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Yogi Bhajan – June 25 1989 Gurdwara Talk at Guru Ram Das Puri, New Mexico 

Link to the talk here:
https://media.sikhnet.com/SSS%20Harbhajan%20Singh%20Khalsa%20Yogiji%20-%20June%2025th%201989.mp3
or go to https://www.sikhnet.com/gurbani/artist/yogibhajan and find the talk on page 11.  If you wish to play the Shabad, "Jai Tegang" or read the lyrics in translation, you can link here: https://www.sikhnet.com/gurbani/shabadid/20052. 
 
The following questions and notes are given in the order that they occur in the talk.  Assigned questions are numbered.  Notes given for your benefit are not numbered.

Yogi Bhajan:  “How will you hear your consciousness and the Word of the Guru if you cannot merge with it and you cannot take the union?  What are you?  Beggars?”

Gur (Guru) + baanee (word) = the Guru’s Word


1) Fill in the blank:  “Gurbaanee is sung.  You _______________________.”

Shabad  = Word

2) Fill in the blank:  “Just become one with the Shabad.  Shabad will ___________________________.”

3) Fill in the blank:  “When everything has gone wrong, ____________________________________.”

4) Fill in the blanks:  “You don’t become Sikh by ____________________________.”  You become Sikh _________________________________.”

“If the woman does not experience the man, the relationship will remain fake.  It will be only a psychological, sociological, and physical union.  It shall never be spiritual.”

5) What analogy does Yogi Bhajan make his following words following the above quote?

6) Why does Yogi Bhajan say a turban is difficult to wear?

7) What is the purpose of turban therapy?  How long does it take?  How is it done?  What is the result?   

Baanaa = Identifiable Spiritual Apparel 

8) Why does Yogi Bhajan say people prefer to wear “commoners’ dress” and not Baanaa?

9) “Life is only one thing.”  What is that thing?

chor = thief

kamzor = weak

ni-aaraa = “You can identify in all, above all, and through all.”


10) Who does Yogi Bhajan call a “bastard”?

11) Who does Yogi Bhajan say are the only Sikhs of the Guru?

At this point in the talk, Yogi Bhajan draws attention to his long-time student (since 1970), Dr. Alan Singh Weiss, who wore Baanaa to the Gurdwara for the first time that day.

takhat = throne

Hari (God) + mandar (temple) = Temple of God, especially the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar


12) Fill in the blank:  “A fool has a tool to conquer time and space.  That is the ________________.”

honee = fate/misfortune

13) Fill in the blank:  “Heal Guru Ram Das and __________________________!”

14) What did the Hopi shaman – “Indian holyman” –   tell Yogi Bhajan about the land of Guru Ram Das Puri?

puree = city

A Hopi shaman on passing the responsibility of Guru Ram Das Puri on to Yogi Bhajan and the Khalsa Spiritual Nation: “The spirit of the eagle has been freed!”

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