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Hacienda De Guru Ram Das (Continued from page 1) trying to think the way I think. I am sharing with you my thought patterns and remember my words. Whosoever will do a little in this house, God shall stand for the entire incarnation for that person. If ever I have spoken a truth and you have ever believed me, whosoever will serve this house, he shall be served forever. I am very sure of that. That’s why when I see somebody very miserable, in a tragedy, I say La Hacienda de Guru Ram Das. Go – you’ll be happy there. There’s no herb there, there’s no medicine there, there’s nothing you can see, but Guru Ram Das is everywhere—his mailing address is here. In our belittlement, we forget a lot of things. We chip off walls, we don’t clean, we yell and scream—we feel we are miserable. No, my friends, without protection of this house, you may have experienced much misery. Yet God knows how much shelter the psyche of this place is providing you. You have no estimate. I wish you should see with the eyes what I see. I see how the unseen showers His grace and blessing on each one here. I see it and know it and therefore I can say it also. Nobody on the earth could plan to be here – we are guided here. It was given to us and it was not done by any man. In times to come, the very dust of this place, whoever will touch it, will be cured. It will heal people, give people prosperity. Joy and happiness will come to them in abundance who will just do a little seva, a little service here. Therefore, please recognize what history has to say. In the end of our consciousness, we all feel that we have to belong to somebody. And here we are in a position that the entire family feels that they belong to you. Do you understand that privilege It is the first house of the Khalsa Council. It was first La Hacienda de Guru Ram Das ever bought and purchased. It is the birthplace of 3HO. It is the fountain spirit from which the saints and soldiers, the future of this earth, lives. This place is the fountain place of 5,000 years of humanity to follow. History will record it and you are few, those fortunate souls who have been persuaded to receive the gift to serve this house. Just think and imagine it! The life is not important which cannot serve, cannot give comfort to others. Life which cannot give anything to others is not important at all. The value of life is what it can give. That is why I always say, “Let us plant trees. Let us work here.” It will be acceptable to God, because God guided us here. The prosperity of self, and the future of Dharma tied in with the entire humanity, looks to you as the Mother Center. Mother, the giver of life, prosperity, coziness, calmness, advise and wisdom – the One who nurtures. This is that place where people saw the twilight and the mother figure—even in the sky. Therefore, in the depth of our meditation, we must recognize it. Those who will think that this is just dirt; their life will be dirt. And those that think that this is a holy place; their life will be holy. Those who will give their seva, their service, or do simran here because God guided them, then God will also guide them to Infinity. Those who will serve with ego, their generations will suffer. Those who will serve here egolessly, shall be recorded as angels. Because this is a place where our birth happened. In the western hemisphere, this is our birthplace. This is the fountain of prosperity where generations will enjoy. That’s why whosoever will meditate here, this will be just as if he is meditating at Hari Mander Sahib, the Golden Temple. Therefore, it is my duty to remind you, lest you might have forgotten where you live and what you live for. You do not know from this place how much Light comes from the angels. I wish you should see what I see. Don’t misunderstand because I have earthly life, that I live to relate to you. But what I live, I wish you could live too, at that frequency, and see what I see. It is amazingly a world of splendor. Mr. O’Brien, who painted the mural, came here—nowhere else. There are other centers of 3HO. They don’t have those facilities which you have here. Therefore, if God has guided you here and has given you the virtue to do service here, and has given you that chance, then don’t waste it. It’s a place to gain and to be what is yours to be. Therefore, I say to you that take the very earth of this place and put it on your forehead. It will rewrite your destiny. Try to understand the basic virtue of this place, just meditate and feel the coziness you’ve got here. That is why I say to you. Don’t run around. Don’t be foolish. Don’t waste time. You are fortunate and you are most fortunate! Now if you put pearls before a swine, what can I do My job is just to let you know. There are a lot of funny things, but I tell you – just sometimes grab a handful of certain earth from this land, this house, and just put it on where you think nothing can cure. Just watch in a few minutes what it does. You don’t believe other than the practical, right But I want you not to believe it, just do it. And you’ll be amazed. Oh my dear sons and daughters, somewhere in your destiny God guided you here. One day the day shall come when the very dust of this place shall bring peace and prosperity and shall cure humanity. This is a virtuous land. Here dwells the spirit of Guru Ram Das, the healing guardian of this planet, the great master of destiny of the humanity and guide to health, happiness and the spirit of the being. I just want to remind you that if you know how to meditate, then meditate on this land and beautify it. Your generations will live in beauty and grace. There are homes and there are houses; there are palaces and there are kings and kingdoms. But Jerusalem is Jerusalem, and Amritsar is Amritsar. And this La Hacienda de Guru Ram Das will be this La Hacienda de Guru Ram Das. There shall be nothing to equal it. And there shall be nothing to parallel to it. Therefore, if you want virtues out of your lifetime, give a couple of hours so that you can know the depth of your self. That is meditation. It is the beginning of the dawn of time. I want you to fulfill your life in prosperity and peace. After all, if you have to know the truth, you have to live the truth. (Continued on page 9) 8
Hacienda De Guru Ram Das (Continued from page 8) That is why I say, meditate on this place of prosperity where the spirit of God falls at 90 degrees direct. It is your birthplace. It is a fountain of virtues. It is a healing land. Therefore, please remember where you do live and where you do dwell and where your destiny has to be. Therefore, in the depth of your thought, we should just live here just meditatingly. There’s no greater opportunity but to serve this house and meditate here! Sing and praise the Lord. It will be heard; I vouch for that. Going Green Authoritative Report to Confirm Global Warming By CTV.ca News Staff (Canada’s #1 broadcast communication company) Scientists and government officials are finishing a muchawaited report expected to say that climate change is real, serious and that human influence on it is undeniable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the report on Friday at a news conference in Paris, although a simultaneous one will be held in Ottawa. "The climate's changing and it's going to change some more no matter what we do—particularly if we keep consuming so many fossil fuels," Michael McCracken, the Climate Institute's chief scientist, said Monday in Washington. "They say 'think globally, act locally', so we're hoping that it will convince people that climate change is real and that we have a responsibility for much of it, and that we really do have to make changes in how we live," Kenneth Denman told reporters in Paris. He's co-author of the report and a senior scientist at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis. Scientists have been tightlipped about the contents of the report. However, they say it is both more specific and more sweeping than the organization's previous efforts. A final review of the draft began on Monday. IPCC officials will issue a policy-maker's summary of the full report after they finish days of secret word-by-word editing. Rajendra Pachauri, director-general of the Tata Energy Research Institute, chairs the IPCC. He said in Paris that the report would make "significant advances" over the last one issued in 2001. The new report will also address gaps in the past assessment and contribute new knowledge about climate change, he said. The report draws on research by 2,500 scientists, including skeptics and industry researchers, from more than 130 countries. Rising seas Some scientists say that within a century, rising sea levels could swallow most of Prince Edward Island and threaten cities like Halifax and Vancouver. However, others say that's an unlikely scenario. Early drafts of the document forecast that by 2100 the sea level will rise between 12.7 and nearly 58.5 centimeters. Many top scientists reject those figures. A study published in the peer-review journal Science this month predicted an increase of nearly 51 to 140 centimeters by 2100. Other climate experts, including NASA's James Hansen, predict even bigger sea level increases. Some critics worry that the IPCC scientists did not take into account the recent melt-off of big ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The melting ice sheets have surprised some scientists, who don't know how to predict the effects in their computer models. Their forecasts considered only how much the sea level would rise because of melting glaciers -- which are different from ice sheets -- and the physical expansion of water as it warms. "The whole question of how much melting will take place in Greenland and Antarctica is difficult to put numbers exactly on," Gordon McBean, a climate change scientist in London, Ont. While some fear this will mean the world's coastlines will be flooded earlier than thought, others believe the ice melt is temporary. The debate matters to policy makers because without accurate estimates, they won't know how to plan coastal development. This contentious debate is expected to dominate discussions in Paris. A German scientist said documents such as this one tend to underestimate risk. The prediction that the IPCC is considering is "obviously not the full story because ice sheet decay is something we cannot model right now, but we know it's happening," Stefan Rahmstorf told The Associated Press. Rahmstorf, a physics and oceanography professor at Potsdam University in Germany, says, "In a way, it is one of the strengths of the IPCC to be very conservative and cautious and not overstate any climate change risk." The report must be unanimously approved by 154 governments, including the United States and oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia. This installment of the report will not address how global warming's impacts or how to tackle the problem. Those sections will come later this year. However, the Australian newspaper, The Age, reported on Tuesday that towards the end of this century, global warming will cause food and water shortages that would affect hundreds of millions of people. Countries in Africa, for example, or like Bangladesh would be most affected because they would be the least able to cope with more coastal damage and drought, according to an early draft the newspaper obtained. 9
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