October 5, 1973: Part 2

Excerpts from a lecture given by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji

Do you rotate this earth?  How many of you go to the equator, and run with your feet to keep it revolving?  Are you doing it?  If you cannot revolve it, then why do you want it to be stationary? Let it revolve. It doesn’t bother you. Don’t bother it. Are you the owner of this earth? 

The One who has given you life will take it. Why the hell are you hurrying up, thinking and planning and God knows? He gave your life to you. Did you ask for it?  Do you remember writing an application?  Paying any fee for it? It was given to you. If food is given to you, chew it. Enjoy the beauty of it. Where is the fun if food is given to you and you can’t digest it?

Look at who you are, your existence, your vibration. 

You know, in India there is a problem. I have seen the same problem here. Every young man wants to be an actor. Every girl wants to be an actress. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people in the underworld, who slave away their lives, up to death, are those who wanted to be that way. They run away from schools or colleges. They run away from home. They end up in a totally horrible situation.

Here everybody wants to be a musician. Everybody thinks with one hit song, they will get millions of dollars. It’s a strange world. You go to Los Angeles, you go to New York, you go to New Delhi, you go to Hong Kong. The underworld is the same everywhere. Everything else is different. But the technique of the underworld is solid negativity.

Last year, when I was in Hong Kong, somebody told me, “Oh it is very negative.”

I said, “Wait a minute. There must be a few positive people in abundance here. That’s why they are holding this negativity. It’s the law of polarity. Where there is negativity, and too much negativity, there must be some positive people. Don’t tell me how negative Hong Kong is. Tell me where those positive people are.”

Is there anybody among you who does not know where there is spirit, there is life?  To be great is to have the spirit in you.  The joy of everything comes from finding the spirit in it. To know, feel and be the spirit of something is the secret of every success. The spirit can take you above the impact of the environments.  Even the greatest man cannot stand the impact of the environments. Man is a man. He is sixty percent water. When tyranny takes over and clouds the destiny; when the darkness of slander comes to a person, it shakes up even the greatest people. But there is one spirit in a man, and that is “I am, I am.”

There is one spirit in a man, and that is “I am, I am.”

If a man knows he is not alone, if he knows his God and Guru are by his side, then he knows it is three against one. He is going to win anyway. The very concept of it is this: my Giver, my Creator; my creation in me, the spirit; and me; we are three and that ignorant and arrogant person is only one. What is he going to do?

Emperor Aurangzeb was a fanatic religious man. He told Guru Teg Bahadur, “I know you can create a little miracle. If you create a little miracle, it’s cool with me. I want to be satisfied that you are a holy man and you are a super man.”

Guru Teg Bahadur said, “No, I am not going to perform a miracle.”

The Emperor asked, “Why?”

He replied, “I am not going to perform a miracle. If God does it, I have no problem with that.”