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On this day we will focus on giving thanks; practicing awareness of the many blessings in our lives, clearing the subconscious from the illusion of lacking, opening the heart to activate the flow of giving and receiving. This class has been one of my favorites in the past years.
"Make an attitude to be in gratitude, you will find the whole Universe will come to you." Yogi Bhajan~
"Now, there is a word called prosperity. We all want to be prosperous,
because prosperity gives us a status—conscious status, applied conscious
status—that we are successful, we are good, we are comfortable,
we are rich, we must be a genius or intelligent.
If you want to be prosperous, there are certain things you have to have; one is
your genuineness. If you are a genius and you are not genuine, it’s useless. Being a
genius is not enough, being genuine is equally required. Do you have patience? You
must have patience. Without patience you can’t achieve your purpose. Then you
must have talent and you must walk tall with it, otherwise people will never obey.
If you have a talent, you must walk tall and if you walk tall, you
must carry the wagon with you—teamwork; you must be
talented enough to walk tall and take the teamwork in hand.
We work hard: we propose, we process, and we project
it. These three things are essential. If we do these three right,
prosperity shall be there. If there is prosperity, you have to
show it—that’s human nature. Some show it for their own
sake, some show it for their higher self ’s sake, some show it
for their lower self ’s sake.
The tragedy of life is, when you reach a certain standard
of prosperity, then it becomes a routine, and then it becomes
boredom. There you have to learn something. To start with,
you should have an attitude of gratitude. Without an attitude
of gratitude, neither prosperity nor pleasure, joy nor happiness
means anything, and it works this way. To those who
have an attitude of gratitude and who do it with innocence,
Mother Nature brings all the wealth, health, and happiness.
The only way a relationship between you and God can
be established is if you become grateful and build up a standard
of gratitude. Only then will fulfillment come in life. Only
then can you be happy in life. Only then will you be fulfilled in
life. Because in God we trust and in God we dwell.
The attitude of gratitude is the highest way of living, and
is the biggest truth, the highest truth. You cannot live with applied
consciousness until you understand that you have to be
grateful for what you have. If you are grateful for what you
Universe is made by God by one universal rule, everybody
has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is
extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you
have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to
get it, something will be lost.
The law of balance is a law of applied consciousness. You
can never change it. You will get one thing, you lose the other,
you get third thing, you lose the fourth. Always there will be a
gap. The ‘law of gap’ is that there is no gap and how can that
gap be filled? Be in gratitude. Make an attitude to be in gratitude,
you will find the whole Universe will come to you.
What is a prayer? A talk to our higher self, asking our
higher self, relating to our higher self. Why do we just pray
at one time? Why don’t we pray in gratitude? Gratitude is a
prayer and praise put together, because God is in all. We must
pray and praise all the time and then you can see God in all,
otherwise you cannot see God at all.
We are all broken. Why do we break? Because we don’t
have gratitude. Our attitude is not of gratitude. Our manners
are not of gratitude. That’s why our mission is to be prosperous,
that all our prosperity is to share with others: Nam japo,
vand chhako, dharma dee kirat karo. The purpose is to be in
gratitude forever.
Live with applied consciousness, prosperity
will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer
when you are in difficulty. Pray when you are not in difficulty!
That is the attitude of gratitude.
(Excerpts from a lecture by Yogi Bhajan, August 30, 1991)
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