Gurdwara Lecture on January 27,1985 in Los Angeles, CA, USA by Siri Singh Sahib, Yogi Bhajan

“Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa.”
“Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh”

In the society of today, yesterday and tomorrow, man shall continue living, and with a motive of very deep search, to relate back to God. From God the man came, back to God man has to go. To understand that, man try to find all sort of methods and technique. The search of the man for being in touch with his reality, the science, the do’s and don’ts, the guiding power, the reminding power, the all knowing all power to make the man to realize the guiding factor that he has come from God and he has to go to God, became a religion. A science and a art of reality are the knowledge and technology to live in reality. The art and the science and the power to face duality, pair of the opposite and deal it realistically by upgrading one’s own God given identity.

Religions continue developing themself as the geography, as the environments and as the situation demand it. Among the world eight major religions, there is a one religion called Sikh Dharma. In simple English it is the path of the seeker who want to see the truth, within and without, it’s a path of the student who wants to graduate, who wants to do his doctorate, but this is a path of those who want to do it here and now.

Sikh dharma does not promise heavens neither he takes away the hell. Sikh dharma promises that if you are in hell, you can create the heaven and if you are in heaven you can share it with others, when we say.

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap.”

That only means in a simple word get up right in the ambrosial hour and meditate on God. When we say that, we do not promise anything except we guarantee, it’s not a promise, we guarantee that if your life is hell, H-E-L-L, you get up at the ambrosial hour and you meditate with God and that hell shall turn itself to a heaven and if that doesn’t happen, we vouch for it, we who told you.

“Jayasee ava kasam ki bani tisa kari gian valalo.”

Oh lalo, as the God, my kasam, my husband, as he is speaking to me so I am teaching, that is what Guru Nanak said.

And that is what Guru Nanak said,

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap.”

Rise in the ambrosial hour, and meditate on the God,

“Amrit Vela Sach Na Vadai Vichar, Karmee Aveay Kapda, Nathri Mukkh Dwar.”

In the ambrosial hour if you meditate on the true name of the God, your thing will be covered, your hell will be covered and turn into heaven.

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap.”

“Dharma di keert kar, dharam di keert kar.”

Let the essence of all you do and propose and plan and deal with, should be based on your eternal truth, your eternal truth. After all, what is life, life is all because of the atman, and the combination of all atman means parmatman. There is a soul and all combination of the soul is God and everything which is life is God. That is why even to the Christian in the Bible who takes Bible as a oath, and Bible is their guide, thou shall not kill.

It didn’t say thou shall not kill but on a Thanksgiving day, kill every turkey. There was no such condition, it was a simple commandment, thou shall not kill and thou shall not have anybody, thou shall not worship anybody before me, you have to believe in one ultimate God. When you believe in ultimate God, that is the first commandment and you see that God in all and all is God, therefore that commandment thou shall not kill fit in.

But it fits in, in obedience to those who are Christian, there is no Christians, they are ritualistic, individual, living, pretending to be so.

As there are ritualistic Sikhs pretending to be so, because Sikh dharma is a granted religion.

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap.”

Sukh bol, right at the ambrosial hour meditate on God, your hell shall turn into heaven, it’s a guarantee. When people tell me they have complaint, I ask them what is the proportion of the sadhana. Ratio proportion of the pain and the sadhana comes absolutely equal.

Because it’s so simple, one who does not clean the house every morning after a week will find it dusty, one who does not change the oil of a car will find it rusty. For ordinary things in your possession, you know when to do the servicing, you know when to take care of it, it is called law of maintenance and for your own soul, you have no conscious maintenance.

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap sukh payaga”

Yeh guarantee hai, this is the guarantee, not warranty, not five thousand miles or five years whichever is early, no, it is guarantee forever now, hereafter, here and hereafter, because Sikh Dharma teaches fearlessness, fearlessness cannot be there if there is no guarantee, what is the guarantee if I follow the path of Guru Nanak, I will be happy here and hereafter, if I will be happy here and not hereafter, I won’t guarantee. You can never be fearless until you don’t have a backing and guarantee and three system of backing. This body cannot live if parasympathetic fails, if sympathetic nervous system fail it cannot live, if action nervous system fail it cannot live, you call this person is a struck with a paralysis. There is a triple guarantee, there is a glandular system as a guardian of your wealth, there is a pranic body breathing you in and out consciously, unconsciously, both system works. Artificially you can be put on a breather for a while. Such a marvelous thing you see, you feel, you acquire and you don’t want to work with it, what is here is in heavens, what is above is below. You cannot be fearless, you cannot be revenge less, vengeance becomes you. When you are afraid you will take vengeance. Fear bring vengeance and the mool mantra, Sikh Dharam is Ek ong kar, Sat Nam, Karta Purkh, Nirbhao, Nirvair. Nirbhao, Nirvair, then comes Akal Moorat, this bana, bani, seva, Simran, which we are bestowed with the blessing of the Guru Gobind Singh, it comes to us because we are fearless, and without revenge. Vengeance is not the path of the Sikh, fear is not the essence of the Sikh, then how can you be a Sikh, you have to be fearless and you have to have no vengeance and you have to be Akal Moorat, that is the Khalsa, but there has to be a guarantee, and Guru gives the guarantee.

“Amrit Vela Sach Na Vadai Vichar, Karmee Aveay Kapda, Nathri Mukkh Dwar.”

You shall be covered, you shall be covered,

“Naanak ay-vai jaanee-ai sabh aapay sachi-aar.”

God is all truth but Nanak does know that way, it’s a proclamation, issue today, under the hand and under the seal of my office, Guru Nanak proclaims, being the direct incarnation of God, GuruNanak proclaims, then Guru Nanak said.

“Dharma di keert kar.”

When your soul will be the sole guiding sector, when your soul will be the sole guiding factor in the sector of your activities, it will always be prosperous life, it will be always happy life and Guru Nanak says your hell will become heaven and share it, with others, vand chak.

It’s a story and it happened in Sis Ganj, I was there outside and a man came, I saw him coming out of the car but he came to Gurdwara Sis Ganj, the house of the ninth Nanak and he started crying and bowing and begging.

Looked like he was in a terrible pain, out of curiosity, I ask him what is wrong, he introduced me who he is. He was one of the millionaire of Delhi, just his introduction was more than enough for me, I knew it who he is.

I said, “What went wrong?”

His answer was, “Everything.”

You know, if you know the Gurdwara Sis Ganj, the steps in the front of the steps to go and they flow automatically water, I bent down, pulled that water, in my hand and I sprinkle at him, he felt compassionate.

He said, “Who you are?”

“Just a instrument.”

He said, “What you have done to me is very satisfying.”

I said, “Yes, I have shared with you the house of Nanak.”

He said, “Who are you?”

I said, “I am son of this house.”

He said, “I have been coming everyday here, but today I am satisfied.”

I said, “Today I have shared with you my father’s property, now go back and you will have what you don’t have, your needs will be satisfied, your pain will be gone because this is the house of Nanak.”

I recollect it right even now he makes a point to see me when I visit India, and from that day, that many years back, even today, even in curfews, even when there was riots of Hindus and Sikhs, this man has visited the house of Nanak, the ninth Nanak, everyday at the ambrosial hour without break.

And even today he recites the shabad of ninth Nanak, “Nava mala da shabad,” so beautifully that it looks like he is the only one who knows it.

Vand chak, share your heaven with others, why Guru Nanak said that, your heaven will expand. Anything which is finite when you share, it become Infinity, it’s a law of life, it’s a law of happiness, it’s a law of genuinely happy living.

“Amrit Vela utt Nam jap sukh pa”

“Dharma di keert kar.”

Vand chak, Akal Moorat Hoke Ji, live as Akal Moorat, let your personality may look divine, intact Godly, Akal Moorat Hoke Ji, Akal Moorat, is a declaration, is a initiation of one marriage with one soul, baki tho there are five tattvas, five tattvas, five juices, you drink them. Some drink in the gold cup, some drink in a silver cup and some drink in a copper cup and some just snuck around and taste it if they can, and some don’t. There are lot of faculties for lot of reasons but those who drink those five rasas of five tattvas, know the joy of human creativity and human creation, and this can only be established if you have a relationship with your own soul and when you and your soul blends, that is where Akal Moorat grows. Akal Moorat is not a mental process, and it is not a physical process, it is a spiritual commitment, it’s a spiritual marriage, it’s a welding of one and one soul.

People when talk to me of relationship and I counsel them and I talk to them, I have a very deep reservation which I enjoy, because on one hand they want all happiness, on other hand they and their soul has no relationship, it means I talk to a millionaire and I know he is a millionaire but he knows, he tells me that he has that money and I believe he has that money, there is nothing wrong but he can’t tell me his bank name and number and location.

It is just like that woman who came from England, got lost, separated from relatives, lived in Florida for thirty some years, and finally she was a bag woman that ladies who live with bag all over, and somehow it got searched out, and the press put up her story, her relatives came and they found out she is a multimillionaire countess, they took her to London and the photo which came for reception as (?) through airport was fantastic, fleet of Rolls Royces and the servants and the band and reception and when she was received at her state and but here in Florida she was a bag lady, and anybody she told that she is a countess, she is from London, she got away from relative everybody snuck her away, no, we don’t know that story, and finally one person heard the story and printed it and it got known and got located and whole thing got settled.

We are all like bag people, we are bums living in McCarthy park, and trying to search a shelter and shelter from City Hall, we must be crazy, because we only know the soul gives us a life, soul can keep dance of our ten trillion cells alive, soul can also send the communication to the great soul, the parmatma, the maha atma and can bring us all the goodies, because God is good, because it produces goodies, that’s all is God about, God is good, it creates goodies and those who vibrate with his goodies and with good and with God, are blessed oh Nanak, they are happy here and hereafter.

“Wahe Guru Ji Ka Khalsa.”
“Wahe Guru Ji Ki Fateh”