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From “The Mind, Its Projections and Multiple Facets” by Yogi Bhajan, PhD with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD, copyright 1998, Kundalini Research Institute, Espanola, NM, USA, p. 53. Available at  http://ahw.stores.yahoo.net/17112.html The Beginning of the Era of Happiness! Published as a Soul Answer Newsletter, Dec. 6, 2011 “Sometimes you sense when you are caught by your mental intrigues and feel limited and small.  You react and try to expand any way you can.  You may try to blow apart the feeling of limitation by stimulating the mind with drugs or with some type of extreme or extraordinary experience.  That approach just causes more problems and pain.  Anything that pushes you up and out instantly and unnaturally will have a powerful reaction of at least equal force that pulls you down and back in.  Your efforts will backfire.  You can’t become spiritual or wise overnight by some grand effort.  You cannot be impatient and greedy and gobble God like It is a cookie. To stop the games and mental intrigues and to truly be happy you must develop a consistent attitude of human life in which you can excel above time and space, using your mind at the frequency of your Soul.  That is the attitude of a happy person.  Every other approach and short-cut will prove to be false.  Any approach that relies on holding onto some aspect of finite time and space will fail because time and space constantly change.  Everything that changes will always create duality and paradoxes because of the Law of Polarity and Complementary.  That is why you have a deep and profound instinct to feel the Infinite in you, a spiritual longing.  The One that you all worship and love, and that you want to be is also that which never changes, is beyond time and space, and is always present.” The first signal that lets you know you are in trouble with your mental intrigues is the feeling that you have to confront your own mind.  It happens when you begin to feel you cannot handle a situation, and suddenly you are here and your mind is over there.  Nobody wants to lose his or her grip on a situation.  It is threatening and you react immediately.  You and your mind confront each other.  The mind is the only tool you have.  Whether you succeed or fail, you do it with your mind. Recognize that your mind has its own nature, virtues, and mechanisms.  It has both a Positive and a Negative Mind.  Let it have the swings and polarities that come with the play of its parts, but do not allow it to confront you.  When you confront that which gives you your strength, it only creates confusions, weakness, and mistakes. Instead of confronting it, what should you do?  Train it.  You can train a dog.  You can train parrots to walk a tight-wire and fire a toy gun.  Monkeys are trained to help the disabled; they serve also as the best human assistants.  What about training your mind?  The best approach is to apply the mind.  When you apply the mind, it becomes engaged in the task or the experience you give it, so it won’t confront you.  Talk to your mind.  Create a relationship to apply and engage it.  Tell your mind, “I am the source of God.  I am the Soul within myself.  I am living with the Light of God, therefore you must go with me.”  Create a partnership with your mind. When you talk to your mind, assess it.  Don’t be anxious or afraid.  As you start talking to it, it will stop working on its other games.  This mind is the biggest game player in the world and it’s right within you.  Once you have a relationship to it, it listens and it cannot play a game to slip something past you or to skip over you.  It cannot do anything to you.  You begin to use it and ultimately to master it.  When you master it you will become masterminded.  That marks the beginning of the era of happiness.

“What is there to TRUST or not TRUST?”  Yogi Bhajan, March 29, 2011 From Siri-Gian Kaur: In our INTUITION TRAINING COURSES, beginning with “The Art of Soul Listening!” folks actually learn to hear the voice of their own Soul, their God Self leading them in the most cozy and divine way.  And they become able to discern that Voice from that of their ego, or mind, or “everyday self”.  That’s the easy part. The challenge is that Soul often gives us simple direction without also giving the whole picture, and not detailing the entire path, along with the expected outcome.  Consequently, trying to follow Soul can throw you into a quandary when you are not used to easily following Soul at every minute.  Habits of confusion and mistrust often arise from the mind or “everyday self” who still feels a great need to be in charge of your welfare by judging each courses of action from every angle to determine its expected benefits before it commits to a decision.  But of course, Soul doesn’t usually give that.  Problem is, everyday self is really short sighted and just can’t see where Soul is leading it.  So, here are some of Yogi Bhajan’s wonderful words that touch on going beyond that TRUST issue, and tells us where our Soul/your God Self will take us if we indeed clear and elevate our mind to follow our Soul!   From Yogi Bhajan: Excerpt from: The Mind: It’s Projections and Multiple Facets by Yogi Bhajan, PhD with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD, Kundalini Research Institute, Espanola, NM, copyright 1988, pp. 82-83. “Why don’t you use that time (from 4 to 8 AM and 4 to 8 PM for Sadhana—daily yoga and meditation)?  Why not rise in the twilight of early morning and prepare yourself?  You sense the change in energy, why not elevate yourself and refine your mind and its faculties? You don’t even get up just to face a problem that bothers you.  The fact is, you are a part of this cosmos and the cosmos is part of you.  You open your eyes to face the universe and all of its problems!  And you do not want to accept this.  You are too insecure to face this reality.  You revert, invert, and divert your mind to not look.  When you open your eyes, don’t open them to see how to be rich.  Open your eyes to be able to make people rich.  Don’t open your eyes to become wise or gather knowledge.  Open your eyes to make other people wise.  Become vast and remember that you are part of this entire cosmos.  It’s a cosmos that should be served by you and the legacy of your wisdom, love, affection, sweetness, kindness, and your compassion and caring.  Train your mind to relate to your totality and to act without fear. Your mind vibrates and will deliver your thoughts.  It has a mechanism.  The sushmanaa, the central (energy) channel of the spine, connects to the shashaaraa, the crown chakra.  Each projected thought will vibrate a thousand in return, and those go to the cosmos like an indelible record.  For each negative thought, you have to face one thousand negative thoughts.  For one negative action, you’ll have to face the impact of one thousand negative actions.  But you don’t know your mind and its Facts.  The result is someone is rude to somebody.  Someone doubts and mistrusts somebody.  Why?  For each disrespect, you’ll in turn not be respected.  This lack of grace, mistrust, and abuse is a habit.  You did not train your mind to realize you are here for only a few years and have a chance to serve, touch, and leave a legacy for all.  God has trusted you and respected you enough to give you this body and to put two of you together in this huge world.  What is there to TRUST or NOT TRUST? Will you live isolated, mistrusting, and small?  It is against your nature.  Problem is not whether you will live and how rich you can be.  The problem is how much impact you have, how many legacies you leave, how much grace you show, and how much vastness you experience. Will you die like a little worm, burrowed in the earth, where no one, not even a grandchild will remember you and have thanks?  That is a choice.  That is why you encounter the mind.  That is why you rise in the twilight (early morning hours) to become a huge Light!   You have permission to reprint this article either online or in print as long as you keep the copyright large and readable. Copyright Siri-Gian Khalsa, SoulAnswer.com, 2011

The Naad: Your Power Tool!   Yogi Bhajan: From “The Master’s Touch,” by Yogi Bhajan, PhD., Kundalini Research Intsitute, now in Espanola, NM. Copyright 1997 KRI.  page 251. “You decide everything with your head.  You are so ugly, so unwanted, so cruel, so negative, that even the matters of heart you decide with your head. Folks, you are your own enemy.  This is the time to get awakened.  This is the time to look at yourself.  You can’t even read another man’s face.  Is he hurting or pleasing, is he straightforward or not, is the person believing, or not believing?  Nothing.  You have your own thing. And you happen to be here to learn to be Teachers. Drop your prejudice against yourself—Number One.  Drop your limitation against yourself, and drop your insecurities against yourself.  Drop yourself unto the Altar of the Creator.  You will never need an alternative.  God shall come through your case, in person. God is everywhere, waiting for you to call.  His zip code is His mantra.  Mantra is just like that:  you take a stone and your throw it in the water, and constant waves go.  That is what mantra is all about.  It is to be remembered, remembered, remembered.  It is to be chanted inside of you with your heart, your mind, your body.  The only longing you have is to repeat it.  It may be difficult to begin with, but soon God will come through you and work for you.”   From Siri-Gian Kaur: For so many years, I had heard about the sound current—the “naad” that is generated by chanting or remembering mantra or reading your banis (special prayers) or the Siri Guru Granth Sahib (the Sikh scriptures that were written by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs).  It never quite made sense to me until recently, and now I am trying to figure out how to tell you about it.  It’s like trying to describe how a computer works before computers were invented. It seems that there is a “creative reality” that operates as a “creative matrix” of energies, which is a refined dimension above time and space.  It coordinates all of the energies that are finally molded into the time and space of our “hard reality,” what we call our everyday life.  This “creative matrix”, which has its own incredible intelligence takes in all of the raw material—such as our emotions, our grasping and yearnings, our belief systems (e.g. “nobody loves me”), as well as the great group subconscious of humanity, and our own great, although often unrecognized  desire for conscious reunion with the Creator.  It reorganizes all of these energies that create situations, connections and have stuff funneled our way, and delivers them to us in our daily life. So, if the energies that we transmit into that creative matrix are tangled—such as self-anger, habits of victimization, etc., we get back what we put in.  But if we want to straighten out those tangled energies that finally are folded back into what is created as our lives, then we use certain powerful tools that can comb out our tangled energies, so they are returned to us in a much more organized, flowing, connecting manner.  One of these great tools to actually change our energy that enters the “creative matrix” mix is the “combing” and smoothing power of the “naad,” the sound current of the mantras, the banis, and the Siri Guru Granth Sahib.  Each of these energy tools has their own special “flavor” of smoothing and rearranging.  That is why Yogi Bhajan could tell us what each one is for.  He identified the quality of the energy of each of the mantras, etc.  And when we drop our subconscious control of those tangled energies that emanate from us, and leave it up to the Master Intelligence of the Creative Matrix to rearrange things for us, no matter what the outcome may be, we are no longer shooting ourselves in the foot.  “Drop yourself unto the Altar of the Creator.”  That is non-attachment as all the yogis and the Buddha taught. So, the “Secrets” for operating in great harmony with the Creative Matrix are: 1.       Use of the “naad” to change the frequencies we broadcast out, and that will come back to us. 2.       Neutrality, giving up control, humility, non-attachment, devotion, yet still holding the space or intention without squeezing the unlimited life of it.  Letting it happen as it may. I am sure that scientists of the future will formulate good explanations of this amazing operation!  But for now, we use this applied technology of the “naad” and neutrality to straighten out the situations of our lives.  We are so grateful! Why not try this one for Green Abundance www.SoulAnswer.com/green_abundance.html . Lots of Love, Siri-Gian Kaur The second part of this article is copyrighted by Siri-Gian Khalsa, SoulAnswer.com, 2011. You may reproduce this whole article in print or online as long as you keep this copyright and authors very readable. To easily print out this article, please go to www.SoulAnswer.com/yb_speaks.html  .

Yogi Bhajan’s Death Experience Yogi Bhajan had just finished a steep climb up to Vaishnoo Devee’s cave, a sacred shring in India.  After taking Ice-cold water, he lost consciousness.  In his own words he recounts his experience. You have two paths to go in the first five seconds when you die.  When the Soul is going from the pranic body into the subtle body, its total weight is reduced to less than ¼ oz. and the size of the first thumb joint, like a gas flame.  That’s how it leaves.  Afterwards, it goes through a cylindrical movement, just like a cylinder, and it is very peaceful. Death is very peaceful.  It is the most peaceful experience in the world.  I went through it personally.  And after going through the cylindrical experience, you reach a point where you feel very calm, very peaceful and very together. Before that, in that time you are shown the entire action of your life in a panorama, showing from  the first breath to that second.  There is nothing like it in life.  You don’t know you have done bad, good—it’s your karma.  You condemn yourself or you accept yourself, that is your problem.  And when you go in the cylindrical thing and you reach a point of calmness, quiet and peacefulness, there comes a big circle of light, very bright.  On one side you will see a kind of a beautiful old, grayish door.  You always see it.  None of you can go without this process.  And inside you see warm, and you can smell food.  If you turn that way, that is the path to reincarnation.  On the other side you find a straight path going through icy snow mountains. Choose!  On both sides are your relatives whom you love and like.  At that moment I sood still and I thought, “No, I am not going to either side because this is a holy place where I have fallen unconscious, and to die here will mean that all people who go to such holy places of pilgrimage will lose the faith.” I bent down in prayer and I said, “Oh, Divine Mother, I mean you no harm to the faith of the people.” She replied, “Then go back and spread the faith.” When I woke up there were about 30 or 40 blankets around me.  The doctor had already declared me dead and it was all over.  When I got up, they all ran away.  The doctor privately told me, “It was 45 minutes ago that you died.” I just decided not to go.  It was a holy place and I thought none of my family would go there if I died there. Yogi Bhajan’s Meditation on Death  Originally taught Nov. 2, 1986, Los Angeles The night before, set your alarm for 15 to 20 minutes earlier than your normal wake-up time.  When your alarm goes off, follow these ten steps. 1.        Don’t get up.  Say “Wha-hay Guroo.” 2.       Lie in Corpse Pose (flat on your back with the arms next to your sides and the palms up).  Consciously die. 3.       Relate to your Soul. 4.       Decorate your subtle body with the mantra “Wha-hay Guroo” as you would decorate the Palki Sahib with flowers.  (A Palki Sahib is a covered sacred carriage or altar for the Sikh scriptures or Guru, which has four poles on each end to allow the sangat or congregation to carry it.) 5.       Make a Palki of it.  Walk and chant 6.       Carry it yourself to the Infinity of God. 7.       Settle there, purify yourself and enjoy the ecstasy. 8.       Then with the speed of one utterance of the word “Wha-hay Guroo,” come back into your body.  This will give you mastery over space. 9.       Next, come into Dhandwaat Pranaam:  Lie flat on your stomach with the heels together.  The arms are outstretched in front of you with the palms in Prayer Pose.  Thank God.  This will give you mastery over space. 10.   Start your day. Practice this for at least forty days.  You can also extend it up to three to six months, so you may never forget it at the time of death. From the book “Dying into Life, the Yoga of Death, Loss and Transformation” by Jivan Joti Kaur (Guru Terath Kaur), copyright 2006 Guru Terath Kaur.  P. 148 Yogi Bhajan’s death experience, p. 172 Meditation on Death. To order your copy of this great 319 page book of Yogi Bhajan’s teachings, personal experiences, kriyas, mediations, and mantra CD, please e-mail your request to her at jivanjotikaur@gmail.com .  Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan®.

The Origin of Your Self-Defeating Patterns By Yogi Bhajan   Your mind must not intrigue you and en-trance you into its intrigues. The mind must serve you.  The mind has to be developed to give you supportive strength.  There is no reason to be unhappy other than the pain you get from the results of these intrigues.  I have never been unhappy, neither in America nor in India.  I don’t believe anyone here wants to live unhappily of do anything wrong or corrupt. You know better than to be unreal and to play games.  You know if you lie and play games that it will come back to you ten times stronger.  Then why do you act wrong?  Why do you engage in endless petty games?  You do it because your mind is ruled by mental fogginess.  That fogginess comes from the power and craftiness of your mental intrigues.  You have intelligence and common sense, but you don’t meditate regularly to clear out the mind. When you fail to meditate, the combined strength of your subconscious and your thoughts catches you.  This combination, when the subconscious links with the play of the mind, is the origin of mental intrigues and most of your self-defeating patterns. You need a habit to relate to your mind.  You need to sit with your mind and review it, polish it, and direct it. You do not need to invite in an enemy or call on bad luck to have trouble in your life.  You are already in trouble when you let your mental intrigues go unchecked.  If your inherent creativity expands that intrigue, your mind will spin it, magnify it, and spread it in every direction.  It will weave that intrigue into your words and then project those words to every part of your mind.  The result is you lose track of your real Self and become shallow, hollow, and full of games.  You lose your power of prayer.  You lose your innocence.  There is no one who can save you from this mess other than yourself. Your ability to get into trouble was given to you at the same time as your ability to excel and be great.  It started in the very beginning.  When our Soul was sent to the beautiful planet, it was to test your love for God and for your Truth.  God said to your Soul, “I gave you the gift of the mind.” Your Soul said, “Just one mind with one power?” God said, “No, as many minds as you need to do any action.  Each part of the mind will have its own positive power as well as its own mechanism and intrigue.” The Soul asked, “What can it do for me?” God said, “When you are on this planet Earth, you will be subjected to time and space and constant tests.  But your mind always has the capacity to act beyond time and space.  Simply direct it toward Me.”   From the book, “The Mind: It’s Projections and Multiple Facets,” by Yogi Bhajan, PhD with Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, PhD. , Kundalini Research Institute, Espanola, NM, copyright 1998.  Excerpt from Chapter 5, pp. 51-52. http://www.spiritvoyage.com/yoga/The-Mind---Its-Projections-and-Multiple-Facets/Yogi-Bhajan/BKS-009015.aspx $24.95