Prosperity gives us the strength to serve others and become givers. When we hoard resources out of a sense of ego and pride, and when we use those resources only to indulge our desires, then wealth becomes a curse. It degrades and destroys our humanity. But when we have something and then share it with others, that allows a peron to enjoy wealth with an elevated consciousness. It keeps the heart open and flowing.

Give, Serve and Be Grateful

- Yogi Bhajan, 3/5/95 and 9/4/01, from Success and the Spirit: An Aquarian Path to Abundance.

You will never find a community leader who doesn’t know how to give. Seva. (Selfless service.) Giving is the only way. Don’t only give to those who ask. Give to those who don’t ask. Keep on giving. Become a giver. Your faculty and God’s faculty will become the same. That’s absolute divinity.

Daydaa day laiday thak paahi.

(You, Great Giver, keep giving to us and we grow tired of just taking.) - Guru Nanak, Japji Sahib.

You should be so conscious and so giving that people get tired of your hospitality.

Some people have never had the chance to sit together with another person and eat. How often, out of joy, have you forced another people to break bread with you? How many times was somebody eating and you had the guts to sit with that person and start eating from the same plate?

God and divinity and nonsense and all the yak-yak claims and yoga and standing on your head and everything. What is it? What have you learned? How many people have you hugged? How many children have you played with? You are looking for romance and you don’t have any romance with nature, the prakriti? What are you up to? In this life, there are challenges. These challenges challenge how much sweetness is in you and how much sweetness you want to share.

There is one God, one God – that idiot God who still takes care of you in spite of the fact you don’t deserve it. That one God. How many times have you become one with each other in the name of God? How much nearness have you created? How relaxed are you when somebody makes a mistake? Where is your kindness and compassion?

There is a university called the universe. There is a great teacher in this university called nature. There is a great subject called the faculty of life. We want to give our children that freedom so it can become their choice.

It’s very funny how people understand life – climatically, critically and complainingly. But there is one class of people who are complimenting. They have no attachment. They compliment their Creator. They are grateful.

Creative supplement is required for life to grow in peace and tranquility. And a consistent sense of radiance of the Tenth Body is required to protect us. The Subtle Body must give us our intuitive self so that we can understand what is coming to us. Every day we should socialize and be kind to each other to grow our ultimate aura. If somebody has fallen, we should raise that person up. If somebody is going down, we should lift him. If somebody is hungry, we should feed him. If somebody is unhappy, we should dance with him. There are things to do and those things are part of us.

© The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan.