Spirit - 3HO

Prosperity Paths The Art of Giving Back
The Unseen
Hand of
God
Excerpts from a Lecture by Yogi Bhajan
on August 16, 1995, in Los Angeles, California
The truth is you are Atma. 1 You are a spirit born for human
experience, not a human born for a spiritual experience.
For thousands of years you have been hammered and
hammered, and told again and again, “Be spiritual.” The
majority of you are searching for God. God is everywhere.
You are nowhere, and you are trying to search for Somebody who is
everywhere. It’s like looking for sand in the desert. In the desert,
people want to find an oasis, or they want to find water or shelter.
They don’t look for sand. We don’t have to look for God at all. We
should just be ourselves. I should be who I am, with God within me,
and evidence that God is within me should be seen by everybody.
That’s why you are in pain.
You want love, but love who? You don’t love yourself; you don’t fulfill
yourself; you do not fundamentally understand yourself. You don’t
understand that you have a soul, consciousness, and intelligence,
that you are totally you, complete, and made by that Infinite God,
which is God Itself. But you want to love; you want somebody to love
you. Who can love this hungry person who has no love for himself...?
How can you fill a glass which has no bottom? You can keep on
pouring tons and tons and tons and tons of water, but will it ever be
filled? Never. How can you ever find happiness without face, grace,
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I should be who I am, with
God within me, and evidence
that God is within me should
be seen by everybody.
commitment, and character; and without sacrifice, divinity, and
dignity? You can’t. Where is the chance for purity, piety? Where is
the privilege for sacrifice and love and tolerance and understanding?
What do you give to anybody? Do you give forgiveness? Life is based
on love. It seeks love. Atma, the soul, seeks other souls. It seeks the
union here, now, hereafter, and thereafter. You can’t help it. You must
understand, this body is God’s temple, in it lives God…
Perfect God made a perfect machine, gave you breath of life, designed
you with His own perfection, and gave you everything that your karma*
could get for you. But if you keep yourself clean, mentally, spiritually,
and physically, that’s Dharma.* Dharma is to clean yourself mentally,
physically, and spiritually. Karma is to live by action and reaction and
in the depression of those functions. It’s up to you, folks…
Listen. This is the theory: when we fold our hands, the Hand of God
opens. God is everywhere, and you are nowhere. When you know this
fact within and without, you don’t have to act: then all of nature acts for
you. When you trust your Creator, the entire creation serves you. When
you find reality in yourself, you experience ecstasy. The Universe is one
of light; it shines brightly and every human has the right to prosperity
and the privilege of God’s Hand. When our two hands hold themselves
together in prayer, it’s the unseen Hand of God which prevails. It is time
we must realize that man and woman are human, created by one Creator
for the ecstasy of consciousness and the happiness of life. May we all
acknowledge that truth—being firm, being real—so that we can enjoy
prosperity, beauty, bounty, and bliss from God’s own Hand. +
* See Glossary, p. 35.
1Atma means Soul
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