Does Your Oyster Have a Pearl in it?
Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Lecture Excerpts
Does Your Oyster have a Pearl in It?
Siri Singh Sahib Lecture Excerpts 4/11/88
Our challenge is very unique. We have to see beyond the limits of our own mental scope. It's not the geography. It's not the political line, it's what we have to do. Whether we want to deny it or accept it, the role of leadership is being thrust upon us day by day. When I say role of leadership, I mean service, intellectual and intelligent strategy planning, thinking, philosophizing, and understanding. We must qualify ourselves with the simple attitude of working through our presence. We have to increase our grace, and our intelligence has to help our consciousness. Time changes things. The shakiness in the human faith itself is going to be experienced very heavily, sometimes to the point of insanity. Circumstances will change.
The beauty in us is that we have tolerance. Anyone can be confrontational, but to become a competent practitioner of tolerance, a person needs courage, compassion, kindness, self discipline, Dharma, blessing, grace, and moral support. Tolerance is as important a faculty of God as God is.
What is a human being? One who gets up in the morning, takes a shower, and just makes a little money, has cars, and houses? Nobody will notice when he's gone, he can celebrate his own birthday and invite his friends, but what is that man if the whole world is not celebrating his birthday? We have to leave behind the memory that we lived, and after our death, people should celebrate our teaching and our learning.
Create a relationship with the fact that things flow through you. If you do not develop a relationship that things can come through you, then you are just a forgotten statue. Undeserving containers always spoil the milk. If you want to keep nectar, you will always have a container worthy of it. Whatever you produce here, billions of dollars, houses, everything will be nothing if you have not molded Infinity in your shell of finite, as described in the words of Nanak.
If there is no pearl in the oyster, there is no value. The empty oyster can have mental muscles, and do himself in. In the values of the heavens, it will have the price of dust. You had better decide. Do you want to barter your pearl for dirt? Or you can take the pearl out and let it be pierced through -- penetrated to the very heart of it, to become a necklace of Infinity.
History won't record what you think; history will record what you DO. History will record all that you do which is excellent. I've read hundreds of stories of Guru Nanak. They have never recorded that at 9:30 am he took a bath; 1:00 pm he had his lunch. What is recorded about Guru Nanak was how he made the impossible possible. A man who makes the impossible possible will be recorded in history.