Prosperity Paths Investing in Your State of Being ISSUE 49 - JANUARY 2003 "HOPE" For Your Enjoyment “Give Hope to Those Who Don't Have Hope” Inside This Issue Blessings from the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Page 2 here is no other source of life - The Virtue of a Meditative Nature through which you can feel happy, Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Class Lecture "T and Meditation unless you give. And what can you give? When you give yourself discipline and Page 3 your discipline gives hope to somebody, - Prosperity Paths Editorials that is what brings happiness. Page 4 I hope you will continue this as your - Hope and the Five Steps practice so that you may enter the Age of Aquarius peacefully, gracefully, and Page 5 with strength. I hope you do not do what - Lighthouses of Hope - Prosperity Technology most people will be doing: shattering, shivering and sharing their fears and Page 6 nightmares. I want you to be really successful so that you can lift people like - IKYTA's "Moments with the Master" a forklift and hold them up so they can reach their destination. I am asking your spirit to wake up - that is what matters. Page 7 - Amar Infinity Foundation - Estate Plans For that, you have to eat right, speak right, and have manners and mastery of yourself. In next coming years before the Age of Aquarius enters, you will find Page 8 thousands of people with empty hearts, empty minds, and empty selves. You - The New Japji Course, taught by Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) are their hope. This is the time to prove our grit. This is the time to pay our debt by giving hope and showing our character and commitment. It Page 9 will be a sacrifice but that’s what we will do. That is our spirit; that’s our - The Power of Hope character. Page 10 I want to teach you to be great, so you can make others great. There lies - Prosperity Kids! Hope for Kids in Crises the hope; there lies the mission. Remember God uplifts those who uplift others. Page 11 - Khalsa Youth Camp Everybody is an instrument; everybody is a help to the other. Give hope to Page 12 those who don’t have hope; give love to those who don’t understand; give - Aquarian Times food to those who have not eaten; and give comfort to the uncomfortable. - KRI New Products It’s all divinity. Try to be what you have to be. - Amrit Vela, poem May the Creator give you the strength to commit to yourself, and through that Pages 13 commitment may you elevate yourself to serve all those who need your help. - Sat Nam Rasayan in Assisi 2002 May you help in the Name of the One Who created you and serve others with Page 14 peace, tranquility, love, and affection. May divinity and dignity grow in you, - What is Japji Sahib? and may it attract and serve people as hope. May this hope in humankind bring you to mental, physical and universal peace forever. Sat Nam. Page 15 - Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan), Excerpts - The Effects of the Pauris of Japji The Virtue of a Meditative Nature Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) Class Lecture nation is an embodiment of people who have confrontation. Consequently, by habit, we are liars. A a grip on their today and their tomorrow, We lie to ourselves to start with, and then to which gives them the capacity to work together for everybody else, because we are non-confronting a common cause. First we were cave people and and non-expressive. That is why our prayer does then we expanded into territories. From kingdoms not work. Our prayer is non-confrontational. If you we became city-states, then nations. Man is a do not confront and make agreements with God, social animal and cannot live alone. We need to you do not have a relationship with Him. live together. To get together we have to have a common cause. We know, feel and understand This meditation creates a magnetic frequency in our common cause. It becomes your body which will make extremely easy to be united, your psyche flow towards if we have a meditative you. You have the mind. mind to project your thoughts. When we act For seeding through our thoughts, you impulse, we need extra are just inner energy two-legged to inspire animals. We your aim. look human With these but we are practices, you impulsive and should have a guided by emotions, clear aim so you can commotions and penetrate a mantra in neuroses. By our meditative your being and in your mind we act through intuition. When surroundings. your nature is not developed into a combination of goodness, Godliness and grace, it is your direct Do not proselytize, do not argue, do not tell people loss. Through your unkindness you are unkind what is good and what is bad. Just uplift them. to yourself. When you are intuitive, you live your Take them one step higher. Let them know there caring, compassionate and kind nature. Through is hope, there is a chance. We are a nation of the virtue of a meditative nature you enjoy your technicians who will be in a position to transmit real nature. You will always be prosperous. You energy to uplift people. No matter what you are cannot be defeated. going through, just consolidate on your breath. In that consolidation you will find the answer to When wrong things happen to us we blame confronting your problem. Hail Guru Ram Das the environments. Environments are not to be and heal people in his name. Let Guru Ram Das blamed! We rely on our easy, impulsive nature. We give the result. Be alert and pray unto him, who is all refuse to confront. We say, “Leave him alone! already in you, to come through. Time will teach him. Let him have his way. Why should we do anything?” Our nature is to avoid (5/15/2000 Synopses, continued page 3) Page 2 Prosperity Paths "Hope Issue" Issue 49 January 2003 Meditation Empower the Psyche's Projection 5/15/2000 1. Sit straight in a cross-legged position. Raise the left arm in parallel equilibrium with the ground and bend the elbow so that the hand is in front of your chest, palm facing down. Extend the right arm straight forward in parallel equilibrium with the heavens, elbow straight, palm facing upwards. Eyes are focused at the tip of the nose. Become calm. Chant Wah-hay Guroo, Wah-hay Jeeo by Sangeet Kaur and Harjinder Singh (from Raga Sadhana). Continue for 22 minutes. 2. Place both hands over the heart center, right over left. Continue chanting for 2 minutes. 3. Same position, whisper the mantra for 2 minutes. 4. Same position, chant in silence for 1 minute.To end, inhale deeply and hold. Stretch the spine and squeeze every fiber of the body to equalize the energy. Exhale. Repeat 2 more times. Relax. Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, © 2001 Yogi Bhajan. Used with kind permission from Yoga Gems (Meditations for the New Millennium) Synopses from the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, © 2001 Yoga Gems. Contact: [email protected], Prosperity Paths Editorial Section Nov 12, 2002 Dear Friends, I am writing to say thank you for the mailings you send even when you have heard nothing from me. I received the video tape "Living the Legacy" in the mail. I was curious, so I watched it. This tape brought me back to my inner self. I could feel the love of the world as I watched this video. I thank you for making it your mission to reach out to others to make a difference. I have felt your difference. I also now look forward to your mailings and different medita- tions you send. Thank you very sincerely, Blessings to you and yours. PA (excerpts) Prosperity Paths ~ PO Box 249 ~ Espanola, NM 87567 [email protected] Tel: (505) 747-0388 Page 3 Hope and the Five Steps Dr. Kartar Singh Khalsa s we continue to grow through and Dasvandh. These pillars hold all things come from God and all Athe time of the Cusp, the up the structure that houses a things go back to God. And in so overlap of the Piscean and conscious being having a conscious doing, we remind ourselves that the Aquarian Ages, we are faced with lifetime, a structure that gives hope of returning to God is only a the challenges of time and space. the soul hope of evolution on thought away. Often there is not enough of either the physical plane, to become one. This puts pressure on our so radiant that it inspires others Seva is the art of selfless service, psyche, and at those moments to do so. -- the ability to transcend the ego’s we have a choice about how to expectation of a return for services respond. We can choose the path Bana is the art of dressing for God. rendered. Seva is God’s hope that of hope, or we can surrender It magnifies our radiance, expands we may be as serviceful and giving to the insanity of the times. our aura and allows our soul to to the planet as He is to us. And while this may not be express clearly to the outside world one monumental moment, we are our state of grace. Dasvandh is the art of giving back certainly influenced daily by the to Infinity for that which we are continual decisions and responses Bani is the art of chanting given.