In sexual love we have lost integrity. When we feel we are hungry, we are supposed to eat; so when we feel passionate, we feel we are supposed to have sex. That’s what sexual love has become today. When man loses the sense of reproductivity and the honor for his seed, man loses the value of self-respect. When you do not value the seed, what do you value? A farmer who does not care for the quality of his seed, nor for the quality of his land, does not care to preserve the seed, does not care to sow it in a proper line. Do you call him a good farmer?
When man tries to walk on the path of God, three things will come to him in abundance: women, money and land. Why have I said women? The test of a male in his steadiness of consciousness is when he can prove that his roots are deep, and he who is born of woman is always tested by a women. Don’t misunderstand me. Let me make it very clear. The man who gives his word is always tested by a woman.
Dear ones, never blame anyone or anything. Whatever happens, you must have asked for it, and you must have asked for it for a purpose. Have patience, for patience pays.
Where is the limit of a person? How can a person be limited? A person is limited according to his attachment. It doesn’t matter what you have or don’t have; it matters only how easily you can let go.
Patience pays. Let no temptation shake you, no vibration move you, and no action force you out of yourself and righteousness. An unshakable human being is the highest living phenomenon of God.
If you want to refrain from something, refrain when you are young. Youth is the time of life when you can do anything. It is during the time of old age that the bloody wolf declares, "Now I have become a vegetarian," because after losing his teeth he can’t hunt anything.
Whatever you are, you are. Be proud of it.
What is God? Is He six hands? Ten heads? Is He a matter? Is He a body? No, He is cosmic energy; it prevails through everybody. All that we feel, can know, or can imagine is God. His identity is the Nam because He is Truth; that is why we call him Sat Nam. He is yin-yang; He is positive and negative. He is male, female. He is the creator and his creation. That is why we say Sat Nam.
From the book "The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan" and other sources. Copyright �1977 S.S.S. Yogi JI