovered America as trappers. It is in our genes to lay traps and then catch life and sell the hide. Don't forget that.’

We are bird lovers and animat lovers out of necessity, because we are neurotics. We don't have any constant, consistent love and togetherness in the family, therefore we have to raise dogs and cats to counterbalance our inefficiency anddeficiency in our human love relationships. In our sincerity of communication, in relationship and in our power to be human, we are defective, third grade, rejected human beings, unloved, and in terrible pain, constant pain—constant pain.

We hurt ourselves sociaUy, we hurt ourselves economically, we hurt our self in every aspect. Not that we want to be hurt, that's not our problem. We do not know where to find satisfaction for our ego. By sleeping with 300 men or 600 women, or doing big deals and small deals, or isolating, going somewhere where nobody can touch us, or living in the middle of New York, we don't know. We will never know. Because somebody has failed, somebody has not given us the basic elementary values, who we are and how we can be who we are. If a man has money, he wants to buy everything with money. If a woman is sexy, she wants to buy everything with sex. A man with power wants to buy everything with power. It's all garbage.

There has to be someplace where one can learn to stop and evaluate one's self; give yourself the values you need to give yourself. You always

start by giving other people your judgments, your values, your relationship, and all that. Sometimes 1 really wonder if you even know that your own evaluation is in a mess. You have not done your own homework.

Somebody joins 3HO, somebody joins Sikh Dharma, somebody is a Hare Krishna, somebody is a born-again Christian, somebody is a Catholic, an Espanolian, a this or a that,, God knows what you are, but actually, to be factual, you are nobody. Your quantity may be anything: how many people are inthis religion, how many people are your students—damn the whole thing—is it the quantity or the quality? Is it the money, is it the power, or is it the sacredness? It is the space you enjoy, the time you have,

or is it the wisdom? You have to decide. If somebody can shake you and somebody can crack you, then you have not yet found yourself.

You know, when I became a Sikh, I didn't become a Sikh because . . . well let me be fantastically clear, I mean, I don't make any reservations about it and a lot of these Sikhs are very mad at me for it. "Why do you say that?" they ask. Well, I say what I want to say and I say it anyway. I don't care. One day I was sitting and lying down and looking at the roof, and I said," 0 God, what afunky job you

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