Beads of Truth, Summer 1985 #15
by Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji

The basic line on which we as Sikhs are cultured, on which we are nursed, on which we live, on which we rally, on which we are together, which is the foundation of our Dharma is "Nanak Nam cherdi kalaa, tere bhaane sarbat kaa bhalaa." "Nanak, through the grace ofThy holy Nam, let everybody be exalted. And through Thy grace, through Thy will, let everybody be good, happy, prosperous:' That is what we say in our prayer.

And yet we enjoy gossip. How long can you be Sikhs and still spread rumors and gossip negativ­ity? Look, all of us can fall apart. You were students of Kundalini Yoga. Shakti Pad is a state of consciousness in that science which one has to cross. Next state of consciousness is saintlihood. You think to cross Shakti Pad is a joke? Only one thing will take you out of Shakti Pad: your confirmed faith. "Pala par ta jaaee samunder aukehee paae. Eh loonee sil koee chatte viralaa koee samaj­haae." "To hold the skirt of the teacher's faith, swim across this heavy ocean. Remember, it is like an unsalted hardstone: very few will tell you that is the most difficult to lick:" You think spiritual is just to wear good clothes and to have a lot of money and give to charity and tell everybody to smile? No, my dear, spirituality is not that. Spiritual is, without reservation, to wish good to all. Without reservation! And if you are hurt, without reservation keep on wishing good. Spirit is endless. Soul is endless.

If anybody in 3HO and Sikh Dharma gets shaky or falls apart, instead of going and licking his wounds, and loving and encourag­ing him and hugging him and pull­ing him up, everybody gets into sto­ries about him. Very unfair. Unfair to you, not the person you talk about. We must learn one thing-to receive people gracefully and let people go gracefully.

You have to understand life. This is the projectivity. Life is a big party. There are different psyches. There's a psyche A, psyche B, psyche C, psy­che 0, psyche up to Z. It goes on. They have their own fulcrum, their own axle, they have their own move­ment, they have their own orbit, they have their own day and night. It's individual. Then we are a social group. We are many, many people. We are like a family. Just like this sun which has so many planets so it becomes one family and the sun is called one star-so there is one family. It deals as a family around other families. And that's how life goes on, interwoven, interrelating, in which there can be tragedies, and there can be wrong and there can be parties, there can be happiness.

Now what is called spirituality, grace, human conduct, or manners? When people come to you, welcome them, take care of them like guests. When they leave, go to the door, see them off, and wish them well and let the wind be behind them so their journey will be happy. Even if they are going to hell, send them with good wishes. That should be your character. If somebody chooses to go and jump into the hell, send him off with a lot of love. Give him some­thing to eat on the way. Perhaps in the middle of the way, one may turn back. I do not come from a defeatist attitude. There's no no in my diction­ary. It doesn't exist. "When things are down and darkest, we walk the tallest:" I believe it. If anything has gone wrong, my God will protect me.

What do I represent to you? Faith.

I can't be destroyed because of my faith. Even an attempt at character assassination can't destroy me, because I give character of character assassination. I feel in my reflection when somebody tries to assassinate my character, he's trying to ask for the help of his impotency, or her fri­gidity. Very honestly, that's all it is about.