Happiness and Progress

Yogi Bhajan:

“It is the conscious commitment which gives us happiness and progress. If our commitment is emotional and temperamental, it is not going to work. ”

“The process of growth through Kundalini Yoga is a natural unfolding of your own nature. The blocks to that growth are your attachments to the familiarity of the past, and your fear of the expanded Self. As you practice Kundalini Yoga you will grow. Like a snake you will need to shed old skins to be more of who you are.”

“One Kundalini Yoga set done well is more than one needs. I don't believe in freaking out on Kundalini Yoga sets. That's not Kundalini Yoga. One good set a day, is more than enough. Everything in life is a bunch of tools to build up yourself so that you can totally realize yourself and experience yourself.”

“Don't do sadhana for your husband, and don't do sadhana for anything else. Do sadhana for yourself. If you cannot get up in the morning at 3 o'clock, if you don't take your cold shower, if you don't massage your body, if you don't do all those things, you pay during the day. Everything is in balance. If you don't sharpen the knife, what do you think you can cut with it? If you don't sharpen your mind, if you do not shine your soul, what are you going to do during the day?”

“Sadhana is self-enrichment. It is not something that is done to please somebody or to gain something. Not at all. Sadhana is a personal process in which you bring out your personal best.”

“There is something called seva, which is done with your heart and head both. It is done in the Name of God, in obedience to God, and for the sake of God. What that brings no man can give you. ”

“Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. ”

“When you cannot give, you are not God; and without giving there is no God. ”

“We have chosen a way of life to welcome everybody, to love everybody, to inspire everybody and to uplift everybody. ”

“Service is when you totally don't feel like serving; you're tired, you're jet-lagged, you're obnoxious, you're very, very angry; and still you go into the kitchen and you make a good dish and you say, "Are you hungry? I made this for you"-that's called serving. ”