(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
Another day gone by…another year gone by. 33 years on this earth for me. So much to do and experience and so little time. Every day is an up and down roller coaster; Always trying my best to make the good choices, stay connected to the source and the purpose for being on this earth. May God bless us all to connect with our soul and create peace with ourselves, our neighbors and everything around us.
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
Here is a quote that I typed up a week or so when I was watching the video that I posted earlier about the mind. I thought it was very relevant and worth sharing, since most of us don’t always relate to giving, and what the reasons are that we do this as Sikhs.
"You cannot give to anybody if you do not have it. You cannot give anybody satisfaction if you don’t have it. If there is a glass; Suppose this glass has nothing in it. It can’t give anything. All it can give me is it’s glasshood. But if this glass has water, then it can give itself to me with water, which I can take. You all want to take everything! Remember this law…You cannot take until you give. If you do not know how to give you will never be in a position to take. There is a place….right? If you do not make some space and do not empty some things, where are you going to put the other things? The problem is that you all get drowned because you take and take and take…and you have no place for things. You don’t have the capacity to take. First create the capacity to take, then take. And the law of capacity to take is: first give. Because the world is governed by the law of vacuum, which is that there can be no vacuum. When you create the vacuum, things will come in…." - SSS Harbhajan Singh Khalsa - June 25 1987, Summer Solstice
This quote also relates to giving in relation to our time and money. As Sikhs we are supposed to give Dasvandh (10% of our earnings) back to the community and those in need. By giving you create this "vacuum" and the capacity to receive even more.
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
(Page from the 2008 Golden Temple - Inspirations Calendar)
"Don’t be proud that you have money; there are millions and millions of millionaires. Don’t be proud that you have a beautiful woman or man; each woman or man is more beautiful than the next. Don’t be proud that you have children; there are people who have dozens of them. And don’t be proud of what you have; in the spur of the moment what you have can be washed away.
You can be only proud of one thing – if you have found your soul within yourself. You can be only proud that you have found the selflessness within yourself, and you become grace of God. Then there is nothing which can bother you, there is nothing which can take away from you anything, because you have been created by God. God shall then create all the circumstances to create happiness for you and when he creates the happiness it is everlasting.
Therefore, dear ones, as nearer we are coming to the summer solstice the highest day of light, the highest day of grace, the highest day when the sun energy, the life force prevails on this planet, I’d like you to sit down and assess in yourself what you have gained, how much you have gained. Let this day be a day with you that you should leave something behind, some elementary pushing habit, some ego habit, something that keeps you away from your soul and being victorious.
May God bless you, may He prevail through you, may His grace be your grace, may you become the true teacher of the coming Aquarian Age, may you move forward to spread the truth and the light to the humanity. May each one in you practice the grace of God and become grace of God." - SSS Harbhajan Singh Khalsa - June 19, 1971 (Summer Solstice Camp)
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