Because in a person it is not how you look and what your soul is. Your spiritual strength has no meaning for you except it gives you a mental control. Self mental control. Self mental control cannot be achieved by anything outside. Therefore it is true: sadhana, aradhana and prabhupati. It is true. It always shall be true. And those who do not do sadhana shall never be happy! No promise with them stands, and no virtues can be, and even if they become rich and prosperous, they will be stupid... unhappy stupids. Whether they are religious or they are unreligious, I don't care! I talked to a human today, any human who has no sadhana is not worth trust. They are a useless fraud, a living fraud! There's no relationship, there's no wife, there's no son. There's no tradition, there's no follow-up. Nothing! Why you do for all that? They are a bunch of crack-heads who want to live whatever their genie wants them to live! Their religion, their God is their genie, their own mind inside. They are ego-ids! Yes, under the constitution
law of the United States we have to recognize that thing as a human. Yes, they have two legs and two hands. Yes, they have a head, they have a body. Yes, they have a right to vote. But these idiots have no right to decide. They are not even animals! They are super arrogant mental cases. They are diseased and sick people! They need help!

Yes, they need help. Why? You can see in their richness, you can see in their intelligence, you can see in their cleverness, you can see in their show-biz one thing: unhappiness. These stupid dogs and bitches have betrayed God. They have made the servant mind as their master, so they can't have a master. One cannot serve two masters. There's no way. Those who serve their genie master cannot serve their spiritual master! There's a conflict. And this conflict will be forever. And it will continue from man to man, from time to time, from country to country, from nation to nation, from people to people.

People who do not do sadhana, they do not do sadhana, and nobody can tell them to do it. When they want to reduce their unhappiness or their unhappiness becomes so unbearable... then they may do it. Otherwise they will find millions of excuses. Stupid is very clever because stupid is the one who wastes time and direction. Remember who's stupid. Stupid words come from the word, "side path." A person who leaves the normal path of prosperity and goes on the side path, that is called stupid and it's a confusion in speaking. We always make words as 'ok' is 'all correct'. It was 'all correct', it became 'ok'. 'Courier' is a courier where you carry something. Career is where you carry yourself and your lifestyle, and your earning capacity. That's a career. And there are a lot of words which sound right. And people who go on side path are called 'stupid.' They leave the main path. They either do not have a capacity to walk to the....

A person who cannot... I tell you what is the most cowardly and weak person: A person who cannot confront his own mind. It means a master in the house who cannot confront his own servant. Then who is his master? Servant is the master, or the master is the master? Mind is a servant and when a man cannot confront his mind, man is absolutely a servant. And servant IS the master! And do you know what can happen in a home where servant is the master and master is the servant? And in such a state of situation you call him a 'sikh?' Hah! In Sikh Dharma there is no option but that Guru is the master. In Sikh Dharma there is no other concept! Sikh Dharma has one absolutely simple directive. Guru is the master. And in the very Mool Mantra... before giving any command to a Sikh: 'Jap' -- Jap is the command. It is the only only direct command in the words of Guru Nanak. But before that... even when Guru Nanak has totally explained it he says, "Gurprasaad." Everything good and bad, stupid and wise, is the Guru's... according to the code of the Guru.

These are the three virtues of sadhana:

1. Because once you have your own mind under control, intuition will give you all the knowledge of the world.

2. If you have a control on your mind through your social and structural thing you have answer for everything.

3. And if you have control on your own mind, you can see the soul and God right within you.

Well, let me tell you something which you must understand. Majority of the Sikhs come from India and Indian Sikhs do not believe in sadhana. They don't want to call it sadhana. They want to call it 'amrit vela.' Amrit vela starts at about 3:00 a.m. Is that amrit vela that they sit down in their beds and snore and they look at the American Sikhs because they get up and do sadhana? "Amrit vela sach nao vadeeaaee veechaar." That ambrosial hour is a time to look to see and to praise the Infinite. Why? Why are you praising God? It is just connecting. A finite in the ambrosial hour connects with the Infinite. Why do I say that? You'll be shocked to see they slept. Those who have reached a state of mind of service for others, you'll find that they leave their body between 3 to 6 a.m. You can watch their dead body between that time. That proves that all men of God and servants of God and part of God at that time is active. Therefore, we who are small in number should not be small in our
attitude. We who are small in our resources should not be small in our prosperity. We who are small in body should not be small in our grace.

And all this what is required to come out, is going to come out of the mind... and the mind doesn't follow any rules. Once the cork is out, genie is out and it is going to do what it is going to do. Therefore, please understand, sadhana is essential! Daily bath is essential that you may not smell bad. Food is essential that you may not feel weak. Smiles are essential that you may not drown into sorrow. Money is essential that you have to move and pay, and buy and get. Money is a medium of services and energy. Everything is essential... but if sadhana is not essentially done, your everything will fall apart. Let me put it in that way. And those of you who feel that by doing no sadhana, you are going to make it: NO!!

I tell you what it is. You did sadhana for a while and you made it. Now that you are not doing it you are actually falling apart. That's why those who are not with us are not with us because they are not with us... they didn't want to. They fell out, they went away, because they had no juice, no energy left. They couldn't grow. They didn't have the answer. A Mukhia Singh Sahib is not a Mukhia Singh Sahib who does not have the answer. A leader is not a leader who doesn't lead.

I came to this country with you and I told you three words are the greatest words of God: sadhana, aradhana and prabhupati. And I also told you you will never hear them in any book or from any holy man. And I also told you this is the beginning and end and solution of ALL what you are going through! And today on this full moon day when your minds are open, in 1988, when the calamity on the Sikh nation is going to go away... when the birth of the Panth khalsa will be bright, shining and beautiful... when future will be remembered and life will be joyful and peaceful for all mankind... I tell you today -- through you to the entire mankind -- there are only three words to live by: sadhana, aradhana and prabhupati!! It was true in the beginning, it is true today and it shall ever be true!

If you want health, happiness and to be holy, then you'll do sadhana, aradhana and prabhupati. Everything else is bogus, you are all bogus and you will die as bogus! Everything is painful, you are in pain, and you will die in pain, whether you get college degrees, tons of money, lots of power, great ego maniac Americans or as very humble bag person, it doesn't make any difference.

Those who have no gift of sadhana with them, shall have no gift of happiness. Let us talk in a direct mathematical proportion. Your sadhana is a proportionate source of happiness in your life. Neither your marriage, nor your wife, nor your children, nor your future, nor your promises, nor your teacher can do it. He can only tell you what sadhana is. He can tell you to do sadhana. He can remind you. Postman never writes the letter. Letter is only delivered by the postman. And my virtue in your life is only that your destiny has to achieve that highest promise which your soul made to God... and God gave you the word. And my promise is to remind you that these 3 words decide EVERYTHING: Sadhana, aradhana and prabhupati!

Meaning:

Sadhana. Aradhana means do the sadhana as prescribed. Prabhupati means you become master of the God. Pati means husband. Prabhu means the God. The creative unknown means prabhu. I'm just telling you in a very simple English so nobody can feel confused. And this is a realism and that is what Nanak the man said. That is what Nanak the Guru said. And that is what the Nanak God said.

Amrit Velaa sach naao, vadiaaee veechaar.
Karamee aavai kaparaa nadaree mokh duaar.
Kiv sachiaaraa hoeeai kiv koorai tuutai paal.
How we can become truthful, elegant, sophisticated, divine, graceful and how can this false wall be broken up? And how can we see the freedom and how we'll be covered? How we'll have a shield? And to that Nanak answers... Nanak the man, Nanak the Guru and Nanak the God answers: "Amrit Velaa sach naao, vadiaaee veechaar. Karamee aavai kaparaa nadaree mokh duaar.", and then under the seal of my office, under the hand of my jurisdiction: "Nanak evai jaaneeai sabh aape sachiaar." Thus under the command of that One who knows all truth, Nanak says so, and vouches it!

Those who are Sikhs who are miserable, they should be miserable and they will be miserable, because they are not doing sadhana. They are not doing aradhana and God is not with them. Those who are non-Sikhs and they are not doing sadhana, they are not doing aradhana and God is not with them. Your soul... the source of your life... cannot look at the life of Creative God, without that clarity and control of the mind. You can get a very high priced camera. If the lens is broken and it is foggy you are not going to get any picture... doesn't matter what. Don't you understand that that law applies?

When I see somebody with a camera, I see them taking care of it. I see them taking a very fine, beautiful kind of a paper to clean the lens of the camera so that it may not get scratched and rubbed. I'm asking that idiot... super idiot... how can you not use that same technology with your own mind? Why can't you use that sophisticated subtle touch of divinity to clean the clumsiness and the fog of the mind, and see through your soul the divinity and God in every living aspect, and be happy and joyful? Why you are enjoying your stupidity so much, and in your mud clinging to the pole of death? Why you are dying a useless life? Why not you are willing to live in that height and see the vastness of the Creative God? Why this smallness?

I hope you will understand that there is no power in the world which God can bestow on you but the opportunity of sadhana. When you do sadhana, and your mind is controlled, your life is together, then you can be "niaaraa".

That's what Guru Gobind Singh did. When people gave their head, he asked for the head with a naked sword. They gave their head. Each time he came with a bleeding sword. It freaked out everybody. What he gave them? Nothing. He gave them bana. Decorated them in a certain clothing and brought them out. And they were different than all. That's why you can't wear bana. You don't have the grit, you don't have the courage, you don't have the capacity to stand out in bana! You don't feel convenient.
You are a commoner and you shall suffer the pain of the commoner! Guru Gobind Singh, the father of this nation, took us out of being commoners. Your problem is psychological. You have to deal with the commoners as the leaders and you can't do that.

I was shocked that day. I met an Amritdhari Sikh. He was wearing kirpan. He didn't know how to handle it. I asked him why he is wearing it. He said, "I'm not supposed to?" I said, "No! You must learn!" He didn't have the time to learn kirpan. He has no time for sadhana. People want happiness for nothing. There's nothing, nothing!

YOGUI BHAJAN - Extracto de la conferencia del 9/25/88