The Concept of the Five Elements: For Your Generations and the Generations to Follow
Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan
Khalsa Council 10/22/94
The soul has a journey and it is predestined. It takes longitude and latitude to be born. It selects its geography, its space, the protective, nurturing essence of its parents and its environments. All the aspects which happen in the first seven years are set. Set simply as if you had a book of life, 60 pages, and every page has to be turned and every page has to be read; every page has to be gone through and it has to be understood. In between there can be cross references and there will be things you highlight, the things you like. In between there are also things which bring tears to your life, which are dreadful, things you think are right and things you think are wrong. But every page is a year of life, and life proceeds like a book, and every tomorrow will come as today. There shall be no and should not be a tomorrow in fear but there should be tomorrow in existence. Elementary tomorrow is already in existence; you have to walk on it.
I’m giving these examples so that you can understand how life and soul proceed in combination with the elements and the environments. Like a freeway, there are set driving rules, set exits, set numbers of miles you have to travel. If your car goes by the rules and the set procedures, then it will make the distance and the destination. In another case you can cause an accident, you can bump into another car, you can flip out of the freeway, you can fall apart. These accidents and coincidences do happen in life also. Therefore fundamentally we require a very clear consciousness. You require a window wiper in case of rain. You want to see clearly what is coming in front of you. You have mirrors on the side, you want to see what is catching up with you and what you have left behind. You also have a mirror in front of you and you want to see what is going on in the back. All these are aspects of the car in totality; that is what Ek Ong Kar is in life.
That is what you are, that is what Nam is. Nam is the identity of your life in which you travel with this soul looking left, right, front, sides, back, and then you have gauges before you: the speed, per minute revolutions, gasoline, temperature, water, etc. All that you control is in the cockpit cabin. It makes you the pilot of life. In your personal life you are nothing more than a pilot sitting in the cockpit of the car body and running the vehicle of the body through time and space going from point A of distance to point Z of distance where you have to continue the destiny. This is how the soul travels. That is why it is important to be a good pilot, a good person of consciousness.
Those who do not have that consciousness developed, that clarity developed, they are subject to time and space and the moment of the hammer; they do not enjoy life. Those who have consciousness and intelligence can enjoy life while going though it. Sat Nam.