Gurbani Is For A Person Who Wants To Be Graceful
Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan
There is a surprising story about my grandmother. She never spoke in a loud voice. I have never seen that woman offend anybody, and I have never seen a single human being offend her. The respect was so great that everyone would settle disputes by my grandmother's decision, without going to court. Whatever she would say, people would accept it as truth and nothing but the truth. That reputation and non-offensiveness was built from her perfection of her recitation of the Guru's bani, and from her sadhana.
I am trying to illustrate to you that after a certain age in life, if you do not have Guru's bani and sadhana, then you will not churn yourself. Gurbani works to churn the brain waves through the hypothalamus. You need not be a Sikh. In India, for example, there are a lot of Hindus and Muslims who recite Gurbani. Gurbani is for a person who wants to be graceful, a person who wants to be balanced, a person who wants to do things by their radiance. A person's presence alone should see the job done.