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“Overcome the Hurdles”
Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Lecture Excerpts 10/3/96
You are born to represent God, and in that divinity there should be no duality. Your reality does not exist if it does not have royalty. If I know all the truth, and I am not in a position to express it, that is a dead truth. What is not shared is shredded in one's own ego. Mission has no commission. But it has a joy. Hurdles, calamities, misfortune, all of that is only to those who are lucky. They are chosen to be tested.
You have to overcome the hurdles. Remember one simple formula: Never acknowledge a hurdle. It is so touchy, it'll go away. When a hurdle, calamity, misfortune comes and you don't acknowledge it, it finds some place else to go. It can't touch you.
Misery cannot make us miserable. Calamity cannot change our climate. Misfortune cannot take away our fortune. We leave behind a trail, a pathway, and a way in which a nation shall walk safe and secure, with fulfilled happiness.
You have something to offer God. Give your sins, your degradations, your low-gradedness, everything which you don't like to Him. Give your ego to Him. Give Him your hurdles, your misfortunes. Count them, really, count them, and say, "Here, have them. Because they are yours." When we say, "Surrender to God," that means "Give up your all nonsense to Him, so you can make sense." You go out and make sense and give your nonsense to God and Guru. They are enough. They will chew it, digest it, and take care of it. You have a living relationship.
Good and bad, we belong to Thee.
- Guru Arjan Dev
You have difficulties, I agree. It is your faculty to recognize difficulties and handicaps. Sometime you isolate and desolate your total personality to get sympathy. You are supposed to sympathize with those who have apathy and you are asking for sympathy? It won't work. You are supposed to be beautiful and bountiful and blissful. Put Guru Ram Das onto it, let him take care of it. I enjoy God working for me. Even when it's the toughest challenge all I say is, "Okay, God. Have it." It's a direct co-existence. It's a most congenial direct co-existence, beyond virtue, beyond time, beyond value, beyond space. It's an acknowledged unisonness.
Bless all you can. Prevail everywhere you can, and God shall cover you. A vacuum cannot exist when you share your values, share your virtues, and you prevail. And you must go out and uplift. You must go out and work as a forklift. You are the holy of the holiest. You are the joy of the joy. You are future of the future. There is nothing being said here to promote you or console you Those who administer, bless, share the feelings, and serve shall be exalted to the knighthood of the Lordship of the God.
There's no caliber which can match you. There's no calamity which cannot test you. There's no misfortune which cannot show up at your door. You must know the reality of what to welcome and what not.
Your presence will work. Your touch will exalt. Give them the unending, unlimited strength, and be yourself. Your values will never be exhausted, because you are meant to be exalted. Just remember, you represent more than what you are. Don't forget that. All that there is, is you and you alone. Everyone will look at you. You utter a word, they catch your word. You make a turn, they catch your turn. They see you, and they see you to see something. It's time for you to understand.
Lecture Excerpts 10/3/96 ©1996 Yogi Bhajan. All rights reserved.